Federica Colleoni, PhD [email protected] Education • University of

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Federica Colleoni, PhD
[email protected]
Education
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
-Ph.D. Italian, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, December 2010
Dissertation: Violenza politica e identità nazionale: trauma, spettralità e allegoria nella letteratura e nel
cinema contemporanei. (Chair: Prof. Vincenzo Binetti).
Available at: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/78833
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Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy
-Laurea in Lettere, 2001
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Indiana University, Bloomington (IN)
-M.A., Italian, 2000
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Università degli Studi, Bergamo (Italy)
- Graduate Certificate in Teaching Foreign Languages (Corso di Perfezionamento post-laurea), 1997
-Laurea specialistica in Lingue Straniere (French and English) (equivalent to M.A. in French), 1996
Thesis: André Breton poeta fra tradizione e avanguardia (Chair: Prof. Mario Bensi).
Teaching Experience
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August 2013-present. Full-time permanent Instructor of Italian, University of South Florida,
Tampa (FL)
-Elementary and Intermediate Italian (with coordination responsibility)
-Contemporary Italian Film and Literature (directed study) (self-designed)
-Mafia in the Movies (in English) (self-designed)
-Italy and the Mediterranean (faculty-led course for study abroad program) (self-designed)
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2012-2013. Full-time Instructor of Italian (one-year position), Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green (OH)
-Elementary and Intermediate Italian (with coordination responsibility)
-Italian Civilization and Culture
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2010-2012. Adjunct Instructor, James Madison University, Harrisonburg (VA)
-Elementary and Intermediate Italian
-Intensive Italian
-Italian Cinema (face-to-face and online) (self-designed)
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-Contemporary Italian Culture through Media (self-designed)
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2004-2010. Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
-Elementary and Intermediate Italian
-Italian Language and Culture through Classic and Contemporary Film (self-designed)
-XX Century Italian History and Culture through Literature and Media (self-designed)
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1998-1999. Graduate Student Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN)
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1997-1998. Graduate Student Instructor, Lake Erie College, Painesville (OH)
Selected certificates and courses
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James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Graduate course “Principles of Instructional Design”, 2012
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Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
Graduate Certificate in Online Instruction, 2011
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Graduate Teacher Certificate, 2008
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Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH
Graduate Courses in Science in Education, 1997-1998
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Università per Stranieri, Siena, Italy
Certificate in Teaching Italian to Foreigners (D.I.T.A.L.S Didattica Italiano a Stranieri), 1997
Publications
Chapters in book:
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“Maledetti vi amerò, ovvero l’immaginazione sconfitta dalla realtà”. Il cinema di Marco Tulio Giordana.
Interventi Critici. Rome: Vecchiarelli Editore, 2015
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“Violenza politica, trauma e memoria in Pasolini. Un delitto italiano e in Romanzo Criminale”. Forme,
volti e linguaggi della violenza nella cultura italiana. Brescia: Edibom Editore, 2012
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“Rivoluzione nazionale o rivoluzione sociale? Il Risorgimento dei Taviani in San Michele aveva un
gallo, tra Pisacane, Bakunin e Tolstoj”. Cinema e Risorgimento: Visioni e Re-Visioni. Rome:
Vecchiarelli Editore, 2012
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“Orrore e violenza politica in Raul Montanari, La verità bugiarda”. Il Romanzo poliziesco. La storia, la
memoria. Italia. Bologna: Astrea Editore, 2009
Edited collections:
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Co-editor (with E. Dalla Torre e I. Lanslots): Il cinema di Marco Tullio Giordana. Interventi Critici.
Rome: Vecchiarelli Editore, 2015
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Co-editor (with F. Parmeggiani): Forme, volti e linguaggi della violenza nella cultura italiana. Brescia:
Edibom Editore, 2012
Refereed Articles:
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“Fanon, Violence, and Rebellion in Italian Cinema: The Case of Valentino Orsini”. Interventions:
International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. December 2014.
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“Spettri della violenza: gli anni Settanta in alcuni romanzi del nuovo millennio”. Enthymema. 2013.
Available at: http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/article/view/2705
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“Comencini, Cantet, Loach. Rappresentazioni di lavoratori precari nel cinema europeo”. Bollettino ‘900:
Culture di resistenza nell’Italia contemporanea. Immaginare la precarietà, 2010
Available at: http://www3.unibo.it/boll900/numeri/2009-i/
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“La violenza politica come spettro e come trauma in Il Segreto di Geraldina Colotti e in Arrivederci
amore, ciao di Michele Soavi”. Carte Italiane: Italy 1968. Representations in Italian Culture. 2008.
Available at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/italian_ucla/carteitaliane/Series2/Vol4/S2-4-12/
Book introductions:
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Fernando Goméz Mancha. Il corpo disobbediente. Brescia: Edibom Editore, 2011
Selected Review Articles:
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F. Trento and A. Amadei. “Twenty Cigarettes in Nasiriyah. A Memoir”. Annali d’Italianistica
(forthcoming, 2015)
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P. Furlong. “Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola”. Modern Italy, 2014
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E. Diemoz: “A morte il tiranno. Anarchia e violenza da Crispi a Mussolini”. Journal of Modern Italian
Studies, 2013. Invited
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E. Canright Chiari. “Undoing Time. The Cultural Memory of an Italian Prison”. Annali d’Italianistica,
2013
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L. Modena: “Italo Calvino’s Architecture of Lightness. The Utopian Imagination in an Age of Urban
Crisis”. Annali d’Italianistica, 2013
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M. P. De Paulis-Dalembert (ed.): “L’Italie en jaune et noir. La littérature policière de 1990 à nos jours”.
Annali d’Italianistica, 2011
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L. Parisi: “Come abbiamo letto Manzoni. Interpreti novecenteschi”. NEMLA Italian Studies. 2010
Selected Conferences
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“Violence, Africa, Fanon: Valentino Orsini’s Journey”. Fanon in Italy: A Symposium organized by the
Postcolonial Research Group of Newcastle University. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, June 2013.
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Organizer and session chair: “Il cinema di Marco Tullio Giordana”. MLA Conference. Boston, MA,
January 2013.
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“The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti by Montaldo”. Diasporas Changing the World: JMU Foreign
Languages Department Conference. Harrisonburg, VA, March 2012.
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“La Guerra di Nora di A. Tavassi la Greca: la violenza politica, il doppio, la famiglia”. Altered States:
University of Pennsylvania French and Italian Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA, March 2012.
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“L’Africa di Pontecorvo e Orsini: La battaglia d’Algeri e I dannati della terra”. N.E.V.I.S. Conference,
Rome, Italy, June 2011. (Available in the Proceedings at:
http://www.ebook.it/S/Narcissus.me/autori_vari/Arte/PDF/Italy_the_Mediterranean..._And_Beyond._Atti
_della_conferenza_Echioltremare_Roma_2011.html)
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“Sacco e Vanzetti e Giordano Bruno di Montaldo come displacements cinematografici”. NEMLA
Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2011.
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“Il cinema di Valentino Orsini e la violenza politica” (a paper presented as co-organizer and co-chair of a
double session entitled Narration of Violence in Italian Film and Literature). AAIS Conference, Ann
Arbor, MI, April 2010.
Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships
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Grant to participate in the CIT Summer Institute for Online Course Development, James Madison
University, March-May 2012
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Grant to participate in The Rome Seminar 2011, in Rome, Italy, entitled: Italia ‘Glocale’/‘Glocal’ Italy,
sponsored by the Italian Studies Program, Notre Dame University, June-July 2011.
http://italianstudies.nd.edu/rome-seminar/2011-seminar-participants/
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Rackham one-term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2010.
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Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan, 2008
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Humanities Research Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2008
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Romance Languages Department Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan, 2005, 2007
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Rackham Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan, 2006
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Romance Languages and Literatures Department Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2004-2005
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European Union ERASMUS Scholarship, Université Lumière, Lyon, France, 1992-1993
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University Service
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Faculty affiliate at the Academy for Teaching and Learning (ATLE), USF, Tampa, 2014.
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Member of a Faculty Learning Community to research and implement Service Learning at USF, Tampa,
2013.
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Organizer of Italian film screenings at USF, Tampa, 2013-present.
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Organizer of cultural events (Italian film screenings, Tavola Italiana, Toledo Museum of Art visit),
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2012-2013.
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Co-organizer of cultural events (Italian Film Festival, Unification of Italy Celebration), James Madison
University, Harrisonburg, VA, 2010-2012.
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Organizer, Italian Film Series. Created and implemented a Department Italian Film series, University of
Michigan, 2007-2010.
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Facilitator, Teaching Practice session, and “Teaching Strategies for Foreign Language
Courses” workshop, New Graduate Students Orientation held by the Rackham Graduate School,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007.
Affiliations
MLA (Modern Languages Association)
AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies)
AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian)