Giulia Maria Gliozzi is a PhD candidate in Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation investigates the formation of postwar Italian collective memory through the reception and marginalization of women’s Holocaust testimonies between 1945 and 1955. Drawing on archival research and the sociology of literature, she analyzes how publishers, critics, and intellectual networks shaped which voices entered the literary canon and which were excluded. By situating these dynamics within Italy’s reconstruction after Fascism, she examines how gender, memory, and national self-representation intersected in defining the Italian understanding of the Holocaust.
Her scholarship approaches recovery not as a simple rediscovery, but as a critical inquiry into how absence is historically produced. Engaging debates on collective memory, nation formation, and canon construction, she reflects on the ethical responsibility of what we remember and recognize as part of cultural history. She is particularly interested in how literary institutions mediate historical accountability and how the canon functions as a contested space in which cultural authority and political identity are continually negotiated.