Rhiannon Welch Full List of Publications

Books

  • Vital Subjects. Race and Biopolitics in Italy. Transnational Italian Cultures Series. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016 (256 pages). Honorable Mention: Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize in Italian Studies, 2016 and Special Mention: Edinburgh Gadda Prize in Modern Italian Studies, 2019.
  • Crisis and the Aesthetics of Deceleration. Research in progress.

Articles

  • “Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s Counter Archive of Migration.” End of Dreams. Copenhagen: Fotografisk Center, 2019: 82-97.
  • “Anachronism, Displacement, Trace: ‘Scarred Images’ and the Postcolonial Time Lag.” California Italian Studies. Volume 7: Moving Images: Cinema, Pre-cinema, Around Cinema, New Media (2017).
  • “Time Out of Joint: Larsen’s End of Dreams and Italy’s ‘Colonial Unconscious.’” Refugees and the Crisis of Europe. Special issue of Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots. Mayanthi Fernando, Cristiana Giordano, eds. (2016).
  • “Here and Then, There and Now: Nation Time and Colonial Space in Pasolini, Oriani, and Marinetti.” Italica (2015) 625-653.
  • “Contact, Contagion, Immunization. Gianni Amelio’s Lamerica (1994).” Italian Mobilities. Ruth Ben Ghiat and Stephanie Malia Hom, eds. Oxford; New York: Routledge Press, 2015: 68-87.
  • “Pour une lecture biopolitique de la notion de ‘race’ en Italie.” Silvia Contarini and Davide Luglio, eds. Italian Theory: existe-t-elle? Paris: Éditions Mimésis, 2015 (79-92).
  • “Race and Colonial (Re)productivity.” Annali d’italianistica 32 (2014). From Otium & Occupatio to Work & Labor in Italian Culture. Norma Bouchard and Valerio Ferme, eds.197-213.
  • “Razza e (ri)produttività. Per una lettura biopolitica della razza nell’Italia postunitaria e contemporanea.” Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo, eds. L’Italia postcoloniale. Florence, Le Monnier Mondadori, 2014: 77-90.
  • “Intimate Truth and (Post)colonial Knowledge in Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s Lontano da Mogadiscio (1994).” J. Andall and D. Duncan, eds. National Belongings: Hybridity in Italian Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures. Italian Modernities, Vol 7. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010: 215-233.

Translations

  • Book: Roberto Esposito, Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics. Bronx: Fordham University Press, 2012.
  • Review: Antonio Negri, “Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Critical Economy 150 Years Later, edited by Marcello Musto.” Rethinking Marxism 26:03 (2014) 427-433.
  • Annotated essay: Gabriele D’Annunzio, “On the Cinematograph As an Instrument of Liberation and an Art of Transfiguration (1914).” Early Cinema. Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Volume IV. Richard Abel, ed. London; New York: Routledge, 2014; 262-267.
  • Article: Silvio Alovisio, “Introduction: Voices of Silence. The Scenario in Silent Italian Film.” Early Cinema. Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Volume II. Industry Developments. Richard Abel, ed. London; New York: Routledge, 2014: 454-465.

Book reviews

  • Elena Past, Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2019. Review in Italian Quarterly (2020).
  • Caterina Romeo, Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura postcoloniale italiana. Florence: Le Monnier (2018). Review in Italian Quarterly (2019).
  • Valeria Deplano, L’Africa in casa. Propaganda e cultura coloniale nell’Italia fascista. Quaderni di Storia. Florence: Le Monnier (2015). Review in: Journal of Modern Italian Studies 5 (2017) 654-657.
  • Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema. Bloomington, University of Indiana Press, 2015. Review in: Postcolonial Studies Journal. Special issue on Postcolonial Europe, edited by Caterina Romeo and Cristina Lombardi-Diop (March 2016): 459-461.
  • Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo, eds. Postcolonial Italy. Challenging National Homogeneity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Review in: Semestrale di geografia (University of Rome, La Sapienza) (2014): 161-163.
  • Nicoletta Pireddu, ed. Paolo Mantegazza’s The Physiology of Love and Other Writings, Trans. David Jacobson. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2007. Review in Forum Italicum 44: 2 (2010): 590-592.