Nicoletta Pazzaglia has a background in both Italian Studies and Contemporary Art. She began her career as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Italian at the University of Oregon, where she honed her teaching skills and completed her PhD in Romance Languages, focusing on Italian and French literature and photography from the Fin de Siècle. Following this, she served as a Visiting Professor of Italian at Miami University from 2015 to 2019.

In 2019, she moved to London to deepen her knowledge of photography, completing a Master's at Central Saint Martins, UAL in Contemporary Photography. Since January 2023, Nicoletta has been working as an adjunct Lecturer of Italian at King's College London, where she teaches Italian language courses. Her teaching methodology uses a communicative and collaborative approach in language teaching, incorporating active learning techniques such as dramatization, photography, blogs, comics, and role-playing to enable learners to gain full agency in the process of learning.

Edited Book

• Photography as Power: Dominance and Resistance Through the Italian Lens. With an Introduction by David Forgacs. Eds. Marco Andreani and Nicoletta Pazzaglia, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals and Book Chapters

• “Fotografie e ossa: Testimonianza e Sopravvivenza ne Lanera novella di Alda Merini” Italian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2093506

 

• “Ruzante’s LaMoscheta as a new possible source for Ben Jonson’s Volpone”, Italica 98.3: 526-553

 

• “A body to Fear: Representability, Recognition and the Making of the Criminal Woman” in Photography as Power: Dominance and Resistance Through the Italian Lens. With an Introduction by David Forgacs. Eds. Marco Andreani and Nicoletta Pazzaglia, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.