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Giacomo Traina

Sapienza University of Rome


Giacomo Traina is a Ph.D. student in American Literature at Sapienza University of Rome, in co-tutelle with Silesia University of Katowice (Poland). His doctoral project focuses on the memory of the Vietnam War through the works of contemporary Vietnamese American authors. He has published essays in Italian and foreign journals including Ácoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani and RIAS—The Review of International American Studies , and he is the recipient of the Agostino Lombardo Prize and the Emory Elliott Award.

 

“[T]he headlong enthusiastic admiration of some one or two men for things not at all praised by—or at most, which are indifferent to—the rest of the world;—a matter so often considered inexplicable.” Herman Melville, Pierre, or The Ambiguities.

“Go ahead, bub. Make some kind of joke.” Mark Millar, Wolverine: Old Man Logan.

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2021 

‘Who’ll Be the Indians? Myths and Violence of the American Frontier in Vietnam War Narratives,’ Visual Depictions of the American West International Conference at Ca’Foscari University of Venice (Italy), September 13-17. Paper presentation.


Roundtable on War Comics, Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature International Conference at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain), September 6-9. Paper presentation.



2020

 ‘The Burning City: The Memory of the Fall of Saigon in the Works of Diasporic Vietnamese Authors,’ Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures International Conference at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome (Italy), January 29-31. Paper presentation.