Carol Lazzaro-Weis

Carol Marie Lazzaro was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Domenic J. Lazzaro and Marie Caruso Lazzaro. She graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1967, earned a bachelor's degree in French from the Pennsylvania State University, and completed a master's degree in French from Villanova University. She earned a second master's degree in Romance languages from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed doctoral studies in Romance languages in 1978, at the University of Pennsylvania. == Career ==

Lazzaro held teaching posts at Louisiana State University, University of Maryland, and Southern University (from 1984 to 2003), before becoming a professor of French and Italian and chair of the Romance Languages department at the University of Missouri in 2003. From 2011 to 2014, she held a named chair, as Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor. She retired with emeritus status in 2017. Lazzaro-Weis was president of the American Association for Italian Studies from 2009 to 2015. She ran Missouri's study abroad program in Lyon, and directed the Honors College at Southern University. == Publications ==

Lazzaro-Weis translated literary and historical works from French and Italian into English, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Italica, NWSA Journal, Connotations, and ''Annali d'Italianistica. Her book From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writing (1969-1992)'' (1993) was praised as "an engaging and extensive analysis" and "a comprehensive, theoretically sophisticated, and valuable study of the intersection of feminist theory and contemporary Italian women's writing." • "Prévost's comic romance: The Doyen de Killerine" (1983) • "The Subject's Seduction: The Experience of Don Juan in Italian Feminist Fictions" (1989) • ''From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writings (1969-1992)'' (1993) • "Comparing the Trickster in a Postmodern Post-Colonial Critical World" (1996/1997) • "Oriana Fallaci: The Woman and the Myth" (2000, with Santo Arico) • "Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness" (2002, with Roberta S. Kremer) • "Writing beyond Fascism: Cultural Resistance in the Life and Works of Alba de Cespedes" (2002, with Ellen Nerenberg and Carol C. Gallucci) == Personal life ==

Lazzaro-Weis died from cancer on February 26, 2022, at the age of 72. She was survived by her son, Peter. == References ==