Caterina Mongiat-Farina

Caterina Mongiat Farina (laurea in lettere, Università di Padova, PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University) is Associate Professor and Italian Program Director at DePaul University, Chicago. Her research focuses on issues of language, rhetoric, and identity in Italian literature, particularly during the long sixteenth century and from the Postwar period to the present. She is the author of Questione di lingua. L’ideologia del dibattito sull’italiano nel Cinquecento (Longo editore, 2014); with Geoff Farina, the translator of Umberto Eco’s classic manual How to Write a Thesis (MIT Press, 2015); and with Paola De Santo, the editor and translator of Isabella Andreini’s Letters (1607) for “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series” (Iter Press, 2023). Her articles​ on premodern literature, from Rustico di Filippo to Galileo, and twentieth-century coming-of-age fiction appeared in journals such as Rinascimento, Forum Italicum, Italica, Esperienze letterarie, Strumenti critici, Critica letteraria, and Studi novecenteschi. Her current research centers on coming-of-age tropes in Italo Calvino’s fiction.​