Curriculum Vitae - Philadelphia - College of Liberal Arts

CRISTINA GRAGNANI
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literature (Italian), Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., November
2002. Dissertation: Il laboratorio dello stile. Sondaggi nel Taccuino di Harvard di Luigi Pirandello
(Advisers: Professors Laura Benedetti, Dante Della Terza, Franco Fido, Lino Pertile).
Italian Public High School Teaching Certificate, Rome, Italy, December 2000.
AM, Romance Languages and Literature (Italian), Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1998.
Laurea (summa cum laude), Lettere, Italian Literature, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, 1996
(Dissertation: Il mito di Parigi nella letteratura italiana tra Otto e Novecento).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Courses taught listed at the bottom)
Temple University (2015-), Associate Professor.
Temple University (2009-2015), Tenure Track Assistant Professor.
University of Illinois at Chicago (2006-2009), Tenure Track Assistant Professor.
University of Illinois at Chicago (2005-2006), Visiting Assistant Professor.
University of California, Rome Study Center, Rome, Italy (Summer 2004), Academic Coordinator.
John Cabot University, Rome, Italy (Spring 2002-Spring 2004), Adjunct Assistant Professor.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Italian Post-Risorgimento women intellectuals, turn-of-the-twentieth century
periodicals, Luigi Pirandello, Textual Studies, Material culture, Digital Humanities.
Sicilian
literary
PUBLICATIONS
Books
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Sottoboschi letterari: Sei case studies tra Otto e Novecento (Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen
Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, Flavia Steno).
(With Ombretta Frau of Mount Holyoke College.)
Firenze University Press, 2011.
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Luigi Pirandello, Taccuino di Harvard, introduced and annotated by Ombretta Frau and Cristina
Gragnani, with a foreword by Dante Della Terza, Milan: Mondadori, 2002.
Articles
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“Lacerba e Il figlio alla Guerra: ai due estremi dell’interventismo intellettuale?” 2015 (Annali d’Italianistica, 33,
2015), 53-74.
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“From Quill to Mouse. Digitizing the ‘Woman of Letters’ (1861-1922),” Humanist Studies & the Digital Age:
http://journals.oregondigital.org/hsda, 2015 – co-authored with O. Frau.
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“Pirandello tra Carducci e Séailles: ‘Elegia rurale,’ poesia umoristica,” Pirandello Studies, vol. 30,
2010: 25-41.
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“‘Un soffio, un alito di modernità’? Elda Gianelli e la scrittura mutante,” Italia y la Generación
1900-1910. Eds. Mariapia Lamberti - Franca Bizzoni. México City: UNAM, 2009: 43-60.
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“Pirandello tra Leopardi e Pascoli. Zampogna e Fuori di chiave nel Taccuino di Harvard”, Italian
Poetry Review (former Yale Italian Poetry), 3, 2008: 409-443.
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“Avanti il divorzio e La mia vita: Anna Franchi tra autobiografia e autofinzione.” Mnemosyne o la
costruzione del senso, 1, 2008: 127-138.
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“Autoritratto in posa: Viaggio nel tempo di Willy Dias.” Quaderno n° 2 dei colloqui
dell’Osservatorio scientifico delle testimonianze autobiografiche scritte e audiovisive. Ed. Beatrice
Barbalato, 2007: 96-107.
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“L’influsso di E.G. Boner nel formarsi della lingua letteraria pirandelliana,” Identità e diversità
nella lingua e nella letteratura italiana, Eds S. Vanvolsem et alii, Franco Cesati Editore, 2007:
183-195.
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“Da Boner a Pirandello: il peso specifico delle parole (con due rari pirandelliani),” Filologia e
Critica, 3, (2006): 321-355.
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“Flirt 1897-1902: lettrici e scrittrici di una rivista siciliana,” Lengua, Ideas, Literatura. Eds.
Mariapia Lamberti, Franca Bizzoni. México City: UNAM, 2005: 193-210.
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“El ser narrado (y leìdo) por las mujeres: escritoras (y lectoras) en la Italia postunitaria,”
Intramuros, X, 20 (2004-2005): 26-27 (ed. B. Barbalato).
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“La prima e l’ultima revisione dell’Esclusa attraverso tre scartafacci pirandelliani”, Pirandello e il
Piemonte, Ed. Comitato Pirandello e Coazze. Turin: Edizioni Enterprise, 2004: 45-56.
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“Pirandello lettore di Cecconi (e di Manzoni),” Ariel. Quadrimestrale di drammaturgia dell’Istituto di
Studi Pirandelliani e sul Teatro Italiano Contemporaneo, XVIII, 2 (2003): 151-181.
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“Voci della ribalta. Ascoltare Visconti nello studio di Pirandello,” Ariel. Quadrimestrale di
drammaturgia dell’Istituto di Studi Pirandelliani e sul Teatro Italiano Contemporaneo, XV, 3 (2001):
41-58.
Book Chapters
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“War Rape and Hybrid Birth.” Annie Chartres Vivanti: Writing Among Political Engagement,
Gender Identity, and Cosmopolitism, ed. Erica Moretti and Sharon Wood (forthcoming with
Farleigh Dickinson Press 2106).
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“La ‘Piccola Posta’: Twitter for the Nineteenth Century Woman.” Readers and Spectators in Italy:
Towards the Formation of a National Audience (1750-1890), ed. Jennifer Burns and Gabriella
Romani (co-authored with O. Frau), forthcoming with Farleigh Dickinson Press, 2016.
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“Hercules at the Crossroad: Willy Dias’ Strategies of Social Unmasking.” Met(a)morphosis, ed.
Roberto Nicosia (forthcoming with Cambridge Scholar Press 2016).
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“Late Nineteenth Century Italian Women Writers between Marginalization and (Aspirations of)
Inclusion: A Puzzling Balance,” Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and
Transgression, ed. Patrizia Sambuco (with O. Frau) Farleigh Dickinson University Press 2014.
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“Intervista a Emma Boghen Conigliani,” Interviste impossibili, Ed. Antonio Harvé Cavallera, Walter
Scancarello. Pontedera, Bibliografia e Informazione Editore, 2013.
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“Il lettore in copertina. Flirt rivista di splendore e declino,” The Printed Media in fin-de-siècle Italy:
Publishers, Writers and Readers, Eds. Ann H. Caesar, Gabriella Romani, and Jennifer Burns,
London: Legenda – Maney Publishing, 2011: 133-150.
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“Les neuf parcours de L’ipocrita: la recherche de la ‘dimension verticale’,” Vincenzo Cerami: Le
récit et la scène, Ed. B. Barbalato, Louvain-la-Neuve: Publications Universitaires de Louvaine,
2005: 139-163.
Encyclopædia Entries
Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year
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Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 2010, Italian Literature, pp. 263-264.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year 2011, Italian Literature, pp. 261-262.
Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 2012, Italian Literature, pp. 261-262.
Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 2013, Italian Literature, pp. 285-286.
Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 2014, Italian Literature, pp. 277-278.
Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 2015, Italian Literature, pp. 273-274.
Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 2016, Italian Literature (forthcoming 2016).
Enciclopedia delle donne (http://www.enciclopediadelledonne.it/)
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“Evelyn Franceschi Marini,” 2013.
“Emma Boghen Conigliani,” 2013.
Book Reviews
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G. Romani, Postal Culture: Writing and Reading Letters in Post-Unification Italy, Toronto: Toronto
University Press 2013 (Italian Culture, XXXIII, 2: 150-151.
M. Pedroni Ed., Studi sulla letteratura del secondo Ottocento, (Italian issue) Versants. Rivista
Svizzera delle Letterature Romanze, 57, 2, 2010 (Oblio: Osservatorio Bibliografico della letteratura
italiana Otto-novecentesca, I, 1, April 2010,
http://www.progettoblio.com/downloads/Oblio,%20I,%201.pdf)
L. Di Martino, Il caleidoscopio della scrittura. James Joyce, Carlo Emilio Gadda e il romanzo
modernista, Napoli, ESI 2009. December 2011, (Oblio: Osservatorio Bibliografico della letteratura
italiana Otto-novecentesca, II-III),
L. Salsini, Addressing the Letter: Italian Women Writers’ Epistolary Fiction, Toronto, University of
Toronto Press, 2011. March 2012 (Oblio: Osservatorio Bibliografico della letteratura italiana Ottonovecentesca, IV).
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
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“Heroism, Maternity and Race: Anna Franchi’s Anti-German World War I Propaganda,” Dickinson
College, 19 March 2014.
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“The Other Side of Conflict: Italian Women Writers and World War I,” Distinguished Faculty
Lecture, Center for the Humanities – Temple University (CHAT), 6 February, 2014.
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“Before Sibilla: The Hidden World of Late Nineteenth Century Italian Women Writers,” Dickinson
College, Carlisle, PA, 27 March 2013.
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“My life or The Lives of Others? Risorgimento Memories in Anna Franchi’s La mia vita,” Rutgers
University, 7 October 2011 (Symposium on Women and the Risorgimento).
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“Strategie del comico ed “etica relativa” nell’Esclusa di Pirandello,” University of Warsaw, Poland,
7 April 2009 (Symposium on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Italian Literature).
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“Pirandellian Pre-texts: Revising L’esclusa, The University of Illinois at Chicago, The Institute for
the Humanities, 18 March 2009.
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“Il Taccuino di Harvard di Luigi Pirandello: crocevia inter e intra testuale,” Department of Modern
Philology, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, 26 May, 2008.
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“Una provinciale scrittrice mitteleuropea: Elda Gianelli,” Department of Modern History, School of
Education, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, 26 May, 2008.
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“Quando le donne scrivono di letteratura. Emma Boghen Conigliani e il processo di costruzione
della nazione,” University of Heidelberg, Romanisches Seminar, Heidelberg, Germany, 5 July,
2007.
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“Etica della roba e codice d’onore: comico, grottesco e oltre nel primo romanzo (umoristico) di
Pirandello.” Parole da Ridere: Humor, Satire and Irony in Italian Culture, University of Chicago
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Italian Collective 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL, 12 May, 2007 (Keynote
speaker).
“Pirandello between Literature and Film: Donna Mimma in Search of her Author,” University of
Illinois at Chicago, Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, Chicago, IL, 7
December, 2005.
“L’edizione critica del Taccuino di Harvard,” Università di Tor Vergata Roma 2, Facoltà di Lettere e
Filosofia, Rome, Italy, 17 December, 2002.
“Pirandello a Harvard: il cartolare di Houghton,” (with Ombretta Frau), Harvard University, The
Humanities Center, Cambridge, Mass., 8 December, 1999.
Conference Papers
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“ ‘Il paesaggio capovolto’: Spazio domestico e prima guerra mondiale nelle scrittrici,” AAIS 2017,
The University of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, expected 21-23 April 2017.
“World War I Letters Home from Reality to Fiction: Anna Franchi’s Construction of Masculinity
and Pro-war discourse,” SIS (Society for Italian Studies) 2015, Oxford, UK 29 September 2015.
“Religione e intervento: La retorica della “guerra voluta da Dio” negli scritti di Matilde Serao,”
AATI 2015, University for Foreigners, Siena, Italy, 24 June 2015.
“Rigenerazione e degenerazione: l’antiretorica di guerra di Matilde Serao,” Nascere, Rinascere,
Ricominciare: Immagini del nuovo inizio nella cultura italiana, Georgetown Univeristy and
University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, 18 June 2015.
“ ‘Lanam fecit:’ penna, carta e ferri da calza per vincere la guerra,” AAIS Women Studies Caucus
Panel: Trinkets, Knicknacks, Pens, Papers, and More: Material Culture and Gendered Space, AAIS
2015, University of Colorado, 27 March 2015.
“La mia vita di Anna Franchi: Memorie o amnesie di guerra?” AAIS Women’s Sudies Caucus
Round Table: Memory and Women’s Studies, AAIS 2015, University of Colorado, 27 March 2015.
“Anna Franchi’s The Son at War: The Home and Battle Fronts through the Eyes of a Woman,” International
Conference: The Myth of the Great War. The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 25 April 2014.
“Beyond Propaganda: Anna Franchi’s and Annie Vivanti’s Ideological Writings.” “Annie Vivanti:
scrittura tra militanza politica, identità di genere e cosmopolitismo A.A.T.I. 2013, Strasbourg,
France. 2 June 2013.
“La Piccola Posta: Twitter for the Nineteenth Century Woman,” “Readers and Spectators in Italy:
Towards the Formation of A National Audience” (1750-1890), Seton Hall University – University of
Warwick, Venice, Italy. 17 May 2013.
“Crafting Invisible-women.org” (with Ombretta Frau). “Lector in rete” A.A.I.S 2013, University of
Oregon, Eugene, OR. April 11-14.
“ ‘La nostra storia’: Using Wiki to Write a Multi-Authored Short Story.” “Technological Tools for
Successful Teaching and Learning.” A.A.I.S. 2012, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 3-5
May 2012.
“ ‘Se ci commuove ha vinto’. The Role of Emotions in the (Literary) Campaign for a Divorce Law
(1902)”, “Life! Motions, Motives, Emotions”, NISA (Network of Italian Scholars Abroad), UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA, 17-19 November 2011.
“Broken Bonds: The Clash of Collective Ethics and Individual Agency in Pirandello’s Early
Fiction”, MSA (Modernist Studies Association), Buffalo, NY, 9 October, 2011.
“La fin de siècle delle scrittrici. Il modernismo e le donne”, “Rethinking the Fin-de-Siècle”. A.A.I.S.
2011, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 8 April 2011.
“Ai confini della letteratura femminile”, “Borders and Boundaries: Italian Women Writers of the
19th, 20th and 21st Centuries”, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK, 21 March 2011.
“Culto del passato ed estetica dell’obsoleto: realtà urbana e provinciale pre-unitaria in Evelyn”,
MOD (Società per lo studio della modernità letteraria), Catholic University, Milan, Italy, 17 June,
2010.
“Evelyn tra bozzettismo e fantastico”, “Women Writers of the Fantastic”. A.A.I.S. 2010, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 22 April, 2010.
“The Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy” (Round Table). A.A.I.S. 2010, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI, 23 April, 2010.
“Gli Acquerelli gotici di Evelyn”, “Languages, Cultures, Identities of Italy in the World”. A.I.S.L.L.I
2009, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 4 December 2009.
“Autobiografia e sdoppiamento: Genesi di Sinfonia rurale”, “Luigi Pirandello”. A.A.I.S. 2009, St.
John’s University, New York City, NY, 9 May, 2009.
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“Flirt fin de siècle: Palermo letteraria e mondana”, “Technology and the Printed Media in Italy
Between 1870 and 1914. An International Conference”, Seton Hall University, South Orange,
NJ,16 October, 2008.
“Fuga da un paradosso sociale: Anna Franchi tra legalità disonesta e onesta illegalità”, “Storie di
prigionia e/o di fuga nella cultura italiana (XVIII-XX sec.)”, A.A.I.S, Taormina, Italy, 23 May,
2008.
“‘Un soffio, un alito di modernità:’ Contesi orizzonti di Elda Gianelli.” VII Jornadas Internacionales
de Estudios Italianos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, 22 October, 2007.
“La mia vita e Avanti il divorzio: Anna Franchi tra autofinzione e autobiografia.” Colloqui di Panni
sull’autobiografia, Panni (FG), Italy, 1 Aug. 2007.
“Lo specchio, la penna e la memoria. Viaggio nel tempo di Willy Dias.” Between the Lines:
Personal Narratives in Works of Fiction. AAIS Conference. Colorado Springs, CO, 3 May 2007.
“Nascita di una giornalista antifascista: Viaggio nel tempo di Willy Dias,” Colloqui di Panni
sull’autobiografia,” Panni (FG), Italy. 2 August 2006.
“Maria Bobba e Emma Boghen Conigliani: due letterate in fabbrica nell’Italia post-unitaria.”
Scrittura femminile e lavoro: impegno, rappresentazione e autoaffermazione. AAIS Conference.
Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy, 26 May 2006.
“Flirt Illustrato. A Modernist Periodical in Palermo?” (With Ombretta Frau), Cultural Mediations:
Italian Journals and European Modernism. Modernist Studies Association 7. Chicago, IL, 4
November, 2005.
“Le tre vite di Donna Mimma. Storia semisconosciuta di un personaggio pirandelliano dalla Sicilia
a Hollywood.” “Shifting Souths.” Second Annual Robert Dombroski Conference, University of
Connecticut – Storrs, CT, 18 September, 2005.
“I nove percorsi dell’Ipocrita: Vincenzo Cerami e la ricerca della dimensione verticale.” New Voices
in Italian Literature: World Literature Today. AAIS Conference, University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, 15 April, 2005.
“Emma Boghen Conigliani lettrice di Leopardi.” NEMLA Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 1,
2005.
Flirt (1897-1902): lettrici e scrittrici di una rivista siciliana.” Italia a través de los siglos. Lengua,
Ideas, Literatura. VI Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Italianos, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, México City, 27 November, 2003.
“L’influsso di E.G. Boner nel formarsi della lingua letteraria pirandelliana.” Identità e diversità
nella lingua e nella letteratura italiana. AISLLI (Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana), Leuven, Belgium, 18 July, 2003.
“Il Taccuino di Harvard da Girgenti all’Europa.” (with Ombretta Frau), Pirandello e l’Europa,
International Conference on Pirandello Studies. Centro Nazionale di Studi Pirandelliani,
Agrigento, Italy, 7 December, 2001.
“La tessera mancante del Taccuino di Coazze.” (with Ombretta Frau), Pirandello e il Piemonte,
International Conference on Pirandello Studies, Teatro Gobetti, Turin, Italy, 17 November, 2001.
“Per riscrivere una novella: il contributo di un narratore dimenticato allo stile di Pirandello.” V
Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Italianos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
México City, 9 November, 2001.
“Pirandello e la Sicilia: Ritorni ad Akragante.” (with Ombretta Frau), Eight Annual Graduate
Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., 18 March, 2000.
Other Presentations and Workshops
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“Scrittrici italiane dell’Otto e del Novecento. Le interviste impossibili: Response to Critic Caterina Del Vivo”
(Book Presentation), Gabinetto Vieusseux, Florence, Italy, January 16, 2013.
“Licu’s Holidays, by Vittorio Moroni: (Presentation and Q&A Session, America-Italy Society and Consulate
General of Italy, Philadelphia, November 14, 2013.
“Sottoboschi Letterari: Response to Critics Elisabetta de Troja and Mimma Califano” (Book Presentation),
Florence State Archive, Florence, Italy, May 16, 2013.
“Romanzo di una strage, by Marco Tullio Giordana” (Presentation and Q&A Session), America-Italy Society
and Consulate General of Italy, Philadelphia, 02/21/2013.
“Donne e mondo del lavoro: esempi dal cinema e dalla letteratura.” Seminar for K-12 teachers and college
instructors, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA, 20 April, 2013.
“Teaching How to Write about Literature.” Writing Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, 18 April, 2007.
Editorship and Advisory Board
Mnemosyne o la costruzione del senso, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Belgium
Advisory Board, 2010Editorial Board, 2005Referee for Aevum, g/s/i, Mnemosyne, Quaderni d’Italianistica, Forum Italicum, Oblio.
SERVICE
Temple University
University
Rome Semester Scholarship Committee, Fall 2011, Fall 2010.
College of Liberal Arts
Global Studies Committee, Spring 2015Marthe Lavallée Williams Award Committee Spring 2013Temple University Rome
Italian Studies Program Support, Fall 2015
Department of French German Italian and Slavic
Italian Program Adviser, Spring 2013; Spring 2015Post-Core Coordinator, Fall 2009Strategic Planning Sub-Committee Spring 2015Tenure and Promotion Committee Fall 2015
Merit Committee, Fall 2013
Marthe Lavallée Williams Award Committee Spring 2013Amici della Cultura Italiana, Temple Chapter, Advisor, Fall 2010-2014
Liaison with Temple University, Rome Campus, Summer 2010Italian Club Advisor, Fall 2009-2014
Film Series Committee, Spring 2010, Spring 2012.
Italian Search Committee, Spring 2013, Summer 2010.
University of Illinois at Chicago
University
Vice Chancellor Sub-committee on Faculty Concerns 2007-2009.
College of Liberal Arts and Science
Elections Committee (Chair), Fall 2007.
Language and Culture Learning Center Committee, 2006–2007.
Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese
Director of Italian Undergraduate Studies, 2008-2009.
Advisory Committee, 2006–2009.
Undergraduate Committee, 2006–2009.
Basic Language Program Assistant Supervisor, 2006–2008.
Italian Search Committee, Spring 2008.
Lecture Series Committee, 2007–2009.
Study Abroad Committee, 2006–2009.
Liaison with Scuola Dante Alighieri, Siena, Italy, 2006-2009.
Liaison with Study Abroad Office, 2006-2009.
Italian Club Advisor, 2006–2009.
Quorum Committee, 2006–2007.
Library Committee, 2006–2007.
University of California, Rome Study Center
Academic Coordinator, EAP Pre-Intensive Language Program (Summer 2004)
Service to the Profession
Professional Organizations
Bovino-Panni Annual Seminar on Autobiography, Advisory Board, 2006A.A.I.S. Women’s Studies Caucus, Secretary, 2009-2011
A.A.I.S. Women’s Studies Caucus, President, 2011-2013
Sessions Organized or Chaired
A.A.I.S Conference (expected April 21-23 2016), Louisiana State University, Global Education in the
Third Millennium: Study Abroad Programs and Sending Institutions in Dialogue (co-organized with
Hilary Link).
A.A.I.S Conference (27 March 2015), University of Colorado, AAIS Women Studies Caucus Panel:
Trinkets, Knicknacks, Pens, Papers, and More: Material Culture and Gendered Space (co-organizer and
moderator).
A.A.I.S
Conference (23-25 May 2014), University of Zurich, Switzerland, “Donne italiane e
laicismo” (organizer).
A.A.I.S Conference (11-14 April 2013), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, “Italian
Feminist/Gender/Queer Theory Today.” (co-organizer and co-chair).
A.A.I.S Conference (11-14 April 2013) University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, “Miriam Mafai and Italian
female journalists from the 18th century to the present.” (co-organizer and co-chair).
A.A.I.S Conference (3-5 May 2012), College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, “In&Out: What Kept
Women out of Mainstream Culture”, Women’s Studies Caucus Annual Round Table (Co-Organizer
and Co-Chair).
A.A.I.S Conference (7-10 April 2011), University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA, “Risorgimento e Unità
d’Italia” (Round Table Chair).
“Borders and Boundaries: Italian Women Writers of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries”,
University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK, 22 March 2011 (Session Chair).
A.A.I.S. Conference (22-25 April, 2010), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, “Literature and
Anthropology” (Session Chair).
A.I.S.L.L.I. Conference (3-6 December, 2009, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA), Plenary
Session (Presider).
A.A.I.S. Conference (7-9 May, 2009, St John’s University, New York City, NY), “Luigi Pirandello”
(Session Chair).
A.A.I.S. Conference (22-25 May, 2008, Taormina, Italy), “Storie di prigionia e di fuga nella cultura
italiana” (Session Organizer and Chair).
A.A.I.S. Conference (3 May, 2007, Colorado Springs, CO), “Between the Lines: Personal Narratives in
Works of Fiction” (Session Chair).
A.A.I.S. Conference (25-26 May, 2006, Genova, Italy), “Scrittura femminile e lavoro: impegno,
rappresentazione e autoaffermazione” (Session Organizer and Chair).
MEMBERSHIPS
A.A.I.S. (American Association for Italian Studies), A.A.I.S. Women’s Studies Caucus, NISA (Network of
Italian Scholars Abroad), AATI (American Association of Italian Teachers).
PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS and FELLOWSHIPS
Temple University
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs grant to support the Italian program, Fall 2014 and Fall 2015.
Temple University, Sabbatical, Fall 2014.
Temple University, Research Summer Award, Summer 2013.
Temple University Grant Academy, Faculty Mentoring and Development Pilot Program, 2011-2012.
Research Council Travel Grant, Spring 2011.
Coccia Foundation Certificate of Appreciation for continued efforts as Faculty Advisor to “The Italian
Club” and support of the AMICI della CULTURA ITALIANA Group.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Junior Faculty Research and Travel Award, 2007, 2008, 2009.
Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, 2008-2009.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Packard Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Humanities, 2001-2002.
LANGUAGES
Italian (native speaker); English; French; Spanish (reading); Latin.
COURSES TAUGHT
Special Topics in Italian Studies, “The Scary and Enchanted World of Italian Fairy Tales,” Spring 2016
Topics in Italian Studies, “Roman Cuisine and the Food of Lazio: A Literary Journey” (TU Rome,
Fall 2015)
Independent Study, “Food traditions in Italian American film and literature,” (Mariel
DiBartolomeo), Summer II 2015.
Topics in Italian Literature and Film: “Food Traditions in Italian Film and Literature,” Spring
2015.
Topics in Italian Cinema and Literature, “From Local to Global”, Fall 2013
Italian for Business, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013.
Italian-Indian Relations. Independent Study, fall 2012 (Julia D’Aleandro Meyers).
The City of Verona: A History. Independent Study, Fall 2012 (Lorenzo Gower).
Elementary Italian (third semester), Fall 2012.
Topics in Italian Cinema and Literature, “Italy as Migration Crossroad”, Spring 2012.
Intermediate Italian, Fall 2011.
Composition 2: Advanced Writing Skills, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013.
Readings in Italian, Spring 2014, Spring, 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011.
Honors Italian Language II, Spring 2011.
Honors Italian Language I, Fall 2010.
“La cultura Arberesh in Italia”, Independent Study, Summer II 2010 (Kamber Jaupaj).
Topics in Italian Cinema and Literature, “Making Italy, Becoming Italians 1860-2010” (conducted in
English and Italian), Spring 2010.
Topics in Italian Literature, “Women’s Writing, Writing Women” (conducted in Italian), Fall 2009.
Dante’s Divine Comedy (conducted in English), Fall 2005, Spring 2007 and Spring 2008.
Introduction to Reading and Analysis of Italian Literary Texts, “From De Amicis to Pap Khouma:
Migrations across the Sea in Italian and Italophone Literature” (conducted in Italian), Spring 2008.
Italian Culture and Civilization, “Italian Culture from Fascism to the Present: Through a Multimedia Approach” (conducted in Italian), Fall 2007.
Italian Composition and Conversation, “Contemporary Italian Society Through Literature, Film
and Press,” Fall 2007.
Italian Culture and Civilization, “Brides, Maidens, Workers and Prostitutes. The Condition of
Women in Italy from the Risorgimento to the Nineteen Seventies” (conducted in Italian), Fall 2006, Spring
2007.
Intermediate Italian II, Fall 2006.
Modern Italian Literature and Society, “Tales of Reclusion, Tales of Escape: Female Characters in
Modern Italian Literature” (conducted in Italian), Spring 2006.
Introduction to Reading and Analysis of Italian Literary Texts, “Post-war Tales from Literature to
Film” (conducted in Italian), Spring 2006.
Italian Advanced Composition and Conversation, “The Italian Family in Contemporary Literature,
Press and Film,” Spring 2006.
Italian Composition and Conversation, “L’Italia nei media,” Fall 2005.
Dante’s Divine Comedy (conducted in Italian), Spring 2004.
Advanced Italian Composition, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.
Introductory Italian, Spring 2003-Spring 2004.
Advanced Italian Conversation and Composition, Spring 2003.
Introductory Italian, Spring 2002-Spring 2004.
Introductory Italian, Fall 2002.
Intensive Elementary Italian, Summer 2002.