at Fairleigh Dickinson University:      

    

LITERATURE, FILM, THEATRE:

Global Mafias in Literature and Film, Fall 2023

Food in Literature and Film, Spring 2023

Contemporary American Drama, Fall 2022

Witches and Warlocks in the West, Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Spring 2013

World Literature II, Spring 2022

British and European Literature II, Spring 2022

Senior Seminar, Fall 2021, Fall 2022

Modern Drama from Ibsen to Brecht, Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2013, Spring 2011, Spring 2008

Writing (WRIT 1002), Fall 2021

Writing and research (WRIT 1003), Spring 2021

Walls or Bridges: Italy, Migrations, and the Pitfalls of Globalization, Summer 2021 (University of Bergamo)

Shakespeare I (comedies), Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015

Contemporary Italian Cinema, Spring 2020

Contemporary European Drama, Spring 2020 (also Graduate), Fall 2012, Spring 2010

European Literature II, Spring 2020, Fall 2018

Italy: Land of Migrations, Fall 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2015, Summer 2013, Summer 2009 (all the summer classes were taught at the University of Bergamo)

The Italian-American Experience, Winter 2019, Winter 2018, Summer 2016, Summer 2011

French Film: The Nouvelle Vague, Spring 2019

Italian Mafia in Literature and Film, Fall 2018, Fall 2015, Spring 2012

The Holocaust in Literature and Film, Fall 2017

Greek and Roman Drama, Fall 2017, Fall 2010

Italian Cinema, Fall 2017

Monsters and Bad States, Spring 2017

World Literature III, Spring 2016, Fall 2011

Shakespeare II (tragedies), Fall 2015

Sex and Politics in French Literature, Spring 2015, Spring 2011

Love and Death in French Cinema. The Experimentation of the Nouvelle Vague, Fall 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2008

Italian Film and Culture from Neorealism to Today, Fall 2011, Fall 2008

Vietnam in Literature and Film, Fall 2011

Introduction to Literary Studies, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

Contemporary Italian Theatre (independent study): Winter Session 2008

XIX-century French novels (independent study): Fall 2008

Contemporary Italian Literature and Film, Fall 2007

 

M.A. Program in Creative Writing for High School Teachers:

Contemporary European Drama, Spring 2020                                                     

Shakespeare, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012

Reading Like a Writer, Fall 2010

 

COLLEGE WRITING:

Composition I: Rhetoric and Inquiry, Fall 2021, Fall 2022

Composition II: Research and Argument, Spring 2021, Fall 2023

 

LANGUAGE:

French 1001 and 1002 (elementary): Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2008, Fall 2007

French 1007 and 1008 (practicum): Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2014, Spring 

2016, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2011

Advanced French (independent study): Spring 2013, Spring 2023

Writing in French: Fall 2011

Advanced French Writing (3 independent studies): Fall 2010

Italian 1001 and 1002 (elementary): Spring 2021, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2023, Fall 2023

Italian 1007 and 1008 (practicum): Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013

Italian 2003 and 2004 (intermediate): Spring 2010, Spring 2009

Advanced Italian (independent study): Fall 2012

Advanced Italian Conversation: Spring 2011

Advanced Italian Grammar and Conversation (independent study): Fall 2010

 

 

at University of Connecticut:       

Witches, Wizards and Warlocks in France, Spring 2007

Masters and Servants in Italian comedy, Spring 2007

Intermediate Italian, Spring 2007 

Of Men and Supermen: The Culture of Fascist Italy, Fall 2006

Cinematic Representations of Italian Americans, Fall 2006

Intermediate Italian, Fall 2006

 

 

at Boston Conservatory:              

Core courses:    The Chalice and the Blade: Myths, Heroes, Gods, and Love in Ancient Greece, Fall 2005

                        Utopia, from Plato to Brecht, Spring 2005 and 2006        

 

Language courses: Italian for opera singers, Spring 2006, Fall  2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004

 

 

at Harvard University:

​

as Lecturer               

Freshman Seminar (seminar for a highly select group of students):

Provocative Truths: The Role of the Fool in European Drama, Fall 2004, Fall 2003 

 

Tutorials (year-long independent studies), 2000-2005:

Senior (direction of Senior Thesis):        2005/6: The mise-en-scène of the médecin in Dr. Knock

            2004/5: Allegories of war in Coetzee and Camus

                        - Life as a Script: Manipulations of Time and Life Trajectory in Vladimir Nabokov’s Autobiography Speak, Memory

            2003/4: The role of the artist in Sartre’s La mort dans l’âme

                        - Bodies Bound: Breton’s Nadja and Frida Khalo’s paintings 

                        - Pirandellian Influences on the Theater of Ariel Dorfman 

            2002/3: Samuel Beckett and the Language of Resistance

            2001/2: Performing the Commedia: Dario Fo

            2000/1: Space in Zola’s Thérèse Raquin and Bazán’s Insolación

                        - Beckett’s Molloy

                                                

Junior: (semester-long intensive study):          

            2005/6: Francophone writers: Caribbean, Maghreb, and beur literature

            2004/5: English and American XX-century drama

                        - London narratives from the XVIII to the XX centuries

                        - Theatre “of manners” from the Restoration to the beginning of the XX century

            2003/4: Modernism and literature between the wars in France and England

                        - Postcolonial writers from India, Africa, and the Caribbean

                        - Contemporary Indian novels

                        - French Feminist Writers

            2002/3: French writers from Zola to Sartre

                        - Latin American short stories

                        - XIX century Italian novels, poetry, and Pirandello’s early plays

            2000/1: Plautus, Commedia dell’Arte, Molière, Dario Fo

                        - The plays of Franca Rame (in Italian)

 

Language Courses Taught, 1995-2007:

Elementary and advanced Italian at University of Connecticut

Elementary Italian for opera singers at the Boston Conservatory

Italian Translation

Advanced Italian conversation

Italian Ax (for reading knowledge, 2 years)

Italian Ca and Cb (intermediate level, 2 years)

Elementary Italian (2 years)

Elementary Spanish

 

Teaching Fellow Courses (seminar discussion, paper and exam grading in a course taught by a Harvard professor):

The Medieval Stage (Prof. Eckehard Simon, Spring 2004)

Lives Ruined by Literature (Prof. Judith Ryan, Spring 2003) 

The Novel After Theory (Prof. Judith Ryan, Fall 2002) 

Surrealism (Core Course - Prof. Susan Suleiman, Fall 2001; Fall 2004) 

Modern Theatre (Prof. Robert Brustein, Fall 2000)

Postmodern Theatre (Prof. Robert Brustein, Spring 2000) 

The Novel (and other narratives) since World War II (Prof. Robert Kiely, Fall 1998)

The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Prof. Helen Vendler, Fall 1998) 

El Poder y lo Sagrado (Core Course in Spanish – Prof. Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, Spring 1997) 

 

 

Teaching Awards:

Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (resulting from student evaluations averaging a grade of 4.5 or higher out of 5): eighteen