Dana Renga

Dana Renga

Dana Renga

Affiliated Faculty, Divisional Dean of Arts and Humanities

renga.1@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Italian cinema and television
  • Mafia studies
  • Film theory, trauma theory, feminist & gender studies

Education

  • Ph.D., UCLA, 2001

Pronouns
She/her/hers

Dana Renga works on Italian film and television. She has published articles and book chapters on Italian cinema and television, Italian popular culture, and modern and contemporary Italian poetry and literature. She is the author of Unfinished Business: Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium (University of Toronto Press, 2013), the editor of Mafia Movies: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2011), and co-edits The Italianist film issue. She is working on a book called Angels of Evil: Sympathetic Perpetrators on Small Italian Screens and the co-authored A Long Holiday: Internal Exile in Fascist Italy (under contract, The University of Manchester Press). Professor Renga teaches courses on Italian film and television at both the undergraduate and graduate level and regularly teaches two General Education courses in English on Italian Cinema (IT2053, each autumn) and Mafia Movies (IT2055, each spring).