Director of BU Padua & Venice Programs, Adjunct Associate Professor of Italian
Elisabetta Convento (Laurea University of Padua, MA Purdue University, Joint Ph.D. Université Paris 8 and University of Trento) is a scholar in Contemporary Italian studies and Women Studies. She has a faculty appointment in the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University and is Director of Boston University Italian sites located in Padua and Venice.
Her interests are Contemporary Italian Literature with a focus on the Veneto area, Women Studies, Pedagogy and particularly Ecopedagogy, and the relation between Literature and landscape.
Among other works, she is the translator and editor of Julia Kristeva’s Il rischio del pensare (Il Melangolo, 2006) and academic advisor and co-editor of a Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism volume devoted to Dino Buzzati (Gale, 2021). Her latest published works are an essay on Julia Kristeva’s “Female Genius” in the volume Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2022); “Presenze entomologiche perturbanti nella narrazione di Dino Buzzati” in Epifanie entomologiche. Gli insetti nella cultura italiana (Troubadour Publishing, 2023); “Il Vampiro di Venezia: epidemia al femminile”, in Contagio! Narrazioni letterarie dalla peste al Coronavirus, (Paolo Loffredo Editore, 2024).
For Boston University in Padua, Italy, she teaches Contemporary Italian Literature, an Internship course, and, together with Dr. Laura Lenci, Venetian Landscapes: a Contemporary Grand Tour.