Louise Rozier (Middlebury College, D.M.L. 2002) is an Associate
Professor of Italian at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Her research areas are in the fields of translation and in early
twentieth-century Italian literature, with a focus on women
writers. She has published articles on Paola Masino, as well as
translations of several of her short stories. Rozier is the author
of the monograph Il mito e l'allegoria nella narrativa di Paola
Masino (2004). Her English translation of Fortunato
Pasqualino's The Little Jesus of Sicily (1999) won the
1996 Renato Poggioli Translation Award.