Pasolini's centenary: interview with Barbara Castaldo

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Barbara Castaldo teaches Italian and Comparative Literature courses at Loyola University Chicago and collaborates with several American universities including the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence. Graduated in History of Modern and Contemporary Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, she earned a Master's degree from Columbia University in New York and a PhD in Italian Studies from New York University. She specialized on Pier Paolo Pasolini with a doctoral thesis in Law and Literature (Pasolini Award, 2009), and is the author of numerous essays on Italian authors including P.P. Pasolini, Ennio Flaiano, Marco Lodoli, Sandro Veronesi. His latest essay on Pier Paolo Pasolini, entitled Trial of "Boys of Life": free indirect speech enters the courtroom, is out this year in the international magazine Studi Pasoliniani (2022, no. 16).