by Serena Bassi & Ellen Nerenberg

This article describes and reflects upon a pedagogical project that depended on collaboration between the two authors, upper-level Italian students at Wesleyan University and the Bologna-based LGBTQ+ center, Il Cassero. The collaboration centered on and unfolded from an undergraduate course entitled “Coming Out/Coming of Age: Narratives of Becoming in Contemporary Italian Culture” taught by Ellen Nerenberg. The course sought to introduce students to a number of Italian coming of age literary and visual texts,