Haverford College has announced that Anna Blase Provitola, daughter of Blase W. Provitola of Harvard and Georgia L. Buckner, graduated magna cum laude during commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 15. A graduate of Hanover High School and one of 299 members of Haverford’s Class of 2011, Provitola received a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature with a concentration in gender and sexuality studies and a minor in French.
Provitola was elected to the Haverford College Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The title of her senior thesis was, “The Other Tongue of a Thousand tongues: Examining Cixous’s ‘Ecriture Féminine’ in Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia and El Saadawi’s Innocence of the Devil.”
While studying at Haverford, Provitola was involved in a variety of campus activities, which included an internship for Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia during the summer of 2010. Post-graduation, Provitola will participate in an internship in Paris, France, with Les Humanoïdes Associés, a French comic book publishing company.
