Federica K. Clementi

Assistant Professor
Office: 221 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-7227
Clementi@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York
MA, Brandeis University
Laurea Summa Cum Laude, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy

Specialization Areas

• Modern Jewish Literature and Philosophy
• Jewish Autobiography
• Jewish Women’s Writings
• Jewish Diaspora: History and Cultural Production
• The Role of the Jews in European Cinema
• Shoah: Fiction, Autobiography and Film

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• Melting Identities: The Formation of a Jewish-American Identity
• Family Matters: Twentieth-Century Jewish Women Remembering Family and/as History

Current Research Project(s)

• I am working on the first English translation of a book by Italian Jewish author Lia Levi.
• My documentary film on the Jews of Italy is presently in production: I wrote, produced and directed this movie and I hope to be able to share with colleagues and students some finished parts of it as soon as spring 2009.

Publications

Challenging (Jewish) Invisibility: Natalia Ginzburg, Lia Levi and Clara Sereni Reinterpreting City, Family and Memory, accepted by the editors of the upcoming volume Performing Pasts, Inventing Selves: History and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Writing, Philippe Codde and Bryan Cheyette eds. (2008/2009).

“Shoah delle donne”: Famiglia e esperienza personale nella letteratura femminile della Shoah (“‘Women’s Shoah’: Family and Personal Experience in Women’s Shoah Literature) in Tra storia e immaginazione: si raccontano scrittori ebrei di lingua italiana, Hanna Serkowska ed. Krakow, Poland: Wydawnictwo Rabid, 2008.

Italian/English-English/Italian Concise Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books, (expected date: end of 2008).

La Naturalità indispensabile: Wislawa Szymborska. Milano: Adelphi, 2004.

W.H.Auden.  Editor and Translator. Rome: Minimum Fax, 2001.

Italian/English-English/Italian Dictionary & Phrasebook. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2000.

Children’s Illustrated Italian Dictionary. New York: HIPPOCRENE BOOKS, 1999.

Fra bene supremo e male supremo la fede di un poeta: Jan Twardowski. Cremona, Italy: Si Scrive, 1996.

Arrogancja Pseudoawangardy (“The Arrogance of Pseudo-Avant-garde”) Dziennik Polski (Cracow, April 1995, nr. 84).

William Butler Yeats. Dramaty. Editor & Translator together with Tomasz Brzozowski. Warsaw: Świat Literacki, 1994.

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde. Editor & Translator together with Tomasz Brzozowski. Warsaw: Świat Literacki, 1992.

Awards

National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Dissertation Fellowship (2007-2008).