STEPHANIE MALIA HOM
Single-Authored Books
Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.
The Beautiful Country: Tourism & the Impossible State of Destination Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Edited Volumes
Italian Mobilities, edited by Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Stephanie Malia Hom.
London: Routledge, 2016.
Read more about the tourists & the souvenirs of Italy in The Beautiful Country.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"La terra in Sicilia: A Dundesian Reading of the Festival of Saint Agatha." Western Folklore 73, no. 2-3
(2014): 142-172.
"Simulated Imperialism." Traditional Dwellings & Settlements Review 25, no. 1 (2013): 25-44.
"On the Origins of Making Italy: Massimo D'Azeglio and 'Fatta l'Italia, bisogna fare gli Italiani." Italian Culture 31, no. 1 (2013): 1-16.
"Empires of Tourism: Travel & Rhetoric in Italian Colonial Libya and Albania, 1911-1943." Journal of Tourism History 4, no. 3 (2012): 281-300.
"Italy Without Borders: Simulacra, Tourism, Suburbia, and the New Grand Tour." Italian Studies 65, no. 3 (2010): 376-397.
"Consuming the View: Tourism, Rome, and the Topos of the Eternal City." Annali d'Italianistica 28 (2010): 91-116.
"Set into Motion: Identity and Mobility in Nassera Chohra's Volevo diventare bianca." The Italianist 29, no. 3 (2009): 425-447.
"Patria-otic Incarnations and Italian Character: Discourses of Nationalism in Ippolito Nievo's Confessioni d'un Italiano." Italica 84, no. 2-3 (2007): 214-232.
"The Tourist Moment." Annals of Tourism Research 31, no. 1 (2004): 61-77.
Book Chapters
“All Empire is a Stage: Italian Colonial Exhibitions in Continuum.” In Neocolonialism and Built Heritage: Echoes of Empire in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, edited by Daniel Coslett. Architext Series. London: Routledge, 2020. 106-123.
“The City of Light in the City of Signs: Virtuality and Tourism in Paris, Las Vegas.” In Tourism Fictions, Simulacra, and Virtualities, edited by Maria Gravari-Barbas, Nelson Graburn, and Jean-François Staszak. Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism, and Mobility Series. London: Routledge, 2019. 183-196.
“Notes on Rhetoric and Repetition in Tourism.” In Repetition, Recurrence, Returns: How Cultural Renewal Works, edited by Joan Ramon Resina and Christoph Wulf. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. 109-127.
“Becoming Ospite: Hospitality and Mobility at the Center of Temporary Permanence.” In Italian Mobilities, edited by Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Stephanie Malia Hom. London: Routledge, 2016. 88-110.
Special Journal Issues
California Italian Studies. Special Issue on “Italia senza frontiere/Borderless Italy.” Edited by Claudio Fogu, Stephanie Malia Hom, and Laura Ruberto. 9 (2019).
Journal & Book Contributions
“On Italian Mobilities and Ecological Fretwork.” Special Issue on Environment and Italianness: Socio-Natures on the Move, edited by Roberta Biasillo, Claudio De Majo, and Daniele Valisena. Modern Italy 29, no. 2 (2021): 1-6.
“Discussion: Tourism & Empire.” With Shelley Baranowski, Christopher Endy, Waleed Hazbun, Gordon Pirie, Trevor Simmons, and Eric G.E. Zuelow. Journal of Tourism History 7, no. 1 (2015): 1-31.
“Italy’s Other Mafias: Contributions by Colleagues Attending the Roundtable Panel.” Special Issue on Italian Film. The Italianist 33, no. 2 (2013): 222-223.
“Processes of Becoming: Academic Journeys, Moments and Reflections.” In The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Innovative Research Methodologies, edited by Irena Ateljevic, Nigel Morgan, & Annette Pritchard, 389-390. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd., 2007.
Book Reviews
Review of Heather Merrill, “Black Spaces: African Diaspora in Italy.” Social and Cultural Geography 21, no. 6 (2020): 888-890.
Review of Elizabeth Zanoni, “Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America.” H-Italy (2020).
Review of Eric G.E. Zuelow, ed., “Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History.” Journal of Tourism History 4, no. 2 (2012): 233-235.
Review of Jerri Daboo, “Ritual, Rapture and Remorse: A Study of Tarantism and Pizzica in Salento.” Anthropos 106, no. 1 (2011): 235-236.
Review of Giuseppe Maria Finaldi, “Italian National Identity in the Scramble for Africa: Italy’s African Wars in the Era of Nation-Building, 1870-1900.” Geschichte.Transnational (November 2010) http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/rezensionen/
Review of Suzanne Magnanini, “Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile.” Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 23, no. 2 (2009): 423-425.
Digital Exhibition Reviews
Review of “DP Camps and Hachsharot in Italy after the War.” Digital Exhibition (http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/dp_camps_italy/index.asp). Curated by Yad Varshem. Italian American Review 7, no. 1 (Winter 2017): 109–12.
Exhibition Texts & Catalogs
“Ente Turistico ed Alberghiero della Libia (‘Libyan Tourism and Hotel Association’).” Metropole/Colony: Africa and Italy. Curated by David Rifkind. Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery, Frost Museum of Art, Florida International University, Miami, FL (January 25–April 1, 2012).
“Introduction.” Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection, edited by Mark A. White, 5-6. Norman, OK: The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the University of Oklahoma, 2011.