Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1983, Emerita U. of Wisconsin Madison.
Her latest books are collections of short stories: Mondo nuovo (in Italian, 2022, Rubbettino.it, available also in Ebook) and Bitter Trades (2018, Legas).
Giovanna Miceli Jeffries was born in Ribera (Ag) and emigrated with her family to Canada when she was 18 and later to the United States. She is an Emerita from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a Master and Ph.D. in Italian Language and Literature from Rutgers University. She has authored books, book-chapters and numerous articles on contemporary Italian literature, culture and Italian women writing in a wide range of topics on authors such as Svevo, Vittorini, Volponi, Buzzati, Primo Levi, Gianna Manzini, Sibilla Aleramo, Clara Sereni, ecc. She is the editor of Feminine Feminists; Cultural Practices in Italy (U. Minnesota Press, 1994). In addition to authoring two book chapters on Sereni’s work, she co-translated with Susan Briziarelli Sereni’s novel Casalinghitudine [Keeping House, a Novel in Recipes, SUNY Press, 2005]. Her last publications include, Darwinismo, Machiavellismo e ‘Capitalist Creative Destruction’ nella rappresentazione del lavoro e degli affari in Svevo (Annali d’Italianistica, 2014); Bitter Trades. A Memoir (Legas, 2018), and Mondo Nuovo (Rubbettino, 2022). A selection of stories included in Mondo nuovo was awarded the second prize of the Premio Letterario Nazionale Clara Sereni 2020.
