IRENE
MARCHEGIANI
303 Mountain Ridge Dr.
Mt. Sinai, NY 11766
Phone: 631 – 473.0051
e-mail: imarchegiani@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Present
Position: -Director of
Field Experience and Clinical Practice,
State
University of New York, Stony Brook
Department of European
Languages, Cultures, and Literatures
1996-2004: -Full Professor of Italian, tenured, California State University,
Long Beach,
Romance,
German, Russian Languages and Literatures Department.
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2004-Present European Languages Director of Field
Experience and Clinical Practice, State
University of New York, Stony Brook.
2001-2002 Resident Director
of the California State University International Program in Florence,
Italy.
1996-2004 Full
Professor of Italian, California State University, Long Beach. Early promotion.
1993-1994 Resident Director
of the California State University International Program in Florence,
Italy.
1992-1996 Associate
Professor of Italian. Early
tenure and promotion.
1990-1002 Assistant
professor of Italian.
1984‑1988 Full‑time
Lecturer of Italian, French and Italian Department, California State
University, Long Beach.
Second language
acquisition applied methodology.
Contemporary poetry.
Women Writers
(Comparative Literature and Italian Literature).
Romanticism: Giacomo
Leopardi.
Theory and Practice of
Translation.
Greek World.
Latin World.
Teaching Experience
Methodology: Second
Language Acquisition applied linguistics
Italian: All levels of Italian language courses.
Italian Cinema.
Italian Women Writers.
Comparative
Literature:
Women Writers in World Literature.
1993-1994 and 2001-2002: Resident Director of the California State
University International Program in Florence, Italy.
1985-1999: Director of the Italian Program
1990‑2004: CSU
Study Abroad Program advisor.
1985-2004: Collaboration with the
International Program on Campus and at the Chancellor Office.
2001-02: Closely collaborated
with the Long Beach campus in establishing a new summer program in Florence,
which successfully started in May 2002 at the CSU study center.
June 1997 - Summer
Program:
Organized a month of studying in Verona, Italy and designed special curricula
in consideration of the unique opportunities offered by the setting.
1990-1992: College
Budget committee, California State University, Long Beach
1990-1991: Co-Director
of National Endowment for the Humanities grant
1990-1993: Manager,
Italian Cultural Institute's grants for CSULB
1992- 1998: Fundraising
campaign for an endowed chair in Italian and management of funds
1989-1991: Reorganization
of the Foreign Languages Laboratory
1990-1991: Member,
Advisory Committee on Foundation Services
Preparation
of Language Instructors.
1985-1999 As Director
of the Italian Program I
prepared part time instructors and had weekly meetings on classroom instruction. The only full time instructor of
Italian and responsible for the entire program.
1997-1998 Participation in the training of Spanish, French, and
German teaching assistants in the department.
Fall 1990-Spring
1991: Training
of K-12 teachers with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities,
incorporating the teaching of Italian Literature to the teaching of Italian
Language.
Fall 1991-Spring
1992: the
training in Language and Literature continued with the support of
the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles.
Summer 2008: FAHSS
Individual Grant of $2,000
Summer 2007: FAHSS
Individual Grant of $1,500
Summer 2006: FAHSS
Individual Grant of $1,500
Spring 2002: Italian
Monselice Diego Valeri translation prize for the translation of Torquato
Tassos Aminta (co-translator:
Professor Charles Jernigan).
Spring 1997: Innovation
in Teaching Award for implementation of the Total Immersion course.
Spring
1996, 1997,
1998, 1999, 2004: Assigned Time
Awards for Research. California State University, Long Beach.
PUBLICATIONS
Percorsi. (with Francesca Italiano, USC). First-year Italian textbook
for college students. Prentice
Hall. November 2007.
Percorsi.
(with Francesca Italiano, USC). Prentice Hall. Ancillary
material: web site program; workbook; lab audio manual; assessment package.
November 2007.
Percorsi
– Video. Development of a
video connected with the textbook. November 2007
Program Report for the Preparation of Foreign
Language Teachers (In
collaboration with Professor Sarah Jourdain)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign
Languages (ACTFL) and National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. Length of the report: 150 pages. December 2007.
Land of Time.
Edited by Irene Marchegiani.
Preface by Dante Della Terza. New York: Chelsea Editions, 2006. A bilingual anthology of Luigi Fontanellas poetry.
Crescendo! Intermediate Italian textbook for
college students. Second edition. Heinle & Heinle. 2006.
July
2006
Blood Autunm. Autunno di sangue, by Daniela Gioseffi. Boca Raton, FL: Bordighera Press, 2006. Translated 10 poems from English to
Italian.
La vita in cerchio.
Rome: Stango, 2004.
Selected poetry by Irene Marchegiani.
Promises of Love. Trans. by Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones of selected poetry by Plinio Perilli.
Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones and Carol Lettieri. New York: Gradiva Publications,
2004.
Aminta.
A Patoral by Torquato Tasso.
Trans. Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Charles Jernigan and Irene
Marchegiani Jones. New York:
Italica Press, 2000.
In Spring 2002, this volume was awarded the prestigious Italian Monselice
Diego Valeri prize for translation.
The Poetics of Place:
Florence Imagined. Ed. by Irene
Marchegiani Jones and Thomas Haeussler.
Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones. Florence: Olschki, 2000.
Angels of Youth.
Trans.
by Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones of Ceres by Luigi
Fontanella. Preface by Irene
Marchegiani Jones and Carol Lettieri.
Xenos Books, 2000.
Edited
Torquato Tassos Aminta for the data
bank Nuovo Rinascimento, Medieval and
Renaissance Studies Department, University of Florence, Italy, and published it
on the web, www.nuovorinascimento.org
The Star
of Free Will
by Maria Luisa Spaziani. Trans. by
Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Irene Marchegiani Jones. Montreal: Guernica, 1996. 135 pp.
Crescendo!, Lexington: D. C. Heath
and Co., 1994. (Co-author Prof.
Francesca Italiano, University of Southern California). Instructor edition 624 pp. and Student edition 592 pp.
Crescendo!
Workbook and Lab Manual, Lexington: D. C. Heath and Co, 1994. 200 pp.
Crescendo!, Transcript. Lexington: D. C. Heath and Company,
November 1994. 144 pp.
Incontri Attuali (with Francesca Italiano, USC), Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, November 1991.
265
pp.
Lettera
aperta ad Antonia Pozzi. In the proceedings of the poetry symposium Binding the Lands. Present Day Poets
Present Day Poetry. Florence:
Cadmo, 2004.
La corrispondenza
imperfetta: traduzioni inglesi della canzone Nelle nozze della sorella Paolina in Paolina Leopardi. Ed.
by Elisabetta Benucci. Pisa: ETS,
2004. Proceedings of the International
Conference on Paolina Leopardi held at the Centro Nazionale di Studi
Leopardiani. Centro Mondiale della
Poesia e della Cultura, Recanati, Italy, May 23-26, 2001.
Lindividuo e la storia in La lunga vita di Marianna Ucra di Dacia Maraini. Italian Quarterly, 2001.
Place
And Displacement of The City of Florence In Giacomo Leopardi's Writings in The Poetics of Place: Florence Imagined. Ed. by Irene Marchegiani Jones and
Thomas Haeussler. Preface by Irene
Marchegiani Jones. Florence: Olschki, 2000.
Dialoghi teatrali oraziani o del classicismo
dopo la modernit in La lotta con
Proteo. Metamorfosi del testo e testualit della critica. Ed. by Ballerini, Bardin, and
Ciavolella. Florence: Cadmo, 2000.
Rev. Roberto Bertoni, ed. Lultimo orizzonte Giacomo Leopardi: A Cosmic Poet and His Testament. Torino: Trauben Edizioni, 1999. Annali
ditalianistica, 2000.
Da Orazio a Voltaire fino al classicismo dopo
la modernit (From Horace to Voltaire to
Classicism After Modernity) in Rivista di Studi Italiani, June 2000.
Un esempio di immersione totale nellinsegnamento dellitaliano negli Stati
Uniti. Selected proceedings of the VIII conference I.L.S.A. (Insegnanti di
italiano come Lingua Seconda Associati).
Florence, May 29 1999.
Florence: Comune di Firenze, Spring 2000.
Rev. of Massimo Maggiaris Archetipi e cosmo nella poesia di Arturo Onofri, in Italian Culture, v. XVII, 2, 1999.
Rev.
of Dacia Maraini The Silent Duchess.
Trans. by Dick Kitto and Elspeth Spottiswood. (1998),
Gradiva, n. 18, 1999.
Fuori
di classe!
Una proposta didattica per linsegnamento dellitaliano come seconda
lingua fuori dellaula tradizionale.
Italica, Fall 1998.
Amore e
Morte: re-immaginare il vero. Rivista
di Studi Italiani, December 1998.
An
Introduction to Italian Poetry in the United States: The ars poetica of Luigi Fontanella. Italian History and Culture, V. 5, 1998. 10 pp.
Rev.
of Ceres, by Luigi Fontanella (1996), in La Nuova Antologia, October 1997.
Lamerica from Albania through Italy to the
United States: mythology of immigration, article accessible on the Internet: http://members.tripod.com/~verdicchio.lightzoo.html.
Rev.
of The Age of Exploration: An Exhibition
Commemorating the Quincentennial of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to the
Americas. Ed. by A. Dean
Larsen and Madison U. Sowell.
Intr. by Russell T. Clement, in Italica,
1995.
"L'eroe marginale. I limiti dell'idealizzazione nel Cristoforo Colombo di Lorenzo Costa." Italian Culture, V. XI, 1993. 17 pp.
"Alessandro Tassoni e Guidobaldo Benamati:
poeti dell'impresa di Colombo. Italica,
1992.
Rev.
of Giuliano Dati, The History of the
Discovery Of the New Indian Islands of the Canaries, ed. and tr. Theodore
J. Cachey Jr. and Luciano Formisano (1989) in Italica, 1992.
"Maria Luisa Spaziani: metafore dell'ambiente
e dello spazio." Italian
Culture, v. 9, 1992.
15 pp.
"Christopher
Columbus: Untying the Myth." Forum Italicum, 1992. 13 pp.
Per
Giovanna. Gradiva, Vol. 26, Fall 2004.
La vita in cerchio. Rome: Stango, 2004. Selected poetry by Irene Marchegiani.
Italian
translation from English of three poems by Helen Barolini, Gradiva, Vol.
25, Spring 2004.
Io amo solo questa casa che
brucia. Gradiva, Vol. 23-24, Spring-Fall 2003.
Several poems in Nuove Lettere,
1999.
Firenze.
2 and Gli affreschi di Pompei. Hebenon, April, 1999.
Firenze
and Viaggio alle terre del sud – Per. Il filorosso,
1998, Vol. 25.
Due Terre (Two
Lands) and Tempi. VIA, Voices in Italian Americana, V. 4, n. 1, 1993. Poems in bilingual publication.
"Over
your Absence Glide." By
Margherita Guidacci. Trans. Carol
Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones.
Mid‑American Review V.
9, 1989.
Cristina Pausino, Rev. of
Crescendo! An Intermediate Italian
program by Francesca Italiano and Irene Marchegiani. Second Edition. Boston: Thomson & Heinle,
2007. Italica, 84.1, Spring 2007.
Francesco Graziano, Rev.
of La vita in cerchio by Irene
Marchegiani. Rome: Stango, 2004. Il
Filorosso, 41, 2006.
Dante Maffia, Rev. of La vita in cerchio by Irene Marchegiani.
Rome: Stango, 2004. Polimnia, II.5, 2006.
Simona Carvelli, Rev. of La vita in cerchio by Irene Marchegiani. Rome: Stango, 2004. Toasts and
Ramblers, 2004.
Vittoria Surliuga, Rev. of La vita in cerchio by Irene Marchegiani. Rome: Stango, 2004. Sinestesie,
2004.
Joan Cavallo, Rev. of Aminta. A Patoral by Torquato Tasso. Trans. Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Charles Jernigan and Irene
Marchegiani Jones. New York:
Italica Press, 2000. Gradiva, Vol.
23-24, Spring-Fall 2003.
Madison
U. Sowell, Rev. of Aminta. A Patoral by
Torquato Tasso. Trans. Charles
Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones.
Intr. by Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. New York: Italica Press, 2000. Renaissance Quarterly 56.1,
Spring 2003.
Donatella Bisutti, Rev. of Aminta. A
Patoral by Torquato Tasso.
Trans. Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Charles Jernigan and Irene
Marchegiani Jones. New York:
Italica Press, 2000. Poesia, February 2003.
Renzo Ricchi, Rev. of Aminta.
A Patoral by Torquato Tasso.
Trans. Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Charles Jernigan and Irene
Marchegiani Jones. New York:
Italica Press, 2000. La Nuova Antologia, December 2002.
Simona
Maggiorelli, Rev. of The Poetics of
Place: Florence Imagined. Ed.
by Irene Marchegiani Jones and Thomas Haeussler. Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones. Florence: Olschki, 2000. La Nazione, n. 126, 11 May 2002.
Molly
Morrison, Rev. of Angels of Youth. Trans. by Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani
Jones of Ceres by Luigi Fontanella. Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones and
Carol Lettieri. Xenos Books,
2000. Italica, Spring 2002.
Laura Stortoni, Rev. of Aminta. A Patoral by Torquato Tasso. Trans. Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Charles Jernigan and Irene
Marchegiani Jones. New York:
Italica Press, 2000. LItaloAmericano, November 2001.
Joan
Cavallo, Rev. of Aminta. A Patoral by
Torquato Tasso. Trans. Charles
Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones.
Intr. by Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. New York: Italica Press, 2000. www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr
Melinda
Emmonsa, Rev. of The Star of Free Will
by Maria Luisa Spaziani. Trans. by
Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Chelsea 63, 1997,
pp. 155-161.
Rosa
Cuda. Rev. of The Star of Free Will by Maria Luisa Spaziani. Trans. by Carol Lettieri and
Irene Marchegiani Jones. Rivista di Studi Italiani, n.2, December
1997, pp. 310-312.
Nicoletta Tinozzi Mehrmand. Rev. of Incontri Attuali, by Francesca Italiano and Irene Marchegiani
Jones. Forum Italicum, V. 28, No. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 186-187.
Joseph A. Tursi. Rev. of Crescendo! by
Francesca Italiano and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Forum Italicum, V.
30, No.1, pp. 237-238.
Flavia Laviosa. Rev. of Incontri
Attuali, by Francesca Italiano and Irene Marchegiani Jones. The Modern Language Journal, V. 77, No.1, Spring 1993,
pp. 119-120.
2001-2004:
Member of the editorial board of Quaderni
del 900, a journal of Italian literature published by the University La
Sapienza in Rome, Italy, in collaboration with the California State University,
Long Beach.
To Speak or not to
Speak? Designing Speaking Activities Invited presentation at Teaching
Italian: A Symposium/Workshop for Instructional Materials. Meeting I:
Speaking. New Jersey Italian and Italian American Heritage Commission and
Department of Spanish and Italian, Monclair State University. September 26, 2008.
Talking or
Communicating? Creating Activities for Oral Communication and Meaningful
Exchanges. Workshop. Organized by
the New Jersey Italian and Italian American Heritage Commission and the
Department of Spanish and Italian at Monclair State University. September 26, 2008.
Teaching Italian
Language and Culture at Colleges and Universities at the conference titled
Showcase Italian II: Teaching The Unknown Classics in Italian and Italian
American Studies organized by the New Jersey Italian and Italian American
heritage Commission - Higher Education Committee, at Rutgers University, March
14, 2008. Invited presentation
Invited presentation of Oblivion, by Luigi Fontanella.
Melbookstore Seeber, Florence, Italy.
June 12, 2008.
Consalvo: Una rilettura
at the
annual conference of the AAIS (American
Association for Italian Studies) held in Taormina, Italy. May 22-25, 2008
Invited participation at
the Roundtable. Lettura di poesie: Voci italiane dAmerica
II,
at the the annual conference of
the AAIS (American Association for
Italian Studies) held in Taormina, Italy. May 22-25, 2008
Cultural
Proficiency Guidelines Workshop: An Ad-Hoc Task Force for
Project Objectives and Design at the annual conference of the AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies) held in Taormina,
Italy. May 22-25, 2008
Organized the following
sessions at the the
annual conference of the AAIS (American
Association for Italian Studies) held in Taormina, Italy. May 22-25, 2008:
Co-organizer and
moderator of the conference titled The Cruellest Month. Italian Poetry and
American Poetry in New York, April 12, 2008, Stony Brook Manhattan.
Workshop on the new
Italian textbook Percorsi. Invited by
the Italian Department at St. Johns University, April 2008.
Workshop on the new
Italian textbook Percorsi. Invited by
the Italian Department at Rutgers University, March 2008.
Teaching Italian
Language and Culture at Colleges and Universities at the conference titled
Showcase Italian II: Teaching The Unknown Classics in Italian and Italian
American Studies organized by the New Jersey Italian and Italian American
heritage Commission - Higher Education Committee, at Rutgers University, March
14, 2008. Invited presentation
Percorsi: A Beginning College Italian Program at the annual
convention of the American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL), San Antonio, TX, November 2007.
Italian Language
Pedagogies. at the annual conference of the AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian), held in Washington
DC, October 2007.
Invited presentation of Land of Time at Canios Books, Sag
Harbor, September 8, 2007.
Alla sua donna di Giacomo Leopardi: una rilettura, at the annual conference
of the AAIS (American Association for
Italian Studies) held in Colorado Springs. May 2006.
Preparing
Students for the New Italian AP: Writing and Speaking Skills, at the annual conference of the AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies) held in Colorado Springs.
May 2006.
New Pathways towards
Proficiency in Italian, New York, Fordham University, March 24, 2007.
New Issues in Teaching
Italian, San Diego, Italian Cultural Center, April 2, 2007.
Integrating Culture in
Teaching Language and the Italian AP, New York, NECTFL, April 13, 2007.
A New Proposal for the
Teaching of Italian, New York, NECTFL, April 14, 2007.
Poetry reading at the
Calandra Institute, New York, April 14, 2007.
Book Presentation: Land of Time, Selected Poems by Luigi
Fontanella. Edited by Irene Marchegiani. Center for Italian Studies, Stony
Brook University, April 19, 2007.
Crescendo: second edition in the session titled Meet the Authors
of New Italian Texts. American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages
annual Convention, Nashville, November 2006.
Changes and Developments
in Italian Language Teaching. American Council of the Teaching of Foreign
Languages annual Convention, Nashville, November 2006.
The First Year of the AP
Italian Language and Culture Exam. American Council of the Teaching of Foreign
Languages annual Convention, Nashville, November 2006.
Le Ricordanze di Giacomo Leopardi: una rilettura. At the annual conference
of the AAIS (American Association for
Italian Studies) held in Genova, Italy. May 2006.
New Immigration from
Italy. Invited presentation at the Center for Italian Studies at Suny, Stony
Brook. April 22, 2006
Teaching for the AP
exam. Invited presentation by the
NYC public schools language coordinators. December 9, 2005.
Preparing instructors
for the Italian AP exam. American
Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual Convention, Baltimore,
November 2005.
Responded at the Round
table Discussion on Translation, Symposium
on Translation, SUNY, Stony Brook, October 25, 2005.
Explaining the Italian
AP exam. Invited presentation at
the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian,
Washington, October 2005.
Developing
the Italian AP curriculum and test.
Invited presentation at the Long Island AATI (American Association of
Teachers of Italian) chapter, October 22, 2004.
The Italian AP. Invited presentation, FLACS, Foreign
language Association of Chairpersons and Supervisors, Hofstra University,
October 21, 2005.
Giacomo Leopardi on translation. Invited presentation at the Colloquium
titled On Translation: Theory and Praxis organized by the Center for Italian
Studies at Stony Brook University and Gradiva publications. October 30, 2004.
Discussing
the AP Italian curriculum and exam.
American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual Convention,
Chicago, November 18, 2004.
A Silvia o
del perpetuo canto e Leopardi il grande ingannatore. At the annual conference
of the AAIS (American Association for
Italian Studies) held in Ottawa, Canada, April 2004.
La
corrispondenza imperfetta: traduzioni inglesi della canzone Nelle nozze della sorella Paolina. Invited seminar at Montclair State University, New
Jersey, November 2003.
Maria
Luisa Spazianis poetry. Invited
seminar at the Summer program of the SUNY, Stony Brook, in Rome, Italy, July
2003.
Italian
Women Writers. Invited seminar at
the Summer program of the SUNY, Stony Brook, in Rome, Italy, July 2003.
Una
rilettura di Aspasia. At the annual conference of the AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies)
held in Washington, DC, April 2003.
Italian Women Writers. Invited seminar held at Saint Mary College, Rome, Italy,
November 2002.
Laltro Leopardi.
Invited seminar held at Rutgers University, NJ, Italian department,
October 2002.
Florence Imagined, Florence
Experienced. Organized and spoke at a meeting of all of the American
University in Florence, Italy, held at the prestigious Gabinetto Vieusseux,
Strozzis Palace, Florence, Italy, May 2002.
Donna
e donne nei testi leopardiani at the at the annual conference of the AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies)
held in Columbia, Missouri, April 2002.
Le traduzioni inglesi della canzone Per le nozze della sorella Paolina,
invited presentation at the international Conference on Paolina Leopardi held
at the Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani. Centro Mondiale della Poesia e
della Cultura, Recanati, Italy, May 2001.
The
dissemination of Italian Poetry in the U.S., invited lecture at the
prestigious Centro Internazionale Eugenio
Montale, in Rome, Italy, May 2001.
Respondent
on translating poetry at the round table Translating and Transmitting, at the
annual conference of the AAIS (American
Association for Italian Studies) held in Philadelphia, April 2001.
The
corrispondenza imperfetta: English
Translations of Giacomo Leopardis poem to his sister Paolina at the annual
conference of the AAIS (American
Association for Italian Studies) held in Philadelphia, April 2001.
Translating
Torquato Tassos Aminta (with Professor Charles Jernigan) at the annual meeting
of the Renaissance Society of America, held in Chicago, March 2001.
Translating
poetry: the example of Angeles of Youth
at the at the annual conference of the AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies) held in Boston, November
2000.
Gianni
Amelios Lamerica: A Liminal Reading
of Migration. Symposium Imagining
Immigration. Italy and the
Americas, organized by the Center for Italian Studies at SUNY, Stony Brook,
October 21, 2000.
The
Poetry of Antonia Pozzi between dream and rebellion at the annual conference of the AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies) held in New York, April 2000.
Read
poems in a Round Table dedicated to poetry written by women, at the annual
conference of the AAIS (American
Association for Italian Studies) held in New York, April 2000.
Memorie
tassiane in Giacomo Leopardi (Torquato
Tassos memories in Giacomo Leopardi) at the annual conference of the RSA (Renaissance Society of America) held in
Florence, Italy, March 2000.
Lectured
on Antonia Pozzis poetry, at Binding the
Lands. Present Day Poets Present Day Poetry, the third
symposium of the I.P.S.A. (Italian Poetry
Society of American), New York, at the Italian Cultural Institute and
Harvard Club, November 1999.
Invited participation.
History
In And Out Of Time In The Works of Maria Luisa Spaziani and Dacia Maraini at
the annual conference of ACTFL (American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) held in Houston, Texas.
November 1999.
In
Class and Outside Class: Teaching Strategies. Invited to lecture as part of
the Baker-Steyer Lecture series on teaching and pedagogy at Yale University,
October 1999.
Lectured
on Dacia Marainis The Silent Duchess
at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, CSULB, October 1999.
Realt
storica e creazione immaginativa: soluzioni di prosa e poesia in Dacia Maraini
e Maria Luisa Spaziani(Historic Reality
And Imaginative Creation: Prose And Poetry Solutions In Dacia Maraini And Maria
Luisa Spaziani) at the fourth International Conference of Italian Studies
organized by the Ctedra Extraordinaria Italo Calvino at the Universitad
Nacional Autonma de Mxico, Mexico City, August 1999. Invited.
Un
esempio di immersione totale nellinsegnamento dellitaliano negli Stati
Uniti. VII
annual conference of the I.L.S.A. (Insegnanti Italiano Lingua Seconda
Associati), Florence, Italy. May 1999.
The
Poetic of place: Literary Representations of Florence. 19th annual
conference of the AAIS (American
Association of Italian Studies), Eugene, Oregon, April 1999.
Participated
to The Mouth of Poetry, the second
annual symposium of the I.P.S.A. (Italian
Poetry Society of American), at Yale University, November 12-14, 1998.
Invited participation.
The
ars poetica of Italian-American
Poetry, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, CSULB, October 14, 1998.
Italian Poetry in the
United States. Invited
presentation at Yale University. November 1998.
La poetica di Paolo Valesio, Florence, Italy,
June 1998.
Giacomo Leopardi: il viaggio, il tempo, lo
spazio (Giacomo Leopardi: The Journey,
The Time, The Space). American
Association of Italian Studies, Chicago, April 4, 1998.
La poesia delle radici italiane negli Stati Uniti. American Council of the Teaching of Foreign
Languages, Nashville, November 1997.
Taking
Italian out of the classroom. University
of Suny, Farmingdale, N.Y. for the local chapters of the Long Island Language
Teachers organization and the Long Island Chapter of AATI (American Association
of Teachers of Italian), November 1997.
Da Orazio a Voltaire fino al Classicismo Dopo
la Modernit. (From Horace to Voltaire
to the Classicism After Modernity).
A.I.L.L.I. (International
Association for the Study of Italian Language and Literature). Los Angeles, October 1997.
Ceres
e lArs Poetica di Luigi
Fontanella. Florence, Italy, June
1997.
Contemporary
Italian and Italian American Poetry Reading Invited to read four (4) of my poems. American Association of Italian Studies. Winston-Salem, NC, April 1997.
I transatlantici-poeti
italiani allestero Respondent at
the round table discussion as elected member of the Executive Committee of the
Italian Poetry Society of America.
American Association of Italian Studies. Winston-Salem, NC, April 1997.
La
Poesia di Maria Luisa Spaziani An
introduction to Spazianis poetry at the round table discussion. American Association of Italian Studies. Winston-Salem, NC, April 1997.
Lamerica from Albania through Italy to
the United States: mythology of immigration. American Association of Italian
Studies. Winston-Salem, NC, April
1997.
Maria
Luisa Spazianis Poetry within the Margins and beyond Feminism, at Georgetown
University, Florence, Italy, January
1997. Invited lecture.
What
happens to the Brain when we Learn a Second Language. American Council of the
Teaching of Foreign Languages. Philadelphia, November 1996.
Giacomo Leopardi e Gli amici suoi di Toscana. At the annual conference
of the American Association of Italian Studies, in St. Louis, MO, April 11-14,
1996.
La poesia di Maria Luisa Spaziani entro i
margini e al di l del femminismo. At the 29th annual Meeting of the American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
Meeting held in conjunction with the American Association of Teachers of
Italian, Anaheim, California, November 18-20, 1995.
Leopardi: uno straniero a Firenze. At the annual conference of the American
Association of Italian Studies, in Tempe, Arizona, April 20-23, 1995.
Crescendo! Presentation of the
textbook, in the session titled "Meet the Authors, at the 28th annual
Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Meeting held in conjunction with the
American Association of Teachers of Italian, Atlanta, Georgia, November 18-20,
1994.
"La marginalizzazione delle scrittrici italiane." At the study center of
the CSU International Programs, Florence, Italy, Spring 1994.
"Cristoforo Colombo: protagonista di poemi epici Italiani e
Latini." At the study center of
the CSU International Programs in Florence, Italy, October 1993.
"'Giovanna D'Arco': ipotesi storica e risoluzione narrativa di Maria
Luisa Spaziani." At the annual conference of the American Association of Italian
Studies, at Austin, Texas, April 15-18, 1993.
"Memorie dell'Arcadia antica: non pi l'et dell'oro." At the 26th annual meeting of the American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, in Chicago, November 20-22, 1992.
"La 'filosofia' della scoperta nel Colombo di Leopardi." At the Annual Convention
of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, in Ogden, Utah, October 15-17,
1992.
"L'idealizzazione di Colombo nell'epica italiana dell'
'800". At the Annual Conference
of the American Association of Italian Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
April 1992.
"Italian Women
Writers: Inside and Outside the Anthology." At the annual Comparative Literature and Classics Conference
at CSULB, April 28-29, 1992.
"Giacomo Leopardi e il padre: la figura di Monaldo come espressione e
simbolo di autorit civile e religiosa." At the Forty‑Fifth Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, October 17‑19
1991.
La metafora della stella e altre immagini nel paesaggio
interiore della poesia di Maria Luisa Spaziani. At the Annual Convention of
the American Association for Italian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, April 1991.
"Defining
Horace's Epicureanism: Self Restraint or Political Defiance?" At the 26th annual CSULB Comparative
Literature Conference, April 1991.
"A
Private and a Public Concept of Friendship in Pliny the Youngers
Letters." At the annual
Conference of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, October 1990.
From
Beethoven to Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata as Sign and Symbol.
At the 25th Annual Comparative Literature/Classics Conference at CSULB, April
1990.
Professional Services and Activities
2007-Present: Outside reviewer for the
development of the new Italian AP national test: Invited by the College Board,
New York and by Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ
March-April 2008: Editorial reviewer for the University of Toronto
Press, series Toronto Italian Studies, of the book entitled Tuscan Spaces: Literary Constructions of
Space by Silvia Ross (University
College Cork, Ireland).
October 2007: Faculty Reviewer for Professor Anna De Finas
tenure and promotion,
Georgetown University
2004-2007: Invited by the College
Board, New York, and by Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ, to
be a member of the committee for the development of the new Italian AP national
test.
1996-2004: Invited by
the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ, to be a member of the
Italian SAT II test committee.
Preparation of the yearly Italian SAT II. Test development work.
2004-2006: Elected President of the Women Studies Caucus of the American Association for Italian
Studies.
2001-2004: Elected secretary of
the Women Studies Caucus of the American
Association for Italian
Studies.
1998-2004: Elected California
representative to the national Executive Council of the
American Association of Teachers
of Italian (AATI).
1997-Present: Member of the Board of
Directors of the International Poetry Society of America.
1995-2000: Associate Director of
the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, CSULB.
Department, College, and University-wide service
at SUNY, Stony Brook
Department Representative
at the Senate
Department Representative
at the LLRC Advisory Committee
Member of the Department
Language Committee
Member of the PEP
(Professional Educational Program)
Member of the PEP
Sub-committee for Standard 5
Member of the PEP Sub
committee for revision and discussion of the Lesson Evaluation Form
Member of the ad hoc English Teacher Education Review Board
Department, College, and University-wide service
at CSULB: A Selection
Department Retention and Promotion
Committee
College Curriculum Committee
College Budget Committee
University Wide Planning and
Educational Policies Council and several PEP sub-committees
Several Hiring Committees
Community
Member of the steering
committee for the promotion of the AP Italian course and exam, and for
fundraising organization for the continuation of the AP exam.
Member of the jury for
the grade schools poetry contest organized by AATILI (American association of
teachers of Italian, Long Island chapter) 2006, 2007, 2008.
Numerous
activities in connection with fundraising efforts while at CSULB.