Contact Information
M/C 176
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, French and Italian
Professor, History
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Director, European Union Center
Associate Professor, Political Science
Associate Professor, Center for Global Studies
Recent Publications
Rota, E. (2025). From Nationalism to Fascist Europeanism: Italy, the Francophone World, and the Empire Myth. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003351658
Rota, E. (2017). Is immunity a historical concept? Medical and juridical immunity in the European enlightenment. Configurations, 25(3), 327-345. https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2017.0022
Rota, E. (2015). Oedipus has a complex : Pasolini's Freudian Tragedy. Studi Pasoliniani, (9), 39-54. https://doi.org/10.1400/234132
Rota, E. (2015). The Pure and the uncontaminated: biopolitical tropes from I promessi sposi to the Manifesto della razza. Moderna: semestrale di teoria e critica della letteratura, XVII(1), 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1400/247769
Rota, E. (2013). 'We Will Never Leave.' The Reale Accademia d'Italia and the Invention of a Fascist Africanism. Fascism, 2(2), 161-182. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00202004