Nicole Trigg is a poet, translator, and scholar of feminist and queer philosophies and methodologies.
Her primary area of inquiry is postwar Italian cultural and intellectual production, with special emphasis on the oeuvre of Carla Lonzi (1931–1982). Key research interests include the politics of difference, creative practices and decolonization, and theorizing collectivity.
Associate Professor of Italian Studies; Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair of Italian Literature; Graduate Advisor
Italian Studies (Affiliate faculty in Film & Media, Critical Theory, the Center for Race and Gender, and Folklore)
Rhiannon Noel Welch works on modern Italian literature, film, and critical theory. Her first book, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, demonstrates how race and colonialism have long been central to Italian modernity and national culture, rather than a fascist aberration or a contemporary phenomenon resulting from immigration.
Her current book project, Reverberation and the Anticolonial Imagination, proposes reverberation as a conceptual intervention that addresses how aesthetics—etymologically, relating to perception...
