Giorgia Meloni and the Rebranding of Italian Fascism

On February 24th, the Department of Italian Studies, in collaboration with the Faculty of Literature, Culture, and Language Studies and the BMW Center for German and European Studies, presented an event lecture featuring Ombretta Frau, the Dorothy Rooke McCulloch Professor of Italian at Mount Holyoke College.

The talk investigated the reasons behind Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s political success in the context of contemporary Italian conservative politics and feminism.

Ombretta Frau is the 2022 recipient of the Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship. Her scholarly interests include nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian public intellectuals, and the material culture of literature. She is the author of some fifty pieces on numerous Italian authors, including Pirandello, Calvino, and Serao.