Federica's headshot.

Federica Parodi

she/her/hers

Postdoctoral Fellow

Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD, Yale University, 2026 - Italian Studies, with a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and a Graduate Certificate in Environmental Humanities
MA, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, 2018 - Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics
BA, Università degli Studi di Torino, 2015 - Modern Italian Studies, with a concentration in Linguistics

Selected Publications

Edited Volumes

  • Sistema Periodico. Il secolo interminabile delle riviste, co-edited with Francesco Bortolotto, Eleonora Fuochi, Davide Antonio Paone, Pendragon, Bologna, 2018

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • “Tra materialità e copyright: innovazioni sperimentali in Humpty Dumpty”, in il verri, n. 86, October 2024, pp. 17-30
  • “Rewriting the Self: Feminist Contestation and Poetic Form in Frabotta’s Affeminata”, in NeMLA Italian Studies: Culture, History and Memory of the Italian Seventies, XLVI, forthcoming in 2026
  • “Translating Walls, Locating Bodies: Nanni Balestrini’s I muri della Sorbona”, in Italian Modern Art, accepted, forthcoming in 2026

Essays in Books and Anthologies

  • “Riflessioni sull’informazione digitale nella critica letteraria”, co-authored with Stefano Versace, in Sistema Periodico.Il secolo interminabile delle riviste, Pendragon, Bologna, 2018, pp. 275-284

Short Essays and Notes

  • “Russel Crowe a Sanremo, o fantasie dell’Impero (romano) tardo capitalista”, H-Transnational Italian Studies Forum, February 2024

Translations

  • Gianluca Rizzo, Poesia alla ribalta. Il teatro della Neoavanguardia, Marsilio, Venezia, 2025, [originally published as Gianluca Rizzo, Poetry on Stage. The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant- Garde, University of Toronto Press, Toronto-Buffalo-London, 2020].
  • Jennifer Scappettone, “La poesia oltre il barbarismo. L’invenzione delle lingue senza madre e la resistenza al fascismo”, in il verri, n.89, October 2025, pp. 5-18. [originally published as Jennifer Scapettone, PoetryAfter Barbarism. The Invention ofMotherless Tongues and Resistance toFascism, Columbia University Press, New York, 2025].

Honors

  • Steadman Award for Innovative Research, University of Rochester, 2026
  • AAIS Graduate Students Travel Award, Sorrento 2024
  • MLA Convention Grant for Graduate Students, Philadelphia 2024
  • MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University, 2023
  • Beinecke Library Research Fellowship for Graduate Students, Laura K. & Valerian Lada-Mocarski Fellowship, Yale University, 2023

Bio

Federica Parodi is the Arnold and Anne Moore Lisio Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester. She holds a Ph.D. in Italian Studies from Yale University (2026), with Graduate Certificates in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Environmental Humanities. Her research spans modern and contemporary Italian literature, cultural history, performance and sound studies, and gender and sexuality studies.

Her current book project, Radical Stage: Reimagining Theatre and Counterculture in the 1970s, examines how grassroots working-class and countercultural movements in 1960s and 1970s Italy used performance, experimental poetics, and radical textualities to address material conditions and imagine new ways of living. Moving through factories, occupied universities, working-class neighborhoods, and public squares, the book shows how non-linear textuality, from collective street drama to graffiti, served as a tool for both political struggle and subjective transformation.

Her work on modern radical textualities has appeared or is forthcoming in il verri, Italian Modern Art, and Forum Italicum. She co-edited and introduced Sistema periodico: Il secolo interminabile delle riviste (Pendragon, 2018) and translated Gianluca Rizzo's Poetry on Stage(Marsilio, 2025), as well as excerpts of Jennifer Scappettone's Poetry After Barbarism (Columbia University Press, 2025).She served on the organizing committee of The Reappearing Pheasant, a gathering of Italian and American poets at NYU's Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.

Fields and Interests

  • Italian Cultural History
  • Avant-garde and Experimental Poetics
  • Performance
  • Gender and Sexuality // Queer Theory