Francesca Parmeggiani (Fordham University), “The humble things of daily life.” Poetry, Life and Spirituality in Adriana Zarri’s Literary and Theological Writings.

Francesca Parmeggiani is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. Her research focuses on contemporary Italian literature and culture with special interests in the representation and interplay of politics and religion in literature and film, women’s writing, and feminist theory. She is the author of a study of the fictional adaptations of Scripture by Italian writers in the 1960s and 1970s, and the co-editor of three volumes on the representation of violence in Italian culture, on poetry and prayer in the Italian literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present, and on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s TV cycle, The Decalogue.