DANIELA BINI Department of French and Italian University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 E-Mail: [email protected] ______
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DANIELA BINI Department of French and Italian University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 e-mail: [email protected] _________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Italian, French, Latin), University of Texas, 1978. Laurea in Philosophy, summa cum laude, University of Rome, Italy, 1967. ACADEMIC POSITIONS -Chair French and Italian Department, The University of Texas at Austin 2003-2011 -Professor in Italian, Department of French and Italian, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998- -Associate Professor in Italian, Department of French and Italian, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992 - 1998. -Assistant Professor in Italian, Department of French and Italian, The University of Texas, Austin, 1987-1992. -Member, Graduate Faculty in the Program of Comparative Literature, 1990- -Lecturer in Italian, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas, Austin, 1981-1987. -Instructor in Italian, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 1978. -Teaching Assistant in Italian, University of Texas at Austin, 1973-1975. -Instructor in Italian, University of Texas at Austin, 1970-73. -Teacher of Humanities at Liceo G. B. Vico, Rome, Italy, 1968-69. -University Assistant in Greek philosophy, University of Rome, Italy, 1967-68. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS: University Faculty Research Assignment (for Spring 2017) Fellow of David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Modern Languages (2003-2011) Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award (2009) Cavaliere (Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana) conferred by the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, June 4, 2007. Dean’s Fellow (Spring 2003) Harry H. Ransom Teaching Award (Spring 2002) University Special Research Grant (Fall 1996). Nominated for the Centennial Friar Teaching Fellowship (1996, 2002, 2008) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (Fall 1995-Spring 1996). President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award (1994-95). University Research Institute, The University of Texas (Spring 1995). University Research Institute, The University of Texas (Summer 1989). National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979-80 (with Martha L. King) Research Grant, Translation Program. University Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin (1976-77, 1977-78). 2 OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL AND HONOR SOCIETIES -Member of the Editorial Board of Romance Notes (2013-) -Member of the Scientific Board of Quaderni del Novecento (2011-13) -Elected Vice President of the Associazione Internazionale di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (2006-) -Elected to the Modern Language Association Executive Committee of the Division on the 20th Century Italian Literature for the years 2006-2011. -Member of the Editorial Board of The Pirandello Society of America (2005-) -President of the American Association for Italian Studies (2000-2003) -Member of the Editorial Board for the North Carolina Series in Romance Languages and Literatures (1998- 2000). -Member of the Editorial Board of Italica (1998--). -Advisor to the Encyclopedia of Italian Literature (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers). -Member of the Board of Directors and the Editorial Board of the Pirandello Society of America (1999-2001). -Chapter Academic Advisor for the Gamma Kappa Alpha National Italian Honor Society (1995-2001). -Elected to the Modern Language Association Executive Committee of the Division on 17th-, 18th- and 19th- Century Italian Literature for the years 1996-2000. -Elected to the Nominating Committee of the American Association for Italian Studies for the election of the new officers (1996-1999). -Regional Representative for the American Association for Italian Studies(1993-95; 1995-1998).-Nominating Board of the American Association for Italian Studies, 1990. SYMPOSIUM: Co-organizer with Millicent Marcus of the Thirteenth American Association of Italian Studies Conference at The University of Texas at Austin, April, 1993. WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on the Italian Opera and in particular the relationship between words and sounds; and on music in film. Working on a book study of the vitellonismo phenomenon in Italian cinema and literature. PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: -Pirandello and His Muse: The Plays for Marta Abba. Gainsville: University Press of Florida; 1998. Reviewed in Annali d’Italianistica, 16, 1998, South Central Review, Summer 1999, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Autumn 1999, Drama Review, Summer 2000; Pirandello Studies, 20 (2000); Italica, 78, 2 (Summer 2001); Italian Culture 19,1 (2001); Forum Italicum, Spring 2002. -Carlo Michelstaedter and the Failure of Language, Gainesville: University Press of Florida , 1992. Reviewed in: Annali d’Italianistica, 71, 21 (Summer 94); Quaderni d’italianistica, 1, 2 (1992); Forum Italicum, 28,1 (Spring ‘94); Italica, 71, 21 (Summer ‘94); Italian Studies in South Africa,7,2 (1994); Canadian Journal of Italian Studies, 13, 2 (1995); Italian Culture, 12, 1994, Differentia: Review of Italian Thought, Spring/Autumn (1999). -Giacomo Leopardi. Zibaldone. A Selection, transl. with an Introduction by Martha King and Daniela Bini, New York: Peter Lang, 1992. -Fragrance from the Desert: Poetry and Philosophy in Giacomo Leopardi, Stanford French-Italian Studies, Anma Libri, 1983. The Introduction, “A Synthesis for Leopardi,” pp.1-21, was reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 129; Gale Publisher, 2003. TEXTBOOKS: 3 -Italiano in diretta. An Introductory Course, with Antonella Pease, New York: 2nd edition, New York: McGraw Hill, 1993. (First edition: 1989). -Workbook for Italiano in diretta, with A. Pease (first and second edition). -Vivere all’italiana. An Italian Reader with Antonella Pease, New York: Random House, 1985. EDITED VOLUMES: - Italian Culture, co-editor with Millicent Marcus, vol. XII, 1994 -The Romantic Movement. A Selective Critical Bibliography (Italian Section) Locust Hill Press, 1987, 1988. ARTICLES AND ESSAYS IN BOOKS: 69. “Filming Music” in The Continuum Guide of Italian Cinema, edited by Joseph Luzzi, forthcoming (22 pages). 68. “Carlo Michelstaedter Today: The Burden of Truth and the Proliferation of Rhetoric” in Storia e Storiografia di Carlo Michelstaedter, ed. Valerio Capozzo, Romance Monographs, (University of Mississippi, 2017). Pp. 5-22. 67. “Deconstructing The Self: Luigi Pirandello’s Thought and Fausto Pirandello’s Painting” in Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy: Imagination and Thought Across Media, ed. Michael Subialka & Lisa Sarti. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, (2017). Pp. 65-83. 66. “Leopardi’s Foresight” In Esperienze Letterarie. 1, XLI, 2016. Pp.13-24. 65. “South and North: Pulcinella, A Southern Thought” in F. Finotti & M. Johnson eds. L’Italia allo specchio:linguaggio e identità italiane nel mondo (Venice: Marsilio, 2015). Pp. 179-191. 64. “The Value of a Critical Mind, Tolerance and Slowness” (hect gewicht van woorden) in. Nexus, 27, 2014. Pp. 249-54. 63. “Cesare ha da muri’ Or Caesar Must Die in Neapolitan” in Esperienze Letterarie , 1, XXXIX, 2014. Pp. 19-31. 62. “Ritratti e autoritratti: un’esigenza espressionistica” in Carlo Michelstaedter, ed. Yvonne Hutter (Munich: Narr Francke Attempo Verlag, 2014), pp. 9-31. 61. “High and Low Art, Inadequacy of Words, Self-referentiality in Pasolini’s Che cosa sono le nuvole?” Italica, 90, 2, Summer 2013. Pp. 227-244. 60. “Operatic Appearances in Marco Bellocchio” Esperienze Letterarie, 3, XXXVII, 2012. Pp. 42-54. 59. “Marco Tutino’s La lupa: A Neo-romantic, Postmodern Opera” in D. Brancato & M. Ruccolo La terra di Babele: Saggi sul plurilinguismo nella cultura italiana (NY and Canada: Legas, 2011). Pp. 31-42. 58. “Leonardo Sciascia’s A ciascuno il suo: The Failure of the Intellectual” in Dana Renga ed. Mafia Movies: A Reader (Toronto UP, 2011). Pp. 243-52. 57. “ The Legacy of Pirandello’s Humor in Italian Film Comedy” Esperienze Letterarie, 2, XXXV, 2010. Pp. 45-58. 4 56. “Giuseppe Tornatore, ovvero lo sguardo” in Daniela De Pau and Simone Dubrovic, eds. Zoom "d'oltreoceano": istantanee sui registi italiani e sull'Italia (Rome: Vecchiarelli, 2010). Pp. 145-160. 55. “Un antieroe nella Sicilia del Risorgimento” in Giovanni Capecchi ed. Mezzo secolo del “Gattopardo.” Studi e interpretazioni (Florence: Le Cáriti Editore, 2010). Pp.109-121 54. “Intersezioni culturali: Pasolini tra cinema e sceneggiata, tragedia classica e teatro dei pupi, Modugno e Pirandello” Civiltà italiana e geografie d’Europa, Atti del XIX Convegno dell’Associazione Internazionale di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2009). Pp.199-206. 53. “Fifty Years of Vtellonismo: Fellini, Monicelli e Muccino,” Rivista di studi italiani, June 2006 (came out in Dec. 2008). Pp. 128-149. 52. “Der Last van de waarheid. De actualiteit van Carlo Michelstaedter” in Europees humanism in fragmenten, Nexus, 50, 2008. Pp. 243-56 (translated from English in Dutch by Asker Pelgrom). 51. “Giacomo Leopardi” Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. Pp 1018-28. 50. “Reticence, a Rhetorical Strategy in Othello/Otello: Shakespeare, Verdi-Boito, Zeffirelli,” Italica (Summer 2006). Pp.238-255. 49. “Art Versus Life in Three Plays by Ibsen, D’Annunzio and Pirandello” Il Castello di Elsinore, XIII (51, 2005). Pp.97-110. 48. “Why Il fu Mattia Pascal? A Question for Mario Monicelli” PSA, The Journal of Pirandello Society of America,17, 2004. Pp. 91-104. Rewritten in Italian as: “Perché Le due vite di Mattia Pascal? Una domanda a Mario Monicelli” E. Lauretta, editor, Il fu Mattia Pascal. Romanzo, Teatro, Film. Agrigento: