Alessia Joanna Mingrone

Professor Mingrone’s teaching, like her research, adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a
variety of topics, including Italian language, literature, cinema, and food studies. Most recently,
she contributed to the volume Alterity and Identity in Italian Literature: Encountering the Other
from Dante to the Present (Lexington, 2024) with the article “Identity and Alterity in Elena
Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels.” She has also translated Italian Emigration Between the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The Carovilli Case (Volturnia, 2024) into English, and
completed a research fellowship on Italian American heritage and cultural intersections with the
Ives Foundation of Youngstown, Ohio (2023).

She previously lectured in Italian at SUNY New Paltz, Marist College, and Youngstown State
University. Professor Mingrone has a doctorate in international modern and contemporary
literary and historical studies from the University of Salerno, Italy with one year as a visiting
scholar at New York University. She obtained her MA in Comparative Literature from San
Francisco State University and her BA in English and Communication with a minor in French
from Saint Mary’s College of California. She has dual Italian American citizenship and was
raised bilingual and fully immersed in both cultures.