Claudia Romanelli
Associate Professor of Italian
Italian Program Director
Italian Undergraduate Advisor
- email: cromanelli@ua.edu
- phone (205) 348-5059
- office location BB Comer Hall 217
Education
- PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bio
Dr. Romanelli’s research focuses on Italian cinema in the context of world cinema, the Italian screenplay, collaborative authorship, postcolonial studies, mixed- and intermedia. She is a generalist in Italian literature with an emphasis on the modern and contemporary periods. She is currently working on a book manuscript on Pier Paolo Pasolini and Federico Fellini.
Selected Publications
- “Viaggiando di spiaggia in spiaggia: Pasolini cronista di un’estate ne La lunga strada di sabbia.” Studi pasoliniani: Numero speciale per il centenario della nascita di Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-2022) 16 (2022): 115-128.
- “Contaminazione formale e culturale ne Il padre selvaggio di Pier Paolo Pasolini.” Romance Notes 59.3 (2019): 435-446.
- “From dialogue writer to screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini at work for Federico Fellini.” Journal of Screenwriting 10:3 (September 2019): 323-337.
- “French and Italian Co-Production Redux: The Fondo Initiative.” Contemporary European Cinema: Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis. Eds. Betty Kaklamanidou and Ana Corbalán. New York: Routledge, 2019. 119-133.
- “Quel che resta di pulp in Stabat Mater di Tiziano Scarpa.” Forum Italicum 52.3 (November 2018): 763–787.
- “A Screenplay in the Form of a Comic Strip: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Drawings for La terra vista dalla luna.” Italian Studies 72. 3 (2017): 292-308.
- “French and Italian Co-Productions and the Limits of Transnational Cinema.” Journal of Italian Cinema and
Media Studies 4.1 (January 2016): 25-50. - “Pasolini collaboratore di Fellini: Analisi del contributo dato da Pier Paolo Pasolini alla scrittura de Le notti di Cabiria.” The Italianist Film 35. 2 (June 2015): 212-233.
- “La novella di Tedaldo degli Elisei e la revitalizzazione della precettistica medievale nel Decameron.” Carte italiane 2. 5 (2009): 1-22.
- “La rappresentazione dell’alterità ne Le fate ignoranti di Ferzan Ozpetek.” Diversity, Otherness, and Pluralism in Italian Literature, Cinema, Language, and Pedagogy: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Eds. Filomena Calabrese et al. New York: Legas, 2009. 239-249.