AUR’s Italian Studies Department Chair Prof. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano presented the paper “Women writers confined: the case of Neera” at the international conference “Borders and Boundaries:Italian Women Writers of the 19th, 20th and 21st century” held at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland on 21-22 March, 2011.
In her presentation Prof. Ramsey-Portolano explored the theme of confinement through an analysis of the ways in which the late 19th-century writer Neera, in her autobiographical writings, letters and journalistic production, reflected upon her motivation to write, the difficulties encountered in expressing herself publicly and the conflict between her middle-class background and surroundings and her artistic inclination.
