Mara Josi
Lecturer/Assistant Professor at University College Dublin
Since completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Mara has specialised in Italian 20th and 21st-century literature and culture. Mara’s work reflects her interest in innovative research methodologies and cultural approaches to the study of literature, and it is rooted in memory studies, with a particular emphasis on commemorative landscapes—both physical and medial—, women’s literature and history, and Holocaust culture, including Jewish literary texts from the Nazi occupation of Italy. Her first monograph, Rome, 16 October 1943, was awarded the Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano di Italianistica in 2024 and was reissued in an updated and translated edition, Reti di memoria, in 2025.
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