Chiara Caputi and clara ramazzotti (CUNY, Graduate Center), for a book-project on the Representation of Female Characters from the Italian Canon on Television.

Chiara Caputi is a PhD student in Comparative Literature with a specialization in Italian Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She teaches Italian Language and Literature and American Pop Culture and Mass Society at College of Staten Island (CUNY) and Italian Language at Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY). Since 2023, she has been a member of the editorial board of Quaderni d’Italianistica. In 2022, she published an article titled La Mortaccia (frammenti): analisi della prima riscrittura dantesca di Pier Paolo Pasolini in the journal Annali d’Italianistica. Additionally, in 2023, she published the essay “Lu Santo Jullare Francesco: Dario Fo tra giullari, dialetto e tradizione popolare” in the latest issue of Il 996 – Rivista del Centro Studi Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli. Her research interests include the reception of Dante’s Commedia and female and queer authorship.

Clara Ramazzotti is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She holds a Master’s Degree in History at Università degli Studi di Milano and grew an academic interest for TV criticism and Media Studies after working with international advertising agencies for several years. Her reserach focuses on the representation of American Dream and the traumatic experiences related to it on television, with attention on young adult TV series. She is appointed as an Adjunct Lecturer at City College of New York and as an Adjunct Faculty at Fordham University. She recently published an article for Italica titled “Analisi dell’evoluzione televisiva nelle produzioni italiane originali di Netflix, Amazon Prime Video e Disney+”, a study of what the streaming platforms are proposing to their Italian audience, and she participated in the conference “Between Italy and the US: A New Paradigm for Cultural Exchanges” at Centro Studi Americani in Rome with an article titled “Escaping the American Dream: Italian Landscapes on TV” focused on the use of Italian sceneries as a backdrop in American TV shows.