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Pia L. Bertucci holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently the Director of Italian at The University of South Carolina. Her teaching and research interests include Italian Food Culture, Southern Italian literature, and Italian Women Writers.

Dr. Bertucci’s most recent publications are her chapters on Elena Ferrante and Matilde Serao in two edited volumes. “Mother Tongue and the Body: Navigating the Female Space in Ferrante’s and Serao’s Naples,” appears in Representations of Female Identity in Italy (Cambridge Scholars 2017.) “Spiritual Sustenance: Naples’ Soul Food in the Narrative Language of Matilde Serao and Elena Ferrante,” will appear in Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society; Eve’s Sinful Bite (Bloomsbury 2020). Currently, she is working on a monograph on Italian and Italian American Food Culture, The Social Contract of Food: Ethos and Ethics in Italian Foodways and the Global Community.