Silvio De Santis, PhD Lecturer of Italian University of North Texas Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 1155 Union Circle #311127 Denton, TX 76203-5017 (940) 565-2404 [email protected]
8401 Bradford Dr. - Plano, TX 75025 [email protected] - (214) 663-7844
EDUCATION M.A. In Teaching Italian Language and Literature 2015 University for Foreigners, Siena, Italy B.S. Archival and Palaeography Science summa cum laude 2004 University of Rome “La Sapienza” School for Librarians and Archivists, Rome, Italy Ph.D. in Medieval History 2002 University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy Specialization Course in Economic History 1996 Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “Francesco Datini”, Prato, Italy B.A. Conservation of Cultural Assets summa cum laude 1995 University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
WORK EXPERIENCE
Lecturer of Italian Fall 2013-present University of North Texas, Denton, TX Department of World Languages and Literatures and Cultures Courses taught: • Elementary Italian (ITAL 1010 and ITAL 1020) • Intermediate Italian (ITAL 2040 and ITAL 2050) • Advanced Italian: o ITAL 3040 (Topics in Italian Culture – The Italian Mafia) o ITAL 3040 (Topics in Italian Culture – Building Italian fluency) o ITAL 3080 (Italian Through Opera) • Intermediate Latin (LATI 2040 and LATI 2050) • LATI 4090 (Special problems - Literature Survey) • LATI 4090 (Special problems- Advanced Grammar) Service for the Department: • Coordinator of Italian Program (September 2013- July 2015) • Member of the “Mentoring Grant Project: Coordinating Across Languages” that involves all the language coordinators of WLLC Dept. at UNT (Fall 2014- Spring 2015) • Secretary of the Assessment Committee (Spring 2015) • Member of the Events Committee (Spring 2015) • Secretary of the Curriculum Committee (September 2015-present) • Secretary of the Chinese Lecturer Search Committee (Fall 2015) • Advisor and Leader for UNT “Study Abroad program” for Italian language for Summer 2015. • Advisor and Co-Leader for the UNT “Study Abroad program” for History and Archeology for Summer 2016. • Advisor of the UNT “Gamma Kappa Alpha Italian Honor Society” Chapter.
Other activities for the Department: • Advisor of the Italian Conversation Table. • Invited a Guest Speaker on Campus Mr. Fred Kuwornu, an Italian-Ghanian film maker for the screening of the docu-film “18 Ius Soli”. It was followed by a discussion on issues of race, ethnicity, and national identity in the “new” multicultural Italy. The screening was co-hosted by World Languages Department, History Department and Multicultural Division (February 9, 2015) • Invited and hosted a lecture and screening with the Producer, the actor and co-director, of the Italian short movie “Like in the movies” presented at the “Thin Line Film and Music Festival 2015” in Denton (February 18-22, 2015.) • Attended to 2014 Annual Convention and World Languages ACTFL Expo in San Antonio TX, as a Member of the “Mentoring Grant Project: Coordinating Across Languages” that involves all the language coordinators of WLLC Dept (November 21-22, 2014) • Advisor for the Italian-Sino Noodle Celebration. A food Journey. Cooking and tasting Chinese noodle and Italian pasta contest co-organized by Chinese and Italian programs (March 13, 2015) • Presented the Italian cartoons and the author during the “International Animation Film Festival” organized by our Department: Mr. Rossi on the Beach, 1964 & Mr. Rossi Buys a Car, 1966 (April 9, 2015) • Co-organized the "Italian Film Festival USA” a screening of three Italian movies in collaboration among the WLLC, the Media Arts Departments, and Italian Film Festival USA (April 16-18, 2015) New Courses proposed and/or approved: ITAL 3080: Italian Language and Culture though Italian Operas part of the UNT Catalog from Fall 2015. ITAL 3010: Italian In the Media and the News submitted for approval.
Visiting Lecturer of Italian 2012-2013 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Department of World Languages and Literatures Courses taught: • Italian 1401 (Lectures and Labs) • Italian 1402 (Lectures and Labs) • Italian 2401 (Lectures and Labs) New Courses proposed and approved: WL 2395: Italian Culture part of the new University Curriculum.
Language Program Director 2011-2014 School of Italian at the Italian Club of Dallas Courses: Created new language program for Italian classes (levels from that teaches Beginners to Advanced); coordinating the program, organizing schedule, recruiting and hiring teachers.
Adjunct Professor of Medieval History 2010-2012 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Master of Liberal Studies and Medieval Studies Program. Courses taught: • The Medieval City (SOSC 6319); • Man and Food: History of Nourishment through the Middle Ages (SOSC 7318); • Traveling in the Middle Ages (SOSC 6102).
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Adjunct Professor of Medieval History 2002-2008 University of Tuscia at Viterbo, Italy Duties: Developed researches, presented the results at congresses and taught classes. Courses taught: • Medieval History; • History Of Territory; • History Of Rural Settlement And Agrarian Landscape In The Middle Ages. Researches: As Member of National Research Group composed by Universities of Florence, Milan, Turin, Siena, Bologna, Tuscia, Italy, I developed the followed projects: • The minor centers of communal Italy (12th-14th Centuries): economic resources, social structures and institutional links; • City and country in communal Italy (12th-14th Centuries): economic dynamics and social conflicts; The countries of central-northern Italy (12th-14th Centuries): the building of urban domination between resistance and integration. Honours and grants: • University of Tuscia, Viterbo Italy (2002 to 2008); • Institute of History and Art for Southern Lazio (2002).
Humanities Professor 2007-2008 Nicola Amici Middle School, Acquasanta Terme, Italy Courses taught: 6th and 7th grades Italian Literature, Italian Grammar and Composition, World History, World Geography, Latin. Other duties: Member of School Magazine Board
Project Lead 2003- 2005 ANAS’s Historic Museum, Cesano, Italy Duties: Created project plan of new historical museum; Developed planning and implementing museum exhibits; Identified and catalogued specimens, maintained exhibits; Created project plan of archive and library; Planned museum web site; Planned digitalizing of photographic archive
Freelance Writer 1997-2002 Magic Press Publishing, Rome, Italy Comic Art Publishing, Rome, Italy Duties: Wrote articles, reviews; translated texts from English to Italian
Ancient Book Cataloguer Intern Spring 1997 Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU), Rome, Italy Duties: Catalogued ancient book and manuscripts from 15th to 19th centuries.
CERTIFICATIONS Training & Development certificate series 2012 Collin College, Plano TX
Diploma DITALS 1° livello 2008 University for Foreigners, Siena, Italy Professional Certification for teaching Italian as a foreign language.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS • Member of AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) • Member of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language)
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CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS • La pastorizia nel Mediterraneo. Storia, diritto e prospettive. Congress (2006) University of Sassari, Alghero, Italy. • Prima Settimana di Studi Medievali. Congress (2006) Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, Rome, Italy. • Oristano e il suo territorio dalle origini alla quarta Provincia. Congress (2004), University of Sassari, Oristano, Italy. • IV Simposio (2004), Asociación Internacional de Historia y Civilizatión de la Vid y el Vino, Haro-La Rioja, Spain. • Le campagne dell’Italia centro-settentrionale (secoli XII-XIV): La costruzione del dominio cittadino tra resistenze ed integrazione. Congress, (2004), Universities of Bologna, Siena, Turin, Viterbo, Siena, Italy. • I quadri paesistici italiani dal medioevo all'età contemporanea. Fonti, progetti, tutela. Workshop (2004), University of Siena and Centro Italiano Per Gli Studi Storico Geografici, Siena, Italy. • 6th Laboratorio Internationale di Storia Agraria. Workshop, (2003), Centro Studi per la Storia delle Campagne e del Lavoro Contadino, Montalcino, Italy. • Castelsardo. 900 anni di storia. Congress (2002), University of Sassari, Castelsardo, Italy: The agrarian history in medieval Sardinia. Workshop, (2002), University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
PUBLICATIONS Books • Campagne giudicali. Agricoltura e società nella Sardegna bassomedioevale, [provisional title] ed. Carocci (Rome), forthcoming. • San Paterniano di Ceprano, Un’azienda agraria della Camera Apostolica nel Lazio meridionale, ed. Istituto di Storia e Arte del Lazio Meridionale, Anagni 2007.
Articles on scientific journals or collective volumes • L’olivo e l’olio dall’Alto Medioevo all’età giudicale, Olio e Olivo. Storia, cultura e tradizione in Sardegna, Illisso, Nuoro, in press. • Le strutture agrarie del giudicato di Arborea: dall’economia curtense al commercio dei grani, Oristano e il suo territorio dalle origini alla quarta Provincia, in press • L’allevamento in Sardegna tra età giudicale ed età aragonese, La pastorizia nel Mediterraneo. Storia, diritto e prospettive, Ed. Carocci (Rome), Rome 2011. • Il priorato camaldolese di S. Nicola di Trullas, Semestene tra storia e presente, 2010. • (with A. SODDU), Signorie monastiche nella Sardegna medievale. Il priorato camaldolese di S. Nicola di Trullas, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università di Sassari, 1 (2009), 2010, pp. 353-378 (A. SODDU: pp. 353-360, S. DE SANTIS: pp. 360-378) • Azione politica ed economica della camera apostolica ai confini meridionali dello stato tra Due e Trecento: il caso di san Paterniano e del territorio cepranese, Le campagne dell’Italia centro-settentrionale (secoli XII-XIV): La costruzione del dominio cittadino tra resistenze ed integrazione, Atti del Convegno di Studi, ed. Protagon Editori , Colle Val d'Elsa (SI), 2009. • Agricoltura e allevamento tra la valle dell’Amaseno e la valle del Sacco alla fine del secolo XV, Latium. Rivista dell’Istituto di storia e di arte del Lazio meridionale, 24 (2007). • L’agricoltura nelle terre sarde tra età giudicale ed età aragonese. Produzione, consumi, tecniche, Bullettino dell’Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, 109/2 (2007), 139-173. • Le consuetudini agrarie attraverso gli statuti di Castelgenovese, Castelsardo. 900 anni di storia, Atti del Convegno di studi (Castelsardo, 14-16 novembre 2002), ed. Carocci (Rome, 2007), 209-237. • Consuetudine e struttura fondiaria in Sardegna tra XII e XIV secolo, La Carta de Logu nella storia del diritto italiano, a cura di A. Mattone e I. Birocchi, ed. Laterza (Roma-Bari, 2004), 239-261. • Il salto. La frontiera dello spazio agrario nella Sardegna medievale, Rivista di Storia dell’Agricoltura, 42.1 (2002), 3-48. • Ceprano, 1330. Una testimonianza sul consumo alimentare nel Tardo Medioevo, Rivista Storica del Lazio, 4.5 (1996), 83- 99. • Primo Laboratorio internazionale di Storia agraria (Montalcino [SI], 31 agosto – 4 settembre 1998), Medioevo. Saggi e Rassegne, 23 (1998), pp. 263-266.
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