Kenise Lyons

Kenise Lyons is currently a third year graduate student in the Italian department. She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland, College Park and a M. A. in Italian from the Catholic University of America. Her research interests include Italian intellectual history, the 19th and 20th century novel, as well as Italian cultural studies and film. Her conference papers include “Mery per Sempre and the Ashes of Gramsci” given at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies.