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Giulia Pellizzato is a literature and education scholar.
She conducted research at Harvard from 2020 to 2024, where she worked as a Post-doc, TA, and Pedagogy Fellow.
She is obtaining her second PhD in Value Creating Education for Global Citizenship at DePaul University, Chicago, with a project on dialogic engagement with literature and nature in Daisaku Ikeda's pedagogy. She is expanding this inquiry through her second PhD, in
During the year 2021 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the inter-university PRIN project "Transatlantic Transfers: The Italian Presence in Post-War America", with Università del Piemonte Orientale.
Before Harvard, Pellizzato was a Research Fellow in the Italian Department at Brown University, thanks to a postdoctoral grant funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project: "An Adventure Overseas, Almost a 'Renaissance'. Italian fiction in the United States after World War Two". She obtained her first PhD in Italian Studies at Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland, in 2018.
Pellizzato's research interests include 21st, 20th and 19th-century Italian and transnational literature, the transatlantic circulation of literary works and ideas, translation studies, value-creating education for global citizenship, environmental education, collaborative and creative writing, and pedagogy of literature.
Her published research focuses on women in publishing, transatlantic literature, translation practices, collaborative writing, reception studies, archives of the twentieth century, and authors including Goffredo Parise, Jolanda Insana, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Leonardo Sciascia, Ippolito Nievo.
Her first book, "Prezzolini e Parise: un'amicizia transoceanica", was published by Leo S. Olschki in 2021.