curriculum vitae - Giuliana Minghelli

CURRICULUM VITAE
Giuliana Minghelli
242 Summer Street
Somerville, MA 02143
(617) 623-8214
[email protected]
EDUCATION
1989-1993
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Ph.D., Italian Studies
Dissertation: In the Shadow of the Mammoth: The Figure of Woman
in Italo Svevo's Narratives. Director: Eduardo Saccone
1985-1989
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, M.A., Italian Studies
1981-1985
UNIVERSITY OF PISA, Foreign Languages and Literatures
Coursework completed towards Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Moderne,
transferred to Johns Hopkins graduate program
Study Abroad Programs
1988
Johns Hopkins Villa Spelman Program, Spring seminars in Renaissance Italian
Studies
1983-1984
Humboldt Universität, Summer programs in German Studies
WORK
2008-2013
Associate Professor, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
2003-2007
Lecturer, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1999-2003
Teaching Assistant, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Fall 2002
Visiting Lecturer, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1997-1998
Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1992-1996
Assistant Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, UNIVERSITY OF
COLORADO, Boulder
1991-1992
Visiting Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Madison
Minghelli
1985-1989
Teaching Fellow, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
1988
Instructor, PEABODY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
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TEACHING
Harvard University
 Cultural Migrations Between Africa and Italy (Fall 2013; Fall 2010)
 On the Road: Journeys in Italian Cinema (Fall 2013; Fall 2010; Spring 2007)
 Italian Pop: Comics, Mass media, Folk Culture (Spring 2013; Fall 2011; Fall 2009)
 Picturing Place: Landscape, Literature, and Cinema from the Eighteenth through the
Twentieth Century (Spring 2013; Fall 2009)
 Cinema for a Changing Earth: The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Fall 2012)
 The Marvelous, Fantastic, Magic, and Uncanny in Italian Culture (Spring 2012)
 The Modern Image: Intersections of Photography and Literature (Freshman Seminar, Fall
2012; Spring 2010; Fall 2007)
 Modernismi Italiani: D‟Annunzio, Svevo, Pirandello e oltre (Spring 2012; Fall 2008)
 Italy in Motion: Cinema, History and National Identity (Fall 2011)
 Intimate Architectures: Dwelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Italian Women Writers
(Spring 2010; Spring 2007)
 The Fantastic from Dante to Calvino and Beyond (Fall 2007)
 Between Africa and Italy: Literature, Film and Cartoons (Spring 2006)
 Literary Cityscapes: Italian Urban Life and Cultural Change, 1904-2004 (Fall 2006)
 After History: Fable, Myth and Nature in Italian Post-War Literature (Fall 2006; Spring
2003)
 Italian Theory and Literary Criticism (Fall 2005)
 Svevo e i Triestini: Scrivere la città e esserne scritti (Spring 2005)
 Italo Calvino and the Place of Literature (Spring 2005)
 Italian Feminisms: Culture, theory and Narratives of Difference (Fall 2002)
University of Colorado, Boulder
 Undergraduate Courses
o Italian Romanticism: From Vico to the Scapigliatura
o Italian Feminisms: Theory, Culture and Narratives of Difference
o Readings in Italian Literature I and II
 Graduate Seminars
o Introduction to Literary Theory
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o Writing Through the City: Literature and the Urban Experience
o Rereading Freud
o Cultural Utopias: The Poetics and Politics of Space
University of Wisconsin, Madison
 Italian Literature in Translation—Existentialism, Fascism and Resistance
 Intermediate and Advanced Language
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Co-Editor and Contributor, Stillness in Motion: Italy, Photography and the Meanings of Modernity
Accepted for publication at University of Toronto Press
Cinema Year Zero: Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film
Routledge, 2013
Editor and Contributor, The Modern Image: Intersections of Photography, Cinema and Literature in
Italian Culture, Special Issue of L’anello che non tiene, 2009
In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism, University of Toronto
Press, 2003
Essays:
“Neorealism,” in Continuum Guide to Italian Cinema, ed. Joseph Luzzi, forthcoming
“Svevo, Blogging and the Future of Literature,” MLN, forthcoming; “Svevo, il blog e il
futuro della letteratura,” Aghios. Quaderni di studi sveviani, forthcoming
“Effetto Notte: L‟immagine di Cesare Zavattini tra neorealismo e surrealismo,” Locus Solus,
7, Memoria e immagine, 2009, 67-96
“L‟occhio di Verga,” Special Issue, L’anello che non tiene, 2009, 59-81
“Haunted Frames: History and Landscape in Luchino Visconti‟s Ossessione,” Italica, 85
(2008): 2-3, 173-196
“Neorealismo: Anacronismo/Avanguardia,” Ripensare il Neorealismo: Cinema, letteratura,
mondo, Metauro, 2008, 197-221
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“Storie, paesaggi e cantastorie: la visione documentaristica dal neorealismo al
Postmodernismo,” Sinergie narrative: Cinema e letteratura nell’Italia contemporanea, Franco Cesati
Editore, 2008, 41-71
“Lontano e quotidiano nella musica dei Modena City Ramblers,” Spaesamenti padani:
Studi culturali sull’Emilia Romagna, Il lettore di Provincia, 123-4, Longo, 2005, 55-68
“What‟s in a Word? Rosetta Loy‟s Search for History in Childhood,” MLN 116, 1, 2001,
162-176
"Leading the Pedagogue by Hand: Women and Pedagogy in Italo Svevo," Gendered
Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies, ed. Benedetti, Hairston and Ross, Peter
Lang, 1996
"Ricordando il quotidiano: Lessico famigliare o l'arte del cantastorie," Italica 72, no. 2, 1995,
155-173
"L'Africa in cortile: La colonia nelle storie levantine di Fausta Cialente," Quaderni
d'Italianistica, 15, 1-2, 1994, 227-235
"In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Narratives of Symbiosis in La coscienza di Zeno," MLN 109,
1994, 49-72
"Il ritorno di Efigenia," Italian Culture, Selected Proceedings, AAIS, 1990, 265-278
"Reading the Trace of the Lightning: Sensual Allegory and the Photographic Image,"
Whomanwarp, Vol. 2, 1989, 4-15
Reference Entries:
"Italo Svevo." The Literary Encyclopedia. March 30, 2010
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4291
Contributor, The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, Entries on Fausta Cialente, Gianna
Manzini, Rossana Rossanda, Amalia Guglieminetti, and Guido Gozzano. Ed. Gaetana
Marrone Puglia, Routledge, 2007
Contributor, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, ed. Jane Eldrige Miller, Princeton
UP, 2001
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Reviews:
Italy and Photography, by Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Visual Resources: An International Journal of
Documentation, Vol. XXVIII, 3, 2012
Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture, ed. Michael Caesar and Marina Spunta, Annali d’
Italianistica, Vol. 27, 2009
Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde, ed. by Luca Somigli and
Mario Moroni, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 11.1, March 2006
The Writings of Joseph Rocchietti, ed. by Carol Bonomo Albright and Elvira Di Fabio, Italian
Americana Historical and Literary Journal
Italo Svevo tra moderno e postmoderno, ed. by Mauro Buccheri and Elio Costa, Italica, 75.1, 1998,
129-131
The Lonely Mirror, ed. by Paola Bono, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 14.1, 1995, 177-78
Refiguring Woman, ed. by Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari; and Contemporary Women Writers
in Italy, ed. by Santo L. Arico, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 12.2, 1993, 131-33
Translation:
Beautiful Fables, by Gregory Lucente (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1985), into Italian for Milella
Publishing, Lecce, 1995
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Book project on shame and Italian post-war culture. This book studies shame as a
collective affect that shaped artistic and public discourse, as well as poetic and historical
imagination of post-war Italy. Intellectuals and artists wrote and thought in flight from their
bios, the personal, corporeal site of shame. The study confronts such issues as: the founding
link between shame and Fascism (e.g. Curzio Malaparte, Primo Levi); the interdiction to
remember (e.g Natalia Ginzburg, Italo Calvino, Gesualdo Bufalino); aesthetic representation
vs. memory (e.g. Giorgio Bassani, Franco Fortini); the flight from self and history into
postcolonial geographies (e.g. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia); the persistence of
shame (e.g. Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci).
“Photography, Anthropology and Ritual at the Time of the Economic Miracle: Franco Pinna
between Lucania and Rome.” Between 1952 and 1959, Italian anthropologist Ernesto de
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Martino organized a series of expeditions in the southern Italian region of Lucania
accompanied by photographer Franco Pinna. The essay explores the encounter between the
disappearing world of the peasants, with its practices of mourning and healing, and modern
photographic technology, which purports to simply record yet performs its own rituals of
mourning and healing. What do these two systems of practices reveal about the hybrid
temporality and geography of the Italian miracolo economico? What relationships exist between
anthropological photography and the development of action/scoop photography or the
aesthetic of the paparazzi?
“How to Make a Movie with Photographs.” This research project explores the use of
stillness and motion in cinematic storytelling, and the ethics and aesthetics of the photogram
in Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini.
A study of immigration and the rethinking and re-invention of citizenship in the work of
African-Italian writers such as Salah Methnani, Amara Lakhous and Igiaba Scego.
INVITED LECTURES
“Cinema Year Zero,” book presentation, Middlebury College, April 21, 2013
“Svevo, Blogging and the Future of Literature,” Italo Svevo e le scienze: Vita/Tempo,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, February 9-11, 2012
“Paisà Paese Paesaggio,” Italy's/Italies Today, University of New Hampshire, March 31, 2011
“Photography and Verismo,” The University of Cork, Ireland, November 15, 2009
“Neorealismo: Anacronismo/Avanguardia,” Un certo cinema Italiano: percorsi di ricerca
dopo il neorealismo, Casa Artom, Venezia, December, 2007
“La scrittura tra infanzia e storia in Una donna e Per voce sola,” Center for Literary and Cultural
Studies, Harvard University, April, 1997
“Memory and Geography,” “Cultural Cartographies in the Romance Languages and
Literatures,” Cornell University, February 17-18, 1995
PAPERS PRESENTED
“Writing/Filming /Working Through. The Memory of Fascism in Franco Fortini and
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub,” AATI, Strasbourg, May 29-June 2, 2013.
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“Paisà—Landscape as Burial Ground,” AAIS, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 22-25, 2010
“The Landscape of Remorse in Michelangelo Antonioni‟s Cinema,” AAIS, New York,
May, 2009
“Eterna velocità onnipresente immobilità: Futurism and Photography,” The Measure of a Century:
Futurism at 100, Harvard University, The Minda de Gunzburg Center of European Studies,
April 17-18, 2009
“„La Controfotografia‟: il fotodinamismo futurista di Anton Giulio Bragaglia,” AAIS,
Taormina, Italy, May, 2008
“Verga‟s Eye,” AAIS, Colorado Springs, May, 2007
“ Ordinario e straordinario sulla Strada di Fellini,” AAIS, Genova, May 25-28, 2006
Roundtable on “Spaesamenti padani: Studi culturali sull‟Emilia Romagna,” AAIS, Genova,
May 25-28, 2006
“Emilian Landscape and Storytelling: The Documentaristic Vision from Neorealism to
Postmodernism,” Narrative Synergies between Literature and Cinema, Magdalen College,
Oxford, January, 2006
“Neorealism/Anachronism,” MLA panel on “Anachronism in Postwar Italian Culture”
Washington, 2005
“Lontano e quotidiano nella musica dei Modena City Ramblers,” Roundtable, Spaesamenti
padani, AAIS, Chapel Hill, April, 2005
“Italo Svevo and the Aesthetic of Contamination or Understanding the Resistance to
Italian Modernism,” AAIS, Chapel Hill, April, 2005
“Stories with Animals and without Animals: Narrating Violence in Italo Svevo‟s fables
and Yann Martel‟s Life of Pi,” MLA, Philadelphia, 2004
“The House, the Road, the City: History and Geography in Luchino Visconti‟s
Ossessione,” AAIS, Ottawa, April, 2003
“What‟s in a Word? Rosetta Loy‟s Search for History in Childhood,” AAIS, New York, NY,
April 13-15, 2000
“La scrittura tra infanzia e storia in Una donna e Per voce sola,” AAIS, Winston, NC, February
1997
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“Junkyards of Memory: Remembering in Dante's Paradise, Italo Calvino's hypertext and
Stefano Benni's cyberspace,” IAPL Philadelphia, May 10-13, 1995
“L‟Africa a puntate e l'Africa a fumetti: Il continente nero da Emilio Salgari a Hugo Pratt,”
AAIS, Tempe, AZ, April 8-12, 1995
“Geographies of Remembrance: The Art of the Storyteller in Natalia Ginzburg's Family
Sayings,” ISSEI, Graz, Austria, 9/27, 1994 and RMLA, Colorado Springs, 10/28, 1994
“L'Africa in cortile: La colonia nelle storie levantine di Fausta Cialente,” AAIS, Madison, WI,
April 7-10, 1994
“Projecting Histories: Father and Daughter in Pirandello's Six Characters,” Boulder,
University of Colorado, March 20, 1993
“Leading the Pedagogue by Hand: Women and Pedagogy in Italo Svevo,” Gendered
Contexts II, Baltimore, November 17-18, 1992
“Vico and Leopardi: Myth of Enlightment,” MLA, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1991
“In the Shadow of the Mammoth: A Reading of Italo Svevo's Theory of Origins,” Svevo:
Modern and/or Postmodern, York University, Toronto, April 16, 1991
“Otto Weininger and the Modernist Movement,” National Feminist Graduate Women
Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 8-10, 1991
“La lotta per la dolcezza: Uno studio dell'iscrizione femminile nei testi di Svevo,” AAIS,
University of Virginia, 1990
“Il ritorno di Efigenia. La statua, i silenzi e la discreta retorica,” AAIS, University of Lowell,
Massachusetts, 1989
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2013 Member of the Advisory Committee for the interdisciplinary research project
sponsored by The British Academy: Viewing and Writing Italian Landscape. Luigi Ghirri and his
Legacy in Photography and Literature
2013 Reader, PMLA
2013 Reader, California Italian Studies
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2011-2013 Editorial Board, Quaderni del Novecento
2011 Reader, Other Visions: Contemporary Italian Documentary Cinema as Counter-Discourse,
Special Issue, Studies in Documentary Film
2010 Reader, University of Toronto Press
2008 Reader, Italian Culture
2008 Reader, Feminist Review
1995 Reader, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
2010 Panel organizer, “Landscape and National Identity,” AAIS, Ann Arbor
2008 Panel organizer, “La cultura italiana nell‟epoca della riproducibilità tecnica,” AAIS,
Taormina, Italy
2007 Panel organizer, “The Modern Image: Intersections of Photography, Cinema and
Literature in Italian Culture,” AAIS, Colorado Springs
1998 Panel organizer, “The Returns of History: The Politics of Memory in the Italy of the
Nineties,” AAIS, Chicago
1990 Conference Organizer, “Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural
Studies,” Johns Hopkins University
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2013
Outside Reviewer, La Scuola Italiana, Middlebury College Language Schools
2010-2012 Provostial Fund Committee, Harvard University
2009-2013 Undergraduate Advisor in Italian, Harvard University
2009-2013 Member of the Board of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University
2008-2009 RLL Core Curriculum Committee, Harvard University
2008-2009 RLL Task force for Curriculum Review, Harvard University
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1993-1995 Core Curriculum Committee and Review Board, University of Colorado,
Boulder
1993-1994 Interdepartmental Committee for the Revision of the Italian Studies Major,
University of Colorado, Boulder
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2013 Elson Family Arts Initiative Grant, Harvard University, 2500
2010 Elson Family Arts Initiative Grant, Harvard University, 5000
2008 Junior Faculty Development Grant, Harvard University, 5000
1995 Junior Faculty Development Award, University of Colorado, Boulder
1994 Summer Travel Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder
1993 Summer Travel Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder
ADVISING/THESIS DIRECTION
Undergraduate
2012 Sofia Groopman (History and Literature Concentrator)
“Tombs of Words: The Aesthetics of Natalia Ginzburg‟s World War II Memorials”
2011 Taylor J. LiCausi (Joint concentration in Italian and Anthropology)
“Sensing Sicily: A Century of Sensory Representations and Their Cultural Implications
from Verga to Lampedusa”
2011 Christopher A. Magliozzi (Literature concentrator)
“Reading to Pull the Trigger”
2008 Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin (Joint concentrator Italian and History of Art)
“Cookies, Cakes and Castles: The City of Ferrara in the Paintings of Giorgio De
Chirico 1915-1918”
Graduate
2010 Stacy Giufre
“Speaking Back: Women in the Works of Cesare Pavese”
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2012 Luca Cottini
“A Culture of Objects: Italy‟s Quest for Modernity (1881-1922)”
2013 Cara Takakjian
“The Graphic Novel: Reading Ourselves, Reading History”
Mary di Salvo
“Reel Relations: A Comparative Study of Leading Lady-Director in Italian Cinema of
the 1950s and 1960s” (May 2014)
Adam Muri-Rosenthal ( PhD in Italian Studies and Critical Media Practice)
“Peripheral Visions and Visual Refusals: A Study of Rubbish, Refuse and Marginalia in
Italian Cinema from Neorealism to the Present” (December 2014); and Residual City
(documentary capstone project on waste and mortality in the city of Venice)