Martino Lovato works at the intersection between Arabic, French and Italian, histories, cultures, literatures and cinema. His research interests include the contemporary Mediterranean in theory and as interdisciplinary practice, with a focus on postcolonial studies, border crossing and social justice.
At Mount Holyoke and in the Five Colleges, he taught language, literature and cinema at the departments/programs of Italian, Romance Languages and Arabic, including: Introduction to the Mediterranean; Global Dante: A Journey through Hell; The Medieval Mirror: Freedom, Gender and Resistance in Contemporary Arabic Literature; Heroes & Infidels: Masculine Identity and The Birth of Europe in Medieval Romance Classics; and Catastrophe and Rebirth in Italian Cinema: from Dolce Vita to Trumpusconi.
He published articles on the Renaissance traveler and cosmographer Leo Africanus/Al-Wazzan, and on the Algerian film director Merzak Allouache; he is a current member of the American Comparative Literature Association.
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