Faculty & Staff

Part-Time Faculty: Italian

Daniela Bartalesi-Graf
Part-Time Lecturer in Italian
Contact: (617) 627-2691 | Email
Degrees: M.A., Classics, Tufts University
Expertise: Second Language Pedagogy, 20th century Italian history and culture

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• Voci dal Sud: Carlo Levi’s “Christ Stopped at Eboli” and the Southern Question. New Haven: Yale University Press. Manuscript completed in August 2008; contract signed and publication forthcoming in 2009.
• “Visual Literacy: Teaching Italian Culture Through Images”. In Emanuele Occhipinti, ed. In New Approaches to Teaching Italian and Italian Culture: Case-Studies from an International Perspective. Newcastle (Great Britain): Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
• L'Italia dal fascismo ad oggi: percorsi paralleli nella storia, nella letteratura e nel cinema. Perugia: Guerra Edizioni, 2005.
• Presenter, New England Modern Languages Association (NeMLA), Buffalo (April 2008); presented paper Prosa, pittura e cinematografia in un corso di terzo anno incentrato sulla figura di Carlo Levi e sulla questione meridionale.
• Presenter, Narrative Synergies: Cinema and Literature in Contemporary Italy, University of Oxford, UK (January 2006); presented paper during session “Cinematic Metamorphoses”: Alterità e divismo in “Non ti muovere” e “Cristo si è fermato a Eboli”: dal linguaggio letterario a quello cinematografico.

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Giulia Po
Part-Time Lecturer
Contact: (617) 627-3573 | Email
Degrees: Laurea at the University of Bologna: Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. Major: English Language and Literature. Minor: Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures; A.B.D. in the Ph.D. program of Comparative Literature at The City University of New York – Concentration in Italian Literature.
Expertise: 19th and 20th Century Italian Narrative, Women's Studies and Autobiographies, Foreign Language Education.

Selected 5 Publications/Conferences:

• September 2007: "Se?: le alternative della fantasia in Sigma Epsilon, opera esordio di Clara Sereni." 4th Annual Dombroski Conference, Connecticut
• May 2006: "Solitudine e solidarietà: le scelte dei personaggi femminili nei romanzi degli anni '70 di Gina Lagorio." AAIS/AATI, Genova.
• Translation of Carole Collier Frick's "Hats and Headwear in Renaissance Florence" as "Cappelli e Copricapo nella Firenze del Rinascimento" in Moda e Moderno, Roma: Meltemi, 2006.
• April 2005:"Between Home and Town Hall: Clara Sereni's Passami il sale." AAIS North Carolina.
• October 14 and 21 - November 4, 2006 Harvard University – Northeastern University Department of Romance Languages and Literatures: "Risultati e Prospettive dell'Esame Advanced Placement d'Italiano"

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