Curriculum Vitae

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A political reading of: Christine de Pizan's "La cité des Dames" (1405), Marguerite de Navarre’s "Heptaméron" (1558) , Alvaro de Luna’s "Libro de las claras y vertuosas mugeres" (1446), Pierre Boaistuau's "Histoires tragiques" (1559), Jacques Yver’s "Le Printemps" (1572), Benigne Poissenot's "L'esté"(1583) and "Les nouvelles histoires tragiques" (1586).

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• Doctorat ès lettres (in progress, starting from 2008): Du centre à la périphérie: la nouvelle baroque italienne en marge du Baroque européen.
• PH.D. 2003-1997: Doctorate of Philosophy in Romance Languages and Literatures (French, Spanish and Italian) at the University of California at Berkeley.
• DIPLOMA DE ESPANOL. February 2001: Intensive Spanish Language Program at CILE (Centro Internacional de Lengua Espanola) in Malaga, Spain, with certificate. Level: advanced. Grade: A.
• 2001-1999: Visiting Fellow at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris).

• MASTER. 1997-1995: Master's degree in Romance Languages and Literature (French and Italian) at the University of Oregon, Eugene.
• LAUREA. 1995-1990: Laurea in Foreign Languages and Literature (English and French) at the University of L'Aquila (Italy), with 110/110 magna cum laude.
  Tesi di laurea: "A linguistic study of the interior monologue in the fiction of Virginia Woolf: 'Jacob's Room', 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'The Waves'" (164 pp.).

• English fluent
• French near native speaker
• Italian native speaker
• Spanish fluent
• Reading knowledge of Latin, Middle French, and Old Spanish.

• Professoressa titolare at Liceo Falcone e Borsellino (Milan). Starting from Fall 2007.
  Courses taught: Elementary, intermediate and advanced French.
  French literature: "Du réalisme à la francophonie"
  
• Professoressa titolare at Istituto Superiore Lagrange (Milan). Starting from Fall 2006. Teaching French language and civilization entirely in French. Designed syllabi, full responsibility for all lectures, grading and evaluations.
  Courses taught: Elementary, intermediate and advanced French.
  French civilization: "le français touristique"
  
• Professoressa titolare at Liceo Linguistico "Leonardo da Vinci" (Rome). Starting from Fall 2003. Teaching French language and literature entirely in French. Designed syllabi, full responsibility for all lectures, grading and evaluations.
  Courses taught: Elementary, intermediate and advanced French.
  Survey courses of French literature entirely in French:
  1: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
  2: From the Baroque to Preromanticism
  3: From Romanticism to the present age
  
• University instructor for French 1 and French 43 A (Aspects of French Culture). Intensive Summer Session in Paris for UC Berkeley. Summer 2000. Full responsibility for Intensive French 1. Cotaught French 43 A: responsibility for 4 two-hour lectures in English on French history from the French Revolution to the XXth century, as well as for correcting and grading 1/3 of students’ homework and exams.
• University instructor for 1st and 2nd year French (FR 1, 2, 3 and 4) at the University of California at Berkeley. 1998-97. Full responsibility for all lectures. Taught daily, entirely in French. Direct method. Designed all examinations in collaboration with colleagues. Second year program teaches composition skills and introduction to French literary texts.
• University instructor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon. 1997-95. First and Second Year French Language, French and Italian Conversation classes (FR 199 and IT 199). Full responsibility.

I started my activity in literature at the University with a specialization in modernist English literature, in particular the fiction of Virginia Woolf. In my senior thesis I did a linguistic analysis of three novels by Virginia Woolf using Dorrit Cohn's theory as elaborated in her study "Transparent Minds". Subsequently my interest has shifted towards autobiography for my Master's degree, and for my first doctorate I decided to focus on early modern comparative fiction, in particular the short story in Western European literature. Given the breadth of my literary interests, I would call myself a generalist. My next doctorate will be to a great chance to analyse political interrelashionships among short stories in Romance literatures.

• Conference/publication (May 2005): "Les femmes et la politique dans deux biographies humanistes: le 'Livre de la Cité des Dames' de Christine de Pizan et le 'Libro de las Claras e Virtuosas Mugeres' de Alvaro de Luna". 6ème colloque de la SIEFAR: Université de Rouen.

• Conference: "Law and violence in Renaissance short fiction". Early modern group at the University of Pittsburgh (PA). April the 5th, 2003.
• Conference: "Sincerity,dissimulation and absolutism in Molière's Misanthrope". Global Baroque , Northwest Society for Eighteenth Century Study. 24-26 October 1997.
• Conference/publication: "Il sublime nell'autobiografia: la 'Vita' di Vittorio Alfieri e la 'Vie de Henri Brulard' di Stendhal" Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. October 1997. Published in the "Romance Languages Annals (1998): pp. 217-223

• Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2002-03
• Travel Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1999-2001
• Bourse d’accueil, awarded by the Ecole Normale Supérieure for two academic years: from 1999 to 2001
• Travel Fellowship for Malaga (Spain), awarded by the Ecole Normale Supérieure, February 2000.
• University of L’Aquila Scholarships, 1990-94: 4 scholarships awarded (one per academic year) to students for outstanding GPA.