Olimpia Pelosi October 2009 Associate Professor, Dept. of

Olimpia Pelosi
CURRICULUM VITAE
October 2009
Associate Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures,
& Cultures, HU-225
University at Albany – SUNY
1400 Washington Ave. NY 12222
Telephone: (518) 442-4149.
Fax: (518): 442-4111
e-mail: [email protected]
EARNED DEGREES:
Ph.D.
M. A.
M.A.
1990
1981
1978
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Romance Languages
University of Salerno, Modern European Languages, Cum Laude
University of Salerno, Italian Literature, Cum Laude
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
Associate Professor, University at Albany/SUNY
Assistant Professor, University at Albany/SUNY
Instructor, University of Salerno
1996-present
1990-1996
1979-1987
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
●Teseo e l’anima errante. Una rilettura della Nadja di Breton. Naples: Federico & Ardia, 1996. Pp.110.
[Revised edition of: Nadja. Frammenti di un ritorno. André Breton e la femminilitá trasparente. Salerno:
Palladio, 1981.]
● Satira barocca e teoriche sul genere. Dal Cinque all’Ottocento. Naples: Federico & Ardia, 1991.
Pp.118. Reviewed: Italica 1 (1994):126-27.
●Il Sogno di Polifilo. Una quête dell’Umanesimo. Salerno: Edisud, 1988. Pp.168. [Second revised
edition of the book by the same title, Salerno: Palladio, 1978.]
●Cinque Saggi sul Polifilo. Salerno: Edisud, 1987. Pp. 84. Reviewed: Forum Italicum 22 (1988): 291-94.
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CRITICAL EDITIONS
●Maria Domitilla Galluzzi. Vita da lei narrata (1624). Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’Italianistica Studi e
testi, 2003. Pp. 273. [Reviewed: 1. Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana, 595 (2004): 455-58;
2.La Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana, 108, 2 (2004): 561-63. ]
●Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane. La Fiera. Seconda Redazione. Naples: Liguori, 2003. Pp. 488.
[Reviewed: 1. Annali d’Italianistica 23 (2005): 291-93;
2. Italica June 22 (2007): 4 pages.]
●Cesare de Leonardis. Il finto incanto. Atripalda: WM, 1988. Pp. 247. Second revised edition.[First
edition Salerno: Palladio, 1984.] Reviewed: Annali d’Italianistica 9 (1991): 380-82.
●Cesare de Leonardis. Il re superbo. Pompei: le Pleiadi, 1987. Pp. 149. Reviewed: Annali d’Italianistica
9 (1991): 380-82.
TRANSCRIPTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
●Lusignan’s Chorography and Brief General History of the Island of Cyprus (A.D. 1573). Sources for
the History of Cyprus, vol. X. Ed. P. W. Wallace and A.G. Orphanides. Altamont, New York: Greece
and Cyprus Research Center, 2001. Pp. 249.
CREATIVE WORKS
●“Tuppulella.” A short story in the anthology Pensieri d’autore. V. Racconti. Foreword by F. Castellani.
Florence: Ibiskos, 2002. Pp.111-14.
● “Luce di luna.” ”Se ti cerco.” Two poems in Italian in Angeli e poeti. Quaderni di letteratura ed arte
4 (2001): 47.
●Dal mio lato dell’ombra. (On my Side of the Shadow). Collection of poems in Italian, with English
translation. Florence: Ibiskos, 2000. Pp. 33.
●“Acadia.” A poem in Spanish in De la letra. Revista de los estudiantes de Posgrado 1 (1996): 39.
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. State University of New York at Albany.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES ( REFEREED) AND PARTS OF BOOKS
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●Entry on “Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane.” Dictionary of Literary Bibliography. Vol. 339:
Seventeenth-Century Italian Poets and Dramatists. Edited by Albert N. Mancini and Glenn Palen
Pierce. New York: Gale 2008.
●Entry on “Benedetto Menzini.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, cit., 204-209. 2008.
●Tra Verbum e Poiesis. Mappature critiche su letteratura italiana e sacro (1986-2006) Annali
d’Italianistica 25 (2007): 139-176.
● “Spoliata di sé e d’ogni cosa.” La scrittura negata di Isabella Berinzaga (1551-1624). Annali
d’Italianistica 25 (2007): 311-323.
●Entry on “Traiano Boccalini (1556-1613).” Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Vol 1. Edited by
Gaetana Marrone. New York: Routledge, 2007. 262-63.
● Entry on “Arcangela Tarabotti” (Galerana Baratotti) (1604-1652).” Encyclopedia of Italian Literary
Studies. Vol. 2 .Edited by Gaetana Marrone. New York: Routledge, 2007. 1823-25.
● “Prodromi di una fine. Una rilettura de Le stelle fredde di Guido Piovene.” Annali d’Italianistica 18
(2000): 327-46.
●“Letteratura italiana e antropologia: percorsi bibliografici.”Annali d’Italianistica 15 (1997): 11-36.
[Reviewed: Esperienze letterarie 3 (1998): 147.]
●“Musica e invettiva. La dimensione musicale nella satira barocca. Salvator Rosa e La Musica.” In:
Letteratura e musica. Ed. J. Moestrup, P. Spore, and C. K. Jorgensen. Odense UP, 1997. Vol. II.
677-83.
● “Tra donna-sole e donna-notte. L’anima junghiana in Breton, Bontempelli e Savinio.” Gradiva 2
(1996): 33-49. [Mentioned: ”Breve rassegna di studi su Massimo Bontempelli (1991-1998).”
Bollettino’900. Electronic Newsletter of ‘900 Italian Literature.” 1 (June 2001): 4.]
● “Tra Eros e Caritas. Le ’pene d’amore’ di Maria Domitilla Galluzzi.” Annali d’Italianistica 13 (1995):
307-332.
●“The Ellipse and the Circle. An Analysis of Ciro di Pers between Anima in Barocco and Neoplatonism.”
In: The Image of the Baroque. Ed. A. Scaglione. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. 93-107.
●“Natura, amore e titanismo: L’ereditá goethiana in Leopardi e De Vigny. “ Italiana V. Ed. A. N.
Mancini, P. A. Giordano, E. Pozzi. West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera, 1993.Vol I. 141-51.
●“L’HypnerotomachiaPoliphili tra iconografia e iconologia.” In Letteratura italiana e arti figurative.
Ed. A. Franceschetti. Florence: Olschki, 1988. Vol.I. 417-31.
●“Il teatro italo–spagnolo del Viceregno nella seconda metá del XVII secolo: Cesare de Leonardis e Il
finto incanto.” In Letteratura fra centro e periferia. Ed. G. Paparelli and S. Martelli. Naples: Edizioni
Scientifiche Italiane, 1987. 513-27.
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●“Il terzo libro del De Vita e l’Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.” In Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Platone.
Studi e documenti. Ed. G. C. Garfagnini. Florence: Olschki, 1986. Vol II. 555-63.
● Il terzo libro del De Vita come una delle probabili fonti del Polifilo. Salerno: Palladio Quaderni, 1983.
Pp. 16.
● Influenze e concordanze ficiniane nell’Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Salerno: Palladio Quaderni, 1983.
Pp. 16.
●La Fiera come ‘gran teatro del mondo:’ Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane fra tradizione accademica
e prospettiva barocca. Salerno: Palladio Quaderni, 1983. Pp. 16.
●“L’iperlingua del Polifilo: problemi e prospettive.” Misure critiche 37-39 (1980-81): 65-70.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Foreword to the critical edition of Alexandreida in Rima. The Life and Deeds of Alexander the Great in
an Anonymus Italian Renaissance Poem. Ed. A. Wilson Tordi. Edwin Mellen P, Wales: UK, 2004. Pp. 4
[invited.]
REVIEWS AND NOTES
Hélène Cixous. The Day I Wasn’t There (Le jour où je n’étais pas là). Translated from the French by
Beverley Bie Brahic. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2006. Pp. 103. [Annali d’Italianistica, 25 (2007).
[invited.]
Armando Maggi. In the Company of Demons. Unnatural Beings, Love and Identity in the Italian
Renaissance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Pp. 242 .[Annali d’Italianistica 25 (2007)[invited.]
Anna Ferrazzano. Vita e poesia. Avellino: Scuderi, 1998. pp. 128. Intrecci. Avellino: Scuderi, 1999. Pp.
111. Profumi di memorie. Serino: Digital Printing, 2003. Pp. 107. Alba chiara. Serino: Digital Printing,
2004. Pp. 49. Oceàni. Serino: Digital Printing, 2005. Pp. 32. [Annali d’Italianistica 25 (2007)
[invited.]
“Vincenzo Padula. Il mio primo amore ed altre prose. Ed. Luigi Reina. Rome: Edizioni dell’Oleandro,
1996. Pp. 123. Luigi Reina. Dalla fucina di Partenope. Vincenzo Padula, Nicola Sole. Ferdinando Russo.
Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1996. Pp. 305. Luigi Reina. Una vita da ex. Rome: Edizioni
dell’Oleandro, 1995. Pp. 19.” [Annali d’Italianistica 15 (1997): 415-16.]
“Italy in the Baroque. Selected Readings. Ed. and transl. B. Dooley. New York: Garland, 1995. Pp. ix +
689.” [Annali d’Italianistica 15 (1997): 402-05, invited.]
“Studi secenteschi 35 (1994).” [Annali d’Italianistica 13 (1995): 525, invited.]
“Battista Giuseppe. Opere. Ed. G. Rizzo. Fondazione Credito Popolare Salentino per gli Studi sul
Salento. Galatina: Congedo, 1991.” [ Annali d’Italianistica 10 (1992): 373-374, invited.]
“Studi secenteschi 30 (1989). Pp. 309.” [ Annali d’Italianistica 9 (1991): 371, invited.]
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“ Paul. O. Kristeller. Marsilio Ficino and his Work after Five-Hundred Years. Florence: Olschki, 1987.
Pp. 228.” [Forum Italicum 1 (1990): 139-140, invited.]
“Marsilio Ficino. El libro dell’Amore. Ed. S. Niccoli. Florence: Olschki, 1987. Pp. 234.” [Forum Italicum
1 (1990):140-41, invited.]
“ Studi secenteschi 28 (1987). Pp. 330.” [Forum Italicum 1 (1990): 141-43, invited.]
“ Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane. La Fiera. Redazione originaria (1619). Ed. U. Limentani.
Florence: Olschki, 1984. Pp. 161.” [Forum Italicum 1 (1990): 143-44, invited.]
“Le secentine della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli. Ed. M. Santoro. Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca
dello Stato, 1986. Pp. vii +320. [Forum Italicum 1 (1988):141-43, invited.]
“Civiltá teatrale e Settecento emiliano. Ed. S. Davoli. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1986. Pp. 465.” [Forum
Italicum 1 (1987): 126-28, invited.]
“San Bernardino da Siena. Abbozzi (inediti) di sermoni “ricostruiti” sul Ms. G. 29 della Biblioteca
Nazionale di Napoli. Ed. F. S. Di Zenzo and I. Siggillino. Naples: Massimo, 1986. Pp. 295.” [Forum
Italicum 1 (1987): 128-29, invited.]
Notes of “ Grazia Sotis. “La poesia del colore nel Purgatorio di Dante.” Esperienze Letterarie 2-3
(1985): 127-38. Giuliana Angiolillo. “Una inedita difesa di Dante del secolo XVII: il Giordano o vero
Nuova difesa di Dante di Federico Ubaldini (1610-1657)”. Misure critiche 52-53 (1984): 5-21.
Gioacchino Paparelli. “I Sepolcri o l’idea foscoliana di lirica.” Misure critiche 52-53 (1984): 23-29.” [In:
Studi e problemi di critica testuale 32 (1987): 297-98, 303, invited.]
“ Giuseppe Antonio Brunelli. Per Giovanna. Poesie nuove e antiche. Milan: Miano, 1983. Pp. 51.
[Misure critiche 13-14 (1984): 140-41.]
WORK IN PROGRESS
Essays:
Book-length essay: The Hope and the Longing. An Analysis of the Poetry of Gaspara Stampa (15231554).
Articles
Article on Gaspara Stampa for the 1st issue of the Journal of International Culture (invited.)
Book Reviews
Identità e desiderio. La teoria mimetica e la letteratura italiana. A cura di Pierpaolo Antonello e
Giuseppe Fornari. Massa: Transeuropa, 2009. For the Journal Italian Culture. (invited.)
Emilio Giordano. Femmine folli e malinconici viaggiatori. Personaggi di “Horcynus Orca” e altri
sentieri. Salerno: Edisud, 2008.
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Creative works:
A collection of poems. Title: Sentieri ( My Paths). In Italian, with English translation.
A novel. Title: ”Pizzicagnella.” The Story of a Southern Italian Girl (1929-1945). In English.
A novel. Title: Dietro le rose (Behind the Roses). In Italian, with English translation.
A novel. Title: I segni della vita (Traces of Life). In Italian, with English translation.
PAPERS AND LECTURES
At international - national conferences:
“Between Woman-Sun and Woman-Night. The Male and the Female Image in Breton, Bontempelli, and
Savinio.” Conference on The Male and the Female Image. Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies.
University at Albany. State University of New York, March 22-23, 1996 [invited.]
“The Ellipse and the Circle. An Analysis of Some Lyrics by Ciro di Pers between Anima in Barocco and
Neoplatonism.” International Symposium on Baroque Poetry and Other Literary Forms: England,
France, Germany, Italy, Spain. University at Stony Brook. State University of New York, March 26-27,
1993 [invited.]
“Satira e musica in etá barocca. Salvator Rosa.” 14th International Symposium of the Associazione
Internazionale Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana on Letteratura e musica. Odense Universität,
Denmark, July 1-5, 1991.
“Spanish Style in Neapolitan Plays.” 2nd International Symposium on Southern Italy and America:
Regional, Cultura,l and Political Life. University at Albany. State University of New York, November
16-18 1989 [invited.]
“L’Hypnerotomachia Poliphili tra iconografia e iconologia.” 12th International Symposium of the
Associazione Internazionale Studi di Lingua e Letteratura italiana on Letteratura italiana e arti figurative.
Toronto-Hamilton-Montréal, May 1985.
At professional meetings:
“Percorsi mistici nell’Italia tridentina. Il “caso” Isabella Berinzaga.” (1551-1624).” Session on Italian
Literature, Religion, and the Sacred III. AAIS XXVII Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, May 3-6,
2007 [invited].
“I mari dell’anima.” Percorsi mistici al femminile nell’Italia della Controriforma. Influenze e concordanze
del Per via di annichilazione di Isabella Cristina Berinzaga Lomazzi (1551-1624) e della Vita di Maria
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Domitilla Galluzzi d’Acqui (1596-1671)” Session on Italian Literature and the Sacred. AATI Annual
Conference. Washington D.C. October 13-15, 2005 [invited].
“ La morte dell’umano e dell’humanitas ne Le stelle fredde. Guido Piovene tra mito umanistico, archetipo
simbolico ed entropia.” SAMLA Annual Convention. Panel on Literature and Anthropology. Atlanta,
November 4-6, 1999 [invited.]
“Guido Piovene. Percorsi di uno scrittore.” AATI Annual Meeting. Atlanta, November 18-20, 1994.
“Ciro di Pers between Baroque Perspective and Neoplatonic Inspiration. Some Additional Reflections.”
AAIS Meeting. University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 7-19, 1994.
“Gli ‘Inni Sacri’di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (1568-1646).” AATI Annual Meeting. San
Antonio, Texas, November 20-22, 1993.
“Castigat ridendo mores: Satira barocca e invettiva.” AAIS Annual Meeting. University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. April 11-13, 1992.
“Natura, amore e titanismo in Leopardi, De Vigny e Goethe.” AATI Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.
November 21-23, 1991.
“Elementi classici e insorgenze barocche ne La Fiera di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane.” AAIS
Annual Meeting. Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 11-13, 1991.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Chair of Panel 1 of Probing Brevity. Study on Short Texts. Second Annual Research Conference. State
University of New York at Albany. November 1-2 2007
Chair of Session IV on Italian Literature, Religion, and the Sacred. American Association of Italian
Studies Annual Conference, Colorado Springs. May 3-6 2007
Editorial Board, Annali d’Italianistica, member, 2001-present.
External evaluator, Tenure and Promotion, University at Buffalo. State University of New York,
1999-2000.
Member of the Jury of the National Literary Prize for Young Poets. Santa Lucia di Serino (Avellino)
Italy, March 1985.
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AWARDS AND HONORS
College Travel Grant for the AAIS Conference. June 2007
College Travel Grant for the AATI Conference. November 2005
USIA Salerno –Albany Exchange Grant. Summer 1991.
Fellowship Giorgio Cini Foundation. Venice, August September 1982.
Biographical and bibliographical entry in The World Who’s Who of Women. Cambridge: UK, 1994-1995.
13th ed. P. 332.
Biographical and bibliographical entry in Who’s Who in the East. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who’s
Who, 1993-1994. 24th ed. P. 715.
Diploma and medal at the 4th edition of the International Competition on Literature and Art. Avellino,
Italy, 1978.
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
Rome: Biblioteca Nazionale, Biblioteca Vaticana. Florence: Biblioteca Nazionale, Biblioteca Medicea
Laurenziana, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. Bologna: Archiginnasio. Venice: Biblioteca
Marciana, Biblioteca Fondazione Cini, Biblioteca Querini Stampalia. Naples: Biblioteca Nazionale.
Istituto Croce. Avellino: Biblioteca Provinciale, Sezione Manoscritti e Libri Rari.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Association of Italian Studies
SERVICE
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
●Participant to the Going Forward Plan Seminar (invited by the Provost). October 2008.
●University Senator. January 2006- May 2007.
●Council on Academic Assessment, member, January 2006- May 2007.
●University Life Council, member, 2002-2003.
●Council on Academic Freedom and Ethics, member. 2001-2002.
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●Educational Policy Council, member, 1999-2000.
●Departmental representative, Faculty Council, College of Arts and Sciences, 1999-2000; 1996-97.
●CAS Promotion and Tenure Committee, member, 1999-2000.
●Acting Chair of the Curriculum and Instruction Committee, May 1999.
●Task Force on Strategic Goals, member, April 1999.
●Graduate Academic Council, member, 1998-1999.
●Curriculum and Instruction Committee, member, 1998-1999.
●Council on Research, member, 1997-1998.
●Academic Planning Committee, member, 1996-1997.
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
●LLC Executive Committee, member. Fall 2009.
●Faculty Phone-A-Thon for accepted Majors in Italian. April 2009.
●LLC Representative at the Campus Open House. April 2008.
●LLC Review Committee, member, September 2006- May 2007.
●LLC representative at the Campus Open House, April 2007.
●LLC representative at the Campus Open House, November 2006.
●LLC Executive Committee, 2006-2007.
●LLC Review Committee, member, 2003-2004.
●LLC representative at the Campus Open House, Fall 2003, Spring 2002.
●Compiler of the Self Study for the Assessment of the Italian Studies Program, June 2003.
●LLC Executive Committee, member, Spring 2003, Fall 2002.
●LLC Undergraduate Committee, member, 2001-2002; 1999-2000.
●LLC Undergraduate Committee, chair, Fall 2001.
●LLC Search Committee for the position of Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, member, 19971998.
●Faculty advisor of Italian majors, 1997-2000.
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●Department of Modern European Languages, Peer Evaluation Committee for a tenure and promotion
case, member, 1996-1997.
●Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, Search Committee for a position of a Professor of Hispanic
Studies, member,1994-1995.
●Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Director of the Italian Studies Program, 1993-1997.
●Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, Personnel Committee, member, 1993-1994.
●Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, Undergraduate Committee, member, 1990-1991.
COURSES TAUGHT AT UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
Undergraduate courses: Language: Elementary (Ita 100); Intermediate Grammar (Ita 103, Ita 104),
Intermediate Conversation and Composition (Ita 206, Ita 207), Advanced Grammar and Composition (Ita
301). Literature: Introduction to Literary Methods (Ita 223), General View of Italian Literature (Ita 311,
Ita 312 ), Independent Study (Ita 397), The Italian Renaissance ( Ita 441), From Baroque to Romanticism
(Ita 471). Culture: Italian Civilization (Ita 315); Social Protest in Italian Literature (Ita 446).
LANGUAGE COMPETENCE
Italian – native
English, French and Spanish – near native
German – good reading knowledge
Medieval Provençal (langue d’oc), Old French (langue d’oïl), Latin, Ancient Greek – in depth knowledge.
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