Inha Park

Research and Teaching Interests

Italian film studies, Modern and contemporary Italian literature, Global neorealism, Italy and East Asia, Italy and the Cold War, Peripheries in Italy, Video essays

Biography

Inha Park is a second-year Ph.D. student in Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she is a Presidential Fellow in the Humanities. She received her bachelor’s degree in Italian at Busan University of Foreign Studies and her master’s degree in Comparative Literature at Seoul National University in South Korea. Her research interests revolve around Italian neorealism, post-colonialism, Italy and the Cold War, and the Italian concept of the ‘world.’ Inha is particularly interested in the way Italy responded to and represented the Korean War (1950-1953), including the peripheral areas called Corea throughout Italy. She intends to expand her research by investigating how postwar Italy refined and redefined the competing notion of peace in response to the Cold War including the Korean War. Inha’s research has been supported by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Center for Italian Studies, and the Rome Archive Seminar.

Publications

Film Review
「대서양횡단의 맥락에서 이탈리아 지도 다시 그리기」[“Remapping Transatlantic Italy: Reconsidering Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà.” 『서양사연구』 [The Journal of Western History], vol. 67, no. 2, 2022, pp. 105-112.

Peer-Reviewed Article
「제국의 로마 광장에서 소말리아 서발턴 여성의 역사 말하기: 이지아바 쉐고의 『아두아』에 나타난 독백을 중심으로」 [“Speaking of a Somali Subaltern Woman’s History in an Imperial Roman Piazza: Igiaba Scego’s Adua.”] 『인문논총』 [Journal of Humanities], vol. 78, no. 3, 2021, pp. 121-162.