Kaufman Hall 118
irenebulla@ou.edu
Profile:
Irene Bulla earned a Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She joined the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma in 2019 as a Lecturer in Italian.
Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Italian literature, with an emphasis on non-realistic literature. Her interests include teratology in science and literature, horror cinema, and popular culture. Her current project looks at nineteenth- and twentieth-century fantastic fiction (mostly Italian and American) through the lens of medieval negative theology and its framing of monstrous icons.
She is also invested in inclusive teaching practices and has obtained certificates in innovative teaching and in the use of technological tools in the classroom to facilitate inclusion. At OU, she teaches Italian language courses as well as literature and culture courses in English and in Italian (including Italian Cinema & Media and Italian Pop Culture).
She is the Language Coordinator for the Italian section.
Selected Publications:
“Monstrosity and the Fantastic: The Threats and Promises of Monsters in Tommaso Landolfi's Fiction.” Disgust and Desire: Humanity’s Paradoxical Relationship with Monsters, edited by Kristen Wright, 143-168. Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2018.
“Language and Monstrosity in the Works of Tommaso Landolfi.” Monstrous Reflections, edited by Petra Rehling and Elsa Bouet. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014.
“Trolljegeren.” Monsters and the Monstrous Journal 4 (2014): 123-125.
“Individuo e contesto: follia, tempo e genealogia in Enrico IV e Uno, nessuno e centomila di Luigi Pirandello.” La figura nel tappeto: letteratura, spettacolo, traduzione IV (2013): 9-20.
Education:
Ph.D in Italian and Comparative Literature. Columbia University. 2018
M.A. in Languages and Literatures of the Euro-American Area (English and German). Università di Roma Tre (Italy). 2009
M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama. University College Dublin (Ireland). 2008
B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and German) with a Concentration in Translation Studies. Università di Roma Tre (Italy). 2005
Teaching Schedule for FALL 2023:
MLLL 3373-001 Italian Cinema, SEC-P0207, M/W 13:30-14:45
ITAL 3073-001 Italian Conversation & Culture, PHSC-223, M/W 15:00-16:15
