Catherine Ramsey-Portolano is Associate Professor and Director of the Italian Studies and Modern Languages Program at The American University of Rome, where she teaches courses on Italian literature, culture, film and language. She holds degrees from University of Chicago (PhD in Italian Literature); University of Wisconsin, Madison (MA in Italian Literature); LUMSA (Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta - Laurea in Lettere, 110/110 con lode) and University of Tennessee, Knoxville (BA summa cum laude in Italian Literature). Her fields of research include Gender Studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature and Italian cinema, with special focus on women writers and the portrayal of gender in literature and film. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles and essays in the above fields, her books include Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History, edited with Sharon Hecker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question: The Case of Neera (Routledge, 2020); Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema 1860-1920 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017); The Future of Italian Teaching: Media, New Technologies and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) and The Italianist Special Issue Rethinking Neera, edited with Katharine Mitchell (2010).
Authored books
- Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History. Co-edited with Sharon Hecker. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- 19th-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question: The Case of Neera. Routledge, 2021.
- Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920). Madison/Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018.
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