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Enrico Minardi
- Enrico.Minardi@asu.edu
- (480) 727-9295
- Durham Hall 302C 851 S. Cady Mall 87020 Arizona State University Tempe
Lecturer Sr, MY, Italian
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 0202
Biography:
In the recent years, Enrico Minardi's research interests have developed toward a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of Italian culture and society. In his essays on modern poetry, he has paid a particular attention to gender-related issues when focusing on female authorship, and he has edited (with Cristina Caracchini) a volume of essays on the intersection of cognitive theory and poetry.
However, the success enjoyed by his Italian and French Popular Culture class made him realize that other expressions of Italian culture (such as television, popular music, and magazines) can also be investigated in order to obtain a better understating of how Italian society has recently changed. He is currently working on a book-length study on the reception of rock music in Italy throughout the 1980s. He is a contributing editor in Italian Studies for The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies. He is also at the early stages of an additional follow-up project on his essay on Annie Vivanti, regarding an extensive study on female poetry in the second half of 19th century.
Minardi is a senior lecturer of Italian and French at Arizona State University. Prior to ASU, he taught at Truman State University, MO; University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI; University of Indiana; Elon University, NC; and Duke University, NC.
Education:
- Ph.D in Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2009
- These de Doctorat, Universite' de Paris 4 La Sorbonne, Paris, France 2002
- Diplome d'etudes approfondies, Universite' de Paris 4 La Sorbonne, Paris, France 1995
- Bachelor's degree. Literature, University of Florence, Florence, Italy 1994
- Classical High-School "Dante Alighieri", Ravenna, Italy 1987
Research Interests:
In the recent years, Enrico Minardi's research interests have developed toward a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of Italian culture and society. In his essays on modern poetry, he has paid a particular attention to gender-related issues when focusing on female authorship, and he has edited (with Cristina Caracchini) a volume of essays on the intersection of cognitive theory and poetry, scheduled to come out by the Spring of 2017. However, the success enjoyed by his Italian and French Popular Culture class on the last two Spring semesters made him realize that other expressions of Italian culture (such as television, popular music, and magazines) can also be investigated in order to obtain a better understating of how Italian society has recently changed. For instance, he is currently working on a book-length study on the reception of rock music in Italy throughout the Eighties. Nonetheless, his long-lasting interest for poetry has not faded, and he has recently become contributing editor in Italian Studies for The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies. He is also at the early stages of an additional follow-up project of his essay on Annie Vivanti, regarding an extensive study on female poetry in the second half of 19th century.
Research Group:
Migration Studies (SILC/ASU)
Publications:
Books
• Il Pensiero della Poesia. Perché leggere poesia oggi?, eds. E. Minardi and C. Caracchini (Florence: Florence University Press, 2017. Final contract, 1/12/2017).
Crime Story and International Feminism: the Influence of Sara Paretsky on Crime Fiction around the world, eds. E. Minardi and J. Byron (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
• Enrico Palandri, with Monica Francioso. Firenze: Cadmo, 2010. 1-214.
• Generazioni in movimento. Viaggio nella narrativa di Enrico Palandri, eds. E. Minardi and M. Francioso. Ravenna: Longo, 2010. 1-166.
• Pier Vittorio Tondelli. Firenze: Cadmo, 2003. 1-155.
Articles, articles in volumes, and Entries
"San Antonio et les anni Settanta. Quelques aspects sur la réception de l’œuvre de Frédéric Dard en Italie," in San Antonio et l’Europe, ed. Dominique Jeannerod. Limoges : Presse Universitaire de Limoges. (Accepted, reviewed, and forthcoming 2017).
"Lirica by Annie Vivanti," in Annie Chartres Vivanti: Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture, eds. Sharon Wood and Erica Moretti. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2016. 177-93.
"The Broken language of High Poetry: Teresino (1981) by Vivian Lamarque," in Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture, eds. V. Picchietti and L. Salsini. London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2016. 19-41.
"La Paura e Il Mondo. Presentazione della poesia di Riccardo Held," NeMLA Italian Studies (NIS). XXXV 2013. Eds. G. Spani and S. Wright. 131-149.
"Desire in Antonia Pozzi’s Canto della mia nudità," The Fire Within: Desire in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, ed. Elena Borelli. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 212-228.
"Pier Pasolini e l’ossimoro. Questioni di prospettiva. Prime prospezioni: Le ceneri di Gramsci," Le Bandiere. L’italia cinematografica e letteraria dal secondo Novecento ai giorni nostri, ed. by G. Spani e P. Balma. Cuneo: Nerosubianco, 2012. 92-111.
"Questioni di “genere:” per la poesia di Emma Pretti e Vera Lúcia de Oliveira," Italian Poetry Review, Issue 2010. 333-352
• "Giovanni Raboni e Milano: l’avvenimento di una poesia," Quaderni del ‘900, Issue 9, 2010. 71-86.
• "Riflessioni sulla narrativa di Sandro Veronesi: gli esempi di “La forza del passato” (2000) e “Caos calmo” (2005)," Nuova prosa, 53-54, Ottobre 2010.
• "Valore esemplare della narrativa di Enrico Palandri," Generazioni in movimento. Viaggio nella narrativa di Enrico Palandri, ed. by E. Minardi and M. Francioso. Ravenna: Longo, 2010. 29-38.
• Entry Rambaldis, Benvenutus de’, in “Encyclopaedia of the Medieval Chronicle,” ed. Graeme Dunphy, vol. II. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2010. 1255.
• "Il movimento autonomo della parola. L’idea di letteratura in Palandri: saggio su La deriva romantica. Ipotesi sulla letteratura e sulla scrittura (2002)," Nuova Prosa, 45, sett.-dic. 2006. 139-164.
"L’ultimo tempo della poesia di Raffaello Baldini, " Studi Italiani, Firenze, Cadmo, anno XVII, fascicolo 1, ottobre-dicembre 2004. 226-236.
"Su Ogni terzo pensiero (1993) di Giovanni Raboni," Nuova Corrente, Genova, Gennaio-Giugno, 1996. 73-82.
Research Activity:
A book on the reception of rock music in Italian society between the 1970s and the 1980s and its cultual impact.
| Summer 2022 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 194 | Special Topics |
| ASB 300 | Food and Culture |
| ASB 370 | Ethics of Eating |
| SLC 394 | Special Topics |
| SSH 403 | Cross-Culturl Stds Global Hlth |
| ASB 443 | Cross-Culturl Stds Global Hlth |
| ASB 584 | Internship |
| Spring 2022 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 312 | Oral and Written Expression II |
| FRE 322 | Fre Cultural Masterpieces II |
| ITA 413 | Advanced Italian |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| FRE 484 | Internship |
| FRE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ITA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| FRE 494 | Special Topics |
| HUL 494 | Special Topics |
| ITA 494 | Special Topics |
| FRE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HUL 598 | Special Topics |
| Fall 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 312 | Oral and Written Expression II |
| ITA 322 | Modern Italian Culture |
| SLC 414 | French&Italian Popular Culture |
| ITA 414 | French&Italian Popular Culture |
| FRE 414 | French&Italian Popular Culture |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| Spring 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ITA 321 | Italian Renaissance Culture |
| FRE 321 | Fre Cultural Masterpieces I |
| FRE 484 | Internship |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| FRE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ITA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ITA 494 | Special Topics |
| HUL 494 | Special Topics |
| FSH 494 | Special Topics |
| FRE 494 | Special Topics |
| FRE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| HUL 598 | Special Topics |
| Fall 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 102 | Elementary French II |
| SLC 294 | Special Topics |
| HST 294 | Special Topics |
| ITA 350 | Mediterranean Lifestyle/Italy |
| Spring 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 102 | Elementary French II |
| FRE 194 | Special Topics |
| FRE 312 | Oral and Written Expression II |
| FRE 321 | Fre Cultural Masterpieces I |
| FRE 484 | Internship |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| ITA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| PHI 590 | Reading and Conference |
| Fall 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 294 | Special Topics |
| HST 294 | Special Topics |
| ITA 350 | Mediterranean Lifestyle/Italy |
| SLC 414 | French&Italian Popular Culture |
| ITA 414 | French&Italian Popular Culture |
| FRE 414 | French&Italian Popular Culture |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| ITA 550 | Italian for Reading Knowledge |
| Summer 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
| ASB 300 | Food and Culture |
| ASB 370 | Ethics of Eating |
| SLC 394 | Special Topics |
| SSH 403 | Cross-Culturl Stds Global Hlth |
| ASB 443 | Cross-Culturl Stds Global Hlth |
| Spring 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 294 | Special Topics |
| HST 294 | Special Topics |
| ITA 321 | Italian Renaissance Culture |
| FRE 416 | French Civilization II |
| FRE 484 | Internship |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| ITA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| Fall 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 102 | Elementary French II |
| FRE 312 | Oral and Written Expression II |
| ITA 315 | Italian Culture:Good,Bad&Ugly |
| SLC 414 | French&Italian Popular Culture |
| ITA 414 | French&Italian Popular Culture |
| FRE 414 | French&Italian Popular Culture |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| ITA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ITA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| Summer 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 202 | Intermediate French II |
| SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
| FRE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| Spring 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 202 | Intermediate French II |
| SLC 294 | Special Topics |
| HST 294 | Special Topics |
| ITA 322 | Modern Italian Culture |
| FRE 415 | French Civilization I |
| FRE 484 | Internship |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| ITA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| FRE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| Fall 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 312 | Oral and Written Expression II |
| ITA 420 | Italian Cinema |
| ITA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
| ITA 494 | Special Topics |
| FRE 494 | Special Topics |
| ITA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| FRE 598 | Special Topics |
Presentations:
2010-Present Senior Lecturer of Italian and French, SILC (School of International Letters and Cultures) Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. Taught: several sections of elementary ITA 101 and 102, intermediate ITA 201 and 202, online and in presence Italian Composition ITA312, Italian for Reading Knowledge ITA550 online; one section of “Media, Myth and Society (Modernism in France and Italy, 1848-1939);”several sections of elementary FRE101 (online and in presence), FRE 102, intermediate FRE 201 and 202, French Composition FRE 312, French civilization I & II, FRE 415, 416; several sections of SLC 202 Literary and Cultural Theory; two sections of “French and Italian Popular Culture.” Supervised: several independent studies and students’ internship, and two capstone Barrett Honor thesis (Spring 2013, and Spring 2017).
2009-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Truman State University, Kirskville, MO, USA
2001-2004 Lecturer of Italian, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016-19 Contributing Editor in Italian Studies for The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies
2011 Teacher of Italian, Middlebury-Monterrey Language Academy, Summer Language full immersion Camp for High-School students, at the Roger Williams University campus, Rhode Island.
2006-2008 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
2007-2008 Visiting Instructor, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, USA
2006 Visiting Instructor, Bologna Consortial Studies Program (BCSP), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
2004 Adjunct Instructor of Italian (Spring semester), Elon University (Elon, NC)
Honors / Awards:
Fondazione della Banca del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna (Italy): 4000 Euros fellowship for funding cultural events (2010).
• NeMLA Summer Fellowship to pursue scholarly activity at the Gahom (Centre d’Anthropologie Historique de l’Occident Médiéval), Paris (2011).
• Summer Research Grant, Truman State University (2010).
• Graduated “Très bien avec les félicitations du jury” on “Thèse d’Etat” examination, Sorbonne University, Paris, June, 2002.
• Graduated “Très bien” “Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies” examination, Sorbonne University, Paris, June, 1995.
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Laurea examination, University of Florence, July, 1994.
Editorships:
Contributing Editor in Italian Studies for The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies published by the Modern Humanities Research Association (Brill)
Professional Associations:
MLA Modern Language Association AZLA Arizona Language Association
Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History:
Directing two capstone Barrett Honor thesis (Spring 2013, and Spring 2017).
Work History:
2010-Present Senior Lecturer of Italian and French, SILC (School of International Letters and Cultures) Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. Taught: several sections of elementary ITA 101 and 102, intermediate ITA 201 and 202, online and in presence Italian Composition ITA312, Italian for Reading Knowledge ITA550 online; one section of “Media, Myth and Society (Modernism in France and Italy, 1848-1939);”several sections of elementary FRE101 (online and in presence), FRE 102, intermediate FRE 201 and 202, French Composition FRE 312, French civilization I & II, FRE 415, 416; several sections of SLC 202 Literary and Cultural Theory; two sections of “French and Italian Popular Culture.” Supervised: several independent studies and students’ internship, and two capstone Barrett Honor thesis (Spring 2013, and Spring 2017). 2009-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Truman State University, Kirskville, MO, USA 2001-2004 Lecturer of Italian, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2016-19 Contributing Editor in Italian Studies for The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 2011 Teacher of Italian, Middlebury-Monterrey Language Academy, Summer Language full immersion Camp for High-School students, at the Roger Williams University campus, Rhode Island. 2006-2008 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA 2007-2008 Visiting Instructor, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, USA 2006 Visiting Instructor, Bologna Consortial Studies Program (BCSP), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA 2004 Adjunct Instructor of Italian (Spring semester), Elon University (Elon, NC)
Service:
2010-Present
- 2015-16: Committee “Transfer Matters” (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences);
- 2012-14: Committee for the Quality of Instruction (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences);
- University Homecoming (2012-15);
- SILC Cup, International soccer tournament (2011-17);
- Night of the Open Doors (mini-lessons of Italian) (2014, 2017);
- High School Language Fair (International Dancing demonstration, and mini-lessons of Italian) (2012-16).
- Italian Picnic (2011-16);
- Guest Lectures: of writers, Enrico Palandri (2011), Rosetta Caponetto (Auburn, University, Al, 2012), Gabriella Ghermandi (2012), Sandow Birk (exhibit on Dante’s Inferno at Hayden Library, ASU) (2013), Marina Spada (2013), Paola Tiberii (2014), Grazia Verasani (2014), Alina Marazzi (2015), and Anna Negri (2016);
- Phoenix edition of Italian Film Festival USA (2014, 2015, and 2016);
- Italian Festival, Scottsdale (2016-17).
- Presentation on ‘The Ninth Arts. History and Characters of the French BD,” Discovery French series, 2017 (Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts).
- Contribution to Italian events at the Phoenix Art Museum (2016: Gianfranco Ferré white shirts exhibit, presentation of Desert Rosso/Red Desert, presentation of Il conformista/The conformist).
- Lectures at the Spirit of The Sense/The Salons series (on Dante Alighieri, 2012; Florence, 2013, Venice, 2014).
- Italian Movie series on campus (2010);
- Supervision of enrichment classes of Italian taught by Italian majors at Broadmor Elementary school, Tempe (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), and at Tempe Preparatory Academy (2015); enrichment classes of Italian taught at Tempe Academy of International Studies, Tempe (2014, 2015, 2017), Escalante Multi-Generational Community Center (2015).
- Assisting the Cave School District in implementing a dual immersion French program at Desert Sun Academy (2015-16).
- 2009-2010 Committee for the technological improvement of the classrooms; Coordinator of the tutors of Italian (Truman State University)
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