CRYSTAL HALL

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor of French and Italian, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 2008-Present Postdoctoral Fellow, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 2013-2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2004-2008

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Romance Languages, Italian May 2008 University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences (Philadelphia, PA) Dissertation “Paladin Philosophy: Epic Voices in Galileo’s Library” M.A. Italian Dec. 2004 University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences (Philadelphia, PA) Research title “Once Upon a Time in the Scientific Revolution: “The Fiction of Galileo in Il Saggiatore” B.A. Italian, magna cum laude May 2003 Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences (Ithaca, NY) Honors Thesis title: “Creating Science Fiction: Scipio Sighele’s Il dramma di Mezzojuso and Luigi Capuana’s Un vampiro”

BOOKS Galileo’s Library. Conducting research and finishing writing as part of the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital and Computational Studies at Bowdoin College, 2013-2015. Galileo’s Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

BOOK CHAPTERS “Crafting Early Modern Readers: Galileo and His Interlocutors ,” invited chapter for The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature, Science, and Culture, eds. Howard Marchitello and Evelyn Tribble. New York: Palgrave, 2015. 8000 words. In preparation. “Ariosto and the Wunderkammer: Reality, Illusion and Knowing in the Furioso,” invited chapter for Approaches to Teaching Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, eds. Albert Russell Ascoli and Eleonora Stoppino (MLA Series Approaches to Teaching World Literatures). 4000 words. In press. “Galileo’s Short Stories,” invited chapter for Metamorphosis: The Italian Novella and its Transformations Through the Centuries, ed. Roberto Nicosia (Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2011). 4500 words. In press.

ARTICLES “Galileo’s Library Revisted,” Galilaeana, under review (10/13). 20,000 words. “‘Isolated from any village’: Vernon Lee’s Florence and Villa il Palmerino,” invited article for Nineteenth-Century Legacy: Anglo-American Expatriate Life in Florence, eds. Sirpa Salenius and Elise Ciregna, special issue of California Italian Studies Journal. 7,000 words. In press. “The Poetic Value of Galileo: Giulio Strozzi’s Venetia edificata (1624) and the Myth of Venice,” Renaissance Quarterly 66.2 (2013). In Press. Crystal Hall 2

“Orlando furioso: The Board Game” SMART: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20 (2013): 51-66. “Vasari and Renaissance Book Culture.” SMA Register VIII.3 part 1. July 1, 2010-June 30, 2011. (2012): 58-87. “Galileo’s Rhetoric of Fables.” Quaderni d’Italianistica XXXI.2 (2010): 91-112. Mogues T, Etzerodt M, Hall C, Engelich G, Graversen JH, Hartshorn KL., “Tetranectin Binds to the Kringle 1-4 Form of Angiostatin and Modifies Its Functional Activity.” Journal of Biomedical Biotechnology. 2 (2004): 73-78.

BOOK REVIEWS “Tommaso Campanella, Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella. A Bilingual Edition, ed., trans. and annotations by Sherry Roush (University of Chicago Press, 2011).” Annali d’italianistica 31 (2013): 652-654. “Mark Peterson, Galileo’s Muse (Harvard, 2011).” Sixteenth Century Journal XLIII.4 (2012): 1201-1203.

CONFERENCES AND TALKS

“Margherita Costa’s Flora feconda from ‘poema’ to ‘drama musicale’,” invited paper at Renassiance Society of America Annual Conference. New York, NY. March 27-29, 2014. “Galileo, Dante, and the Authority of the Italian Language,” invited talk at Princeton University’s Humanities Seminar, March 11, 2014. “How to Read Like Galileo,” invited talk at Franklin & Marshall College. Lancaster, PA. February 13, 2014. “Galileo, Poetry, and Digital Studies,” Computational and Liberal Arts Colloquium, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. October 24, 2013. “Pedagogy and the Digital Humanities Classroom,” Digital Studies and Liberal Arts Colleges Seminar, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, October 15, 2013. “Faith in Galileo’s Library,” Galileo: Faith, Science and the Arts International Conference, St. Michael’s College at University of Toronto. October 3-4, 2013. “Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in Galileo’s Library,” Mid-America Medievalist Association Annual Conference. Kansas City, MO. April 21, 2013. “Margherita Costa in Galileo’s Library,” AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies) 2013 Conference in Eugene, OR. April 11-14, 2013. “Galileo’s Monks,” invited paper for “The Monk, the Priest, the Nun” conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. March 22-23, 2013. “Vasari and the Art of Books,” gallery talk at the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS. November 6, 2012. “Vasari and the Art of Books,” session at the European Renaissance Free Teacher Workshop, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS. October 20, 2012. “Decameron VI in the Digital Humanities Classroom,” KU Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities THAT Camp Workshop, Lawrence, KS. September 20, 2012. “Digital Humanities in the Classroom,” KU Teaching Summit 2012, Lawrence, KS, August 16, 2012. “Painting with Printed Words: Vasari and Late-Renaissance Florentine Book Culture,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, October 27-30, 2011. “Galileo’s Poetic Insults to Philosphers” AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies) 2011 Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 7-9, 2011. Crystal Hall 3

“Roundtable: Teaching the ‘Introduction to Italian Literature’ Course,” panel organizer. For AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies) 2011 Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, April 7-9, 2011. “Galileo Galilei, Venetian Hero in the Time of Attila the Hun?” AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies) 2010 Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 22-25, 2010. “Galileo’s Short Stories,” NEMLA Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 7-10, 2010. “Galileo’s Voices of Fiction as Vehicles of Truth,” invited speaker for Humanities and Western Civilization seminar, University of Kansas, December 7, 2009. “Footnotes to Satire as Footsteps of Enlightenment Science: Francesco Stelluti’s Persio sciolto (1623),” Mediterranean Studies Conference, Cagliari, Sardegna, May 27-30, 2009. “Galileo’s Lesson to Don Quijote,” Early Modern Seminar, Hall Center, University of Kansas, April 6, 2009. “Aristotle Meets Aesop and Boccaccio in the Margins of Galileo’s Library,” Newcastle University’s Early Modern Reading Conference, “The Early Modern Reader,” Newcastle, England, April 12, 2008. “The Myth of Galileo,” talk presented to the Penn-in-Florence program, Palazzo Cerchi, Florence, Italy, July 3, 2007. Working Papers Electronic Roundtable “Rated R(epresentation): Violence in Romance Literatures and Cultures,” University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Romanic Association, May 2007, http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/romance/gra/workingpapers/roundtable.html “In cerca di interlocutrice: Science and Poetry in the Case of Laura Bassi,” paper presented at the University of Chicago, Graduate Division of Italian Conference “Scientifica- mente,” Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 26, 2006. “Once Upon a Time in the Scientific Revolution: The Fiction of Galileo in Il saggiatore,” paper presented at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Romanic Association Annual Colloquium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2004.

COURSES TAUGHT University of Kansas Undergraduate Research Award Supervisor, Beth Jarvis “Learning from Italian Mental Health Legislation, Legge 180” (Spring and Summer 2011) ITAL 499 Honors (Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013) ITAL 495 Directed Readings in Italian – I promessi sposi (Spring 2011), La voce della donna (Fall 2010, Fall 2012), Vasco Pratolini e ‘Il Quartiere’ (Summer 2010) ITAL 480 Studies in Italian Literature: Boccaccio (Spring 2011) ITAL 480 Studies in Italian Literature: Manzoni in the Digital Age (Spring 2013) ITAL 440 Italian Renaissance Literature (Spring 2010, Fall 2012) ITAL 430 Dante’s Masterpiece (Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2012) ITAL 302 Introduction to Italian Literature II: Holding Out for a Hero (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013) ITAL 301 Introduction to Italian Literature I: Identity & Destiny (Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2012) ITAL 240 Intermediate Italian II (Spring 2009) ITAL 230 Intermediate Italian I (Fall 2008) ITAL 110 Elementary Italian I (substitute for Unit 2 in Fall 2012) ITAL 100 Italian for Reading Knowledge (Spring 2012) Crystal Hall 4

University of Pennsylvania College of General Studies: ITAL 110: Elementary Italian I (Fall 2006) ITAL 130: Intermediate Italian I (Fall 2007) ITAL 140: Intermediate Italian II (Spring 2007) Penn-in-Florence: ITAL 110: Elementary Italian I (Summers 2005, 2006) ITAL 333: “Dante” (Substitute instructor, 3 days) School of Arts and Sciences: ITAL 110: Elementary Italian I (Fall 2004, Spring 2005) ITAL 120: Elementary Italian II (Fall 2005, Spring 2006)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root French & Italian Faculty Award April 2013 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) Travel Award, Univ. of Kansas, $700 Spring 2013 KU IDRH (Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities) Course Devel. Award, $1000 Spring 2012 KU General Research Fund Award, $5080 Summer 2012 Celebration of Teaching Honoree, Center for Teaching Excellence, KU May 2012 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) Travel Award, Univ. of Kansas, $700 Fall 2011 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library, $2500 Summer 2011 KU Institutional Nominee for NEH Summer Stipend, unfunded Summer 2011 KU Center for Teaching Excellence Course Development Award, $1000 Spring 2011 CLAS Travel Award, University of Kansas, $700 Spring 2011 CLAS Travel Award, University of Kansas, $700 Spring 2010 New Faculty General Research Fund Award, University of Kansas, $7605 2009-2010 CLAS Travel Award, University of Kansas, $1200 Spring 2009 Newberry Consortium Grant, University of Kansas, $500 Fall 2008 Benjamin Franklin Fellow, University of Pennsylvania 2003-2008 Salvatori Research Award, Center for Italian Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania Fall 2006 Salvatori Research Award, Center for Italian Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania Summer 2004

SERVICE Director, Summer Language Institute in Florence 2012, 2013 KU Outcomes Assessment Undergraduate Writing Committee 2011- Foreign Language Buffet 2012 KU Inst. for Digital Research Humanities Forum Application Review 2012 Faculty Research Liaison to Information Studies 2009- Hall Center Early Modern Seminar Advisory Board 2009- Study Abroad Scholarship Committee 2009- European Studies Faculty Program Committee, University of Kansas 2008- Italian Minor Advisor 2008- Faculty Advisor to University of Kansas Circolo Italiano 2008- Faculty Advisor to University of Kansas Tavola Italiana 2008- Italian Faculty Representative, KU Majors Fair 2008- Hall Center Travel Award Committee 2010 Co-Director, Summer Language Institute in Florence 2008-10 Department Advisory Committee, French & Italian, University of Kansas 2008-10

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LANGUAGES English native language Italian near-native fluency Spanish written and read proficiently Latin read proficiently French read at intermediate-advanced research level, spoken and written at elementary level German read at intermediate-advanced research level, spoken and written at elementary level

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Modern Language Association Northeast Modern Language Association Renaissance Society of America Society for Literature, Science and the Arts American Association of Italian Studies Mediterranean Studies Association Sixteenth Century Studies HASTAC Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity, Epsilon Chapter