Dr. Mary Ann M. CarolanAssociate Professor of Modern Languages & Literature |
o: Canisius Hall Rm 214 |
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale University Graduate School. She received her Ph.D. in Italian Language and Literature with a dissertation entitled “Power and Language in Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi.” After completing her doctoral work, Prof. Carolan taught at Wesleyan University and Yale University before joining the Fairfield faculty in 1997.
At Fairfield Prof. Carolan directs the Italian Studies program, established in 1998, and is Associate Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures. She teaches courses on all aspects of Italian culture, including:
- Literature courses on Dante and the Italian novella
- Film courses entitled Italian Cinema, Contemporary Italian Culture, and Visions of Italy and America in Film
- Interdisciplinary courses such as Rome in the Cultural Imagination and The Italian American Experience
She has taught in the Honors Program, the Ignatian Residential College Program, the Catholic Studies program as well as the graduate program in American Studies, on whose advisory board she serves.
Prof. Carolan has published articles on Italian authors Elsa Morante, Grazia DeLedda, and Alessandro Manzoni as well as on film directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergio Leone, Ettore Scola and Ferzan Ozpetek. She has also written an article about the role of women in Italian American comedies such as Moonstruck, My Cousin Vinny, and Married to the Mob. In addtion, she has published on the teaching of language and literature in Italian Studies curricula.
Prof. Carolan is currently at work on a manuscript that examines the intersections of national cinemas of the United States and Italy, tentatively entitled “The Translatlantic Gaze: Visions of Italy and America in Film.” A member of the Modern Languages Association, the American Association of Teachers of Italian and the American Association of Italian Studies, Prof. Carolan regularly presents papers at universities and conferences in the United States and in Europe.