Faculty in Italian

Faculty
Emeriti
Visiting Lecturers

Marco Arnaudo Ph.D, Harvard University (2006). Ph.D, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2004). Assistant Professor of Italian. Director of Graduate Studies in Italian. 17th-century literature and art; 20th-century popular culture. His publications include the books La pagina breve: Antologia di racconti italiani del Novecento and Il trionfo di Vertunno: Illusioni ottiche e letteratura nell’età della Controriforma (to be pulished in 2007), as well as essays on Machiavelli, Bruno, Manzoni, Dossi, the illustrators of Goldoni and Collodi, American and Italian comic books.

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Andrea Ciccarelli Ph.D., Columbia University (1990). Professor of Italian and Director of the College of Arts & Sciences Humanities Institute. Editor, Italica. Grants and awards include: Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Fellowship; Teaching Excellence Recognition Award; Eric Maria Remarque Fellowship for European Studies; and a Mellon Fellowship. His books and editions include: Manzoni: la coscienza della letteratura; L’esilio come certezza: l’identita' in Italia dalla Rivoluzione francese ai nostri giorni; The People’s Voice: Essays on European Romanticism; and The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel, as well as many articles on Romanticism, Modernism, and the literature of emigration. His forthcoming publications include an edition of Foscolo’s political writings and a book on twentieth-century Italian poetry. Interests: nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry, narrative and theatre; literary criticism and theory; contemporary Italian literature and culture.

Massimo Scalabrini Ph.D., Yale University (1998). Associate Professor of Italian and Undergraduate Advisor. Recipient of the Trustees Teaching Award (2002), the James Phillip Holland Award for Exemplary Teaching (2003) and the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2004-2005). His publications include essays on the macaronic, picaresque, and humanistic traditions as well as a book, L'incarnazione del macaronico: Percorsi nel comico folenghiano. His present research includes a book on the poetics of comedy in the Italian Renaissance and a book on the pastoral tradition in literature and the visual arts. Interests: Renaissance and Early Modern literature and culture (lyric poetry, heroic and mock-heroic poetry, comic literature, the pastoral tradition, humanism).

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Colleen Ryan-Scheutz Ph.D., Indiana University (1997). Associate Professor of Italian, Director of Italian Language Instruction. Her awards include a faculty fellowship from the American Association of University Women and a Distinguished Female Faculty Award and Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award from the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini (University of Toronto, 2007) and co-editor of Set the Stage! Italian Language, Literature, and Culture through Theater. Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. (forthcoming Yale, 2008). She has written articles on Italian women writers, gender representations in Italian cinema, Italian curriculum development, teaching foreign language through theater, and graduate student training and professional development. Colleen Ryan-Scheutz served on the Task Force and Development Committees for the College Board’s new Advanced Placement course and exam for Italian Language and Culture. Currently, she is a Senior Reviewer for AP Italian curriculum planning.

H. Wayne Storey Ph.D., Columbia University (1983). Professor of Italian. Director, Medieval Studies Institute. Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature. He is Series Editor of ‘Textual Cultures: Theory and Praxis’ (Indiana University Press) and Editor-in-Chief of Textual Cultures, the journal of the Society for Textual Scholarship, Associate Editor of Medioevo letterario d’Italia and of Dante Studies, and the founder of the Fordham Series in Medieval Studies (Fordham University Press). His awards have included grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Transcription and Visual Poetics in the Early Italian Lyric (Garland 1993) and co-editor, with Teodolinda Barolini, of Dante for the New Millennium (2003), as well as of Francesco Petrarca, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta: Facsimile del codice autografo Vaticano Latino 3195 (vol. 1) and, with Gino Belloni, Furio Brugnolo and Stefano Zamponi, of Francesco Petrarca, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta: Facsimile del codice autografo Vaticano Latino 3195: Commentario (vol. 2), Padova-Roma: Antenore, 2003-2004. His most recent book, with Teodolinda Barolini, is Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation (Brill 2007). He has published numerous articles on Petrarch, Dante, Boccaccio, and medieval Italian literary and manuscript culture. His diplomatic-interpretative edition of Petrarch’s Canzoniere from Vaticano Latino 3195 is forthcoming. Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian and Latin Literature; manuscript studies and culture; material philology and cultural studies; textual criticism and editing.

Emeriti

Julia Conaway Bondanella Ph.D., University of Oregon (1973). Professor of Italian. Former Associate Dean of the Honors College; former Secretary of the American Association of Italian Studies; former President of the National Collegiate Honors Council; and former Assistant Chair for Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Students' Choice Teaching Award, Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, and Trustees’ Teaching Award. Her books, editions, and translations include: Petrarch's Visions and Their Renaissance Analogs; The Dictionary of Italian Literature (2nd rev. ed.); Rousseau's Political Works: A Norton Critical Edition; The Italian Renaissance Reader; Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists; Roberto Ridolfi’s Life of Titian; Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy; and Cellini’s My Life. Forthcoming publications include introductory essays and lengthy scholarly commentaries for the Longfellow translations of Dante’s Purgatory and Paradise. Interests: Medieval and Renaissance literature, comparative literature, history of ideas, Petrarchism, translation.

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Peter Bondanella Ph.D., University of Oregon (1970). Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian. Director of Graduate Studies in Italian. Former Chair of the Department of West European Studies. Former Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), the American Council of Learned Societies, the Lilly Foundation, and the Australian National Humanities Centre. Former Visiting Mellon Professor at Tulane University. Former Vice President and President of the American Association of Italian Studies. President’s Award from the American Association of Italian Studies for a history of Italian cinema; Giovanni Agnelli Foundation Award for a study of Federico Fellini’s cinema. His books, and editions include: Machiavelli and the Art of Renaissance History; Francesco Guicciardini; The Dictionary of Italian Literature (2nd rev. ed.); The Eternal City: Images of Rome in the Modern World; Federico Fellini: Essays in Criticism; Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present (3rd rev. ed.); The Films of Roberto Rossellini; Perspectives on Federico Fellini; The Films of Federico Fellini; Umberto Eco and the Open Work; The Cinema of Federico Fellini; The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel; and Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos. His editions or translations include classic works by Boccaccio, Cellini, Dante, Machiavelli, Ridolfi, and Vasari. Forthcoming publications include: a new edition of Machiavelli’s Prince with extensive critical commentary; essays; introductory essays and lengthy scholarly commentaries for the Longfellow translations of Dante’s Purgatory and Paradise; and a book on Italian neorealism. Interests: Renaissance and modern literature; comparative literature and literary theory; Italian cinema; Hollywood images of Italian Americans.

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Edoardo A. Lèbano Ph.D., the Catholic University of America (1966). Professor Emeritus of French and Italian. President, American Association of Teachers of Italian (1983-87) and Director, Middlebury College Italian School (1987-1995). Author of language texts and cultural readers as well as of regional and national surveys on the teaching of Italian in the United States, published in this country and in Italy from 1969 to 1999. He has written articles of critical and bibliographical nature and on Italian American History. He prepared the introduction and extensive commentary for the 1998 Indiana University Press edition of the first, integral translation of Luigi Pulci's Morgante.

Lèbano, whose main field of interest is Renaissance Epic and Nineteenth century narrative, is currently engaged in several projects dealing with literary criticism. He is also working towards completion of the oral history section of his study on the History of Italian Immigration in Vermillion County, Indiana: 1856-1952

Mark Musa Ph.D, The Johns Hopkins University (1961). Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Italian. Past President, American Association of Italian Studies. Guggenheim Fellow. Fiorino d’oro from the City of Florence. Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring Award of the University Graduate School. Author of numerous translations of Italian literary classics, including Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Machiavelli, and Pirandello.

Visiting Lecturers

Riccardo Chiaruttini

Ermanno Conti ABD Italian, Indiana University. Course supervisor for Italian M100, M115, M150, M200 and M250.

Diego Fasolini

Faculty in Italian

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