Associate Professor of Italian
Italian Program Coordinator
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- 355 Dauer Hall
- dambers@ufl.edu
- 352.273.3763
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Bio
Deborah Amberson is Associate Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UF. Her research and teaching focus on modern Italian literature and film, modernism, ecocriticism, animal studies, Holocaust studies, and crime fiction. She is the author of Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi, and Carlo Emilio Gadda (2012), a text that investigates the titular trio of Italian novelists in the light of the critical classification of modernism, focusing especially on the troubled bodies that emerge in their texts. She also co-edited, together with Elena Past, Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film (2014). Her published articles reflect these and other research interests. She is currently working on a book project exploring visions of the natural world in Italian literary modernism.
Office Hours — Fall 2023
- Tuesdays and Thursdays: 12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
- Or by appointment
Areas of Research
Modern Italian literature, Italian cinema, Italian and European modernism, ecocriticism, animal studies, crime fiction and film.