Mary Ann Frese Witt

Mary Ann Frese Witt is Professor Emerita of Italian, French, and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University. Her books include The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013). She has published numerous articles on Pirandello and modern theater. In collaboration with Martha King, she is the translator of Pirandello's novel Her...See more

Mary Ann Frese Witt is Professor Emerita of Italian, French, and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University. Her books include The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013). She has published numerous articles on Pirandello and modern theater. In collaboration with Martha King, she is the translator of Pirandello's novel Her Husband (Duke University Press, 2000). In collaboration with Martha Witt, she has translated and published contemporary Italian short stories, two plays by Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italica Press, 2013) and Henry IV (Italica Press, 2016) - and Grazia Deledda's novel Ivy (L'Edera) (Italica Press, 2019). See less