Disco Fever: Italian and American Diasporic Journeys

CLARISSA CLÒ is professor and chair in the Department of European Studies at San Diego State University where she is also the director of the Italian Studies Program. Her research interests include feminist and queer theory, migration and postcolonial studies, literature, film, music, popular culture and transmedia storytelling. Her work has appeared in Annali d’Italianistica, Diacritics, Diaspora, Forum Italicum, Il lettore di provincia, Italian Culture, Italica, Research in African Literatures, Transformations, The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies and California Italian Studies. She contributed to book collections such as The Cultures of Italian Migration (edited by Graziella Parati and Anthony J. Tamburri, 2011), Postcolonial Italy (edited by Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo, 2012), Nuovo Cinema Politico (edited by Giancarlo Lombardi and Christian Uva, 2016) and Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema (edited by Loredana Di Martino and Pasquale Verdicchio, 2017).