Papers and Presentations

 

 

 

“A Multidisciplinary Palaeo-pathographic Reassessment of the Decline and Demise of Giovanni Boccaccio.” American Boccaccio Association Triennial Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC. (October 2016)

 

“Salvatores’ Between Journey and Isolation.” 7th Avanca Cinema International Conference, Avanca - Portugal. (July 2016)

 

“Surfing the Middle Ages: How to Create a Website for Educational Purposes.” 87th Annual Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA). (November 2015)

 

“Furore e Ira nella letteratura italiana tra Medioevo e Rinascimento” (Session Chair and Presenter). Cuarto Seminario Internacional “Literatura y Pecado.” Literatura e Ira (Fourth International Seminar “Literature and Sin.” Literature and Wrath), Universitat de les Illes Balears, Es Baluard Museo d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Spain. (January 2015)

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“Non fare oggi quello che puoi fare domani” (Session Chair and Presenter). Tercero Seminario Internacional “Literatura y Pecado.” Literatura y Pereza (Third International Seminar “Literature and Sin.” Literature and Lazyness), Universitat de les Illes Balears, Es Baluard Museo d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Spain. (January 2014)

 

“‘Fatti non foste a viver come bruti’: Note sulla superbia nella letteratura medievale italiana.” Intersections: Contemporary Italy in Music, Art, Literature and Cinema. International Conference, Turin, Italy. (June 2013)

 

“Marco Paolini’s Global Vision of Italy.” New Voices in Italian Studies, 6th Annual Conference: Italy in the Age of Globalization. California State University at Chico, CA. (October 2012)

 

“Geografie letterarie e paesaggi multiculturali. Il viaggio di Marco Paolini attraverso l’Italia.” 110th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Seattle University, Seattle, WA. (October 2012)

 

“Mare Nostrum or Mare Suum: Boccaccio’s Mediterranean.” New Voices in Italian Studies, 4th Annual Conference: Transcultural Italy. California State University at Chico, CA. (November 2011)

           

“La storia nei film di Wilma Labate.” 109th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Scripps College, Claremont, CA. (November 2011)

 

“La mia generazione: l’altro secondo Wilma Labate.” AATI Annual Conference, Erice, Italy. (May 2011)

 

“Regionalismi nella commedia all’italiana di ieri e di oggi.” 42nd Annual NEMLA Convention, New Brunswick, NJ. (April 2011)

           

“Cronachistica toscana del Trecento: i mercanti e i compendi.” AATI Annual Conference, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, (May 2010)

 

“Marco Paolini e geografia letteraria: il viaggio come momento unificante.” 41st Annual NEMLA Convention, Montreal, Canada. (April 2010)

 

“‘I’m in the wrong sector of the right side’: Il Partigiano Johnny e la rappresentazione del reale al di fuori di ogni preventivo modello di rappresentazione ideologica.” 39th Annual Conference the American Association for Italian Studies, St. John’s University, NY. (May 2010)

 

“’Historia magistra vitae’: riflessioni sul cinema di Wilma Labate.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville Kentucky, Louisville, KY, (Feb. 2010)

 

“The Role of the Merchant in Fourteenth Century Tuscan Chronicle.” 40th Annual NEMLA Convention, Boston, MA. (March 2009)

 

“‘Mi so che no go paròn’: Considerations on Ernesto Calzavara’s Poetry.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville Kentucky, Louisville, KY. (February 2009)

 

 

 

Chaired Sessions

 

“Digital Humanities for the Study and Teaching of Literature.” 48th Annual NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, (March 2017)

 

“The Journey as a Metaphor in Italian Literature and Film.” 88th Annual Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA). (November 2016)

 

“Art of Passion: Women in Pablo Picasso’s Art, by prof. Eduardo Urios-Aparisi,” Second International Conference “Women of the Mediterranean.” Sorrento, Italy, (June 2016)

 

“New Technologies for Medieval and Renaissance Italy”, 47th Annual NeMLA Convention, Hartford, CT, (March 2016)

 

“La parola è donna.” First International Conference “Women of the Mediterranean.” Sorrento, Italy, (June 2015)

 

“Mediterranean Women Pioneer of the Camera (A Visual Essay), by prof. B. Zecchi.” First International Conference “Women of the Mediterranean.” Sorrento, Italy, (June 2015)

 

“Journeys across the Mediterranean.” 18th Annual International Congress Mediterranean Studies Association (MSA). Athens, Greece, (May 2015)

 

“Digital Humanities for Medieval Italy”, 46th Annual NeMLA Convention, Toronto, Canada, (March 2015)

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“In viaggio per il Mediterraneo I.” First International Conference “Mediterranean Visions: Journeys, Itineraries and Cultural Migrations.” Sorrento, Italy, (June 2014)

 

“Il Mediterraneo come identità,” First International Conference “Mediterranean Visions: Journeys, Itineraries and Cultural Migrations.” Sorrento, Italy, (June 2014)

 

“Italian Studies in the North-American Continent.” 45th Annual NeMLA Convention, Harrisburg, PA, (April 2014)

 

“Anti-Semitism on Film.” 45th Annual NeMLA Convention, Harrisburg, PA, (April 2014)

 

“Intersezioni capitali. Peccati e divinità nella cultura e letteratura mediterranea.” Intersections: Contemporary Italy in Music, Art, Literature and Cinema. International Conference, Turin, Italy. (June 2013)

 

“Remarks from the Italian Consulate-Boston,” special event with Dr. Giuseppe Pastorelli (Italian Consul in Boston) and Dr. Mauro Puppin (Director of the Education Office of the Italian Consulate in Boston). 44th Annual NeMLA Convention, Boston, MA, (March 2013)

 

“The Untimely Timeliness of Giacomo Leopardi’s Theory of Pleasure,” talk given by Prof. Alessandro Carrera. 44th Annual NeMLA Convention, Boston, MA, (March 2013)

 

“Italian Jews: On and off Screen.” 44th Annual NeMLA Convention, Boston, MA, (March 2013)

 

“Witchcraft, Sexuality, and Religion in Medieval European Literature between the 14th and the 17th Centuries.” 110th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Seattle University, Seattle, WA. (October 2012)

 

“Globalization Issues in Italian Cinema.” New Voices in Italian Studies, 6th Annual Conference: Italy in the Age of Globalization. California State University at Chico, CA. (October 2012)

 

“Italian Language and Literatures Film Screening.” 43rd Annual NEMLA Convention, Rochester, NY. (March 2012)

 

“Percorsi tra altro e altrove nel cinema italiano” (“Meandering Among Otherness and Elsewhere in Italian Cinema”). AATI Annual Conference, Erice, Italy, (May 2011)

 

“Representations of Dante’s Inferno in the Visual Arts and in Literature.” 42nd Annual NEMLA Convention, New Brunswick, NJ. (April 2011)

 

“Representations of Dante’s Inferno in the Visual Arts.” 126th Annual MLA Convention, Los Angeles, CA. (January 2011)

 

“Representations in Cinema and Literature.” 39th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville Kentucky, Louisville, KY. (February 2011)

 

“Storia e storiografia in letteratura e cinema.” AATI Annual Conference, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, (May 2010)

 

“Physical and Mental Diseases: Plague and Hypochondria in Italian Literature.” 41st Annual NEMLA Convention, Montreal, Canada, (Apr. 2010)

 

“Film and Literature.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville Kentucky, Louisville, KY, (Feb. 2010)