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Sergio Ferrarese

Italian Studies Program Director, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Office: Washington Hall 315C
Phone: (757) 221-3648
Email: [[sferrarese]]

Research Interests
Sergio Ferrarese's interests are operaismo (workers studies from Gramsci to Negri) and literature, protest cultures in Italy in the 60s and 70s, the Enlightenment, history of intellectuals, critical theory, biopolitics, political issues in Italian culture.

List of significant publications

Books:

Sulle tracce di Orfeo: storia di un mito. Pisa: ETS, 2010

 Articles

"Witnessing History: Elio Petri's La classe operia non va in paradiso." in Incontri culturali da oltreoceano.
Pesaro: Metauro, 2008

 "Nanni Balestrini: dalla fabbrica alla società" in L'Italia letteraria e cinematografica dal secondo Novecento ai giorni nostri. Cuneo: Nerosubianco, 2012