CURRICULUM VITAE
Giuliana Minghelli 242 Summer Street Somerville, MA 02143 (617) 623-8214 [email protected] www.giulianaminghelli.com
EDUCATION
1989-1993 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Ph.D., Italian Studies Dissertation: In the Shadow of the Mammoth: The Figure of Woman in Italo Svevo's Narratives. Director: Eduardo Saccone
1985-1989 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, M.A., Italian Studies
1981-1985 UNIVERSITY OF PISA, Foreign Languages and Literatures Coursework completed towards Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Moderne, transferred to Johns Hopkins graduate program
Study Abroad Programs
1988 Johns Hopkins Villa Spelman Program, Spring seminars in Renaissance Italian Studies
1983-1984 Humboldt Universität, Summer programs in German Studies
WORK
2014- Associate Professor, MCGILL UNIVERSITY
2014 Visiting Scholar, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
2008-2013 Associate Professor, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
2003-2007 Lecturer, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1999-2003 Teaching Assistant, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Fall 2002 Visiting Lecturer, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1998. Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Minghelli |CV | 2! 1992-1996 Assistant Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, Boulder
1991-1992 Visiting Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Madison
1985-1989 Teaching Fellow, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
1988 Instructor, PEABODY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
TEACHING
McGill University • Introduction to Film History (Spring 2017) • Classics of Italian Cinema (Fall 2014; Fall 2016) • Cinema and the Visual (Spring 2015) • Italian Pop Culture (Spring 2015) • The European Avant-Gardes: Art and Politics from War to War (Spring 2016) • Literary composition (Fall 2014; Fall 2016)
Harvard University • Cultural Migrations Between Africa and Italy (Fall 2013; Fall 2010) • On the Road: Journeys in Italian Cinema (Fall 2013; Fall 2010; Spring 2007) • Italian Pop: Comics, Mass media, Folk Culture (Spring 2013; Fall 2011; Fall 2009) • Picturing Place: Landscape, Literature, and Cinema from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century (Spring 2013; Fall 2009) • Cinema for a Changing Earth: The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Fall 2012) • The Marvelous, Fantastic, Magic, and Uncanny in Italian Culture (Spring 2012) • The Modern Image: Intersections of Photography and Literature (Freshman Seminar, Fall 2012; Spring 2010; Fall 2007) • Modernismi Italiani: D’Annunzio, Svevo, Pirandello e oltre (Spring 2012; Fall 2008) • Italy in Motion: Cinema, History and National Identity (Fall 2011) • Intimate Architectures: Dwelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Italian Women Writers (Spring 2010; Spring 2007) • The Fantastic from Dante to Calvino and Beyond (Fall 2007) • Between Africa and Italy: Literature, Film and Cartoons (Spring 2006) • Literary Cityscapes: Italian Urban Life and Cultural Change, 1904-2004 (Fall 2006) • After History: Fable, Myth and Nature in Italian Post-War Literature (Fall 2006; Spring 2003) • Italian Theory and Literary Criticism (Fall 2005) • Svevo e i Triestini: Scrivere la città e esserne scritti (Spring 2005) • Italo Calvino and the Place of Literature (Spring 2005) • Italian Feminisms: Culture, theory and Narratives of Difference (Fall 2002) Minghelli |CV | 3!
University of Colorado, Boulder • Undergraduate Courses o Italian Romanticism: From Vico to the Scapigliatura o Italian Feminisms: Theory, Culture and Narratives of Difference o Readings in Italian Literature I and II
• Graduate Seminars o Introduction to Literary Theory o Writing Through the City: Literature and the Urban Experience o Rereading Freud o Cultural Utopias: The Poetics and Politics of Space
University of Wisconsin, Madison • Italian Literature in Translation—Existentialism, Fascism and Resistance • Intermediate and Advanced Language
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Co-Editor and Contributor, Stillness in Motion: Italy, Photography and the Meanings of Modernity University of Toronto Press, 2014
Cinema Year Zero: Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film Routledge, 2013
Editor and Contributor, The Modern Image: Intersections of Photography, Cinema and Literature in Italian Culture, Special Issue of L’anello che non tiene, 2009
In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism, University of Toronto Press, 2003
Essays:
“Memory Under Fascism. Writing/Filming/Working-Through with Franco Fortini’s The Dogs of the Sinai and Danièlle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Fortini/Cani,” in Present Past: Time, Memory and the Negotiation of Historical Justice, ed. Ariella Lang, forthcoming with Routledge.
“Neorealism,” in The Total Art: Italian Cinema from Silent Screen to Digital Image (ed. Joseph Luzzi, New York: Bloomsbury, 2018, forthcoming.
“Home is a Hard Place to Film: Eleonora Danco Allegorical Documentary N-Capace,” Filmatique, http://www.filmatique.com/essays-1/2017/n-capace, published February 2018. Minghelli |CV | 4!
“Italian Cinema, Memory and the Construction of the Nation” in Modern Italy 22.2, May 2017.
“Icons of Remorse: Photography, Anthropology and the Erasure of History in 1950s Italy” in Modern Italy, Special Issue: Iconic Images in Modern Italy: Politics, Culture and Society, 21.4 (2016): 383-407.
“Svevo, Blogging and the Future of Literature,” MLN, vol. 130, 1, 2015; “Svevo, il blog e il futuro della letteratura,” Aghios. Quaderni di studi sveviani, 7/8, 2015.
“Photography and the Construction of National Identity,” with Sally Hill and Roberta Valtorta, Stillness in Motion: Italy, Photography and the Meanings of Modernity, University of Toronto Press 2014, 27-66
“Eternal Speed/Omnipresent Immobility: Futurism and Photography,” Stillness in Motion: Italy, Photography and the Meanings of Modernity, University of Toronto Press 2014, 97-130
“Effetto Notte: L’immagine di Cesare Zavattini tra neorealismo e surrealismo,” Locus Solus, 7, Memoria e immagine, 2009, 67-96
“L’occhio di Verga,” Special Issue, L’anello che non tiene, 2009, 59-81
“Haunted Frames: History and Landscape in Luchino Visconti’s Ossessione,” Italica, 85 (2008): 2-3, 173-196
“Neorealismo: Anacronismo/Avanguardia,” Ripensare il Neorealismo: Cinema, letteratura, mondo, Metauro, 2008, 197-221
“Storie, paesaggi e cantastorie: la visione documentaristica dal neorealismo al Postmodernismo,” Sinergie narrative: Cinema e letteratura nell’Italia contemporanea, Franco Cesati Editore, 2008, 41-71
“Lontano e quotidiano nella musica dei Modena City Ramblers,” Spaesamenti padani: Studi culturali sull’Emilia Romagna, Il lettore di Provincia, 123-4, Longo, 2005, 55-68
“What’s in a Word? Rosetta Loy’s Search for History in Childhood,” MLN 116, 1, 2001, 162-176
"Leading the Pedagogue by Hand: Women and Pedagogy in Italo Svevo," Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies, ed. Benedetti, Hairston and Ross, Peter Lang, 1996
"Ricordando il quotidiano: Lessico famigliare o l'arte del cantastorie," Italica 72, no. 2, 1995, 155-173
"L'Africa in cortile: La colonia nelle storie levantine di Fausta Cialente," Quaderni Minghelli |CV | 5! d'Italianistica, 15, 1-2, 1994, 227-235
"In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Narratives of Symbiosis in La coscienza di Zeno," MLN 109, 1994, 49-72
"Il ritorno di Efigenia," Italian Culture, Selected Proceedings, AAIS, 1990, 265-278
"Reading the Trace of the Lightning: Sensual Allegory and the Photographic Image," Whomanwarp, Vol. 2, 1989, 4-15
Reference Entries:
"Italo Svevo." The Literary Encyclopedia. March 30, 2010 http://www.litencyc.com/php/ speople.php?rec=true&UID=4291
Contributor, The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, Entries on Fausta Cialente, Gianna Manzini, Rossana Rossanda, Amalia Guglieminetti, and Guido Gozzano. Ed. Gaetana Marrone Puglia, Routledge, 2007
Contributor, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, ed. Jane Eldrige Miller, Princeton UP, 2001
Reviews:
Enlightening Encounters: Photography in Italian Literature, ed. Giorgia Alù and Nancy Pedri, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, forthcoming.
Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema, ed. Loredana Di Martino and Pasquale Verdicchio, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Dec 2017, Vol. 36, 1:59-62.
Italo Svevo and his Legacy for the Third Millennium, Volume I: Philology and Interpretation and Volume II: Contexts and Influences. Edited by Giuseppe Stellardi and Emanuela Tandello Cooper, Modern Language Review, Vol. 112, Part 2, April 2017.
Italy and Photography, by Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, Vol. XXVIII, 3, 2012
Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture, ed. Michael Caesar and Marina Spunta, Annali d’ Italianistica, Vol. 27, 2009
Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde, ed. by Luca Somigli and Mario Moroni, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 11.1, March 2006
The Writings of Joseph Rocchietti, ed. by Carol Bonomo Albright and Elvira Di Fabio, Italian Americana Historical and Literary Journal Minghelli |CV | 6!
Italo Svevo tra moderno e postmoderno, ed. by Mauro Buccheri and Elio Costa, Italica, 75.1, 1998, 129-131
The Lonely Mirror, ed. by Paola Bono, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 14.1, 1995, 177-78
Refiguring Woman, ed. by Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari; and Contemporary Women Writers in Italy, ed. by Santo L. Arico, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 12.2, 1993, 131-33
Translation:
Beautiful Fables, by Gregory Lucente (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1985), into Italian for Milella Publishing, Lecce, 1995.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Curator with Giovanni Princigalli of the exhibit: Fuori Casa: Gli anni ’50 negli scatti privati degli Italiani a Montréal/Away from Home: The Fifties in the Snapshots of the Italians in Montréal held in the Leonardo da Vinci Center, Montréal, January 19-26, 2017 and in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, McGill University, March 15-May 15, 2017.
Curator of the Exhibit: In Africa it is Another Story. Looking back at Italian Colonialism, held in Pusey Library at Harvard University, April 4-June 30, 2014.
Writer and designer of the online exhibit, now permanently hosted on the Harvard Fine Arts web site: https://hcl.harvard.edu:8001/libraries/finearts/exhibitions/africa/index.cfm
WORKS IN PROGRESS
• Book project on shame and Italian post-war culture. This book studies shame as a collective affect that shaped artistic and public discourse, as well as poetic and historical imagination of post-war Italy. Intellectuals and artists wrote and thought in flight from their bios, the personal, corporeal site of shame. The study confronts such issues as: the founding link between shame and Fascism (e.g. Curzio Malaparte, Primo Levi); the interdiction to remember (e.g Natalia Ginzburg, Italo Calvino, Gesualdo Bufalino); aesthetic representation vs. memory (e.g. Giorgio Bassani, Franco Fortini); the flight from self and history into postcolonial geographies (e.g. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia); the persistence of shame (e.g. Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci).
• Essay on photography and power under Fascism, focusing on Leo Longanesi and the development of the Italian illustrated magazines like L’Italiano, Tempo and Omnibus.
• Essay on the transnational dimension of Italian modernism, through a study of the multiple displacements of the colony (Alexandria), the metropolis (Paris) and the Italian trenches in Minghelli |CV | 7! the poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti.
INVITED LECTURES
“Valerio Zurlini’s Cinema of Understatement” presentation at the Cinémathèque Québécoise to open the retrospective: Valerio Zurlini: Un maître oublié. October 18, 2017
“Cinema of Resistance: Roberto Rossellini’s Roma Open City” at Day of Engagement/Day of Action, MIT teach-in April 18, 2017.
“Photography, Anthropology and Spectacle” Fotografia e culture visuali nel XXI secolo: la “svolta iconica” e l’Italia, Roma 4-5 December, 2014
“Cinema Year Zero,” book presentation, Smith College, October 2, 2014
“Cinema Year Zero,” book presentation, Lauro de Bosis Colloquium, Harvard University, Febraury 3, 2014
“Cinema Year Zero,” book presentation, Middlebury College, April 21, 2013
“Svevo, Blogging and the Future of Literature,” Italo Svevo e le scienze: Vita/Tempo, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, February 9-11, 2012
“Paisà Paese Paesaggio,” Italy's/Italies Today, University of New Hampshire, March 31, 2011
“Photography and Verismo,” The University of Cork, Ireland, November 15, 2009
“Neorealismo: Anacronismo/Avanguardia,” Un certo cinema Italiano: percorsi di ricerca dopo il neorealismo, Casa Artom, Venezia, December, 2007
“La scrittura tra infanzia e storia in Una donna e Per voce sola,” Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, April, 1997
“Memory and Geography,” “Cultural Cartographies in the Romance Languages and Literatures,” Cornell University, February 17-18, 1995
PAPERS PRESENTED
“Dropping Out in Eleonora Danco’s N-Capace,” AAIS, Sorrento, Italy, June 14-17, 2018 Fascism’s War on Memory: Writing/Filming /Working Through in Franco Fortini, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub” ADHA Conference, Present Past: Time, Memory, and the Negotiation of Historical Justice, Columbia University, Dec 7-9 2017 “Totò and Post-War Laughter,” ACIS Conference, July 4-7 2017, Monash Prato Center, Minghelli |CV | 8! Prato, Italy
"History and Emotion in Franco Fortini’s I cani del Sinai," ASMI, The Force of History: Critical Perspectives on the Historiography of Modern Italy 25-26 November, 2016 IHR University of London, and Italian Cultural Institute, London
“Photography in the Society of the Spectacle and the Land of Remorse,” ASMI, London, 22-23 November, 2013
“The Memory of Fascism in Franco Fortini and Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub,” AATI, Strasbourg, May 29-June 2, 2013.
“Paisà—Landscape as Burial Ground,” AAIS, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 22-25, 2010
“The Landscape of Remorse in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Cinema,” AAIS, New York, May, 2009
“Eterna velocità onnipresente immobilità: Futurism and Photography,” The Measure of a Century: Futurism at 100, Harvard University, The Minda de Gunzburg Center of European Studies, April 17-18, 2009
“‘La Controfotografia’: il fotodinamismo futurista di Anton Giulio Bragaglia,” AAIS, Taormina, Italy, May, 2008
“Verga’s Eye,” AAIS, Colorado Springs, May, 2007
“ Ordinario e straordinario sulla Strada di Fellini,” AAIS, Genova, May 25-28, 2006
Roundtable on “Spaesamenti padani: Studi culturali sull’Emilia Romagna,” AAIS, Genova, May 25-28, 2006
“Emilian Landscape and Storytelling: The Documentaristic Vision from Neorealism to Postmodernism,” Narrative Synergies between Literature and Cinema, Magdalen College, Oxford, January, 2006
“Neorealism/Anachronism,” MLA panel on “Anachronism in Postwar Italian Culture” Washington, 2005
“Lontano e quotidiano nella musica dei Modena City Ramblers,” Roundtable, Spaesamenti padani, AAIS, Chapel Hill, April, 2005
“Italo Svevo and the Aesthetic of Contamination or Understanding the Resistance to Italian Modernism,” AAIS, Chapel Hill, April, 2005
“Stories with Animals and without Animals: Narrating Violence in Italo Svevo’s fables and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi,” MLA, Philadelphia, 2004
“The House, the Road, the City: History and Geography in Luchino Visconti’s Minghelli |CV | 9! Ossessione,” AAIS, Ottawa, April, 2003
“What’s in a Word? Rosetta Loy’s Search for History in Childhood,” AAIS, New York, NY, April 13-15, 2000
“La scrittura tra infanzia e storia in Una donna e Per voce sola,” AAIS, Winston, NC, February 1997
“Junkyards of Memory: Remembering in Dante's Paradise, Italo Calvino's hypertext and Stefano Benni's cyberspace,” IAPL Philadelphia, May 10-13, 1995
“L’Africa a puntate e l'Africa a fumetti: Il continente nero da Emilio Salgari a Hugo Pratt,” AAIS, Tempe, AZ, April 8-12, 1995
“Geographies of Remembrance: The Art of the Storyteller in Natalia Ginzburg's Family Sayings,” ISSEI, Graz, Austria, 9/27, 1994 and RMLA, Colorado Springs, 10/28, 1994
“L'Africa in cortile: La colonia nelle storie levantine di Fausta Cialente,” AAIS, Madison, WI, April 7-10, 1994
“Projecting Histories: Father and Daughter in Pirandello's Six Characters,” Boulder, University of Colorado, March 20, 1993
“Leading the Pedagogue by Hand: Women and Pedagogy in Italo Svevo,” Gendered Contexts II, Baltimore, November 17-18, 1992
“Vico and Leopardi: Myth of Enlightment,” MLA, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1991
“In the Shadow of the Mammoth: A Reading of Italo Svevo's Theory of Origins,” Svevo: Modern and/or Postmodern, York University, Toronto, April 16, 1991
“Otto Weininger and the Modernist Movement,” National Feminist Graduate Women Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 8-10, 1991
“La lotta per la dolcezza: Uno studio dell'iscrizione femminile nei testi di Svevo,” AAIS, University of Virginia, 1990
“Il ritorno di Efigenia. La statua, i silenzi e la discreta retorica,” AAIS, University of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1989
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: CONFERENCES AND RETROSPECTIVES
October 18-29, 2017 Organizer of the film retrospective Valerio Zurlini: un maître oublié at the Cinémathèque Quebecoise
2016-2017 Organizer of the year-long cycle of conferences The Long 1950s: Popular Culture Minghelli |CV | !10 and the (un) Making of Italian Cultural Identity with events held at McGill University, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Montréal, The Leonardo da Vinci Center, The Canadian Center of Architecture. https://thelongfifties.wordpress.com/
2011 Co-organizer of “Viva l’Italia!”: Risorgimento on Screen, Harvard Film Archive.
2010 Panel organizer, “Landscape and National Identity,” AAIS, Ann Arbor
2008 Panel organizer, “La cultura italiana nell’epoca della riproducibilità tecnica,” AAIS, Taormina, Italy
2007 Panel organizer, “The Modern Image: Intersections of Photography, Cinema and Literature in Italian Culture,” AAIS, Colorado Springs
1998 Panel organizer, “The Returns of History: The Politics of Memory in the Italy of the Nineties,” AAIS, Chicago
1990 Conference Organizer, “Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies,” Johns Hopkins University
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: EDITORIAL WORK
2018 Reader, Berghan Books and Georgetown University Press.
2016 Reader Revue Intermédialités
2015-present Editorial board, L’avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes
2015-present Editorial board, Italian Culture
2013 Member of the Advisory Committee for the interdisciplinary research project sponsored by The British Academy: Viewing and Writing Italian Landscape. Luigi Ghirri and his Legacy in Photography and Literature
2013 Reader, PMLA
2013 Reader, California Italian Studies
2011-2013 Editorial Board, Quaderni del Novecento
2011 Reader, Other Visions: Contemporary Italian Documentary Cinema as Counter-Discourse, Special Issue, Studies in Documentary Film
2010-present Reader, University of Toronto Press
2008-present Reader, Italian Culture Minghelli |CV | !11
2008 Reader, Feminist Review
1995 Reader, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
PEER AND ACADEMIC REVIEWS
2017 Tenure Review of Cristina Caracchini, University of Western Ontario
2016 Tenure review of Stephanie Posthumous, McGill University
2012 Tenure review of Shelleen Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2013 Outside Reviewer, La Scuola Italiana, Middlebury College Language Schools
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2010-2012 Provostial Fund Committee, Harvard University
2009-2013 Undergraduate Advisor in Italian, Harvard University
2009-2013 Member of the Board of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University
2008-2009 RLL Core Curriculum Committee, Harvard University
2008-2009 RLL Task force for Curriculum Review, Harvard University
1993-1995 Core Curriculum Committee and Review Board, University of Colorado, Boulder 1993-1994 Interdepartmental Committee for the Revision of the Italian Studies Major, University of Colorado, Boulder
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2016 SSHRC Connection Grant, 24.000
2013 Elson Family Arts Initiative Grant, Harvard University, 2500
2010 Elson Family Arts Initiative Grant, Harvard University, 5000
2008 Junior Faculty Development Grant, Harvard University, 5000
1995 Junior Faculty Development Award, University of Colorado, Boulder
1994 Summer Travel Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder Minghelli |CV | !12
1993 Summer Travel Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder PRIZES
2017 Christopher Seton Watson prize for best article of the year in Modern Italy journal: “Icons of Remorse: Photography, Anthropology and the Erasure of History in 1950s Italy”
THESIS DIRECTION
Undergraduate
2012 Sofia Groopman (History and Literature Concentrator) “Tombs of Words: The Aesthetics of Natalia Ginzburg’s World War II Memorials” 2011 Taylor J. LiCausi (Joint concentration in Italian and Anthropology) “Sensing Sicily: A Century of Sensory Representations and Their Cultural Implications from Verga to Lampedusa” 2011 Christopher A. Magliozzi (Literature concentrator) “Reading to Pull the Trigger” 2008 Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin (Joint concentrator Italian and History of Art) “Cookies, Cakes and Castles: The City of Ferrara in the Paintings of Giorgio De Chirico 1915-1918”
Graduate
2014 Mary di Salvo “Reel Relations: A Comparative Study of Leading Lady-Director in Italian Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s” 2013 Adam Muri-Rosenthal (PhD in Italian Studies and Critical Media Practice) “Residual Visions: Rubbish, Refuse and Marginalia in Italian Cinema from Neorealism to the Present”; and Residual City (documentary capstone project on waste and mortality in the city of Venice) 2013 Cara Takakjian “The Graphic Novel: Reading Ourselves, Reading History” 2012 Luca Cottini “A Culture of Objects: Italy’s Quest for Modernity (1881-1922)” 2010 Stacy Giufre “Speaking Back: Women in the Works of Cesare Pavese”
READER GRADUATE THESIS
2018 Joseph London, PhD Edith Cowan University Creative thesis: “Hidden Realities: Transcendental Structures in Documentary Film” and the documentary The Beloved Minghelli |CV | !13 2018 Marco Piana, PhD McGill University “Fallax Antiquitas: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s Critique of Antiquity” 2018 Alejandro Fonseca, PhD McGill University “Jorge Louis Borges and the Italian Literature” 2017 Julianne VanWagenen, Phd Harvard University “The Mythologist in Microgroove: Fabrizio de Andrè’s Italy (1961-1981)” Advisor and External Reader