Recent publications
Book
Ross, C 2015, Eccentricity and sameness. Discourses on lesbianism and desire between women in Italy, 1860s-1930s. Italian Modernities, vol. 22, Peter Lang, Oxford and Bern. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0698-9
Article
Ross, C 2023, 'Locked in or locked out, or ‘la vita della cose’: Gender, agency and (dis)embodiment in Primo Levi and Nicoletta Vallorani’s Speculative Fiction', Enthymema. International Journal of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory and Philosophy of Literature. <https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema>
Ross, C & Antosa, S 2022, 'Backward Modernism and Queerly Desiring Women in Early 20th-Century British and French Fiction: Rosamond Lehmann and Jeanne Galzy', Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione, vol. 17. <https://teseo.unitn.it/ticontre/article/view/2280>
Ross, C 2020, 'Surviving melancholy and mourning: a queer politics of damage in Italian literary representations of same-sex parenting', Phenomenology and Mind, vol. 2020, no. 19, pp. 54-70. https://doi.org/10.17454/pam-1904
Ross, C 2019, 'Queer Italian Cultures', Gender/sexuality/Italy.
Ross, C, Smythe, SA & Heim, J 2019, 'Queer Italian studies: critical reflections from the field', Italian Studies, vol. 74, no. 4, pp. 397-412. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2019.1658963
Ross, C 2016, 'Donne nate male, amicizie colpevoli e quelle profonde come una parentela: Marise Ferro's queerly desiring women', Italian Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2016.1158579
Ross, C 2016, '‘La Carezza Incompuita’: queer aesthetics, desire and censorship in Ticchioni’s 'Il suicidio di un esteta'', Modern Language Review, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 390-412. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.111.2.0390
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Ross, C 2020, “Exemplary” lesbians: the struggle for adequate representation. in A Bazzoni & A Bardazzi (eds), Gender and Authority across Disciplines, Space and Time. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45160-8
Ross, C 2017, Dalla patologizzazione all’amore per gli ‘anormali’: La rappresentazione del desiderio dissidente tra donne in testi (pseudo)scientifici del tardo Ottocento e del primo Novecento. in U Grassi, V Lagioia & G-P Romagnani (eds), Tribadi, Sodomiti, Invertite E Invertiti, Pederasti, Femminelle, Ermafroditi…: Per una storia dell'omosessualità, della bisessualità e delle trasgressioni gi genere in Italia. Edizioni ETS, Pisa, Italy, pp. 155-171.
Chapter
Ross, C 2017, Pathologies and Eroticism: Paolo Mantegazza’s Ambiguous Reflections on Female Same-sex Sexuality’. in L Benadusi, PL Bernardini, P Guazzo & E Bianco (eds), Homosexuality in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 45-64. <https://www.cambridgescholars.com/homosexuality-in-italian-literature-society-and-culture-1789-1919>
Ross, C 2016, Goliarda Sapienza's 'French Connections'. in A Bazzoni, E Bond & K Wehling-Giorgi (eds), Goliarda Sapienza in context: intertextual relationships with Italian and European culture. The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, pp. 87-100.
Ross, C 2015, Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-Sex Desire, 1877-1906. in V Babini, C Beccalossi & L Riall (eds), Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914. Genders and Sexualities in History, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 228-48.
Ross, C 2014, Dirsi lesbica oggi? Lesbofobie nei media italiani tra indicibilità e invisibilità. in Donne+Donne. Prima, Attraverso e dopo il Pride.
Editorial
Heim, J, Ross, C & Smythe, SA 2019, 'Queer Italian cultures: journal editorial', Gender/sexuality/Italy, vol. 2019, no. 6, pp. viii-xiv. <http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com/journal/issues/g-s-i-6-2019>
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