Karen Raizen

Assistant Professor of Italian

Biography: 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.
Phone: 845-758-7885
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Location: Fairbairn
Office: 103