Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
• Associate Professor
of Italian
• Director of Italian
Language Instruction
Office: Ballantine Hall
626
Office phone: 855-1249
Email:
ryancm @indiana.edu
Research areas:
Italian cinema, gender studies, Italian curriculum development, teaching foreign language through theater, graduate student training and professional development.
Education:
- PhD, Italian, Indiana University , 1997
- MA, Italian Language and Literature, Middlebury College , 1993
- BA, French and Government, University of Notre Dame, 1990
Background:
My research comprises work in two different fields, that of women and gender representations in contemporary Italian literature and film and that of foreign language pedagogy and second language studies. My graduate work in cinema and literature resulted in my first book, Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini ( University of Toronto , 2007). Contemporaneously, I nurtured my interest in foreign language pedagogy and second language acquisition, curriculum design and program development. In particular, I investigate the intellectual and affective benefits of learning foreign languages and cultures through theater. My second book project, Set the Stage! Italian Language, Literature, and Culture through Theater (Yale, 2008) reflects this interest. I am also an active member of the Italian academic and pedagogical communities, having served on the original Task Force and Development Committee for Advanced Placement Italian Language and Culture (2003-08) and having recently been named Senior Reviewer for AP Italian and elected Italian Section Chair for the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators.
Selected awards:
- ISLA (Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts) Foreign Language Education Grant, University of Notre Dame, November 2006
- NEH Summer Fellowship (Internal Candidate, Notre Dame), October 2005
- Nanovic Institute for European Studies Faculty Collaborative Research Grant, April 2004
- Department of Romance Languages Teaching Award, Notre Dame, May 2003
- Distinguished Notre Dame Woman Award, April 2003
- American Association of University Women, Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow for “Women in Popular Italian Film Genres,” Aug 2001-July 2002
Courses recently taught:
- Italian Teaching Methods
- Italian Teaching Practicum
- Mamme and Madonne : Women in Italian Literature and Film
- Cinema e Scrittori: Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Italian Women Writers
- Italian Theater Workshop and Production
- Cinema e letteratura: The Art of Adaptation
- Introduction to Modern Italian Literature, 1700-2000
- Textual Analysis and Advanced Grammar
- Italian Popular Culture
- Beginning and Intermediate Italian
- Intensive Intermediate Italian
Publication highlights:
Books
Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini . (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
Set the Stage! Teaching Italian Language, Literature, and Culture through Theater. Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Co-edited with Nicoletta Marini-Maio, including original contributions by Dacia Maraini and Dario Fo. ( New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008).
Articles
“Page, Stage, Screen: The Languages of Silence in Maraini and Faenza 's La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa ,” Modern Language Notes , 123.1, (January 2008): 56-76.
“The Sacred Self: Autogenesis and Creation in Pasolini's Cinema” Studi Pasoliniani , 1.1, (Winter 2008): 89-104
“Campanile's Comedic Theater: A Humorous Link in the Italian Studies Curriculum.” Italica, 81.4 (Winter 2004): 483-503.
“Full-Scale Theater Production and Second Language Learning.” Foreign Language Annals, 37.3 (Fall 2004): 374-89.
“The Unending Process of Subjectivity: Gendering Otherness as Openness in Pasolini's Decameron .” Annali d'Italianistica , 21 (December 2000): 359-74.
“The Anonymity and Ignominy: Absence as an Asset in Sibilla Aleramo's Una donna .” Rivista di studi italiani , 14 (Spring 2000): 185-202.
“The Status of TA-Training and Professional Development Programs for Teachers of Italian in North American Colleges and Universities: A Quantitative Overview.” Italica , 76.4 (Winter 1999): 454-68.
