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Edward M. Bowen III Department of French & Italian 1445 Jayhawk Blvd Rm Edward M. Bowen III Department of French & Italian 1445 Jayhawk Blvd Rm. 2083 Lawrence, KS 66045 [email protected] (540) 622-7088 EDUCATION Ph.D., Italian (May 2015), Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana Minor in Communication and Culture Dissertation Title: Nuovi Cinema Paradiso?: Closure, Urban Renewal, and Grassroots Movements in Rome, 1993-2014 M.A., Italian (2008), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin M.A., History (2000), Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Thesis Title: “We Rise and Fall Together”: Black Women Activists and Interracial Anti-slavery Societies in Philadelphia and Boston, 1831-1855 B.A., History, with Distinction, (1998), James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia TEACHING EXPERIENCE The University of Kansas – Lawrence, Kansas August 2016 – present Advanced Lecturer of Italian / Academic Program Associate I teach courses on literature, film, contemporary culture, urban studies, and all levels of Italian language. I also serve as co-director of the summer study abroad program in Florence, and I am responsible for assessments of the Italian program. I create reports on core goal outcomes for individual courses and for the Italian major. Wake Forest University – Winston-Salem, North Carolina July 2015 – June 2016 Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian I taught four sections of Intermediate Italian and two sections of Elementary Italian. I created all exams and added features to syllabi, including oral exams, vocab quizzes and a short film project. Bennington College – Bennington, Vermont Feb. 2015 - June 2015 Visiting Position in Italian I designed and taught a course titled “Cinematic Rome: Space, Urban Life and Film Culture,” cross-listed with Architecture and Film Studies, and a second-semester language course titled “Contemporary Youth in Italy.” I also served as an advisor to Italian majors. Indiana University – Bloomington, Indiana Aug. 2012 – June 2013 Associate Instructor – Department of French & Italian I taught the first three grammar courses of our department’s language requirement using the communicative teaching method. Collaborated with a team of instructors on all assessments. Middlebury College - Middlebury, Vermont Summer 2011 Instructor, Italian Summer Language Program I designed and taught a course “Contemporary Italian Cinema: Urban Social Issues and Today’s Youth” focusing on migration, marginality, the housing crisis, and precarious work. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin Sept. 2004 - May 2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of French & Italian Sept. 2006 - May 2007 I taught Elementary and Intermediate Italian. I created lesson plans, co-wrote exams, and codeveloped the syllabus. COURSES TAUGHT The University of Kansas ITAL 495 Directed Readings (in Florence, taught several times) ITAL 450 Studies in Italian Cinema ITAL 340 Modern Rome ITAL 340 Contemporary Italian Cinema ITAL 340 Florence: Portrait of a City ITAL 340 Migration to and from Italy ITAL 340 The Migrant Experience ITAL 336 Italy and the Italians (taught twice) ITAL 315 Advanced Conversation and Composition ITAL 301 Introduction to Italian Literature and Textual Analysis ITAL 240 Intermediate Italian II (taught several times) ITAL 230 Intermediate Italian I ITAL 155 Accelerated Elementary Italian Wake Forest University ITAL 153 Intermediate Italian (taught several times) ITAL 113 Accelerated Elementary Italian ITAL 112 Elementary Italian II Bennington College ITAL 4493 Cinematic Rome ITAL 4121 Contemporary Youth in Italy (Intermediate Italian) Indiana University ITAL 200 Intermediate Italian 1 ITAL 150 Elementary Italian 2 (taught twice) ITAL 100 Elementary Italian 1 (taught several times) Middlebury College ITAL 3171 Contemporary Italian Cinema University of Wisconsin-Madison ITAL 102 Intermediate Italian (taught twice) ITAL 101 Elementary Italian (taught twice) PUBLICATIONS Edited Volumes The Cinema of Ettore Scola. Co-edited with Rémi Lanzoni. Detroit: Wayne State University Press (forthcoming Spring 2020). Peer Reviewed Articles “C’era una volta il cinema Corso. Storia di una sala cinematografica romana durante il fascismo.” Cinema e storia. Rivista di studi interdisciplinari, Vol. 1, (2018), pp. 103- 23. “‘Take Notice of the Red Light!’ A History of Adult Cinemas in Rome.” Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Vol. 5:1 (2017), pp. 3-21. “The Editorial Principles of Anton Federigo Seghezzi and his Giuntina Project.” Textual Cultures (forthcoming Spring 2020). Book Chapters “Ettore Scola’s Legacy: A Statesman for Italian Cinema” in The Cinema of Ettore Scola, edited by Rémi Lanzoni and Edward Bowen. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, (forthcoming Spring 2020). “Tales of Courage: Trade Stories of Italian Independent Cinema” for Italian Independent Cinema: Legacies and Transformations, edited by Anthony Cristiano and Carlo Coen. (under review) Review Essays “Six Recent Documentaries on Migration” in Studies in Documentary Film, Vol. 5, 2-3 (2011). Interviews “Intervista con Marco Tullio Giordana” in Incontri cinematografici e culturali tra due mondi, edited by Antonio Vitti, Pesaro, Metauro Press, 2012. “Intervista con Enrico Lo Verso” in Incontri culturali da oltre oceano, edited by Antonio Vitti. Pesaro, Metauro Press, 2008. Reviews Simona Bondavalli, Fictions of Youth. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms. University of Toronto Press in Luci e Ombre, Vol. 3,3 (2015). Philip Balma and Giovanni Spani, eds.: L'Italia letteraria e cinematografica dal secondo Novecento ai giorni nostri. Nerosubianco in Italica Vol. 90,3 (2013). EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Editorial Assistant, Luci e ombre (online journal) Sept. 2012 – Sept. 2016 Editorial Assistant, Italica Aug. 2013 – Aug. 2014 Assistant editor, Quaderni del ‘900 (U.S. editorial board) Aug. 2011 - May 2012 OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE Indiana University – Bloomington, Indiana Aug. 2012 – Aug. 2014 Lab Assistant, Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment Provided support to language instructors with the use of camcorders, digital audio recorders, video conversion, and editing software in the multimedia lab. Indiana University - Bloomington, Indiana Aug. 2010 – June 2012 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of French & Italian Assisted Italian film professor for a total of eight courses for undergraduates and graduates on the following topics: Films of Francesco Rosi (graduate); Comedy Italian Style; Filmic Representations of Italian History; Mafia and Anti-Mafia on the Screen (graduate and undergraduate); Contemporary Italian Cinema (3 sections). I prepared materials, led discussions on readings, and I taught a one-credit supplementary course in Italian on contemporary cinema. Middlebury College - Middlebury, Vermont Summer 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Program Assistant, Italian Summer Language Program Beyond office duties and event preparation, I served as a teaching assistant to guest professors, including filmmakers Tonino Valerii and Claudio Bondì, and writer Dacia Maraini. Università degli Studi di Siena. Siena, Italy Sept. 2007 – Feb. 2008 English Lab Assistant Conversation in English with the undergraduates and with employees of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. Cataloguing of new language materials. Preparation of course packets for students. University of Michigan, Villa Corsi-Salviati, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Sept. 2005 – May 2006 House Fellow, Study Abroad Program Assistant Assistant to the program director and villa director. Worked as resident assistant, accompanied students on field trips, maintained library and organized various events. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Co-organizer International Symposium, “The Cinema of Ettore Scola,” Casa Artom, Wake Forest University, Venice, Italy, October 22-23, 2016. Presenter Symposium, “The Cinema of Ettore Scola,” Casa Artom, Venice, Italy, October 22, 2016 “Scola’s Legacy: A Statesman for Italian Cinema” SCMS, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1, 2016 “Film Culture at a Roman Cinema Palace during Fascism.” SCMLA, Nashville, Tennessee, November 1, 2015 “The Cinema America Occupation in Rome: Resonance of Protest Frames.” New Terrain - Landscape, Space, and Place Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, February 27-28, 2014 “Reconstructing a Cinema and its History: Louis Vuitton’s Conversion of the Cinema Etoile in Rome.” SAMLA, Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 2013 “The Fate of Former Red Light Cinemas near Rome's Termini Station.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. February 22, 2013 “The Occupation of the Cinema Palazzo in Rome: Elements of a Social Movement.” Symposium on Contemporary Italian Cinema, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana “Tracking the ‘King of Cinema’: The Practices of Exhibitor Giovanni Amati and the Growth of His Cinema Circuit.” April 21, 2018. “From Cinema Palace to Maison Louis Vuitton: Marketing the Conversion of the Cinema Etoile in Rome.” April 25, 2014. “‘Hands off the Met!’: Responses to the Closure of the Cinema Metropolitan in Rome.” April 17-20, 2013 “‘This is the last Italian film you will see’: The Rhetoric of Recent Protests in Defense of the Nation’s Film Industry and Cultural Patrimony.” April 11-14, 2012 “Transnational Reception of Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah.” April 13-16, 2011 “West Side Story, Barona Style: The Cult Film Fame Chimica, Its Soundtrack and the Social Problems of Contemporary Italy.” April 7-11, 2010. INVITED PRESENTATIONS Italian Cultural Institute, New York, New York. 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