research, scholarship, publications and related activities

RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP, PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
a.
Books published:
-Author, Il Premio Nazionale “Riccione” 1947 e Italo Calvino. Cesena: Il Ponte Vecchio, 2007.
Click the links to access the volume’s Introduction/Chapter I (“Premessa”/”Il Premio Riccione 1947
per un romanzo e Italo Calvino”) and Chapter II (“Per una cronistoria del Sentiero dei nidi di ragno. I
dattiloscritti del Premio Nazionale Riccione 1947”). The Appendici are instead here (1, 2).To purchase
the book click here to get to the Italian site Internetbookshop.it.
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino), Workbook to Accompany Prego! 7th edition. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino), Laboratory Manual to Accompany Prego! 7th edition. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2007.
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino, Maria Cristina Peccianti), Prego! 7th edition. New York: McGrawHill, 2007.
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino), Workbook/Lab Manual to Accompany In giro per l’Italia 2nd
edition. New York:McGraw-Hill, 2006.
(click the cover to access the book’s web site)
-Co-author ((with Graziana Lazzarino, Maria Cristina Peccianti), In giro per l’Italia 2nd edition. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino), Workbook to Accompany Prego! 6th edition. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino), Laboratory Manual to Accompany Prego! 6th edition. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2004.
(click the cover to access the book’s web
site)
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino, Maria Cristina Peccianti, Janice Aski), Prego! 6th edition. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino), Workbook/Lab Manual to Accompany In giro per l’Italia. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino, Maria Cristina Peccianti, Janice Aski), In giro per l’Italia. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
-Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino, Janice Aski, Maria Cristina Peccianti), Prego! 5th edition. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
- Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino), Lab Manual to Accompany Prego! 5th edition. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2000.
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Co-author (with Graziana Lazzarino), Workbook to Accompany Prego! 5th edition. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2000.
b.
Articles and book chapters published:
-“Una Commedia di borgata. Pasolini, Dante e la Mortaccia.” Paragone-Letteratura 60-61-62
(2005): 140-159. [Published May 2006.]
-“Petrarchism.” Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Ed. Gaetana Marrone and Paolo Puppa. 2 vols.
New York: Routledge: 1420-1422.
-“Calvino e Walt Disney: iconografia della bestia.” Quaderni del ‘900, II (2002): 35-50.
[Published May 2003.]
-“Calvino al Premio Riccione 1947.” Paragone-Letteratura 524-546 (1993): 33-59. [Published May
1994.]
c.
Multimedia:
-Contributing author to In giro per l’Italia On-line Learning Center, 2nd edition. New York: McGrawHill, 2005. [Web-based exercises: “Nelle regioni” feature.]
-Contributing author to Prego! Student Interactive CD-Rom, 6th edition. New York:McGraw-Hill, 2004.
[Readings.]
-Contributing author to Prego! Online Learning Center, 6th edition. New York: McGrawHill, 2004.
[16 web-based exercises for “Sara in rete!” feature. Listening comprehension activities chapter by
chapter.]
d.
Other Publications:
-Translation from English into Italian of Del Principe, David. “Il plagio di Fosca di Ugo
Tarchetti.” Studi italiani, a.XIX, n.39, Winter 2007.
e.
Edited volumes and articles accepted or under review:
1. Accepted:
-“Italo Calvino and the Internet. Audiovisual and Electronic Resources,” “Approaches to Teaching
Italo Calvino’s works.” Ed. Franco Ricci. New York: The Modern Language Association of America
(Approaches to Teaching World Literature series). Editor’s invitation. Peer-reviewed. Accepted August
2006.
-“ ‘In guisa d’arcier presto soriano.’ Appunti per la metafora d’Amore nella lirica italiana
del Dugento.” Estudios de Filologìa Moderna, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
(This essay examines the various linguistic embodiments and stylistic changes of the metaphor of
the “arrow” –usually employed to narrate the poet’s “love wound”- in 13th and 14th century Italian
poetry.) Accepted August 2007.
2. Under review:
-Co-editor (with Christopher Kleinhenz), “Approaches to Teaching Petrarch’s Canzoniere and the
Petrarchan Tradition.” New York: The Modern Language Association of America (Approaches to
Teaching World Literature series). The volume’s essays are currently undergoing editorial process.
-“Teaching Petrarchism.” “Approaches to Teaching Petrarch’s Canzoniere and The Petrarchan Tradition.”
Ed.Christopher Kleinhenz and Andrea Dini. New York: The Modern Language Association of America
(Approaches to Teaching World Literature series). Translated into English by David Del Principe
(Translation is currently being revised).
-Co-author (with Christopher Kleinhenz), “Editions and Translations,” “Required Readings,”
“Audiovisual and Electronic Resources,” “Poems Taught,” “Approaches and Difficulties to Teaching
Petrarch.” “Approaches to Teaching Petrarch’s Canzoniere and The Petrarchan Tradition.” Ed.
Christopher Kleinhenz and Andrea Dini. New York: The Modern Language Association of America
(Approaches to Teaching World Literature series).
f. Research in progress:
1. Book-length projects:
a) Scholarship of Pedagogy:
-Co-editor (with Enza Antenos-Conforti), “Italian as Second Language. A Handbook for
Teachers of Italian.” Toronto: University of Toronto Press (Italian Linguistics series). Proposal
currently being reviewed.
b) Scholarship of Discovery, Integration and Aesthetic Creation:
-“Italo Calvino 1943-1949. Indagini e letture” (working title)
-Co-editor (with Fabian Alfie, University of Arizona, Tucson), “Accessus ad Auctores. Studies in
Honor of Christopher Kleinhenz.”
Partly funded by the Dept. of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison ($1,000).
Tabula Gratulatoria ($1,500). Submitted to Robert Bjork, editor, Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State University-Tempe, Arizona.
2. Article-length manuscripts:
-“Calvino e l’ ‘occhio’ del mostro.” (This essay explores Calvino’s bestial imagery in his first
collection Ultimo viene il corvo [1949] and its relationship with Emilio Cecchi’s 1920 essays
Pesci rossi.)
-“Le idre dell’ovvietà. Calvino e i racconti ‘campagnoli’ di Ultimo viene il corvo”
(This essay explores the intertextual relationships between 9 “country” stories and offers an
interpretation of Calvino’s controversial exclusion of two of them from later collections).
g. Publications Reviewed and Cited
-Capecelatro, Giuliano. “Il Sentiero senza gloria di Italo Calvino.” L’Unità 13 August 2007,
Rome: 25. [Article dedicated to my book Il Premio Nazionale “Riccione” 1947 e Italo Calvino.]
-Anna Tonelli. “Calvino ‘il comunista.’ Il giallo della vittoria dimezzata.” La Repubblica 12
August 2007, Rome: 38-39. [Article based on my book Il Premio Nazionale “Riccione” 1947 e
Italo Calvino.]
-Nello Ajello. “Italo lo scoiattolo tra Ariosto e l’Urss.” La Repubblica 12 August 2007, Rome:
38-39. [Article based on my book Il Premio Nazionale “Riccione” 1947 e Italo Calvino.]
-Ma.Ma. “Riccione, la perla verde narrata da Italo Calvino.” Il Corriere di Bologna 21 July 2007,
regional edition of Il Corriere della Sera.: 23. [Announcement of the Calvino exhibit and of the
book Il Premio Nazionale “Riccione” 1947 e Italo Calvino.]
-“Il Premio Riccione 1947 e Italo Calvino.” Riccione Teatro. Centro per la promozione del teatro
contemporaneo. 20 July 2007. http://www.riccioneteatro.it/prt/index.php [Editorial news: press
release for the book Il Premio Nazionale “Riccione” 1947 e Italo Calvino.]
- Lombardo, Giovanna. Allegoria 46 (2004): 162-164. [Review of “Calvino e Walt Disney:
iconografia della bestia,” Quaderni del ‘900 II (2002): 35-50.]
- Colussi-Arthur, Gabriella. Italica 4 (2004): 568-570. [Review of Prego! 6th edition. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2004.]
- Balducci, Gioacchino. Forum Italicum 1 (2004): 282-284. [Review of Prego! 6th edition. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.]
- Calvo Montoro, Maria Jose. Italo Calvino, Madrid: Editorial Sintesis, 2003. 46. [Citation of
“Calvino al Premio Riccione 1947,” Paragone-Letteratura 524-546 (1993): 33-59.]
- McLaughlin, Martin. Italo Calvino, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998. xiii [Citation
of “Calvino al Premio Riccione 1947,” Paragone-Letteratura 524-546 (1993): 33-59.]
- Calvo Montoro, Maria Jose. “Joseph Conrad/Italo Calvino, o della stesura della tesi come
riflessione sulla scrittura” Forum Italicum 31 (1997): 115.
[Citation of “Calvino al Premio Riccione 1947,” Paragone-Letteratura 524-546 (1993): 33-59 as
“notizie fondamentali sul Premio Riccione”(“fundamental account regarding Premio Riccione”)].
- Biasin, Gian Paolo. “Seis hombres con impermeable” In Ricci, Franco and Maria Jose Calvo
Montoro (eds.) Italo Calvino: Nuevas Visiones. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de CastillaLa Mancha, 1997. 29 [Note regarding my “exacto analisis filologico” (“exact philological
analysis”) of Italo Calvino’s The Path to the Nest of Spiders’ typescripts appeared in “Calvino al
Premio Riccione 1947,” Paragone-Letteratura 524-546 (1993): 33-59.]