Joshua King, Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College. He is primarily interested in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema, and his current research interests include the links between contemporary cultural production and migration in Italy.

• King, J.  “Rivers as Rocket Ships: Negating the Self in the Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2-5, 2006.
• King, J. "The Aporia of a Universal Right to Refuge and Emmanele Crialese's Nuovo mondo." American Association of Italian Scholars Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 7-9, 2011.

• Modern and Classical Languages Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Connecticut, 2009-2010