Ten years ago, when I would ask my students if they knew any modern Italian authors—not Dante—I would occasionally get the response of “Calvino” and, more ...
Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski works primarily on the often-overlooked relationship between modern Italian literature and Austria. Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Duke University, she has published on the novel, modernism, world literature, and animal studies. Her book project, “Kafka’s Italian Progeny,” engages Kafka and his criticism in order to refine the critical understanding of 20th-century Italian literature. 
Kafka Transformed
Franz Kafka’s Gregor Samsa has undergone numerous metamorphoses in English: into “a gigantic insect,” “a monstrous vermin,” “a monstrous cockroach,” “some sort of monstrous insect,” and “a monstrous bug” ...