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This extraordinary collection dedicated to internationally famed Clara Sereni promises to become the essential reference for understanding the rich breadth of this author's creative works in Italian literature, society, and politics, as well as how they speak to issues of strong concern today. While drawing out the varied aspects of her legacy, the spectrum of readings by acclaimed experts includes personal essays, English translations of short stories, and acute studies on such formative elements in Sereni's arts of writing and daily life as Jewish identity, mothering children with disabilities, music, generational foodways, memory, and ecology, which are examined in their microspatial and global dimensions. This singular volume will surely engage general readers and scholars interested in literature, gender studies, disability studies, anti-Fascism, social justice, and Jewish studies. Robin Pickering-Iazzi Professor Emerita of Italian and Comparative Literature Department of Global Studies University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee This is a welcome and important contribution to the wide-ranging work of writer, intellectual and activist Clara Sereni. The multifaceted volume is an invaluable addition to the growing scholarship on Sereni and highlights the impact her work has had on global feminisms and practices. Eugenia Paulicelli Professor of Italian Studies Queens College and The Graduate Center The City University of New York

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Giulia Po DeLisle is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Italian Language and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her fields of interest include Women's Studies, Motherhood Studies, Life Writing, Contemporary Italian Literature, and Italian Cinema. She has worked extensively on Clara Sereni and is the author of 'Scrivere la diversità autobiografia e politica in Clara Sereni' (Cesati, 2012). She is co-editor with Eugenia Paulicelli of the special issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies dedicated to 'Film, Fashion, Costume in Italy and Beyond' (13:1-2, 2025), and with Laura Lazzari of 'Unmasking (New) Maternal Realities. Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum in Global Literature, Cinema, and Media' (Palgrave, 2025). She has published articles on abortion in Italy (Palgrave, 2022) and on Italian women filmmakers Cristina Comencini and Alina Marazzi (Forum Italicum, 2018), Rossella Schillaci (Palgrave, 2021) and Susanna Nicchiarelli (Vecchiarelli Editore, 2022). Susan Briziarelli is currently Associate Provost of Faculty Support and Global Affairs and Associate Professor of Italian at Adelphi University, New York. She earned her undergraduate degree in Italian at Rutgers University and her Ph.D. in Italian Literature at Yale University. Her research interests are in the area of twentieth-century women writers, with publications on Elsa Morante and Grazia Deledda. She has also published on Italo Calvino and the detective fiction of Leonardo Sciascia. She is a co-translator, with Giovana Miceli Jeffries, of Clara Sereni's 'Casalinghitudine' ('Keeping House').

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