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Keala Jane Jewell

Professor of Italian Language and Literature

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Departments and Programs

  • Comparative Literature
  • French and Italian
  • Women's and Gender Studies

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Contact Information

Email: keala.j.jewell@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603-646-2400

Hinman Box: HB 6087

Education

  • B.A. University of California at Berkeley; M.A. University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Areas of Expertise

  • Italian poetry; 20th century Italian literature; literature and art history; contemporary women’s writing; surrealism

Selected Works

  • The Art of Enigma: The de Chirico Brothers&the Politics of Modernism , (2004).
  • Editor, Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination , (2001).
  • Una storia poetica , (Italian trans. of Pasolini chapters in The Poiesis of History ), (1997).
  • “The Victors of Modernity,” in Italian Modernism: Italy Between Decadentism and the Avant-garde , M. Moroni and L. Somigli (eds.), (2004).
  • “La ‘condizione divinista’ in Alberto Savinio,” in Proceedings of the Conference Il Cristianesimo, fonte perenne di ispirazione per le arti, 5-8 September 2000 , Universita della Tuscia, Viterbo, Naples, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, (2004).

Current Projects

  • Italian Gothic Prose ; “Magical Realism, Real Politicis: Bontempelli’s Literary Compromise,” “De Chirico and Bontempelli: Metaphysical Illustrations for ‘Siepe a Nordest’”