Cristina Carnemolla

Cristina Carnemolla is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies with a specialization in nineteenth-century literature and cultural history. She completed her Ph.D. in Romance studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on realist and naturalist novels with a comparative interest between the Italian, Spanish, Peruvian and Argentine traditions. Her current book project, tentatively entitled, Finding True South: The Reception of Naturalism in Southern Europe and Latin America, examines the emergence of narrative and rhetoric patterns within the context of the unclear and unstable meaning of race and nation-building discourses in these disparate geopolitical contexts.