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Dott. Eleonora Buonocore, Ph.D. Candidate
Personal Information:
Birthplace: Siena, Italy.
Immigration Status: USA Permanent Resident.
Permanent address:
(USA) Eleonora Buonocore
84, Howe St., Apt 604
06511 New Haven, CT
USA
(Italy) Eleonora Buonocore
via L. de Bosis 29
53100 Siena (SI)
Italy
Phone number:
Email:
(USA) +1 574 339 1458
[email protected]
(IT) +39-0577-333892
[email protected]
Education:
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), in Italian Language and Literature, Yale University, 2009-present (Ph.D. expected May 2016)
Dissertation: Ciphers of Remembrance and Fluidity of Oblivion: A Study of Memory in
Dante.
Advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta
M.A and MPhil in Italian, Yale University, May 2013
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Siena, May 2009
Dissertation: “A Basic Handbook Of Lullian Logic And Its Introduction. Edition and
Study of Two Unknown Logical Texts of the Medieval Lullian Tradition: The “Nove et
Compendiose Introductiones Logice” and the “Loyca Discipuli Magistri Raymondi Lulli”.
M.A. in Italian Studies, University of Notre Dame, IN, May 2009
MA (or MSC, Master Scientifico-Culturale) in Philosophy, University of Siena, 2004
Thesis: “«Nec Silua quicquam difficilius ad explanandum»: Studio Preliminare sul
Concetto di Materia nel Commentario di Calcidio al Timeo e sulla sua influenza in età
medievale” («Nec Silua quicquam difficilius ad explanandum»: Preliminary Study on the
Concept of Matter in Calcidius’ Commentary on the Timaeus and Its Influence in the
Middle Ages).
Laurea in Philosophy, University of Siena, 2002
Summa cum laude, with a thesis titled, “Ars et Logica et Metaphysica. Lo sviluppo della
Logica lulliana da Ars inventiva a venatio medii” (Ars et Logica et Metaphysica. The
Development of Lullian Logic from Ars inventiva to venatio medii).
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October 2002 International bibliographical seminar sponsored by SISMEL (Società
Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino). Medioevo Latino: Metodologie e
tecniche bibliografiche.
September 2001 Summer Intensive Latin Grammar course at the Warburg Institute,
London.
September 2000-March 2001 Semester of study abroad at the Albert-Ludwigs Universität
in Freiburg im Breisgau, mainly working at the Raimundus Lullus Institut (Quellenkunde
der Theologie des Mittelalters), under the supervision of Professors Charles H. Lohr and
Fernando Dominguez Reboiras and at the Seminar fur Lateinische Philologhie des
Mittelalters, under Prof. Paul G. Schmidt.
1999 University of Siena, Summer School in Women’s History and Culture.
1996 Pre-college Summer Program in Communication Sciences at the University of
Pennsylvania.
1992/93- 1996/97 High School at the Liceo Ginnasio Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Siena,
Italy, with a final mark of 57/60.
Awards and Honors:
May 2015 – AATI Conference Travel Fund Award (for participation in the 2015 AATI
conference in Siena)
December 2014 – Yale Conference Travel Fund Award (for participation in the 2015
MLA conference in Vancouver)
August 2014- Present – Yale Teaching Fellow (Yale Center for Teaching and Learning)
Fall 2013 – Associate in Teaching Award, Yale Teaching Center
Fall 2012 – Present – Co- Organizer of the Dante Working Group at Yale University
(Whitney Humanities Center)
2009/2013 Full tuition and Fellowship from the University of Yale.
2008/2009 Nanovic Research Fellowship - Full Tuition scholarship and Stipend from the
University of Notre Dame (sponsored by the Nanovic Institute).
Summer 2008, Nanovic Graduate Research and Travel Grant.
Summer 2008, Albert Ravarino Italian Studies Travel Scholarship.
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2007/08 Full tuition scholarship and stipend from the University of Notre Dame.
2002/03-2005/06, Full fellowship for 3 years of doctoral research from the University of
Siena.
2004/05, Erasmus Fellow at the Erasmus Institute of the University of Notre Dame, IN.
Fall 2004, Research Scholar at the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame,
IN, with an award of a half stipend from the Medieval Institute.
2003 Travel grant to participate in the 6th annual Giordano Bruno Seminar Series (4-7
June, 2003) at theWarburg Institute, London, awarded by the Centro Internazionale di
Studi Bruniani dell’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Università di Napoli.
2000/01 Scholarship through the Socrates program for 7 months living expenses and
study at the Albert-Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau.
Publications:
“Remembering the Convivio: Dante and the Art of Memory,” in Dante’s Volume from
Alpha to Omega: Inscriptions on the Poet’s Universe. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies. [Forthcoming in 2016]
“The Loyca discipuli magistri Raymondi Lulli: Introducing an Introduction to Lullian
Logic at the End of the 14th c.” in Il Lullismo in Italia: itinerario Storico Critico. (ed.
Marta MM Romano) Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali. [Forthcoming in 2016]
“The Ur-text of Late Medieval and Renaissance Lullian Logic. Textual Interrelations
Between the Nove introductiones and Two Traditional Pseudo-Lullian Handbooks of Logic:
The Logica parva and the Logica brevis et nova” in Studia Lulliana 53 (2013), pp. 23-66.
“La figura del salmo nel De Lampade Combinatoria Lulliana: L'uso del testo sacro in
Bruno, fra predicazione, memoria e meditazione”. In Il Libro Sacro Figurato in Italia tra
Cinque e Seicento, ed. Erminia Ardissino ed Elisabetta Selmi, Roma: Edizioni di Storia e
Letteratura, 2012, pp. 25-38.
“Il cinema come cura: il potere rigenerante del cinema nella cinematografia italiana
contemporanea, da Caro diario a Lo spazio bianco e La prima cosa bella (1993-2010)”.
In L’Italia letteraria e cinematografica dal secondo Novecento ai giorni nostri, ed. Philip
Balma and Giovanni Spani, Cuneo: Nerosubianco, 2012, pp. 133-146.
Contributor to the On-Line Handbook of History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. Michela
Pereira (Entries for: Anselm of Canterbury, Lanfranc of Le Bec, Lambert of Auxerre,
Peter of Spain, William of Shyreswood, John of Salisbury, Paul of Venice, Aristotelian
Logic, Logica Modernorum, Intention, Syllogism).
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Book reviews in MEL 24, 25, 26 (2003-7) (Medioevo Latino: Bollettino bibliografico
della cultura europea da Boezio a Erasmo (secoli VI-XV)), ed. Claudio Leonardi.
Review of «Raimondo Lullo. Arte Breve» Bompiani, Testi a Fronte, Ottobre 2002, ed.
Marta M.M Romano, in Studia Lulliana 43 (2003).
“Ridere nel Medioevo. Siena 2-4 Ottobre 2003” in Quaderni Medievali n°55 (June 2003),
pp. 173-8.
Academic Papers Presented:
“Antonio Vignali‟s Floria: A Political Interpretation.” American Association Teachers of
Italian (AATI), Siena (Italy) June 2015.
“The Scorpio and the Dream of the Eagle: A New Reading of the Opening of Purgatory
IX.” Modern Language Association (MLA), Vancouver (Canada) January 2015.
“Bruno’s Engraphia: An Ethical Solution to Circe’s Enchantment.” Renaissance Society
of America (RSA), New York, NY, March 2014. Organizer of Three Panels, Renaissance
Worlds from Dante to Vico I-III, and a Round Table, in honor of Prof. Giuseppe
Mazzotta.
“Cinema as Confessional: Metacinematic Moments in Nuovo cinema Paradiso.”
Symposium on New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema, Bloomington,
IN, Indiana University in Bloomington, April 2013.
“Nec mireris, lector, de tot reductis autoribus ad memoriam: The Poetic Value of
Memory in Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia.” Dante and the Christian Imagination, ,
Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto, March 2012.
“The Tuscan Homer: Vico’s Rediscovery of Dante as the Italian National Poet.”
Giambattista Vico: Education, Politics, Poetics. A Graduate Student Seminar., Yale
University, New Haven, CT, March 2012.
“From the Face of Medusa to the Ghost of Lull: The Ethical Value of Bruno's Figures in
the De Lampade Combinatoria Lulliana.” The Baroque Page: Image and Text, Yale
University, New Haven, CT, April 2011, Co- organizer of the Conference.
“The Child is Watching Us: The Role of the Little Girl in Ossessione (Visconti, 1942).”
The Louisville Conference on Literature, Louisville, KY, February 2011.
“Le Indagini Intertestuali di Fiorella Cagnoni: Problemi meta-letterari in Incauto acquisto.”
AATI Conference, Lecce, Italy, University of Lecce, May 2010.
“Remembering the Convivio: Dante and the Art of Memory.” Dante’s Volume from
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Alpha to Omega. Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 2010.
“Carolina Invernizio dal romanzo d’appendice al giallo moderno: Nina la poliziotta
dilettante.” The Louisville Conference on Literature, Louisville, KY, February 2010.
“L’Orfismo e la follia: literary correspondences between the poetry of Alda Merini and
Dino Campana.” NEMLA 2009 Convention, Boston, MA, Boston University, February
2009.
The Warburg Institute, London, Centro Internazionale di Studi Bruniani, University of
Naples, 6th annual Giordano Bruno Seminar Series, June 2003.
Languages:
Italian: Native speaker
English: Complete literacy and fluency.
German: Literacy and conversational proficiency.
Latin: Complete Literacy, Advanced Proficiency.
Ancient Greek: Reading proficiency
Spanish: Reading proficiency
French, Catalan: Reading proficiency
Teaching Experience:
2015/2016 (fall semester) – Guest Lecturer in the RLST 160/ ITAL 315 Class: The
Catholic Intellectual Tradition (Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta and Prof. Carlos Eire, Yale
University) Class on Dante’s Divine Comedy.
2015/2016 (fall semester) – Guest Lecturer in the ILCS 5345 Class: Fascism and
Antifascism in Italian Film and Lit. (Prof. Philip Balma, University of Connecticut). Title
of lecture: “Gli Indifferenti di Moravia come rovesciamento de I Promessi Sposi del
Manzoni: una proposta di lettura.”
2015/2016 (fall semester) Yale University: Italian 110 course – PTAI
2014/2015 (fall semester) – Guest Lecturer in the ITAL 234 Class: Renaissance
Literature, Philosophy & Art (Prof. Claudia Chierichini, Visiting Professor, Yale
University). Title of lecture: “Bruno’s Philosophical Comedy – The Candelaio and the
Prefatory Letter to The Ash Wednesday Supper.”
2014/2015 (fall semester) – Guest Lecturer in the ILCS 5345 Class: Italian Jews in
Literature and Film (Prof. Philip Balma, University of Connecticut). Title of lecture:
“L’Inferno di Dante come modello di discesa agli Inferi in Se Questo è un uomo di Primo
Levi.”
2014/2015 (fall semester) – Guest Lecturer in the ITAL 159 Class: History and Culture of
Naples (Prof. Anna Iacovella, Yale University). Title of lecture: “Frederick II’s poetry,
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the Sicilian School, and the beginning of Italian Literature.”
2014 (Summer) Yale Summer School: Italian 116/Film 160: Italian Language and
Cinema in Tuscany (Co-taught with Prof. Millicent Marcus)
2013/2014 (spring semester) Ital 314- Hums 263 - Ltr 185: The Myth of Memory from
Antiquity to Dante (co-taught with Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta)
2013/2014 (fall semester) Teaching Fellow for Ital 310: Dante in Translation (Prof.
Christiana Purdy Moudarres)
2013 (Summer) Yale Summer School: Italian 116/Film 160: Italian Language and
Cinema in Tuscany (Co-taught with Prof. Millicent Marcus)
2012/2013 (spring semester) Yale University: Italian 140 course – PTAI
2012/2013 (fall semester) Yale University: Italian 130 course – PTAI
2011/2012 (spring semester) Yale University: Italian 120 course – PTAI
2011/2012 (fall semester) Yale University: Italian 110 course – PTAI
2007/08 (spring semester) University of Notre Dame, IN: Italian 102 course.
2007/08 (fall semester) University of Notre Dame, IN: Italian 101 course.
2005/06 (fall semester) University of Notre Dame, IN: Italian 101 course.
Relevant work experience:
Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012- Worked as “Cultural Activities Guide” for
the Yale Summer School in Siena.
2006/07 1 year of teaching for the Società Dante Alighieri in Siena, teaching introductory
and intermediate English to Italians (up to preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate).
2002/04 2 years of editorial collaboration within the redaction of the repertory MEL
(Medioevo Latino), published by SISMEL (Società Internazionale per lo Studio del
Medioevo Latino, Firenze).
2001/03 2 years of work with the Congress Center of the University of Siena, organizing
national and international meetings and seminars for a variety of academic fields ranging
from medicine to philosophy.
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Professional Development
Workshops Facilitated
2015 (Fall Semester) Teaching as a Woman (Advanced Teaching Series – co-facilitated
with Sonja Anderson)
2015 (Fall Semester) Fundamentals of Teaching Interdisciplinary Humanities (3
workshops – Co-facilitated with Anya Adair)
2015 (Summer Session) Summer Teaching @ Yale Day (Invited Panelist Speaker)
2015 (Spring Semester) Teaching as an International Student (Advanced Teaching Series
– Co-facilitated with Stuart Duncan)
2015 (Spring Semester) Syllabus Design (2 workshops Advanced Teaching Series – Cofacilitated with Sara Sanchez Alonso)
2015 (Spring Semester) Teaching Ancient Languages (2 workshops Advanced Teaching
Series – co-faciliatated with Ian Althouse)
2015 (Spring Semester) Advanced Fundamentals: Language and Literature Series ( 3
workshop series at Yale CLS, co-facilitated with Suzanne Young)
2014 (Fall Semester) Course Design (Advanced Teaching Series – Co-facilitated with
Robert Wickham)
2014 (Fall Semester) Fundamentals of Teaching Language Series (5 workshops – Cofacilitated with Suzanne Young)
2014 (Summer Session) Summer Teaching @ Yale Day (Invited Panelist Speaker)
2013 & 2014 (Fall Semester) CLS Pedagogy Workshop for Foreign Languages Teaching
Fellows and Instructors (Invited Panelist Speaker)
Workshops Attended
2014 (Fall Semester) Professional Web Presence for Scholars (led by Edward R. O'Neill,
Ph.D.)
2014 (Fall Semester) Webinar on Online Learning (Advanced Teaching Workshop
Series – Facilitated by Simona Lorenzini and Tyler Smith)
2014 (Fall Semester) Creating an Inclusive Classroom: Diverse Learning Styles and
Disabilities (Advanced Teaching Workshop Series – Facilitated by Terry Dumansky and
Robert Wickham)
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2014 (Spring Semester) Yale Teaching Center Training Workshop: Becoming Fellows
(Facilitated by Prof. Risa Sodi together with Sara Ronis and Elizabeth Morse)
2014 (Spring Semester) Promoting Reading Excellence (Advanced Teaching Workshop
Series – Facilitated by Terry Dumansky and Sara Ronis)
2014 (Spring Semester) Lecturing Part I: Preparing to Lecture (Advanced Teaching
Workshop Series – Facilitated by Ross Boltyanskiy and Luke Mayville)
2013 (Spring Semester) Advanced Syllabus Workshop Series (in 2 sessions – Facilitated
by YWC and YTC)
2013 (Spring Semester) Course Design (Advanced Teaching Workshop Series –
Facilitated by Mercedes Bravo and Erica Debruin)
2013 (Spring Semester) Preparing to Teach Graduate Level Courses (Advanced
Teaching Workshop Series – Facilitated by Megan Ericson and Stacey Blase)
2013 (Spring Semester) Diversity and the University: Classrooms and Course Design
(Advanced Teaching Workshop Series – Facilitated by Claudia Calhoun and Mercedes
Bravo)
2013 (Spring Semester) Advanced Topics in Language and Literature series (3 meetings
- Facilitated by Suzanne Young for the CLS and Dustin Hooten for the YTC)
2012 (Fall Semester) Fundamentals of Language Teaching Series (5 meetings –
Facilitated by Dustin Hooten and Suzanne Young)
2012 (Fall Semester) CLS Pedagogy Workshop for Foreign Languages Teaching
Fellows and Instructors (August 21-24 – Facilitated by Suzanne Young and Prof.
Petronella Van Deusen Scholl)
2012 (Fall Semester) Pre-Service Teacher Training Workshop (August 21-23 afternoons
– Facilitated by Prof. Risa Sodi)
2012 (Spring Semester) Advanced Topics in Language and Literature series (3 meetings
- Facilitated by Suzanne Young for the CLS and Alexia Ferracuti and Michael Meadows
for the YTC)
2011 (Fall Semester) Fundamentals of Language Teaching Series (5 meetings –
Facilitated by Michael Meadows and Suzanne Young)
2011 (Fall Semester) CLS Pedagogy Workshop for Foreign Languages Teaching
Fellows and Instructors (August 23-26 – Facilitated by Suzanne Young and Prof.
Petronella Van Deusen Scholl)
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2011 (Fall Semester) Pre-Service Teacher Training Workshop (August 23-26 afternoons
– Facilitated by Prof. Risa Sodi)
Courses
2012 (Fall Semester) Yale University: LING 564 “Principles of Language Teaching and
Learning” (Prof. Petronella Van Deusen-Scholl)
2007 (Fall and Spring semesters) University of Notre Dame, IN: “Italian Teaching
Practicum” (Dr. Patrick Vivirito).
2007 (Fall semester) University of Notre Dame, IN: “Foreign Language Acquisition and
Instruction” (Prof. Theodor Cachey and Dr. Karolina Serafin).
2005 (Fall semester) University of Notre Dame, IN: “Romance Languages: Teaching
Methods and Second Language Acquisition” (Prof. Colleen Ryan-Scheutz)
2005 (Fall semester) University of Notre Dame, IN: “Italian Teaching Practicum” (Prof.
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz).
2005 (Fall semester) University of Notre Dame, IN: “Romance Languages: Teaching
Methods and Second Language Acquisition” (Prof. Colleen Ryan-Scheutz)
2002 (Fall semester) Fondazione Franceschini /SISMEL, Firenze: “VI Corso di
formazione bibliografica: Medioevo latino. Metodologie e tecniche bibliografiche.” (Dr.
Lucia Pinelli, “VI Course in Bibliographical Formation: Medioevo Latino (MEL).
Methodologies and bibliographical techniques”).
Professional Memberships:
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
Dante Society of America
American Association Teachers of Italian (AATI)
North Eastern Modern Languages Association (NEMLA)
Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (SISMEL).
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