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ENRICO VETTORE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ITALIAN DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE, GERMAN, RUSSIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH EMAIL: [email protected]

EDUCATION

2005 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Romance Languages, University of Oregon Dissertation Title: “The Aesth/Ethics of Leonardo Sciascia’s Writing: How Alessandro Manzoni and Jorge Luis Borges Created a Sicilian Writer” Chairs: Profs. Massimo Lollini & David Castillo

2002 Master of Arts (M.A.) in Italian, University of Oregon Thesis Title: “Il male nei Promessi Sposi” Chair: Prof. Massimo Lollini

1990 Laurea in Lettere (BA equivalent in ), Università degli Studi di Padova (Padua, Italy) (110 e lode: magna cum laude) Thesis Title: “The Narrative of G.A. Borgese” Chair: Prof. Antonia Arslan

1985 Diploma in Classical Guitar, (MA equivalent in music performance) Conservatorio Statale di Musica C. Pollini (Cesare Pollini Music Conservatory in Padua, Italy)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2013-present Associate Professor of Italian, California State University, Long Beach Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures 2007-2013 Assistant Professor of Italian, California State University, Long Beach Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures 2005-2007 Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) Department of Modern Languages & Literatures 2000-2005 Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) Summer 2003 Assistant Director, University of Oregon Study Abroad Program in Perugia, Italy 1997-2000 Language Instructor, Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri (Florence, Italy) 1998-1999 Language Instructor, Syracuse University (Florence, Italy) 1994-1997 Language Instructor, Italian Cultural Institute (Thessaloniki, Greece) 1992-1994 Language Instructor, Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri (Thessaloniki, Greece)

RESEARCH / ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Italian Literature Philosophy and Literature Italian Culture Ethics and Literature Italian Cinema / Film Studies Jungian ad Post-Jungian Literary Criticism Vettore CV –– page 2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH (2007-PRESENT) ITAL 101A/B Fundamentals of ITAL 201A/B Intermediate Italian Language ITAL 310 Introduction to Analysis of Italian Literature ITAL 312A Advanced Italian Language I ITAL 312B Advanced Italian Language II ITAL 314 Advanced Italian Conversation ITAL 335 Survey of Italian Literature I ITAL 336 Survey of Italian Literature II ITAL 411 Advanced Syntax, Stylistics and Composition ITAL/FEA 454/554 Italian Cinema ITAL 433/533 Italian Literature as Historical Memory ITAL 473/573 Masterpieces of ITAL 476/576 The Italian Short Story ITAL 478/578 Italian Novelistic Tradition ITAL 482/582 Building of the Italian Nation ITAL 600 Italy and the Idea of Europe. Nation, State, Culture, Economy, Society: 1861-Present ITAL 688 Seminar in Italian Literature & Culture (topics: Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi; Pirandello) RGR/FEA 346 European Cinema of Communism, Fascism and Resistance RGR 400 Crime and Punishment ITAL 604 Self from Petrarch to Pap Khouma (Fall 2017) ITAL 340 “La Dolce Vita”: Italian Culture Through the Centuries (Fall 2017)

KENYON COLLEGE (2005-2007) ITAL 111/112 Intensive Introductory Italian ITAL 213/214 Italian Language and Culture ITAL 321 Advanced Italian

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (2000-2005) ITAL 101/102/103 First Year Italian ITAL 151 Italian Cinema ITAL 201/202/203 Second Year Italian ITAL 307 Oral Skills SPAN 111/112 Intensive Beginning Spanish

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE Language Courses (Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced levels), Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri (Florence, Italy): 1997-2000

Language Courses (Intermediate & Advanced levels), Syracuse University (Florence, Italy): 1998-1999

Vettore CV –– page 3 Courses in Italian Language (Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced levels), Italian History, and Italian Culture, Italian Cultural Institute (Thessaloniki, Greece): 1994-1997

Language Courses (Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced levels), Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri (Thessaloniki, Greece): 1992-1994

Classical Guitar Private Lessons (Beginning & Intermediate): 1985-1991

PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED ARTICLES

“Approximation To Nirvana: From Intellectual Speculation to Zen Non-Philosophy in Luigi Pirandello’s Uno, nessuno e centomila.” Pirandello Society of America Journal XXIX, 2016, pp. xxx-xxx

La giustizia eterna di Arthur Schopenhauer in Jorge Luis Borges e Leonardo Sciascia.” Rivista di Studi Italiani, Anno XXXIII, n° 1, Giugno 2015, pp. 562–581.

“La Medea di Pier Paolo Pasolini come processo di individuazione: Una lettura alchemica e junghiana” in Pasolini in America, Metauro Edizioni, 2015.

“Leonardo Sciascia and Alessandro Manzoni: Shared Morality, Shared Literary Destiny.” Italica 91.3 (2014): 367-81. Print.

“Voyage in Italy: Roberto Rossellini’s Non–Dualistic View of the World and Cinema.” Italian Studies in Southern Africa/Studi d’Italianistica nell’Africa Australe 26.2 (2013): 53-74. Print.

“Uncovering Truth through Literature: The Quotations of Jorge Luis Borges in Leonardo Sciascia’s The Moro Affair.” Rivista di Studi Italiani 30.1 (2012): 221–37.

“Quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno. Petrarch and Schopenhauer: Elective Affinities.” Humanist Studies & the Digital Age 1.1 (2011): 170-179. ISSN: 2158-3846 (online). http://journals.oregondigital.org/hsda/. DOI: 10.5399/uo/HSDA.1.1.1191.

“Nuove tendenze nella critica manzoniana.” Italian Culture 20.1&2 (2002): 169– 77. Print.

SUBMISSIONS

“Uno più uno fa uno: progresso economico come separazione e annuncio dell’unità perduta nella ‘tetralogia degli affetti’ di Michelangelo Antonioni. (Submitted in September 2015; book chapter for a book on Antonioni and the economic boom edited by Fulvio Orsitto Ugo Perolini and to be published by Tracce.)

REVIEWS

Vettore CV –– page 4 Book Review: Alessandro Manzoni nei paesi anglosassoni by Alice Crosta. Schedario Manzoniano Internazionale. Testo, 69, July 2015 Pp.108-109

Book Review of Roberto Rossellini documentarista: Una cultura della realtà, by Luca Caminati. Journal of Modern Italian Studies 19.2 (2014): 200–02. Print.

Book Review of Manzoni e Bossuet, by Luciano Parisi. Journal of European Studies 36.3 (2006): 355-57. Print.

NON-REFEREED ARTICLES

“The Ethics of No-Self in Jorge Luis Borges.” Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (2007): 5551–66. http://www.hichumanities.org/AH2007.pdf.

“Stefano Terra o l’esercizio della reticenza.” Esperienze Letterarie 17.2. (1993): 99–105. Print.

“Borgese e l’America.” Esperienze Letterarie 15.4 (1991): 77–82. Print.

“Viaggi di Giuseppe Antonio Borgese.” Esperienze Letterarie 15.1 (1991): 97–103. Print.

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Academic advisor for the volume Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism series / I promessi sposi by Alessandro Manzoni GALE / CENGAGE Learning, 2016. Chosen the readings, provided description for the entries of the Further Readings section and edited the entry on the novel. Trudeau, Lawrence J. (ed). Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 329. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2017. Produced in association with Layman Poupard Publishing. (pages 1-98) (November 2016)

Academic advisor for the volume Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 / Gaspara Stampa GALE / CENGAGE Learning, 2017, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2017. Produced in association with Layman Poupard Publishing (pages 221-323). Edited the introductory entry on the author and supervised the choice of the readings.

Academic advisor for the volume Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism series / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa GALE / CENGAGE Learning, forthcoming 2017. Chosen the Readings, chosen and provided description for the entries of the Further Readings section and edited the entry on the author. (Forthcoming)

Member of the Scientific Committee: Fulvio Orsitto and Simona Wright, eds. Intersezioni: Select Proceedings of the Intersezioni Conference (Turin June 7-8, 2013). Roma: Vecchiarelli Editore (Forthcoming).

WORKS IN PROGRESS The Representation of the Urban Landscape in Italo Calvino and M.C. Escher: From Finite to Infinite and from Centered to Center-less (project awarded RSCA grant)

Vettore CV –– page 5 Of Dogs, Gods and Men in Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il Gattopardo: A Post-Jungian and Ecopsychological Reading Meet the Shadow, Remove Your Mask: A Post-Jungian Reading of Edge of Tomorrow.

Workshops “Cinema, TV, Radio and Newspapers/Magazines: How To Teach Italian Using Material from the Media.” Workshop offered to the Teachers of Italian of the Italian Institute of Culture, October/November 2017.

“Integrating Texts and Literature in the Language Class: Strategies and Techniques.” Workshop offered to the Teachers of Italian of the Italian Institute of Culture, October 2016.

“Learning While Having (Some) Fun: A practical Approach at Making Your Italian Class Experience Efficient, Entertaining and Interesting.” Workshop offered to the Teachers of Italian of the Italian Institute of Culture, November 12-13, 2015.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & PANELS

2017 Organizer and Chair of the Session "Italian”." 115th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Honolulu, HI. (November 10-12)

2017 “Gianni Celati: Space and Psyche in Appearances.” California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS) Conference: “Genius loci – genius populi / Italy: a genius of place and a place of genius.” University of California, San Diego. San Diego, CA. (February 24–25)

2016 “Nature and Characters in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Films: An Approximation to Ecopsychology.” 114th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Pasadena, CA. (November 11-13) 2016 Organizer and Chair of the Session "Italian”." 114th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Pasadena, CA. (November 11-13) 2016 “The Italian American Contribution to the Art of Jazz Guitar.” The 49th Annual Conference of the Italian American Studies Association (IASA). Long Beach, CA. (November 3–5) 2015 Organizer and Chair of the Session "Italian”." 113th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Portland, OR. (November 4-6) 2015 “La Medea di Pier Paolo Pasolini come processo di individuazione: Una lettura alchemica e junghiana.” 113th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Portland, OR. (November 4-6) 2015 “Il vero solo è bello: Alessandro Manzoni’s Story of the Column of Infamy and Historical Truth in The Betrothed.” “Fiction and Reality: Fusion and Confusion (One-day Symposium organized by Clorinda Donato and Pasquale Palmieri; Italian Institute of Culture, Los Angeles, April 30) 2014 “Acquainted with the Emperor: Napoleon Bonaparte in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Work.” ”Liberation, Occupation — Inspiration Bonaparte? Literary and Artistic Responses to Napoleon” Conference. California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. (November 14–15)

Vettore CV –– page 6 2014 “Identità e giustizia: Borges e Buddismo nei testi di Leonardo Sciascia.” 112th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Riverside, CA. (November 1) 2014 Organizer and Chair of the Special Session "The New Italians: Migrant Stories in Literature and Film." 112th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Riverside, CA. (October 31) 2014 Organizer, Presenter and Chair of the Panel “Interdisciplinarity and Intradisciplinarity: Integrated Approaches to Teaching Literature and Culture in RGRLL at CSULB.” 49th Annual Comparative Literature Conference: “Connections and Intersections: Interdisciplinarity Within and Among Disciplines.” California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. (April 24–25) 2013 “Many Voices, One Song: The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio and the Narration of an Ongoing Polyphonic Dialogue.” 111th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA).” San Diego, CA. (November 1–3) 2013 “‘Il poeta del mio cuore’: Petrarca poeta, asceta e uomo ideale nell'opera di Schopenhauer." American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. (April 11–13) 2012 “Children as Persons: Visual and Narrative Strategies in Gianni Amelio’s The Stolen Children.” 110th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Seattle, WA. (October 19–21) 2012 “Doubting Thomas: Luchino Visconti's Adaptation of Death in Venice.” CSULB German Studies Conference: “100 Years of Death and Judgment.” California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. (September 21–22) 2011 “Lamerica and Once You’re Born You Can No Longer Hide: The Problem of the Encounter with the Other.” “Transcultural Italy” Conference. California State University, Chico. Chico, CA. (November 7) 2011 “Memoria e citazioni letterarie in Leonardo Sciascia: la cooperazione di realtà e finzione nella ricerca della verità.” 109th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Scripps College. Claremont, CA. (November 5-6) 2011 “Roberto Rossellini’s Voyage in Italy: The First Modern Film.” George L. Graziadio Center Lecture. California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. (October 17) 2011 “Do Metanarratives Kill Innocent Children? Postmodernity and Laughter in South Park’s ‘Stanley’s Cup.’” 46th Annual Comparative Literature Conference: “The Comic Spirit in the Common Age.” California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. (April 13-14) 2010 “The Search for the Essential Image: The Paradoxical Case of Roberto Rossellini.” 45th Annual Comparative Literature Conference: “Visual Culture & Global Practices.” California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. (March 4–6) 2009 “Single Subject Teaching Credential: A Student’s Perspective.” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention. San Diego, CA. (November 20–22) 2009 “Rossellini’s Encyclopedia of Beginnings: From Open City to The Messiah.” California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS) Conference: “Beginnings.” . Stanford, CA. (March 6-7) 2009 “What Can We Learn from Sciascia: Truth In/Through Literature.” 40th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention. Boston, MA. (February 26–March 1) 2008 “Antonioni and the Poetics of the City: La notte and L’eclisse.” Joint Convention of the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) and the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI). Taormina, Italy. (May 22–25) 2008 “Deleuze’s Becoming between Borges and Zen.” Annual Meeting of The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA): “Arrivals and Departures.” Long Beach, CA. (April 24 –27) 2008 “Rossellini’s Ambiguous Mediterranean.” 39th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention. Buffalo, NY. (April 10–13) 2007 “From Il miracolo to Viaggio in Italia: Roberto Rossellini’s Trajectory Towards a Secular Sacred.” 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY.

Vettore CV –– page 7 (April 19–21) 2007 “The Ethics of No-Self in Jorge Luis Borges.” 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, HI. (January 13) 2006 “Rossellini’s Quest for a Secular Sacred.” Modern Languages & Literatures Colloquy. Kenyon College. Gambier, OH. (October 25) 2005 “Leonardo Sciascia: The Power of Compassion.” American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) Conference. Washington DC. (October 15) 2004 “The Aesth-Ethics of the Manzoni-Sciascia-Consolo Lineage.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. (December 28) 2004 “Exile, Nostos, and Metaphor in Vincenzo Consolo’s L’olivo e l’olivastro.” Department of Romance Languages: “Transparent Borders: Movement, Migration and Globalization in the Romance World.” University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. (November 5) 2002 “Manganelli ovvero il viaggio come trauma.” Department of Romance Languages: “Cryptic Cartographies: A Symposium on Literature and Space.” University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. (October 19) 2002 “Nuove tendenze nella critica manzoniana.” American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference. Columbia, MO. (March)

INVITED LECTURES 2016 “Bassani’s Nostalgia And De Sica’s Nostalgic Cinematic Gaze.” Lecture given In Occasion Of Giorgio Bassani’s 100th Anniversary Of Birth. California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA (March 9) 2013 “Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man.” Guest Lecturer for “RGR400I Crime and Punishment” course (Dr. Aparna Nayak). California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. (November 14) 2012 “Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist.” Guest Lecturer for “RGR 400: Crime & Punishment” course (Dr. Marisa Escolar). California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. (February 20) 2008 “Primo Levi: Memory and Truth.” Guest Lecturer for “Humanities 202” course (Dr. Mariko Takahashi). Colburn Conservatory of Music. Los Angeles, CA. (March 31) 2007 “The Other in Schopenhauer.” Guest Lecturer for “SOCY 249: Knowledge of the Other” course (Dr. Anna Xiao Sun). Kenyon College. Gambier, OH. (Spring) 1999 Lectures for instructors of Italian language teaching abroad. Scuola Italiana Leonardo da Vinci and Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Santa Fe de Bogotà, Colombia. (March 15-19)

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2017-2018 Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award (CSULB): 2016-2017 Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award (CSULB): Antonioni ecopsychology 2015-2016 Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award (CSULB): Article: From Representation to Creation: The Evolution of the City in Italo Calvino and M.C. Escher. From Marcovaldo to Invisible Cities and from Atrani to Metamorphosis. 2009-2010 Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee (SCAC) Award (CSULB): “Traveling to India: Emanuelli, Manganelli, Terzani and the Essential Other.” 2008-2009 Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee (SCAC) Award (CSULB): “Disentangling Gadda’s Open System of Quotes: A New Reading of Manzoni.”

2000-2005 Graduate Teaching Fellowship; University of Oregon, Department of Romance Languages

Vettore CV –– page 8

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2007-present Interviewer, LOTE/Single Subject Teaching Credential Bilingual Interviews 2007-present Evaluator, Part-time Lecturers 2009-present Interviewer/Language Evaluator, The California State University Office of International Programs (11/21/14, 11/22/13, 2/23/12, 2/25/11, 2/20/09) 2010 Facilitator, Orientation Week for Italian Part-time Lecturers (August)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2015 Acting Director, Undergraduate and Graduate Adviser, George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies, CSULB (Spring term)

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

2007-present Member, George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies 2007-present Member, Scholarship Committee 2008-present Member, Grade Appeal Committee (2 appeals evaluated) 2010-present Member, George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies Scholarship Committee 2012-present Member, University Curriculum and Educational Policies Council (CEPC) 2014-5 Liaison grade appeal committee for CEPC; 2 appeals evaluated 2012-present Member, College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Faculty Council 2012-2016 Member, Curriculum Committee 2016- Member, CLA RTP committee 2014 Department Representative, Faculty Hearing Panel 2013-2014 Member, Tenure-Track Spanish Position Search Committee 2015-2016 Chair, Tenure-Track Spanish Position Search Committee 2013 Member, University Program Assessment and Review Council (PARC) (Spring term) 2011 Sabbatical Replacement, College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Faculty Council (Fall term) 2009 Member, TA Coordinator Search Committee (Spring term) 2007-2013 Member, LOTE (Languages Other Than English) Committee

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

2012-present Collaborator (with Dr. Markus Müller, RGRLL Dept. Chair, and Dr. David Horne, MBA Program Director): Planning & Design of the Dual MBA-MA program with option in French, German, Italian, & Spanish (new degree offering) 2009-2014 Collaborator (with Dr. Clorinda Donato, RGRLL Dept.): Planning, Design, and Implementation of the Master’s Program (MA) in Italian Studies (new degree offering) 2009-2016 Author, Standard Course Outlines (SCO) & Syllabi for the following courses: RGR 604 “Cultures, Politics and Markets in Contact” (April 2014) ITAL 603 “Italy and the Idea of Europe: Nation, State, Culture, Economy, Society: 1861-2011” (March-April 2012) ITAL 482/582 “Building of the Italian Nation” (January 2010) RGR 400 “Crime and Punishment” (Italian Section) (October 2009) ITAL 688 “Seminar in Italian Literature and Culture” (Spring term, 2009) ITAL 478/578 “The Italian Novelistic Tradition” (Spring term, 2009)

Vettore CV –– page 9 ITAL 600 Italy and the Idea of Europe ITAL 604 Seminar on a theme of Italian Literature or Culture (e.g. Self and Identity from Petrarch to Pap Khouma) ITAL 430/530 Dante’ Divine Comedy 2016 Retitled and reworked ITAL 335, 336, 411, 310, 340, 345 2014-16 Co-Author (with Dr. Clorinda Donato) of Self Study section for Italian 2016 contributor (with Dr. Clorinda Donato) of the Certificate in Italian Language 2012 Co-Author (with Dr. Aparna Nayak, Dr. Rita Palacios, and graduate student, Curtis Maugham, RGRLL Dept.) of Standard Course Outline (SCO) & Syllabus for RGR 100 “Advising and Best Student Practices” Course (Spring term) 2008 Collaborator (with Dr. Carlo Chiarenza, RGRLL Dept.): Planning & Design of CSULB Italian Study Abroad Program in Cinque Terre, Italy

STUDENT ADVISING

2015 Co-advisor for Caterina Montesano’s honor thesis: “The Concept of Family and Its Representation during Fascism and Neorealism” 2010-present Faculty Advisor, Club Italia 2015 Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor, Italian Program, CSULB (Spring term) 2015 Leader, College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Outreach Project (Spring term) 2013 Academic Advising to New Transfer Students (SOAR: July 22, 23 & 26) 2012 Chair, Career Panel, Departmental Major Fair (March 6) 2011 Italian Program Representative/Advisor, Departmental Major Fair (March 1) 2010 Department Representative, International Job Fair (November 16) 2010 Participant/Advisor, Speed Majoring Event (September 29) 2009 Volunteer, Department Major Faire (April 8) 2008 Volunteer, Department Major Fair (March 18)

UNIVERSITY EVENT COORDINATION & PARTICIPATION 2017 Co-coordinator, Event: “Poetry without Borders: The Poetry of Women” (April 10) 2016 Co-coordinator, Event: “Poetry without Borders: Unity” (March) 2015 Co-coordinator, Event: “Poetry without Borders: Time and Space” (April 9) 2015 Organizer, Lecture: Italian author Dacia Maraini (February 23) 2013 Organizer and Moderator of CSULB Conference: “1912–2013: 101 Years of Michelangelo Antonioni” (September 28) 2011 Co-coordinator, Event: “Poetry without Borders: Love and Other Ailments” (November 29) 2011 Reader, Event: “Heinrich von Kleist World Wide Reading Day” (November 21) 2011 Coordinator, Film Festival: “Films of Contemporary Italian Society” (February 17-March 3) 2010 Co-coordinator, Event: “Poetry without Borders: Musings about Nature” (December 2) 2010 Co-coordinator, Event: “Poetry without Borders: Places and Memory” (April 28) 2009 Co-coordinator, Event: “Poetry without Borders” (December 3) 2008 Coordinator, Film Festival: “Opera and a Pizza” (March-May) 2007 Coordinator, Italian Film Festival (November)

PERFORMANCE & RELATED ACTIVITIES

Vettore CV –– page 10 2013 Guitarist, Musical Performance: RGRLL Awards Banquet (May 20) 2010 Guitarist, Musical Performance: RGRLL Awards Banquet (May 20) 2009 Italian Diction Trainer for Performers in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito held May 1-3 (February: in collaboration with Dr. David Anglin, CSULB Music Department) 2008 Guitarist, Musical Performance: RGRLL Awards Banquet (May 9) 2008 Italian Diction Trainer for Performers in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo held April 11-13 (March: in collaboration with Dr. David Anglin, CSULB Music Department) 2003-2005 Guitarist, Multiple Musical Performances: Guitar Accompaniment for Nobuko Wingard (Soprano) at Italian Club Events for the University of Oregon Department of Romance Languages 2002 Guitarist, Musical Performance: “Serenissima una Noche” by Geronimo Gonzalez. Eric Gault, Conductor. University of Oregon Choral Concert held November 21

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2012 Scholarly Writing Institute (June) 2012 Scholarly Writing Institute (January) 2011 “For a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Reconciling Communicative and Text-Centered Instruction in the Elementary and Intermediate Foreign Language Classroom” (August 24) 2009 “Looking Two Ways: Approaching the Theme of Culture in Italian Espresso” (November 23) 2009 Italian Language Forum (September 5) 2009 Scholarly Writing Institute (June) 2009 Scholarly Writing Institute (January) 2008 Summer Learning Institute (August 27-28) 2008 CLA Faculty Retreat on Promoting Peace (February) 2008 Workshop for teachers of Italian organized by the George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies, the Italian Consulate, and the Fondazione Italia (February 9) 2008 Scholarly Writing Institute (January) 2007 Kenyon College Second Language Acquisition Seminar (February)

AWARDS AND HONORS

2010 Most Inspirational Professor (Senior Class of 2010, CSULB) 2008 Outstanding Teacher (Alumni Association, CSULB) 2005 International Student Campus Leadership and Involvement Award (Office of International Programs, University of Oregon) 2003 Beall Scholarship (Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon) 2002 James T. Wetzel Scholarship (Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon) 1995 University of Padua Study Abroad Scholarship (Greece) 1992-1993 Scholarships Ministero degli Affari Esteri (Thessaloniki, Greece) 1990 G.A. Borgese Prize for the Best BA Thesis on Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (Awarded by Associazione Culturale “Le Madonie,” Palermo, Italy)

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2001-present AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies) 2002-present MLA (Modern Language Association)

Vettore CV –– page 11 2005-present AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) 2007-2009 NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2007-2008 ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) 2008-present CICIS (California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies) 2008-2009 AACU (Association of American Colleges and Universities) 2009 ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) 2011-present PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Italian (native language) English (near-native fluency) Spanish Modern Greek