Parati will tell the history of fascism and its roots in Italy in 1919, and explore similarities and differences in the fascist regimes of Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco. Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Literature and Language and the Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College. She has published several books in her fields of scholarship, including Public History, Private Stories: Italian Women’s Autobiography; Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy; Italy and The Cultural Politics of WWI; and Migrants Writers and Urban Space in Italy: Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film. She has published articles that focus primarily on migration issues.