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Laura Wittman primarily works on 19th-20th century Italian and French literature from a comparative perspective. She explores modernity and articulates new relationships with religious experience, embodiment, mortality, health, and politics through mediated literary and artistic creations. Her book, 'Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: Modern Mourning and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body' (University of Toronto Press, 2011), has been awarded the Marraro Award from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for 2012. Wittman draws on literary and filmic evocations of the Unknown Soldier, utilizing archival materials to demonstrate that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier serves as an emblem of modern mourning. Her research challenges simplified narratives of trauma and emphasizes the significance of human suffering. An editor of the special issue of the Romanic Review entitled 'Italy and France: Imagined Geographies' (2006), she has published articles on figures like d’Annunzio and Marinetti. Wittman received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2001, writing a dissertation entitled 'Mystics of God: The Spirituality Forum in Italian and French Modernism.' Currently, she is working on a new book titled 'Lazarus' Silence,' which explores modern literature's changing attitudes towards death and the afterlife.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian.
University of California, Santa Barbara • Santa Barbara, CA
Tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian.
Yale University • New Haven, CT
Instructor in the Department of Italian Language and Literature.
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