Cecilia Novero is Assistant Professor of German, Comparative Literature and Women's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her PhD in German from the University of Chicago (2000) with a dissertation devoted to European Avant-garde movements and issues of consumption/incorporation. Her book on the uses of food in the European Avant-garde until 1980 will be published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Prior to joining PSU Cecilia taught courses on German language, literature, art, film and food at the University of Chicago, at the University of Michigan (as a Post-Doctoral Fellow), and at Vassar College. Her research interests focus on Avant-garde theory, cultural studies and critical theory. In addition, she is doing research on contemporary European travel narratives as well as post-Wende authors and films. She has launched new research on the history of Film festivals. Her publications range from studies of food in film and literature, to contemporary German authors and popular travel books, as well as pan-European artistic movements.
Cecilia is fluent in English, German, Italian and French and has a reading knowledge of Russian and Latin
Sample Syllabi for Undergraduate Courses
Reading/Eating
HEIMAT 2002
Open Doors
Visions of power