Laura Chiesa
PhD
Associate Professor of Italian and French
Scholarly Interests
Modern and Contemporary Italian and French Studies; Critical Theory; Architecture; Film and Visual Studies
Education
- PhD, Comparative Literature, UCLA
- DEA, Philosophy, École Des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- Laurea, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Pisa
Selected Publications
- “Cinematic Constellations in Jean-Luc Godard after Charles Baudelaire: Expanding Poetical Effects from Alphaville to La puissance de la parole,” forthcoming in Charles Baudelaire and Philosophy, edited by Julia Ng and Alberto Toscano, Edinburgh University Press.
- “Land Art and Expanded Cinema in Marie Darrieussecq’s Expanding Fictional Fields,” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies/SITES, Vol. 28.5, special issue “Disassembling and Reassembling Cultures in the Desert,” Roger Celestin, Editor, and Denis M. Provencher and Alain-Philippe Durand, Guest Co-Editors, Dec. 2024.
- Resonances Against Fascism: Modernist and Avant-Garde Sounds from Kurt Weill to Black Lives Matter, edited volume. Humanities to the Rescue Series. Albany: SUNY Press, 2024. Open access.
- “Un re in ascolto: Luciano Berio and Italo Calvino’s Collaboration as a Memory for the Future.” Edited by Anna Botta and Lucia Re, thematic issue of California Italian Studies “Calvino’s Memos: Between the Old and the New Millennium,” 12, n.1 (October 2023): 1-18.
- Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- “Des chantiers potentiels: une conversation avec Enrique Walker.” Formules 17: Constrained Worlds - Mondes Constraints. Ed. Christelle Reggiani, Christophe Reig and Hermes Salceda (June 2013): 39-51.
- “Superstudio Double-Take: Rescue Operations in the Realms of Architecture,” Neoavanguardia. Italian Experimental Literature and Arts in The 1960s. Ed. Paolo Chirumbolo, Mario Moroni and Luca Somigli. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Pages 283-319.
- “The Filmic Emergence of New Behaviors Out of the Supersurface"
- Formules 14: Formes urbaines de la création contemporaine. Co-edited with Jan Baetens and Bernardo Schiavetta. (June 2010).
- “Transnational Multimedia: Fortunato Depero's Impressions of New York City (1928-1930).” California Italian Studies. Ed. Claudio Fogu and Lucia Re (2010).
- "Italo Calvino and Georges Perec: the Multiple and Contrasting Emotions of Cities and Puzzles." Romanic Review. Special issue: "Italy and France: Imagined Geographies." Ed. Laura Wittman. 97.3-4 (May-Nov. 2006): 401-421.
Courses Taught
- ITA 410. Modern Italian Studies: Italian Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde
- ITA 422. Modern Italian Studies: Landscapes in Literature and Cinema
- ITA 429/DMS 429. Italian Cinematic Histories and Poetics
- FR 481 / ITA 409. World Dramas, Human Choices, co-taught with Dr. Christian Flaugh
- FR 525 / RLL 525 / FR 483 / ITA 409. European Cinema (grad. and undergrad.)
- RLL 526/COL 525. Contemporary French and Italy Theory
Awards and Grants
- Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, University at Buffalo, Spring 2022
- College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo, Annual Teaching Award, reviewed by the Committee on Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure Cases, Spring 2016
- Julian Park Publication Fund, University at Buffalo, Spring 2015
- Principal Investigator: initiated application and obtained grants from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support the Italian Language Program at the University at Buffalo-SUNY, 2012-2016
- Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University Fellowship, 2005
Affiliations
- Co-organizer: UB Humanities Institute Modernisms Research Workshop