Karen Raizen

Assistant Professor of Italian

Primary Academic Program: Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Literature

About Karen Raizen Karen Raizen’s research focuses on operatic adaptations of Italian classics, particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries. She is the coeditor of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed: A Thinker for the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2018) and has published articles, essays, and reviews in Italica, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, and Senses of Cinema; she has also worked on a number of translations of scholarly articles and operas. She is a recipient of the Yale Elizabethan Club prize for her dissertation, “Adaptations in Arcadia: Orlando furioso on the Eighteenth-Century Operatic Stage.” Professor Raizen also has extensive training as a classical violist and has played in a number of ensembles and participated in festivals both in the United States and abroad. BM, Rice University; MM, Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana; PhD, Yale University.

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