Profile for Louise Zamparutti

Brief biography

Dr. Zamparutti's research examines the interaction of public memory artifacts and identity construction in times and locations of collective trauma. She received a Fulbright Research Grant for the 2018-2019 academic year to research rival interpretations of World War II in Slovenia. In particular, she examined official and unofficial public discourse surrounding the construction of new monuments. Dr. Zamparutti has presented her research at interdisciplinary academic conferences throughout Europe and the United States and her work is published in international journals including Research in Social Change, Rhetoric Review, Romance Studies, and Human Remains and Violence. Her book chapter “The Foibe War Narrative: The New Anti-Heroes of the ‘Second Republic’” will appear in the forthcoming edited volume A Century of Italian War Narratives (Brill/Rodopi). Current projects include an analysis of risk communication in different forms of anti-transgender discourse, and a manuscript analyzing a new and controversial monument on the Italy-Slovenia border. Dr. Zamparutti is also a playwright. Her most recent work, Identità/Identiteta, was produced in Milwaukee, WI in 2014 and is part of the curriculum in drama courses at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr. Zamparutti speaks fluent Italian and mediocre French, and she is studying Slovene.