Barbara Castaldo, Italian:
Barbara Castaldo earned her Laurea in Modern Literature at University La Sapienza of Rome, her M.A. at Columbia University, and Ph.D. in Italian Literature at New York University. She currently teaches courses of Italian language at ICCS and University of California in Rome, where she has worked since 2005. She taught previously courses on 20 th Century Italian Novel and Modern Theatre at New York University in New York and Florence. She has published articles on various contemporary Italian writers and she is currently rewriting her dissertation on Pier Paolo Pasolini. Her research focuses on law and literature scholarship, travel writing and postmodernism.