Carol Marie Lazzaro was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Domenic J. Lazzaro and Marie Caruso Lazzaro.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3][4]
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.[2]
Publications
Lazzaro-Weis translated literary and historical works from French and Italian into English,[3] and published her research in academic journals including Neophilologus,[5]Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture,[6]Italica,[7][8]NWSA Journal,[9]Connotations,[10] and Annali d'Italianistica.[11] 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"[12] and "a comprehensive, theoretically sophisticated, and valuable study of the intersection of feminist theory and contemporary Italian women's writing."[13]
"Prévost's comic romance: The Doyen de Killerine" (1983)[5]
"Feminism, Parody, and Characterization in Prévost: The Example of the Doyen de Killerine"[6]
"Gender and Genre in Italian Feminist Literature in the Seventies" (1988)[14]
"The Subject's Seduction: The Experience of Don Juan in Italian Feminist Fictions" (1989)[11]
"The Female 'Bildungsroman': Calling It into Question" (1990)[9]
Confused Epiphanies: L’Abbé Prévost and the Romance Tradition (1991)[15]
From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writings (1969-1992) (1993)[16]
"Comparing the Trickster in a Postmodern Post-Colonial Critical World" (1996/1997)[10]
"20th-Century Italian Women Writers: The Feminine Experience" (1999, with Alba Amoia)[17]
"Oriana Fallaci: The Woman and the Myth" (2000, with Santo Arico)[7]
"The Signorina" and Other Stories (2001, by Anna Banti, translated by Martha King and Carol Lazzaro-Weis)[18]
"Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness" (2002, with Roberta S. Kremer)[19]
"Writing beyond Fascism: Cultural Resistance in the Life and Works of Alba de Cespedes" (2002, with Ellen Nerenberg and Carol C. Gallucci)[8]
Voyage aux prairies osages: Louisiane et Missouri, 1839-1840 (2012, by Victor Tixier, edited by Lazzaro-Weis; in French)[20]
Personal life
Lazzaro-Weis died from cancer on February 26, 2022, at the age of 72. She was survived by her son, Peter.[2]
References
^"Domenic Lazzaro Obit". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2005-06-01. pp. B06. Retrieved 2022-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
