Miriam AloisioMiriam Aloisio currently teaches Spanish at the University of Colorado Boulder. After finishing her BA in Interpretation and Translation of English and German from the University of Milan, Aloisio earned an MA in Italian Studies from the University o Virginia and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on environmental commitment in Luigi Malerba's writing. Her areas of research and teaching include the twentieth- and twenty-first-century novel with a particular focus on postmodern novels, cinematic adaptation, the avant-garde, culture and language. She has collaborated on translations of several literary texts, and she has published and presented on the work of Alessandro Manzoni, Italo Svevo, Elsa Morante, Giorgio Manganelli, Italo Calvino and Luigi Malerba, among others. Read More Read Less