Marie Orton

Marie Orton is Professor of Italian at Brigham Young University. Her English translation of Kossi Komla-Ebri's "Imbarazzismi and Nuovi imbarazzismi" was published as "EmbaRACEments: Daily Embarrassments in Black and White . . . and Color" in 2019. She recently co-edited "Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives" (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2021) with Graziella Parati and Ron Kubati. She is currently researching the intersections of migration and constructed cultural...See more

Marie Orton is Professor of Italian at Brigham Young University. Her English translation of Kossi Komla-Ebri's "Imbarazzismi and Nuovi imbarazzismi" was published as "EmbaRACEments: Daily Embarrassments in Black and White . . . and Color" in 2019. She recently co-edited "Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives" (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2021) with Graziella Parati and Ron Kubati. She is currently researching the intersections of migration and constructed cultural memory in the medium of museums. See less