Participant Info

First Name
Diana
Last Name
Garvin
Affiliation
University of Oregon
Website URL
www.dianagarvin.com
Keywords
Fascism, Neo-Fascism, Italian Fascism, Italian Neo-Fascism, abortion, food history, coffee, espresso, pasta, gastronomy, Italian food, Italian food history
Additional Contact Information
www.dianagarvin.com, @DianaEGarvin

Personal Info

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About Me

Diana Garvin is an Assistant Professor of Italian with a specialty in Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon.  She conducted her postdoctoral research at the American Academy in Rome as the 2017-2018 Rome Prize winner for Modern Italian Studies. She received her PhD from Cornell University and her AB from Harvard University.  Garvin’s research examines the history of everyday life across Fascist Italy and Italian East Africa.  In her book, Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work (now available with University of Toronto Press) she uses food as a lens to examine daily negotiations of power between women and the Fascist state. Garvin often writes articles on everyday life under Italian Fascism for journals like Critical Inquiry, Journal of Modern European HistoryJournal of Modern Italian HistoryModern Italy, Annali d’italianisticaDesign Issues, Food and Foodways, gender/sexuality/italyand Signs.  Fellowships and awards from Fulbright, Getty Library, Oxford University, Cornell University, University of Oregon, Wolfsonian-FIU, Julia Child Foundation, CLIR Mellon, FLAS, AAUW, NWSA, and AFS have supported Garvin’s research at over thirty international archives, libraries, and museums.

Recent Publications

Book

Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work. University of Toronto Press, Spring 2022.  (Winner of the 2021 Jeanne and Aldo Scaglione Publication Award, Honorable Mention for Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, Modern Language Association.)

Articles

Dollies for the Duce: The Politics of Playtime in Fascist Italy.” Forthcoming with Journal of Modern Italian Studies (2022).

“Paper Soldiers on the March: Colonial Toys for Imperial Play.” Forthcoming with Design Issues. (2022).

Reproductive Healthcare from Fascism to Forza Nuova.” Signs, 47.1 (2021): 1-37.

Militarizing Monopoly: Game Designs for Wartime.” Design Issues, 37.3 (2021): 33-43.

The Italian Coffee Triangle: From Brazilian Colonos to Ethiopian Colonialisti.” Modern Italy (2021): 1-22.

Fascist Foodways: Ricettari as Propaganda for Grain Production and Sexual Reproduction.” Food and Foodways. 29.2 (2021).

Riding the Stockcar to Sleep in the Stable: Migrant Agricultural Labor and Songs of Rebellion.” gender/sexuality/Italy7 (2021).

Black Markets: The Production of Fascist Racism in East African Marketplace Newsreels.” Journal of Modern European History (Fall 2020): 1-22.

Constructing Race through Commercial Space: Merkato Ketema under Fascist Urban Planning.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 25.2 (Fall 2020): 118-148. 

Singing Truth to Power: Melodic Resistance and Bodily Revolt in Italy’s Rice Fields.” Annali d’Italianistica, special edition “Speaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy.” Eds. Jo Ann Cavallo and Carlo Lottieri. 34 (2016): 371-398. (Winner of the 2017 Russo and Linkon Award for Best Published Article for Academic Audiences, Working-Class Studies Association.)

“Taylorist Breastfeeding in Rationalist Clinics: Constructing Industrial Motherhood in Fascist Italy.” Critical Inquiry. 41 (2015): 655-674.

Book Chapters

“Cut-Throat: The Battle of Adwa according to Razor Blades.” Forthcoming in The History of Everyday Life Reader: Working with Sources. Eds. Kate Ferris and Huw Halstead. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

Colonie and the Cult of Youth in Fascist Architecture.” Forthcoming with The City and Civilization: Representations of Urban Spaces in Italian Culture.  Eds. Andrea Scapolo and Angela Porcarelli.  Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

“Imperial Board Games for Future Colonists.” Forthcoming with Are You Game?  A Cultural History of Board Games.  Ed. Medina Lasansky and Chad Randl.  New York: Routledge.

Interracial Wetnursing in Italian East Africa.” The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism.  Eds. Chelsea Schields and Dagmar Herzog.  New York:  Routedge, 2021.

Producing Consumers: Gendering Italy through Food Advertisements.” In Representing Italy through Food.  Eds. Peter Naccarato, Ken Albala, and Zachary Nowak.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2016: 143-161.

Communicative Blogging for Student Engagement and Blended Literacy.”  In Doing Research to Improve Teaching and Learning: A Guide for College and University Faculty. Ed. Kimberly Williams.  New York: Routledge, 2015: 103-106.

Autarchic by Design: Aesthetics and Politics of Kitchenware.”  In Food and Material Culture: Proceedings of the 2013 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. London: Prospect Books, 2013: 11-19.

Translations

Antonio Negri, “To the Origins of Biopolitics. A Seminar” (“Alle origini del biopolitico”). In Biopower: Foucault and Beyond.  Eds. Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016: 48-64.

Roberto Esposito, “The Person and Human Life”  (“Persona e vita umana”). In Theory after “Theory.”   Eds. Derek Attridge and Jane Elliott. Co-trans. Thomas Kelso. New York: Routledge, 2011: 205-219.

Travel Guide                 

Let’s Go: Spain and Portugal 2006. Ed. Diana Garvin. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Media Coverage
Appearances Podcasts and Radio Interviews “The Transnational History of Italian Coffee,” interview for Eat This Podcast, “Coffee” series. Recorded on June 16, 2021 with Jeremy Cherfas. “What Protectors of Democracy Can Learn from the History
Country Focus
Italy, Brazil, East Africa
Expertise by Geography
Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Modern, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Capitalism, Children & Youth, Colonialism, Economic History, Environment, Food History, Gender, Government, Labor, Libraries & Archives, Material Culture, Museums, Pedagogy, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Rural & Agrarian History, Urban History, Women, World War I, World War II