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1994 Bachelor degree at the University of Florence (Italy)
2002 PhD in Italian at Sorbonne University-Paris IV
2009 PhD in Italian at UW-Madison
2001-2003 Lecturer of Italian at Duke University (NC)
2004 Adjunct lecturer of Italian at Elon University (NC)
2006 Adjunct Lecturer of Italian at University of Indiana in Bologna
2006-2009 Teacching assistant and Project assistant at UW-Madison
2007-2008 Adjusnt Instrcutor of Italian at Madison atea technical college (WI)
2009-2010 Visitn Assistant Professor at Truman State University (MO)
2010-present: Seniro lecturer of Italian and French at ASU
In the recent years, my research interests have developed toward a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of Italian culture and society. In my essays on modern poetry I have paid a particular attention to gender related issues when focusing on female authorship, and I have 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 my Italian and French Popular Culture class on the last two Spring semesters made me 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, I am currently working on a length-book study on the reception of Rock music in Italy throughout the Eighties. Nonetheless, my long-lasting interest for poetry has not faded, and I have recently become contributing editor in Italian Studies for The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies. I am also at the early stages of an additional follow-up project of my essay on Annie Vivanti, regarding an extensive study on female poetry in the second half of Nineteen century
Migration Studies (SILC/ASU)
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.
A book on the reception of rock music in Italian society between the Seventies and the Eigthies, and its cultual impact
| 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 |
| Summer 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
| FRE 202 | Intermediate French II |
| Spring 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 312 | Oral and Written Expression II |
| ITA 312 | Write Italy:Lang,People,Cultr |
| FRE 415 | French Civilization I |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| ITA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ITA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| Fall 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
| FRE 312 | Oral and Written Expression II |
| FRE 416 | French Civilization II |
| ITA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ITA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| FRE 598 | Special Topics |
| Summer 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
| FRE 202 | Intermediate French II |
| Spring 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 201 | Intermediate French I |
| ITA 312 | Italian Composition |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| ITA 494 | Special Topics |
| FRE 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
| ITA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| FRE 598 | Special Topics |
| ITA 598 | Special Topics |
| Fall 2015 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 102 | Elementary French |
| ITA 202 | Intermediate Italian II |
| FRE 312 | Oral and Written Expression II |
| ITA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| Summer 2015 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 202 | Intermediate French II |
| SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
| ITA 598 | Special Topics |
| Spring 2015 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 102 | Elementary French |
| ITA 312 | Italian Composition |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
| ITA 494 | Special Topics |
| FRE 494 | Special Topics |
| ITA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| FRE 598 | Special Topics |
| Fall 2014 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
| ITA 202 | Intermediate Italian II |
| FRE 202 | Intermediate French II |
| ITA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| Summer 2014 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ITA 598 | Special Topics |
| Spring 2014 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| FRE 202 | Intermediate French II |
| ITA 202 | Intermediate Italian II |
| ITA 312 | Italian Composition |
| ITA 484 | Internship |
| Fall 2013 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ITA 201 | Intermediate Italian I |
| SLC 202 | Literary & Cultural Theory |
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)
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.
Contributing Editor in Italian Studies for The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies published by the Modern Humanities Research Association (Brill)
MLA Modern Language Association AZLA Arizona Language Association
Directing two capstone Barrett Honor thesis (Spring 2013, and Spring 2017).
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)
2010-Present
