Associate Professor of Italian
Chicago Hall 125
(845) 437-5617
Contact Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld
Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld is Associate Professor of Italian at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. She received a PhD from Columbia University in 1992, where she had also taught Italian for three years. She started teaching at Vassar in 1991. She teaches courses in Italian language, Italian cinema, Italian women writers, and various seminars on contemporary Italian culture. Since 1996 she has also been teaching in the Women's Studies program.
Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld is the author of a study on the Italian writer Carlo Emilio Gadda, Born Illiterate: Gender and Representation in Gadda's Pasticciaccio (University of Hull Press, Hull, Great Britain 1999). She is co-editor of The Pleasure of Writing: Critical Essays on Dacia Maraini (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, Purdue University Press 2000). Her current projects are in the area of Italian cinema, and she has published articles on Lina Wertmüller, Marco Risi, and Gianni Amelio. At present she is preparing a manuscript on the politics of cultural repression in classic and contemporary Italian cinema. She will also be co-editing an anthology of essays on Giorgio Bassani.