David Ward
Associate professor and chair of the Department of Italian Studies, David Ward received his B.A. degree (with honors) in English and American Studies from University of East Anglia, Norwich, Great Britain. After a number of years teaching English and translating in Italy, he came to the United States to pursue graduate studies. He received an M.A. in 1996 and a Ph.D. in 1998 from the Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University. After a year of teaching as a Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he came to Wellesley College in 1989 where he was awarded tenure in 1995.
David Ward is author of two books: A Poetics of Resistance: Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Madison, NJ and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995) and Antifascisms: Cultural politics in Italy, 1943-46 Benedetto Croce and the Liberals, Carlo Levi and the Actionistsı (Madison, NJ and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996). His present research bears on the role played by Italian intellectuals in civil and political society over the last hundred years. The first fruits of this project are a political biography of Carlo Levi written in Italian that will be published by La Nuova Italia in Florence and an on-going study of the young antifascist intellectual Piero Gobetti. The latter was a project for which Professor Ward won a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 1999. More recently, he has written the chapter "Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy," included in the Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001), edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski and Rebecca West.
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