Louise Zamparutti is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA. Her research focuses on the ways memorial artifacts contribute to the rhetorical construction of national, political, and cultural identity. Her work has been published in international journals and anthologies across disciplines and she is the author of the stage play Identità/Identiteta. She has received grants and fellowships from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency, the American Association for Italian Studies, and the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Slovenian Arts Council.