BARBARA PEZZOTTI Barbara Pezzotti holds a PhD in Italian

PERSONAL PAGE: BARBARA PEZZOTTI
Barbara Pezzotti holds a PhD in Italian from Victoria University. Her research
interests include crime fiction, popular culture, the historical novel and literary
geographies. She has published a number of articles and book chapters on Italian
crime fiction, and the figure of the detective and the serial killer in New Zealand
crime fiction. She is the author of Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction. An
Historical Overview (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014), and The Importance of Place
in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction. A Bloody Journey (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press, 2102). She has also published the e-book I luoghi del
delitto. Una mappa del giallo italiano contemporaneo (Florence: goWare, 2014). She
is co-editor (with Jean Anderson and Carolina Miranda) of The Foreign in
International Crime Fiction. Transcultural Representations (Continuum, 2012). She
is currently working on a monograph on historical crime fiction provisionally entitled
Murder in the Ages of Chaos: Italy’s Past in Historical Crime Fiction and Films.
Peer reviewed articles:
Barbara Pezzotti, “Italians Do it Differently: Giorgio Scerbanenco’s Domestication of
the American Hard-Boiled” Clues. A Journal of Detection (accepted, forthcoming,
2014).
Barbara Pezzotti, “The Colour of the Rose: Umberto Eco as a Giallo Writer”, I
Quaderni della Libellula, Special Umberto Eco Issue, edited by Giuliana Adamo and
Marco Sonzogni, 3 (accepted, forthcoming, 2014).
Barbara Pezzotti, “Bologna and the Via Emilia: Urban Sprawl ‘Italian Style’ in Carlo
Lucarelli’s Crime Fiction”, Arena Romanistica 9 (2011): 30-51.
Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti, “Investigating Societies: the Cases of Pepe
Carvalho and Tito Ihaka”, Journal of New Zealand Studies (2011): 81-92.
Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti, “Strangers in Their Own Country? The Maori
Detective in New Zealand Crime Fiction”, The Australasian Journal of Popular
Culture, 3 (2011): 313-25.
Barbara Pezzotti, “Serial killers at the Antipodes: the Case of Carlo Lucarelli and Paul
Cleave”, Italian Studies in Southern Africa, 24.1 (2011): 127-150.
Barbara Pezzotti, “Alligator is back: Massimo Carlotto and the North-east, the
Corroded Engine of Italy”, Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative, 10.1
(2010): 33-49.
Barbara Pezzotti, “Between Commitment and Disenchantment: an Interview with
Andrea G. Pinketts,” The Italianist, 30.1 (2010): 151-162.
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Book chapters:
Barbara Pezzotti, “Andrea Camilleri’s imaginary Vigàta Between Formula and Social
Criticism” in Dying for More. Studies in Serial Crime Fiction (accepted).
Barbara Pezzotti, “Who is the Foreigner? The Representation of Migrants in
Contemporary Italian Noir Fiction” in The Foreign in International Crime Fiction:
Transcultural Representations (London: Continuum, 2012), 176-87.
Barbara Pezzotti, “Truth, Humour and the Mafia: A Story of Sicilian Betrayal” in The
Shadow of the Precursor (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), 124-39.
Barbara Pezzotti, “Il giallo come storia della città: Milano e la serie di Colaprico e
Valpreda” in Il romanzo poliziesco, la storia, la memoria. Italia, vol I, (Bologna:
Astraea, 2009), 421-432.

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