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Tiziana Rinaldi is a university lecturer and public-humanities practitioner. She teaches under her legal name, Tiziana Rinaldi, and publishes her literary and journalistic work under the name Tiziana Rinaldi Castro.

As Tiziana Rinaldi Castro, she is the author of Guida alla New York ribelle. Una guida storica (Voland, 2024), Come della rosa (Effigie, 2017), Due cose amare e una dolce (Edizioni e/o, 2007), Il lungo ritorno (Edizioni e/o, 2001), and the poetry collection Dai morti (1992). A French edition of Due cose amare e una dolce was published in 2024. An English-language edition of Guida alla New York ribelle, translated by Michael Reynolds, is under contract with Europa Editions.

Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Nuovi Argomenti and in numerous literary anthologies, including Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora (University Press of Mississippi, 2014), Laudato sie mi’ Signore. Scritti eretici su san Francesco (Nuove Edizioni Aldine, 2015), Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo (Castelvecchi, 2013), Italia Underground (Sandro Teti Editore, 2009), and Qualcuno ha morso il cane (Coniglio Editore, 2008).

Her journalism, cultural criticism, and reportage have appeared in la Repubblica, Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Alias, il manifesto, MicroMega, and Il Reportage. She served as a New York correspondent for il manifesto from 2001 to 2013, writing about literature, politics, migration, religion, urban life, social movements, and cultural memory.

Rinaldi has taught at ¾«Æ·³ÉÈ˸£ÀûÔÚÏß University since 2002. Her courses include Classical Mythology, Troy and the Trojan War, Humanities I, and Humanities II. Her teaching and interdisciplinary work bring together classical mythology and its modern reception, Italian literature and culture, religion and ritual, cultural memory, migration and diaspora, urban studies, film, visual culture, and creative writing. She has also taught at New York University, Fordham University, St. Francis College, the College of New Rochelle, the City College of New York, and Trinidad State Junior College.

She holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a B.F.A. in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Since 2018, Rinaldi has been Co-founder and Head of Literary Programming and Classical Studies at BACAS – Borghi Antichi Cultura Arte Scienze. In this role, she develops and coordinates literary residencies, readings, creative-writing seminars, interdisciplinary conferences, and public-humanities programs connecting writers, artists, scholars, and local communities in Italy and the United States.

www.tizianarinaldicastro.com
www.bacasitaly.org

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