College of Humanities People

Dana Renga, Assistant Professor of Italian

Department of French and Italian: http://frit.osu.edu/

Office Information
213 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: renga.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-8191
Fax: 614-292-7403

Office Hours:
WI12: M 2:00-4:00 & BY APPOINTMENT

Education:
BA UCLA 1993; PhD UCLA 2001

General Background:
Dana Renga specializes in Italian film and twentieth and twenty first century Italian cultural studies. Research interests include: Mafia movies (both Italian and American,) Italian popular culture, Italian fascism and relations with Nazi Germany, representations of terrorism, immigration and gender in Italian film. She is working on a book called Unfinished Business: Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium and a co-edited volume called Representing the Confino (with Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University and Piero Garofalo, University of New Hampshire.) She published the edited volume Mafia Movies: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2011 ) and chapters and articles (in print or forthcoming) on the writers Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Andrea Zanzotto, on the directors Federico Fellini, Roberto Benigni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Bellocchio and Lina Wertmuller and on modern mob movies, Italian genre cinema, contemporary Italian poetry, French and Italian Holocaust Cinema and Italian Cinema under Fascism. Professor Renga teaches courses in Italian at both the undergraduate and graduate level and regularly teaches one GEC course in English on Italian Cinema (IT221) and in 2012-13 will teach a GEC course called Mafia Movies.

Italian Cinema