Roberto Maria Dainotto
Professor of Literature
Roberto Dainotto is Professor of Literature, Italian and International Comparative Studies at Duke University. He has been Professeur invitè at the Université Paris Ouest, and Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies in South Africa. His main research and teaching interests hinge on the concepts of place and space as narrative, rhetorical, and geopolitical organizational categories. His publications include Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities
(Cornell UP, 2000); Europe (in Theory)
(Duke UP, 2007), winner of the 2010 Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies; and Mafia: A Cultural History
(Reaktion Books, 2015). He has also edited Racconti Americani del ‘900
(Einaudi scuola, 1999), a monographic issue of Italian Culture
on Giambattista Vico (2017), and co-edited with Fredric Jameson Gramsci in the World
(Duke UP, 2020).
Office Hours
M 3:00-4:30pm. To schedule an appointment: <https://calendly.com/dainotto/officehours>.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020
- Professor of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020
Contact Information
- 217A Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
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dainotto@duke.edu
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Duke People Page
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., New York University 1995
- M.A., New York University 1990
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of the International Comparative Studies Program, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2021
- Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2020
- Professor of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2020
- Chair of the Department of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2013
- Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2008
- Associate Professor in the Program in Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008
- Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2005
- Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2005
- Recognition
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In the News
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SEP 22, 2015 The Toronto Star
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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Research
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Teaching
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- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Dainotto, R. M. Europe (in Theory). Duke University Press, 2007.
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Dainotto, R. M. Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
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Dainotto, R. M. Racconti americani del novecento. Milano: Einaudi Scuola, 1999.
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Dainotto, R., and Edna Goldstaub. Portrait of the Artist as a Blind Martyr. Edited by The Museum of Israeli Art and Ramat Gan, 1994.
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Academic Articles
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Armstrong, N., and R. Dainotto. “The Economy of Form: An Introduction.” Novel, vol. 55, no. 2, Aug. 2022, pp. 161–79. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00295132-9784917.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. “Points of View: Gramsci and “the Question of the Novel”.” Italian Culture, vol. 40, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 27–37. Scopus, doi:10.1080/01614622.2022.2060491.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. “Historical immanence and the problem of the new: On the "necessary anachronism" of Gyorgy Lukacs.” Diacritics, vol. 48, no. 2, Jan. 2020, pp. 18–35. Scopus, doi:10.1353/dia.2020.0008.Full Text
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Dainotto, Roberto M. “Before and After the Rise.” Novel, vol. 51, no. 1, Duke University Press, May 2018, pp. 121–26. Crossref, doi:10.1215/00295132-4357588.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. M. “Introduction.” Italian Culture, vol. 35, no. 2, Sept. 2017, pp. 73–81. Scopus, doi:10.1080/01614622.2017.1258783.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. Notes on Q6§32: Gramsci and the Dalits. Jan. 2013, pp. 75–86. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780203762035.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. Repblica de las Letras. Que es laliteratura europea? Madrid: Arco/Libros, 2013, pp. 37–16.
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Dainotto, R. Translating Laws: Montesquieu and the South. Edited by Federico Italiano and Michael R. ssner, Transcript Verlag, 2012, pp. 187–202.
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Dainotto, R. “The Politics of the Event (Beginning)/Политика события (начало).” Личность Культура Общество, vol. XIV.1, 2012, pp. 57–108.
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Dainotto, R. “Fredric Jameson: Postmodernit e Cultural Studi.” Moderna, vol. XIV, 2012, pp. 141–52.
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Dainotto, R. “The Politics of the Event (Beginning)/Политика события (начало).” Личность Культура Общество, vol. XIV.1, no. 69–70, 2012, pp. 57–108.
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Dainotto, Roberto M. “WORLD LITERATURE AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE.” Routledge Companion to World Literature, 2012, pp. 425–34.Link to Item
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Dainotto, R. M. “With plato in Italy: The value of literary fiction in napoleonic Italy.” Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 3, Sept. 2011, pp. 399–418. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00267929-1275181.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. LEuropa e la dialettica del confine. Edited by Luigi Cazzato, Salento Books, 2011, pp. 148–60.
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Dainotto, R. “With Plato in Italy: The Value of Literary Fiction in Napoleonic Italy.” Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 72, 2011, pp. 399–418.
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Dainotto, R. “Does Europe Have a South? An Essay on Borders.” Global South, vol. 5, no. 1, 2011, pp. 37–50.
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Dainotto, R. “Gramsci’s Bibliographies.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, 2011, pp. 211–24.
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Dainotto, R. “Luciano Bianciardi and the cultural labor.” Italian Studies, vol. 65, no. 3, Nov. 2010, pp. 361–75. Scopus, doi:10.1179/016146210X12593180344414.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. “Pensiero verticale: negazione della mediterraneità e radicamento terrestere in Vincenzo Cuoco.” California Italian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2010.Link to Item
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Dainotto, R. “Luciano Bianciardi e il lavoro culturale.” Italian Cultural Studies, vol. 65, no. 3, 2010, pp. 361–75.
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Dainotto, R. Antonio Labriola. Edited by Mario Isnenghi and Simon Levi Sullam, UTET, 2009, pp. 729–729.
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Dainotto, R. Rinascimento; Filosofia della praxis; Controriforma. Edited by Paolo Liguori and Pasquale Voza, Carocci, 2009, pp. 162-163;312-315;713-716.-162-163;312-315;713-716.
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Dainotto, R. “`The Saxophone and the Pastoral: Italian Jazz in the Age of Fascist Modernity.” Italica, vol. 2, no. 3, 2009, pp. 271–92.
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Dainotto, R. Documento, realismo e reale. Edited by Antonio Vitti, Roma: Metauro, 2008, pp. 99–120.
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Dainotto, R. “Historical Materialism as New Humanism: Antonio Labriola’s ‘In Memoria del Manifesto dei Comunisti’ (1895).” Annali D’Italianistica, vol. 25, 2008, pp. 265–82.
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Dainotto, R. M. “Between salt water and holy water: A history of southern Italy.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, June 2006, pp. 244–46.Link to Item
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Dainotto, R. Giosu Carducci. Routledge, 2006.
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Dainotto, R. Aleardo Aleardi. Routledge, 2006.
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Dainotto, R. M. “Of the Arab origin of modern Europe: Giammaria Barbieri, Juan Andrés, and the origin of rhyme.” Comparative Literature, vol. 58, no. 4, Jan. 2006, pp. 271–92. Scopus, doi:10.1215/-58-4-271.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. M. “The discreet charm of the arabist theory: Juan Andrés, historicism, and the de-centering of Montesquieu's Europe.” European History Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 7–29. Scopus, doi:10.1177/0265691406059610.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. “The Discreet Charm of the Arabist Theory.” European History Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, 2006, pp. 7–29.
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Dainotto, R. “The European-ness of Italy: Categories and Norms.” Annali D’Italianistica, vol. 24, 2006, pp. 19–40.
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Dainotto, R. M. Stanley Elkin. Edited by Cristina Giorcelli E Valerio Massimo de Angelis, 2005, pp. 429–42.
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Dainotto, R. M. “Ilvo Diamanti (2003) Bianco, rosso, verde... e azzurro. Mappe e colori del lItalia polit-.” Journal of Modern Italian History, vol. 10, 2005, pp. 119–119.
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Dainotto, R. M. “White, red, green ... and sky-blue. Maps and colors of political Italy.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 2005, pp. 110–11.Link to Item
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Lentricchia, F. “Don DeLillo.” Raritan, 2005.
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Roberto Dainotto, F. “Goethe's Backpack.” Substance, vol. 105, no. 33, 2005, pp. 6–22.Link to Item
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Dainotto, R. M. “The ’Other’ Europe of Michele Amari: Orientalism from the South.” Nineteenth Century Contexts, vol. 26, Dec. 2004, pp. 18–27.
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Roberto Dainotto, D. T. “The 'Other' Europe of Michele Amari: Orientalism from the South.” Nineteenth Century Contexts, vol. 26, no. 4, Dec. 2004, pp. 18–27.
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Dainotto, R. M. “Goethe's backpack.” Sub Stance, vol. 33, no. 3, Jan. 2004, pp. 6–22. Scopus, doi:10.1353/sub.2004.0036.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. “The Gubbio Papers: Historic centers in the age of the economic miracle.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Dec. 2003, pp. 67–83. Scopus, doi:10.1080/1354571022000036236.Full Text
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Roberto Dainotto, R. M. “Asimmetrie mediterranee. Etica e mare nostrum.” Nae, vol. 3, Dec. 2003, pp. 3–18.
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of, Review. “Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State: 1980-2001by Paul Ginsborg and Place and Politics in Modern Italy by John A. Agnew.” Journal of Modern History, vol. forthcoming, 2003.
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Dainotto, R. M. Globalism and Regionalism: Difference or Identity? Edited by Enrique Rodriguez Larreta, Rio de Janeiro: UNESCO/ISSC/EDUCAM, 2002, pp. 259–79.
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Dainotto, R. M. The Canonization of Heinrich Heine and the Construction of Jewish-Italian Literature. Edited by Stanislao Pugliese, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 131–38.
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Dainotto, R. M. “The American myth in Italy of the Great War.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, 2002, pp. 309–11.Link to Item
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Dainotto, R. M. “The intellectuals and the Great War.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, 2002, pp. 309–11.Link to Item
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Fentress, Review of James. “Rebels and Mafiosi: Death in a Sicilian Landscape.” Italian Culture, Jan. 2002.
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Marazzi, Review of Martino. Misteri di Little Italy. Vol. 20, Jan. 2002, pp. 118–19.
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alia, Review of Vincenzo Cal et, et al. “Gli intellettuali e la Grande Guerra; Il mito americano nell’Italia della grande guerra.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 7, 2002, pp. 309–11.
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Dainotto, R. M. The Importance of Being Sicilian: Italian Cultural Studies, sicilitudine and je ne sais quoi. Edited by Graziella Parti and Ben Lawton, Boca Raton: Bordighera Press, Jan. 2001, pp. 201–19.
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Dainotto, R. M. Tramonto and Risorgimento: Gentile’s Dialectics and the Prophecy of Nation. Edited by Alberto Ascoli and Krystyna von Henneberg, Oxford: Berg., 2001, pp. 241–56.
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Dainotto, R. M. La citt e il represso. Moderno, postmoderno, e l’ immaginario del(la) capitale. Edited by Fausto Carmelo Nigrelli, Roma: ManifestoLibri., 2001, pp. 49–72.
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Dainotto, R. M. “The Importance of Being Sicilian: Italian Cultural Studies, sicilitudine and je ne sais quoi.” Italian Cultural Studies, edited by Graziella Parati and Ben Lawton, Boca Raton: Bordighera Press, 2001, pp. 201–19.
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Dainotto, R. M. “Made in Italy. Look e identit nazionale nell’ Italia del dopoguerra.” Segno, vol. 219, Oct. 2000, pp. 47–60.
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Dainotto, R. M. Die Rhetorik des Regionalismus. Architektonischer Ort und der Geist des Gemeinplatzes. Edited by Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2000, pp. 15–30.
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Roberto Dainotto, T. “A South with a View: Europe and its Other.” Nepantla: Views From the South, vol. I, no. 2, 2000, pp. 375–90.
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Roberto Dainotto, T. “Vico's Beginnings and Ends: Variations on the Theme of Origins of Language.” Annali D’Italianistica, vol. 18, 2000, pp. 13–28.
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Dainotto, R. M. The Bolshevik in the Garden: The Invention of America in Fascist Italy. Edited by Stephen Fender, Keele University Press, 1996.
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Dainotto, R. M. “"All the regions do smilingly revolt": The literature of place and region.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 22, no. 3, Jan. 1996, pp. 486–505. Scopus, doi:10.1086/448803.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. M. The Excremental Sublime: The Postmodern Literature of Blockage and Release. Edited by Eyal Amiran and John Unsworth, Oxford University, 1994, pp. 133–72.
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Dainotto, R. M. Canon/Gender/Praxis. Edited by Mario Corona and Giuseppe Lom-, Herder Press, 1993.
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Roberto Dainotto, N. K. “Myth and Carnival in Robert Coover’s Public Burning.” Rivista Di Studi Nord Americani, vol. 3, 1992, pp. 5–22.
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Dainotto, R. M. “Katherine Jason, ed. and trans., Name & Tears and Other Stories: Forty Years of Italian.” Italian Americana, vol. 12, 1990, pp. 138–39.
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Book Sections
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Dainotto, R. “Max Weber in Southern Europe: The Problem with Work.” Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from Its Southern Shores, 2022, pp. 111–29. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9781003083641-7.Full Text
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Conference Papers
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Dainotto, R. M. Gramsci and Labriola: Philology, philosophy of praxis. 2009, pp. 50–68. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780203879078.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. “The "other" Europe of Michele Amari: Orientalism from the south.” Nineteenth Century Contexts, vol. 26, no. 4, 2004, pp. 328–37. Scopus, doi:10.1080/08905490512331329330.Full Text
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Dainotto, R. M. “The Jewish risorgimento and the questione Romana.” Italian Jewish Experience, edited by T. P. DiNapoli, no. 21, FORUM ITALICUM, 2000, pp. 107–15.Link to Item
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- CINE 254: Italian Cinema 2023
- ITALIAN 380: Italian Cinema 2023
- ITALIAN 588S: Antonio Gramsci and the Marxist Legacy 2023
- LIT 215: Italian Cinema 2023
- LIT 572S: Antonio Gramsci and the Marxist Legacy 2023
- VMS 308: Italian Cinema 2023
- AMES 390S: Special Topics 2022
- ARTSVIS 390S: Special Topics in Visual Arts 2022
- CINE 490S: Special Topics In Cinematic Arts 2022
- HISTORY 390: Topics in History Lecture 2022
- ICS 390: Selected Topics in International Comparative Studies 2022
- ICS 590: Special Topics in International Comparative Studies 2022
- ITALIAN 390: Topics in Italian Civilization 2022
- ITALIAN 390P: Topics in Italian Civilization: Preceptorial 2022
- ITALIAN 590: Topics in Italian Studies 2022
- ITALIAN 791: Special Readings 2022
- LIT 390: Special Topics in Literature 2022
- LIT 390S-4: Special Topics in Film 2022
- LIT 590: Special Topics in Literature 2022
- LIT 891: Special Readings 2022
- ROMST 390S: Special Topics in Romance Studies 2022
- VMS 390S: Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies 2022
- CINE 254: Italian Cinema 2021
- ICS 240: What Is Europe? 2021
- ITALIAN 201: What Is Europe? 2021
- ITALIAN 380: Italian Cinema 2021
- ITALIAN 380P: Italian Cinema - Preceptorial 2021
- ITALIAN 588S: Antonio Gramsci and the Marxist Legacy 2021
- ITALIAN 588SP: Antonio Gramsci: Preceptorial 2021
- LIT 215: Italian Cinema 2021
- LIT 273: What Is Europe? 2021
- LIT 572S: Antonio Gramsci and the Marxist Legacy 2021
- LIT 891: Special Readings 2021
- ROMST 201: What Is Europe? 2021
- ROMST 201P: What is Europe?: Preceptorial 2021
- VMS 308: Italian Cinema 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Keynote: Europe's Bridges and Borders. December 8, 2013 2013
- Rhymes and Europe. November 25, 2013 2013
- Machiavelli negli Stati Uniti. October 27, 2013 2013
- Cinema and Literature. March 27, 2013 2013
- Borders, Borderthinking, Borderlands. November 30, 2012 2012
- Mediterranean Solutions. October 11, 2012 2012
- History and the Novel. October 2, 2012 2012
- Keynote. Carolina Conference.. March 24, 2012 2012
- Europe (in Theory). February 8, 2012 2012
- Jazz in Fascist Italy. November 11, 2011 2011
- Keynote address to “The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe, 1492-1700". October 8, 2011 2011
- Keynote address to the 61st Annual Mountain Interstate Conference on Foreign Languages.. October 1, 2011 2011
- Keynote address. Echi d'Oltremare: L'Italia, il Mediterraneo e oltre. June 17, 2011 2011
- The West and its Others. June 13, 2011 2011
- Gramsci's Bibliographies. May 6, 2011 2011
- Notes on Notebook 6§32: Gramsci and the Dalits. December 14, 2010 2010
- What is European Literature?. November 18, 2010 2010
- Translating Laws: Montesquieu and the South.. October 8, 2010 2010
- Philology and the European Union: Textual Notes on Constitutional Prose. September 30, 2010 2010
- Europe (in Practice). September 23, 2010 2010
- From Organic to Pure Vaseline: Intellectuals and the Society of Spectacle. April 15, 2010 2010
- Space and Transculturality: Of Borders. April 9, 2010 2010
- Nord e Sud: L’europa e la dialettica del confine. November 27, 2009 2009
- Keynote: Translations, Transfers, and Other Betrayals: Luciano Bianciardi, or the Autobiography of Cultural Labor. November 6, 2009 2009
- The Theme of Betrayal in Jewish Italian Literature. September 24, 2009 2009
- Keynote: The Youth is Watching Us. April 11, 2009 2009
- Montesquieu's Debauched Other: Comparison, Authority, and Revolution in 18th Century Europe. March 17, 2009 2009
- French Universalism and Local Contingencies: Vincenzo Cuoco's Enlightenment from the South. March 6, 2009 2009
- Orientalizing and Dis-Orientalizing Early Modern European Poetry: The Question of Beginnings. October 30, 2008 2008
- Europe (in Theory). September 15, 2008 2008
- Viva le tette dell’industria culturale: Luciano Bianciardi da Grosseto a Milano. July 23, 2008 2008
- History of the Histories of the Mediterranean. April 15, 2008 2008
- Italy between Europe and the Mediterranean. April 12, 2008 2008
- La Grosseto di Luciano Bianciardi, termine di paragone della Milano capitale culturale. February 21, 2008 2008
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