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  • 18th- & 19th-Century Italian Literature

  • Peer-Reviewed Books:

    Ugo Foscolo’s Tragic Vision in Italy and England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: Italian Studies Series. October 30, 2014.

    Giovan Mario Crescimbeni, La bellezza della volgar poesia, Rome, 1712. (in preparation, critical edition, currently at 440 pp.)

    Peer-Reviewed Articles:

    “Defensio Italiæ: Exploring Rhetorical Strategies in the Writings of L. A. Muratori and P. J. Martello.” Italica. 60:4 (December, 2013): 548-566.

    “Difetti di disegno: Sul nuovo teatro di Como di Ugo Foscolo,” [Defects of Design: On the New Theatre of Como by Ugo Foscolo] Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 625.1 (2012): 91-109.

    “Making Histories and Defending Reputations: Ludovico Antonio Muratori and Ugo Foscolo.” Rassegna Europea di Letteratura Italiana 36 (December 2010): 111-128.

    “Theatrical Spinning: Ricciarda and Ugo Foscolo’s Campaign for Fame.” Modern Language Notes 124 (Italian Issue, January 2009): 137-157.

    “Fashion as Folly in Eighteenth-Century Caricature and Satire,” in the catalogue for the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art’s exhibition: A Well-Fashioned Image: Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850, eds. Elissa B. Weaver and Elizabeth Rodini. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002, 83-92.

    Invited, Peer-Reviewed Essays and Reviews:

    Parmegiani, Sandra. Ugo Foscolo and English Culture. London: Legenda (Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing), 2011. For Quaderni d’italianistica. Accepted 10/2012, unpublished.

    Segatori, Stefania. Forme, temi e motivi della narrativa di Ippolito Nievo. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2011. Quaderni d’italianistica, 34.1 (Spring 2013): 290-292.

    “Ugo Foscolo.” The Literary Encyclopedia. www.litencyc.com First published 17 September 2011.

  • Works In Progress

  • (article in preparation) American Girl in Italy: Anne Hampton Brewster's Idea of Italy and the Academy of Arcadians

    (article in preparation) Per la Repubblica Letteraria! Crescimbeni and Italian Proto-National Identity

    (article in preparation) Firm Foundations: Exploring Metastasio's Use of Foundation Myths of Rome

  • Pedagogy

  • Published Articles

    Oggi in TV: Italian Television and Intermediate Language Instruction, in Italian Outside of Italy -The Situation in Canada, USA and the English-Speaking World, ed. Salvatore Bancheri, (Toronto: The Frank Iacobucci Center for Italian Canadian Studies, Legas Publishing, 2012), 117-131.

    Il ruolo della cartografia nell'insegnamento della lingua italiana come L2: una rassegna dei libri di testo per gli studenti universitari negli Stati Uniti, with Davide Papotti, in the Bollettino della Associazione Italiana di Cartografia's Atti I, Luoghi e tempo nella cartografia, ed. Carlo Donato. Vicenza: ZetaBeta Editrice, 2006, 105-118.

  • Original Pedagogy Materials

    Oggi in TV: A Guide to Watching Italian Television, second edition. Denver: The University of Denver, 2009, pp. viii + 62 (first edition, August 2008, internal use per agreement with Italian Embassy, its Chicago Consulate and the RAI).

    Oggi in TV: A Guide to Watching Italian Television; Instructor's Manual, second edition. Denver: The University of Denver, 2009, pp. xii + 69 (first edition, August 2008, internal use per agreement with Italian Embassy, its Chicago Consulate and the RAI).

This portfolio last updated: 03-Jan-2024 10:20 AM