Alice Fischetti is a doctoral student in the Department of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She received a B.A. from New York University in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages (French and Italian), and an M.A. in Italian Studies from New York University in Florence, where her thesis examined gendered language and marginality in Italian Renaissance lyric poetry. Her current work examines colonial and postcolonial representations of indigeneity in Italian literature and film vis-à-vis contemporary migrant cultural production, specifically probing the politics practiced in subversive re-articulations of racist and Orientalist discourse.

Alice is largely interested in race thinking in Italian feminist thought, the rhetoric of crisis, and aesthetic practices of nation building, and broadly engages with affect theory and diaspora/postcolonial studies across the Italian, French, and Anglo-American national contexts.

As a co-founder of Berkeley’s Italian Migration Studies Working Group, she is currently co-coordinating a new collaboration with the Yale Diversity in Italian Studies Working Group.

Prior to joining Berkeley’s Italian Studies Department in 2019, she worked as a writer, editor, and translator in Florence, Italy, additionally serving as a docent of the Villa La Pietra Acton Art Collection and the Museo Horne.