Chiara Francesca Ferrari [email protected] 1830 Mulberry St. Chico, CA 95928 – U.S.A. www.chiaraferrari.org 415-834-8989
RESEARCH INTERESTS Contemporary Italian Cinema; Global Television; Audiovisual Translation; Cultural Theory
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT California State University, Chico Associate Professor (early tenure and promotion) Department of Communication Design (2012-present) Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Design (2007-2012) Courses: Communication Criticism, American Radio & TV, American Cinema, Globalizing Film & Video, Media Arts & Identity, World Cinema.
Christ University, Bangalore (India) Visiting Professor (USAC Consortium, Spring 2014) Courses: Global Media and International Markets, Bollywood Cinema
EDUCATION Ph.D. Cinema and Media Studies (2007) UCLA, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media Dissertation: “Translating Stereotypes: Italian Television and the Cultural Politics of Reformatting.” Chair: Prof. John T. Caldwell
M. A. Media Arts (2003) University Of Arizona Emphasis: Cultural Studies, Film Theory and Criticism, New Media Master’s thesis: “The Nanny in Italy: Language, Nationalism and Cultural Identity.”
Laurea in Philosophy (2000) Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy) Major: Philosophy Emphasis: Aesthetics and Film Studies Thesis: “Film and Realism: The Use of Deep Focus in Contemporary Cinematography.”
GRANTS & AWARDS California State University, Chico Sabbatical Leave (Fall 2013 and Spring 2014) CSU Research Foundation Scholar (Summer 2013) CSU Summer Scholar Grant (Summer 2012) CME Writing Competition Grant (Summer 2010 and Summer 2011) GIIS Incentive Grant (Spring 2010) CSUC Research Grant (Spring 2008) UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship (2006-2007) Chiara Francesca Ferrari [email protected] 1830 Mulberry St. Chico, CA 95928 – U.S.A. www.chiaraferrari.org 415-834-8989
Chancellor Fellowship (2003-2004) – Three-year fellowship University of Arizona Outstanding Departmental Graduate Teaching Assistant (2002-2003) Graduate Registration Scholarship (2002-2003) Haldeman Scholarship (Spring 2002 and Fall 2002)
PUBLICATIONS Books Since When is Fran Drescher Jewish? Dubbing Stereotypes in The Nanny, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2011.
Ardizzoni, Michela and Chiara Ferrari (eds.). Beyond Monopoly. Globalization in Contemporary Italian Media. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2009.
Peer-reviewed articles “Cinema e Sassi: Cultural Memory, Urban Development, and Film Tourism in Matera and Basilicata” Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies (forthcoming)
“The Taming of the Stew(ie): Family Guy, Italian Dubbing, and Post-9/11 Television.” Prosopopeya, 2014 (forthcoming, Fall 2014)
“Dubbing The Simpsons. How Groundskeeper Willie Lost his Kilt in Sardinia.” Journal of Film and Video. 61:2, Summer 2009: 19-37.
“The Nanny in Italy: Language, Nationalism and Cultural Identity.” Global Media Journal, Issue 3, Spring 2004. The article was awarded Best Student Paper at the 2003 Global Fusion Conference.
Book chapters “National Mike: Global Host and Global Formats in Early Italian Television.” In Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders. Eds. Tasha Oren and Sharon Shahaf. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2011. The chapter received honorable mention for best essay in an edited anthology at 2013 SCMS Conference.
Ferrari, Chiara, and Michela Ardizzoni. “Introduction: Italian Media between the Local and the Global.” in Michela Ardizzoni and Chiara Ferrari (eds.) Beyond Monopoly. Globalization in Contemporary Italian Media. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009: xi-xix.
“Dubbing The Simpsons. How Groundskeeper Willie Lost his Kilt in Sardinia.” reprinted in Michela Ardizzoni and Chiara Ferrari (eds.) Beyond Monopoly. Globalization in Contemporary Italian Media. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009: 101-128.
“Translating Stereotypes: Local and Global in Italian Television Dubbing.” in Translating Voices, Translating Regions. Eds. Nigel Armstrong and Federico Federici. Rome, Italy: Aracne Publications, 2006: 122-140.
Chiara Francesca Ferrari [email protected] 1830 Mulberry St. Chico, CA 95928 – U.S.A. www.chiaraferrari.org 415-834-8989
Book Reviews Rev. of Tragedia all’Italiana. Italian Cinema and Italian Terrorisms, 1097-2008. By Alan O’Leary (2011). Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies September 2012: 110-112. Print.
Rev. of Terrorism, Italian Style: Representations of Political Violence in Contemporary Italian Cinema. By Ruth Glynn, Giancarlo Lombardi, Alan O’Leary eds. (2012). Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 2013. Print.
Other Publications: Online and Print “Il Nostro Vietnam. Cinema e Anni di Piombo fra Storia e Storiografia” Jura Gentium – Cinema and Globalization. Dossier: Reflections Upon Contemporary Italian Cinema (Fulvio Orsitto, Editor). Available online: http://www.jgcinema.com/single.php?sl=violenza-moro-terrorismo- politica-sinistra
Selected Bibliography, Filming Difference. Ed. Daniel Bernardi. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2009. Print.
Entries on The Jazz Singer, A Trip to the Moon, and Ivan the Terrible (in The 1,001 Films You Should See Before You Die. London: Barrons Series, 2004). Print.
Entry on F for Fake (in Understanding Film Genres. McGraw-Hill, 2003). Print.
Other Publications: Photography “The Bean”, cover photograph in Development and Preservation in Large Cities. Eds. Carmine Gambardella and David Listokin. Napoli: La Scuola di Pitagora Editrice, 2013. 19 additional photographs by Chiara Ferrari are published in the volume, available online: http://www.architettura.unina2.it/pdf/internazionalizzazione/USA_02.pdf
Translation Notarangelo, Domenico. Pasolini Matera. Trans. Chiara Ferrari. Matera, Italy. Edizioni Giannatelli, 2013. Print.
LECTURES & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Audiovisual Translation, Marketing, and Glocalization Guest Lecture, Christ University - Department of Management Studies (MBA Program) (Bangalore, March 2014)
A View from the South: Landscapes of Italian Cinema Revisited Settimana UNESCO per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile 2013 Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Seconda Università di Napoli (Aversa, November 20, 2013)
Cinematic Perspective of the South: Architecture, Landscape, Tourism Summer School Dialoghi sul Paesaggio 7: I Paesaggi e la Bellezza Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Seconda Università di Napoli (Aversa, September 27, 2013)
Chiara Francesca Ferrari [email protected] 1830 Mulberry St. Chico, CA 95928 – U.S.A. www.chiaraferrari.org 415-834-8989
Reflections upon Contemporary Italian Cinema (Panel Chair) Fluid Metaphors: Women in Southern Cinema (Presenter) The Fourth Annual Film Symposium on New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema (Indiana University, 17-20 April, 2013)
Reformatting Is Older Than You Think: ‘Original Adaptations’ in Early Italian TV (Presenter) – SCMS Conference – Chicago (March 6-10, 2013) *Paper received honorable mention for best essay in an edited anthology*
Dalle Brigate Rosse a Bin Laden: Terrorism in Italian (Film) History (Panel, Chair) Southern Cinema and Southern Thinking: Cassano’s Utopian Vision in Italian Film (Panel, Presenter)
Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Intercultural Competence (Workshop, Presenter) NEMLA Conference – Rochester, New York (March 15-18, 2012)
Cinema and Terrorism: The Narrative Struggle of Italian Filmmakers Presenter, Re-visioning Terrorism Conference (Purdue University, September 8-10, 2011)
Narrating the South: Genre Conventions in the Representation of Southern Italy Presenter, Canadian Society for Italian Studies Conference – Venice, Italy (June 24-26, 2011)
“Shifting Souths: Mediterranean Landscapes in Italian Culture, Cinema, and Literature” Panel I: Imagining Italy and the South; Panel II: Exploring Italy and the South Panels Organizer – Mediterranean Encounters in the City Conference - Boulder (April 15-16, 2011)
Christ Stopped at Eboli... Did Cinema Go Further? Southerness in Contemporary Italian Cinema Presenter, NEMLA Conference – Rutgers University (April 7-10, 2011)
Watching Trauma: Moro’s kidnapping between Symbolism and Ideology Participant, Round Table on Contemporary Italian Cinema – College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (April 6, 2011)
Racconti Dal e Del Sud: Convenzioni Narrative nella rappresentazione del Mezzogiorno Presenter, The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture - Louisville, KY (February 2011)
Something is Rotten in the State of Italy: Political Terrorism and Ideological Omertà in Contemporary Italian Cinema CICIS Conference – California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (USC, February 2011)
Not So «Other» After All: Familiar and Familial Terrorists in Italian Cinema Panel Chair and Presenter and Colloquium Co-Organizer New Voices in Italian Studies - CSU Chico (November, 2010)
(Re)Writing Memory in Contemporary Italian Cinema Chiara Francesca Ferrari [email protected] 1830 Mulberry St. Chico, CA 95928 – U.S.A. www.chiaraferrari.org 415-834-8989
Panel Organizer & Chair: PAMLA Conference – Honolulu (November 13-14, 2010)
Il Nostro Vietnam: gli Anni di Piombo nel Cinema Italiano Presenter, PAMLA Conference – Honolulu (November 13-14, 2010)
The Figure of the Terrorist between Domesticity and Otherness Presenter, SAMLA Conference - Atlanta (November 5-7, 2010)
Partisans and Terrorists: Metaphors of Violence in Recent Italian Cinema Presenter, NEMLA Conference – Montreal (April 8-11, 2010)
Between Ideology and Nostalgia: Representations of Terrorism in Contemporary Italian Cinema Presenter and Colloquium Co-Organizer: New Voices in Italian Studies - CSU Chico (November, 2009)
New Italian Cinema: Local History with Global Flavor Presenter, PAMLA Conference - San Francisco (November, 2009)
Workshop: Layers of Localization: Audiovisual Translation and/as Reformatting Workshop Organizer & Chair: SCMS Conference – Philadelphia (March, 2008)
American Television Formats and the Development of Italian National Identity in Broadcasting Presenter, SCMS Conference – Chicago (March, 2007)
Dubbing The Simpsons or How Groundskeeper Willie Lost his Kilt in Sardegna. Presenter, Global Fusion, International and Intercultural Communication Conference Chicago (September, 2006)
The Sopranos in Italy or ‘Why Should We Care? We Have The Real Mafia Here’. Presenter, Console-ing Passions Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (May, 2006)
Translating Stereotypes: Local and Global in Italian Television Dubbing. Presenter, Translating Voices, Translating Regions Conference – Rieti, Italy (July, 2005)
The Nanny in Italy: Language, Nationalism and Cultural Identity (extended version) *Paper awarded as Best Student Paper (honorarium 300$)* Presenter, Global Fusion, International and Intercultural Communication Conference Austin (October, 2003)
The Nanny in Italy: Language, Nationalism and Cultural Identity Presenter, Southwest-Texas PCA/ACA Regional Meeting: Annual Conference Albuquerque (February, 2003)
The Role of Teaching Assistants in Distance Learning Presenter, UFVA Annual Conference - Ithaca College, New York (August, 2002)
Chiara Francesca Ferrari [email protected] 1830 Mulberry St. Chico, CA 95928 – U.S.A. www.chiaraferrari.org 415-834-8989
ACADEMIC PROJECTS Producer and Assistant Director: Documentary “New Voices in Southern Italian Cinema” (Work in progress as part of the sabbatical leave)
Rephotography Project: Cinematic Spaces and Urban Development in Southern Italy (Work in progress as part of the sabbatical leave)
Joint Research Project “Pompei, Fabbrica della Conoscenza” (Pompeii, Knowledge Factory) Partners: Centre of Excellence of the Campania Region for Cultural Heritage, Ecology and Economy (BENECON), Topcon, Second University of Naples, University of Naples Federico II, University of Salerno, University of Sannio, Rutgers University, and California State University, Chico – College of Communication and Education) for Science and Technology Cooperation between Italy and the United States of America. (Currently waiting for the official announcement of funding recipients)
Participant: Notre Dame University, Rome Seminar: CINE-ROMA June 11-June 28, 2012 (Rome, Italy)
Organizer: Italian and Italian American Cinema – 2nd Student Conference May 2, 2011 - CSU Chico
Co-Organizer: Second Annual Colloquium “New Voices in Italian Studies” November, 2010 - CSU Chico
Co-Organizer: First Annual Colloquium “New Voices in Italian Studies” November, 2009 - CSU Chico
Multimedia Art Exhibition: “The Treasures of Contigliano” (Use of Radio Frequency Identification and Computer Vision Technology) July 14, 2008 - Contigliano, Italy
Organizer: Workshop “Art, Technology, Cultural Heritage” Multimedia Arts in Italy – sponsored by Comune di Contigliano, California State University, Chico July 4-16, 2008 - Contigliano, Italy
Organizer: Roundtable “Contemporary Italian Filmmakers” - conversation with Valeria Golino, Sandro Baldoni, Antonio Capuano, Alessandro D’Alatri, Egidio Eronico, Neri Marcore’, Valeria Solarino, Carlo Siliotto, sponsored by Ministero per i Beni e Attivita' Culturali, Cinecitta' Holding, American Cinematheque, The Italian Film Commission, UCLA Department of Italian. October 2006, UCLA
Organizer: Symposium “Pasolini and the City” sponsored by: UCLA Department of Film, TV, and Digital Media, UCLA Department of Italian, USC Department of French and Italian, Italian Cultural Institute Los Angeles, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Melnitz Movies. November 2005, UCLA
Editor in chief and PR for Mediascape (2005-2006): UCLA online journal on visual cultures.
Organizer: speaker series events UCLA Department of Film, TV and Digital Media (2004-2005)
Chiara Francesca Ferrari [email protected] 1830 Mulberry St. Chico, CA 95928 – U.S.A. www.chiaraferrari.org 415-834-8989
Graduate student representative (UCLA, 2004-2005)
Production of visual essays on DVD (UCLA) Fluid, Fragile Latin Lover of Federico Fellini (2004, 16 min.)
The Image of Rome During the Miracle Years: From William Wyler’s Eternal City to Federico Fellini’s Cinematic City (2004, 25 min.)
DISSERTATION AND THESIS COMMITTEES Universita’ degli Studi di Genova (Italy) § Alessandra Giglio, Ph.D. dissertation (committee member) CSU, Chico § Ashley Ecklund, Graduate Equity Fellowship Research Master’s Thesis (faculty mentor) § Ryane Mayo, Honors G.E. Thesis in Communication Design (committee member) § Jenna Marisa Hudlin, Project Thesis in Multimedia Studio Arts (committee member) § Megan Bielich, Project Thesis in Multimedia Studio Arts (committee member)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE Department (Communication Design - CDES) CDES Assessment Coordinator (2014-2015) CDES Search Committee, Chair: Assistant Professor in Digital Media Writing and Production (2014-2015) CDES RTP (Retention, Tenure, and Promotion) Committee Chair (2014-2015) CDES RTP Committee Member (Academic year 2012-2013) CDES Curriculum Committee, Chair (Academic years 2009-2013) CDES Elections Committee Member (Academic years 2009-2013) CDES Curriculum Committee Member (Academic year 2007-2008)
College (Communication and Education - CME) CME Curriculum Committee, Chair (2010-2013)
University (CSU CHICO) GE Curriculum Advisory Board: Assessment Team - Personal & Social Responsibility (2014-2015) University Study Abroad Advisory Committee, Faculty Advisor (Academic 2009-2013)
CSU System INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: ACIP Representative and Executive Committee Member (Academic appointment: 2010-2013)
Chiara Francesca Ferrari [email protected] 1830 Mulberry St. Chico, CA 95928 – U.S.A. www.chiaraferrari.org 415-834-8989
SELECTED COURSEWORK IN GRADUATE SCHOOL Media Industries and Cultures of Production American Film History Television Criticism Italian Cinema Culture, Media, and Society German Cinema Media and Geopolitics in Latin America Classical Film Theory Media Convergence Contemporary Film and TV Criticism Issues in Electronic Culture Critical Video Production Cyberspace Theory and Practice Introduction to Digital Photography Whiteness in US Film History Intermediate Photography and Historiography Digital Imaging Theory and Method
TECHNICAL & SOFTWARE SKILLS Digital Photography Adobe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom iPhoto
LANGUAGE SKILLS Italian (native speaker), English (fluent) Spanish (fluent), French and Portuguese (reading knowledge)
AFFILIATIONS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMNET Reader: Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Member: Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Member: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Member: Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
Chiara Francesca Ferrari [email protected] 1830 Mulberry St. Chico, CA 95928 – U.S.A. www.chiaraferrari.org 415-834-8989
REFERENCES Daniel Bernardi, Ph.D. Professor and Department Chair, SFSU – Department of Cinema E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 415-338-7612
John T. Caldwell, Ph.D. Professor, UCLA - Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media Email: [email protected] Phone: 310-205-5826
Alessandro Ciambrone, Ph.D. Architect and PR Manager, International Office, Seconda Università di Napoli – Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale "Luigi Vanvitelli" Email: [email protected] Phone: +39-334-9850812
Terry Curtis, J.D. Professor, CSU, Chico Dept. of Communication Design Email: [email protected] Phone: 530-898-4626 Zach Justus, Ph.D. Assistant Professor – CSU, Chico Dept. of Communication Studies Email: [email protected] Phone: 530-898-5883
Fulvio Orsitto, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Director, CSU, Chico - Italian and Italian American Program Email: [email protected] Phone: 530-898-4479