Joan Didion: Life and/with/through Words

Cinzia Scarpino is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Milan. Her research interests and publications range from American literature of the 1930s and 1940s and of the second half of the 20th century to environmental studies, screen studies, and Law & Literature. Eva-Sabine Zehelein is Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published broadly in North American Studies, e.g. on John Updike, contemporary science plays, Alice Munro, Joan Didion, 55+ communities and family trees.

• Notebooks – (auto)biography – photographs – Joan Didion – California – nostalgia – mental landscape – (post)-west – intimacy – reparative reading – LA – anti-sentimentality – Black Panthers – NYC – environmental psychology – place attachment – (dis)illusion – feminism – power – storytelling – abandonment – crossing story