Doctoral Student Public Humanities Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of Italian Studies, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Valeria G. Castelli is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Italian Studies at New York University. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled: Ethics, Performativity and Action in Contemporary Italian Documentary Film (2001-2014). Valeria received her Laurea in Lettere Moderne with a specialization in Modern Philology from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano and her M.A. in Italian Studies from the University College of London. Her research interests include: Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, Cultural Studies, Documentary Film, Media and Film Studies, Italian Poetry, Ethics, Activism and Social Change. In Spring 2015, Valeria was a Remarque Institute Doctoral Fellow at NYU. She is the recipient of a 2015-2016 Public Humanities Fellowship at the New York Council for the Humanities and the NYU Center for the Humanities.