The Norm Is Queer: Mario Mieli, FUORI, and the Theater of Liberation in 1970s Italy: Federica Parodi

Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-in-Progress Seminar Series: The Norm Is Queer: Mario Mieli, FUORI, and the Theater of Liberation in 1970s Italy: Federica Parodi

Federica Parodi is the Arnold and Ann Moore Lisio Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center, University of Rochester. She received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies from Yale University, where she founded the Other(ed) Italies Working Group(Link opens in new window). Her research focuses on twentieth-century Italian literature and culture, with a dissertation on the aesthetic space of protest in the 1970s. Her work brings Italian Studies into dialogue with Voice and Sound Studies, Performance Theory, and Postcolonial perspectives. She is currently at work on her first monograph, based on her dissertation.

Her scholarship on modern radical textualities has appeared or is forthcoming in il verri, Italian Modern Art, and Forum Italicum. She co-edited and introduced the volume Sistema periodico: Il secolo interminabile delle riviste (Pendragon, 2018), and translated Gianluca Rizzo’s Poetry on Stage (Marsilio, 2025). She also translated excerpts from Jennifer Scappettone’s Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism (Columbia University Press, 2025), which appeared in il verri, n. 89 (October 2025).

She also served on the organizing committee for The Reappearing Pheasant, a gathering of Italian and American poets held at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU.