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Juliann Vitullo

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School of International Letters and Cultures
Assoc Professor, Italian
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 0202
Global Futures Scientists and Scholars
Senior Global Futures Scholar
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 0202
Humanities Lab
Co-Director
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 0202
Sustainability Scientists and Scholars
Senior Sustainability Scholar
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 0202
Biography: 

Juliann Vitullo received her Ph.D. in Italian studies from Indiana University. She is an associate professor of Italian studies at Arizona State University and has served as associate director of the School of International Letters and Cultures. She has written on various aspects of medieval, early modern, and contemporary Italian culture with emphasis on the relationship between textual traditions and the material world, including economics, food, and gender studies. She currently is researching the history and culture of the Mediterranean diet and lifestyle in Italy, strategies used for maintaining it in Italian communities, and possible ways to adapt to it to our local food system.

Education: 

Ph.D. Italian Studies, Indiana University

Publications: 
  • Juliann Vitullo and Diane Wolfthal. Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (2010).
  • Juliann Vitullo and Diane Wolfthal. "Trading Values: Negotiating Masculinity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe". Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2010).
  • Juliann Vitullo. In Bed with the Infidel. Delectando Discitur: Essays in Honor of Edoardo A. Lèbano (2009).
  • Juliann Vitullo. "Femininity in the Marketplace: The Ideal Woman in Fourteenth-Century Florence". Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2008).
  • Vitullo, Juliann Marie, Tomasik, Timothy. At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (2007).
  • . . Review of: Il Tristano Panciatichiano (2006).
  • Juliann Vitullo. Fatherhood, Citizenship, and Children's Games in Fifteenth-Century Florence. Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (2005).
  • Vitullo, Juliann Marie (Author) . Fashioning Fatherhood: Leon Battista 's Art of Parenting. Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2005).
  • Juliann Vitullo. Fatherhood, Citizenship, and Children's Games in Fifttenth-Century Florence. Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (2004).
  • Juliann Vitullo. Taste and Temptation in Early Modern Italy. Senses and Society (0).
Fall 2021
Course NumberCourse Title
ITA 350Mediterranean Lifestyle/Italy
HON 394Special Topics
ITA 492Honors Directed Study
ITA 493Honors Thesis
ITA 499Individualized Instruction
ITA 590Reading and Conference
SLC 792Research
SLC 799Dissertation
Summer 2021
Course NumberCourse Title
HUL 494Special Topics
SLC 590Reading and Conference
Spring 2021
Course NumberCourse Title
ITA 350Mediterranean Lifestyle/Italy
ITA 492Honors Directed Study
ITA 499Individualized Instruction
ITA 590Reading and Conference
SLC 790Reading and Conference
SLC 792Research
Fall 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
ITA 315Italian Culture:Good,Bad&Ugly
ITA 493Honors Thesis
ITA 499Individualized Instruction
ITA 590Reading and Conference
Spring 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
ITA 350Mediterranean Lifestyle/Italy
HON 394Special Topics
ITA 484Internship
ITA 492Honors Directed Study
ITA 493Honors Thesis
ITA 499Individualized Instruction
ITA 590Reading and Conference
SLC 790Reading and Conference
Fall 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
ITA 350Mediterranean Lifestyle/Italy
ITA 493Honors Thesis
ITA 499Individualized Instruction
ITA 590Reading and Conference
Summer 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
ITA 102Elementary Italian II
ITA 194Special Topics
ITA 201Intermediate Italian I
ITA 202Intermediate Italian II
ITA 210Intensive Italian II
ITA 294Special Topics
ITA 315Italian Culture:Good,Bad&Ugly
ITA 394Special Topics
ITA 413Advanced Italian
SOS 494Special Topics
ITA 494Special Topics
Spring 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
ITA 394Special Topics
SOS 394Special Topics
ITA 484Internship
ITA 492Honors Directed Study
ITA 493Honors Thesis
ARS 494Special Topics
SLC 494Special Topics
ITA 494Special Topics
ENG 494Special Topics
FRE 494Special Topics
ITA 499Individualized Instruction
ITA 590Reading and Conference
SLC 590Reading and Conference
ITA 598Special Topics
SLC 598Special Topics
FRE 598Special Topics
SLC 790Reading and Conference
Fall 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
SLC 394Special Topics
ITA 394Special Topics
ITA 492Honors Directed Study
ITA 493Honors Thesis
SLC 494Special Topics
SOS 494Special Topics
PHI 494Special Topics
HUL 494Special Topics
ITA 590Reading and Conference
Summer 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
ITA 102Elementary Italian II
ITA 194Special Topics
ITA 201Intermediate Italian I
ITA 202Intermediate Italian II
ITA 210Intensive Italian II
ITA 294Special Topics
ITA 311Speak Italy: Lang,People,Cultr
ITA 394Special Topics
ITA 413Advanced Italian
SOS 494Special Topics
ITA 494Special Topics
Spring 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
SLC 394Special Topics
NTR 394Special Topics
SOS 394Special Topics
ITA 394Special Topics
ITA 484Internship
ITA 492Honors Directed Study
ITA 493Honors Thesis
NTR 494Special Topics
ITA 494Special Topics
SLC 494Special Topics
ITA 499Individualized Instruction
ITA 590Reading and Conference
Fall 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
ITA 321Italian Renaissance Culture
ITA 394Special Topics
SLC 394Special Topics
ITA 492Honors Directed Study
ITA 590Reading and Conference
ITA 598Special Topics
Spring 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
SLC 394Special Topics
HON 394Special Topics
ITA 394Special Topics
ITA 484Internship
ITA 492Honors Directed Study
ENG 494Special Topics
SLC 494Special Topics
HON 494Special Topics
ITA 494Special Topics
ARS 494Special Topics
FRE 494Special Topics
SLC 598Special Topics
ITA 598Special Topics
FRE 598Special Topics
Presentations: 
  • Juliann Vitullo. "Sharing a Wife: The Fifteenth-Century Debate about the Romance of Antiochus and Stratonice". The American Association of Teachers of Italian Annual Conterence, Lecce, Italy (May 2010).
  • Juliann Vitullo. "Taste and Temptation in Early Modern Italy". The American Association for Italian Studies Annual Conference (Apr 2010).
  • Juliann Vitullo. Grieving Fathers in Early Modern Italy: Do Real Men Cry?. Renaissance Society of America (Mar 2009).
  • Vitullo, Juliann. Emotion in Alberti's Art of Parenting and Governance. Renaissance Society of America (Mar 2007).
  • Vitullo, Juliann. In Bed with the Infidel. American Association for Italian Studies and American Association for Teachers of Italian (May 2006).
  • Vitullo, Juliann, Lage, Chiara. Creating a Content-Based Curriculum with Technology. American Association for Teachers of Italian (Oct 2005).
  • Vitullo, Juliann. Nurturing the Italian undergraduate Program. American Association for Teachers of Italian (Nov 2004).
  • Vitullo, Juliann. In Bed with the Infidel. Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (Oct 2004).
  • Vitullo, Juliann. Fashioning Fatherhood. Modern Language Association Convention
Service: 
  • Fullbright Scholarship Committee, Evaluator of Fullbright Scholarships for Southern Europe (2009 - Present)
  • SILC PhD Planning Committee, Member (2009 - Present)
  • Learning Support Services, Co-Director (2008 - Present)
  • SILC Learning Support Services, Co-Director (2008 - Present)
  • Tempe School District, Grant Organizer and Volunteer Teacher (2008 - Present)
  • American Association for Teachers of Italian, Regional Representative (2007 - Present)
  • ACMRS Advisory Committee, Advisor (2006 - Present)
  • Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Advisory Board Member (2006 - Present)
  • Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Conference program organizer (2004 - Present)
  • Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Advisory Board Member (2010 - 2011)
  • School of International Letters and Cultures, Associate Director (2010 - 2011)
  • Tempe School District, Elementary School Course Facilitator (2010 - 2011)
  • American Association for Teachers of Italian, Regional Representative (2007 - 2011)
  • School of International Letters and Cultures, Search Committee Member: Lecturer of Italian (2010 - 2010)
  • School of International Letters and Culture, Search Committee Member: Assistant Profess of French (2010 - 2010)
  • Search Committee: French Assistant Professor, Member (2009 - 2010)
  • American Association for Teachers of Italian, Regional Representative (2007 - 2010)
  • Search Committee: Web and Communications Administrator, Member (2009 - 2009)
  • Tempe School District, Grant Organizer and Volunteer Teacher (2008 - 2009)
  • SILC Japanese Search Committee, Committee Member (2008 - 2009)
  • ACMRS, Chair, Travel Grant Committee for the Discipuli Juncti Conference (2008 - 2008)
  • Faculty Women's Leadership Program, Member (2007 - 2008)
  • Italian Program, Curriculum Reform (2007 - 2008)
  • SILC, Sponsor of Guest Speaker (2007 - 2008)
  • ASU Foundation, Teacher (2008 - 2008)
  • DLL IT Committee, Chair (2007 - 2007)
  • Trading Values Research Group, Co-organizer (2006 - 2007)
  • Public symposium sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, Co-Organizer (2006 - 2007)
  • DLL IT Committee, Chair (2006 - 2006)
  • DLL Personnel Committee, Member (2006 - 2006)
  • Medievalia et Humanistica, Reviewer (2006 - 2006)
  • Personnel Committee, Member (2005 - 2006)
  • Italian Program, Coordinator (2006 - 2006)
  • CLAS Curriculum Committee, Member (2006 - 2006)
  • SILC Steering Committee, Member (2005 - 2005)
  • SILC Undergaduate Curriculum Committee, Chair (2005 - 2005)
  • Arizona Studeis in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Editorial Board (2005 - 2005)
  • Fullbright Review Committee for Applications to Southern Europe, Evaluator of Fullbright Applications (2005 - 2005)
  • Personnel Committee, Chair (2005 - 2005)
  • Seventh-Year Review of Italian Program, I wrote the final draft of the report and also the response to the external reviewer's evaluation (2005 - 2005)
  • DLL Search Committee French Professor, Member (2004 - 2005)
  • Search Committee for the DLL Chair, Committee Member (2004 - 2004)
  • Search Committee for an Assistant Professor of French, Committee Member (2004 - 2004)
  • DLL Personnel Committee, Chair (2004 - 2004)
  • Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Editorial Board (2004 - 2004)
  • Department of Languages and Literature, Acting Chair (2004 - 2004)
  • Department of Languages and Literature, Associate Chair (2003 - 2004)
  • Search Committee for Visiting Professor of French, Search Committee Member (2004 - 2004)
  • Humanities/Social Sciences Associate Deans Search, Search Committee Member (2004 - 2004)
  • CLAS Alumni, Interviewer for the CLAS international Scholarship for Travel and Study Abroad (2004 - 2004)
  • National Endowment for the Arts, Reviewer of summer grants (2003)
Expertise Areas: 
Italian