GIORGIO MARIANI Born in Rome, July 5, 1954 Home address: Via

GIORGIO MARIANI
Born in Rome, July 5, 1954
Home address: Via Beniamino Gigli, 103
62100 Macerata
Institutional address: Department of European, American, and Intercultural Studies
“Sapienza” University of Rome
Via Carlo Fea 2
00161 Roma
E-MAIL: [email protected]
EDUCATION:
Ph. D., English Department, Rutgers University, 1990
Dottore di Ricerca, Studi Americani, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 1987
Master of Arts, English Department, Rutgers Univeristy, 1982
Laurea con lode, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, “Sapienza” University of Rome,
1978
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:
Full Professor of American Literature, Department of European, American, and Intercultural Studies,
“Sapienza” University of Rome, 2006-present
Associate Professor of American Literature, Department of English, “Sapienza” University of Rome,
1998-2006
Assistant Professor of American Literature, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies,
University of Salerno, 1991-1998
Full-time Instructor, English Department, Rutgers University, 1990-91
COMPLETED RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
a) Books
“One Step Beyond the Hero.” Waging war on war in the American literary imagination.
Manuscript accepted for publication by the University of Illinois Press as of July 2013. To
appear in the Fall of 2014
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Herman Melville: una introduzione. Roma: Carocci, 2013
La penna e il tamburo. Gli indiani d’America e la letteratura degli Stati Uniti [The pen and the
drum. The American Indians and the literature of the United States]. Verona: ombre
corte, 2003
Post-tribal Epics: The Native American Novel Between Tradition and Modernity. Lewiston, NY:
The Edwin Mellen Press, 1996
Allegorie impossibili: storia e strategie della critica melvilliana [Intolerable allegories: A history
of the strategies of Melvillian criticism] Roma: Bulzoni, 1993
Spectacular Narratives: Representations of Class and War in Stephen Crane and American
Popular Literature of the 1890's. New York: Peter Lang, 1992
b) Books edited and co-edited
Il Novecento americano: le culture letterarie. [American literary cultures of the 20th century].
Co-edited with Sara Antonelli. Roma: Carocci, 2009
American Solitudes. Individual, National, Transnational. Co-edited with Donatella Izzo and
Paola Zaccaria. Roma: Carocci, 2007
Emerson at 200. Co-edited with Sonia Di Loreto, Carlo Martinez, Anna Scannavini, and Igina
Tattoni. Proceedings of the International Bicentennial Emerson Conference. Rome, October
16-18, 2003. Roma: Aracne Editrice, 2004
Americanistica transnazionale e nuova comparatistica. Co-edited with Donatella Izzo.
[Transnational American Studies and New Comparative Studies] Milano: Shake Edizioni,
2004
Sherman Alexie, Il powwow della fine del mondo [The Powow at the End of the World: selected
poems by Sherman Alexie]. Translated and with an afterword and notes by Giorgio Mariani.
Urbino: Quattroventi, 2003
Le parole e le armi: saggi su guerra e violenza nella letteratura e cultura degli Stati Uniti
d’America. [Words and arms: a collection of critical essays on war and violence in
American literature and culture]. Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 1999
Stephen Crane, Il mostro. Translated and with an introduction and notes by Giorgio
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Mariani, Venezia: Marsilio, 1997
Stephen Crane, Il segno rosso del coraggio. Translated and with an introduction by Giorgio
Mariani, Roma: Newton Compton, 1993
Charles Bukowski, Los Angeles 462-0614. Translated and co-edited by Paola Ludovici and Giorgio
Mariani. Roma: Savelli, 1980. With an introduction by Giorgio Mariani.
c) Special issues of journals edited
“Glocal Melville.” Ácoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nord-americani, New Series, 2 (2012).
“Anti-Americanismi.” Ácoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nord-americani, 33, Winter 2007
“Religion and Secularization in the United States of America.” RSA Journal, 17-18, 2006-07.
Co-edited with Daniele Fiorentino
d) Chapters in books and introductions
“Ombre rosse, ombre nere. Gli indiani d’America e l’immaginario politico tra Stati Uniti
e Italia” [Red and black shadows: American Indians and the Political Imaginary between
Italy and the United States]. Parlare di razza. La lingua del colore fra Italia e Stati uniti.
A cura di Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh e Anna Scacchi. Verona: ombre corte, 2012. 122-45.
“Femminismo pistolero: Bad Girls di Jonathan Kaplan” [Feminist gunslinging: Jonathan
Kaplan’s Bad Girls]. L’invenzione del west(ern). Fortuna di un genere nella cultura del
Novecento. Ed. Stefano Rosso. Verona: ombre corte, 2010. 139-148
“Rewriting the Captivity Narrative: James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk.”
Ambassadors. American Studies in a Changing World. Eds. Massimo Bacigalupo and
Gregory Dowling. Genova: Busco, 2009. 214-19.
“Il cinema western visto dagli indiani. Vendetta e violenza in Sentieri selvaggi di John Ford e
Indian Killer di Sherman Alexie” [Western cinema as seen by the Indians. Violence and
revenge in John Ford’s The Searchers and Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer]. Le frontiere
del West. Forme di rappresentazione del grande mito americano. Ed. Stefano Rosso.
Milano: ShaKe Edizioni, 2008. 57-77
“Reimmaginare il passato. Il romanzo indiano-americano tra rappresentazione della storia e
paradigmi mitici” [Reimagining the past. The Native American Novel between the
representation of history and mythical paradigms]. La Storia nel romanzo (1800-2000). A
cura di P. Amalfitano, F. Fiorentino e L. Innocenti. Roma: Bulzoni, 2008. 159-72
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“Introduzione”. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Condotta di vita. [The Conduct of Life]. Ed. Beniamino
Soressi. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2008. 5-23.
“Tra la “Madre Terra” e la luna. Note sulla “fortuna” (?) della letteratura indiano-americana
contemporanea in Italia” [Between Mother Earth and the moon. Notes on the fortune (?)
of contemporary American Indian literature in Italy]. Gli Indiani d’America e l’Italia,
Volume III. Ed. Fedora Giordano. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso 2007. 147-59.
“Chiefly Known By His Rod: The Book of Jonah, Mapple’s Sermon, Scapegoating”. Ungraspable
Phantom. Essays on Moby-Dick. Eds. Mary E. Bercaw, John Bryant, and Tim Marr. Kent.
OH: Kent State University Press, 2006. 37-57
“Introduzione”. Sarah Winnemucca, Io, pellerossa. [Life among the Piutes]. Translated by
Cristina Pittiglio. Roma: Donzelli, 2006. vii-xx.
“Reimmaginare il passato. Il mito della frontiera, la violenza e il cinema western ‘revisionista’
(1982-1993)” [Reimagining the past. The myth of the frontier, violence, and the
revisionist western (1982-1993)]. Un fascino osceno. Guerra e violenza nella letteratura
e nel cinema. Ed. Stefano Rosso. Verona: ombre corte, 2006. 108-50.
“Mythic Pro-Americanism: an Italian Odyssey.” Written with Alessandro Portelli. Americas’
Worlds and the World’s Americas / Les mondes des Amériques et les Amériques du
monde. Eds. Amaryll Chanady, George Handley and/et Patrick Imbert. Ottawa, Legas,
2006. 85-94
“ ‘US ‘R us?’ Note sull’internazionalizzazione degli Studi Americani dopol’11
settembre” [“US ‘R us?” Notes on the internationalization of American Studies after
9/11]. A lezione da Agostino Lombardo. A cura di Biancamaria Pisapia. Roma: Bulzoni,
2006. 123-35.
“Introduzione”. Herman Melville, Mardi e un viaggio laggiù. Translated by Emilio Tadini.
Milano: Garzanti, 2006. xix-xxviii
“Read with Mussolini. The Italian Reception of Emerson under Fascism”. Emerson at 200.
Proceedings of the Emerson 2003 Rome Conference. Eds. Giorgio Mariani (Conference
Coordinator), Sonia Di Loreto, Carlo Martinez, Anna Scannavini, and Igina Tattoni.
Roma: Aracne Editrice, 2004. 123-31
“Letteratura indiano-americana” [American Indian literature]. Voci dagli Stati Uniti. Prosa &
Poesia & Teatro del secondo Novecento. Eds. Caterina Ricciardi and Valerio Massimo de
Angelis. Roma: Centro Stampa Ateneo, 2004. 587-99
“Mc Teague di Frank Norris”. Il romanzo, Vol. IV. Temi, luoghi, eroi. Ed. Franco Moretti. Torino:
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Einaudi, 2003. 811-818
“ ‘For we are all killers, on land and on sea’: Melville, il viaggio per mare e la violenza” [Melville,
seafaring and violence]. Da Ulisse a....: il viaggio per mare nell’immaginario letterario ed
artistico. Ed. Giorgetta Revelli. Pisa: ETS, 2003. 207-218
“C.L.R. James, Moby-Dick e la guerra fredda” [C.L.R. James, Moby-Dick and the Cold War]. C. L.
R. James. Marinai, rinnegati e reietti. La storia di Herman Melville e il mondo in cui
viviamo [Mariners, renegades, and castaways. The story of Herman Melville and the world
we live in]. Verona: ombre corte, 2003. 199-209
“Tra universo mitico e frammentazione postmoderna: sui paradigmi temporali della narrativa
indiano-americana contemporanea” [Between the mythic universe and postmodern
fragmentation: on the temporal paradigms of contemporary American Indian narrative].
Il cerchio e la freccia. Studi sulla percezione del tempo nella letteratura occidentale. A
cura di G. Calabrò. Salerno: ESI, 2000. 91-115
“Ahab’s Errand and Ishmael’s Errancy: Moby-Dick between William Spanos’ Destruction and
Donald Pease’s New Americanism”. Telling the Stories of America. History, Literature,
and the Arts. Eds. Annalisa Goldoni and Alessandro Clericuzio. Proceedings of the XIV
AISNA Biennial Conference. Roma: Nuova Arnica, 2000. 315-22
“Tra Omero e l’America” [Between Homer and America]. Introductory essay to Le parole e le
armi: saggi su guerra e violenza nella letteratura e cultura degli Stati Uniti d’America.
Ed. Giorgio Mariani. Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 1999. 13-53
“L’equivalente retorico della guerra: William James, Kenneth Burke, Stephen Crane” [The
rhetorical equivalent of war: William James, Kenneth Burke, Stephen Crane] . Le parole
e le armi: saggi su guerra e violenza nella letteratura e cultura degli Stati Uniti
d’America. Ed. Giorgio Mariani. Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 1999. 231-59
“Is Peace to War as Metonimy is to Metaphor? Some Thoughts on Crane, Hemingway, and the
Mystery of Heroism”. Red Badges of Courage. Wars and Conflicts in American Culture.
Proceedings of the XIII AISNA Biennial Conference. Eds. B. M. Pisapia,, A. Scacchi, U.
Rubeo. Roma: Bulzoni, 1999. 183-91
“Guerra, fiction e verità: su ‘How to Tell a War Story’ di Tim O'Brien” [War, fiction, and truth:
on Tim O'Brien’s “How to Tell a War Story”]. Vietnam e ritorno. La “guerra sporca”
nel cinema, nella letteratura e nel teatro. Eds. Stefano Ghislotti and Stefano Rosso.
Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 1996. 139-57
“La critica marxista e il New Historicism” [Marxist criticism and the New Historicism]. Teorie della
critica negli Stati Uniti. Ed. Donatella Izzo. Roma: La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1996. 89-107
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“L'altrove nella narrativa indiano-americana, tra utopia e mimesi” [The elsewhere in American
Indian narrative, between utopia and mimesis]. Per una topografia dell’altrove. Spazi
altri nell’immaginario letterario e culturale di lingua inglese. Eds. Maria Teresa Chialant
and Eleonora Rao. Napoli: Liguori, 1995. 387-96
“Technology and Storytelling: Leslie Silko’s Ceremony as World Epic”. Igitur 10-11 (July 1994June 1995): 95-125.
“L'indiano nella storiografia puritana” [The Indian in Puritan historiography]. La letteratura
americana dell'età coloniale. Ed. Paola Cabibbo. Roma: La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1993.
177-89
“La frontiera americana tra storia e mito” [The American frontier between myth and history]. La
letteratura americana dell'età coloniale. Ed. Paola Cabibbo. Roma: La Nuova Italia
Scientifica, 1993. 333-47
“Doppia liminalità: note sulla letteratura degli Indiani d'America” [A double liminality: notes on
American Indian literature]. Sulla soglia. Questioni di liminalità in letteratura, a cura di
Paola Cabibbo. Roma: Il Calamo, 1993. 261-82
“Northrop Frye and the Politics of the Bible”. Ritratto di Frye. Ed. A. Lombardo. Roma: Bulzoni,
1990. 135-43
“Was Anybody More of an Indian Than Karl Marx? The ‘Indiani Metropolitani’ and the 1977
Movement”. Indians and Europe. Ed. Christian Feest. Herodot, 1987. 585-598
“Civiltà o Barbarie: l'ideologia del fantastico in ‘Young Goodman Brown’ di Nathaniel
Hawthorne” [Savagery or civilization: the ideology of the fantastic in Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”]. I piaceri dell'immaginazione. Ed. B. M.
Pisapia. Roma: Bulzoni, 1984. 212-231
“Melville nella critica decostruzionista” [Melville in decostructive criticism]. Melvilliana. Ed. Paola
Cabibbo. Roma: Bulzoni, 1984. 257-280
“Gulliver colonizzatore selvaggio” [Gulliver as savage and colonizer]. Settecento senza amore. Ed.
R. M. Colombo. Roma: Bulzoni, 1983.11-53
“Introduzione” (written with Paola Ludovici). Carolyn Cassady, Cuore di Beat, Roma: Savelli, 1980.
7-12
e) Articles in journals
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“Pulpy Fiction: A Dylan Dog adaptation of Moby-Dick.” Accepted for publication in Leviathan. A
Journal of Melville Studies.
“Negotiating Violence and Identity in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer.” Fiar. Forum for InterAmerican Research 4.2 (November 2011). http://www.interamerica.de/
Volume-4-2/mariani/
“ ‘Safety is in our speed’: Reading Bauman Reading Emerson.” Review of International American
Studies, 4.2-4.3 Fall/Winter 2009-2010: 40-48.
“Ad Bellum Purificandum. Gving Peace a (Fighting) Chance in American Studies”. American
Literary History 21 (2009): 96-122.
“Il buco nella coperta. Nativi americani e bianchi tra storia e immaginario” [The whole in the
blanket. Native Americans and whites between history and imagination]. Zapruder.
Storie In Movimento, 18 (January-April 2009): 36-49.
“Chief Seattle versus Sherman Alexie: How Useful is Ecocriticism When We Read American Indian
Literature?” RSA Journal 19 (2008): 123-33.
“ ‘Curious Anesthetics’: Ellen LaMotte and the Wounds of the Great War”. Letterature
d’America, XXVI. nn. 113-114 (2007): 67-94.
“Il filoamericanismo mitico in Italia dopo l’11 settembre” [Mythic phlioamericanism in Italy
after 9/11]. Written with Alessandro Portelli. Acoma. Rivista Internazionale di Studi
Nord-Americani. 33 (Inverno 2007): 68-80.
“Transatlanticism Then and Now?” Review of International American Studies. 1.1 (2006).7-9.
“Tra Frankenstein e Lazzaro. Il Mostro di Stephen Crane” [Between Frankenstein and Lazarus:
Stephen Crane’s The Monster]. Janus 14 (2004): 127-34.
“ ‘The Monstrous Incredibility. The Incredible Monstrosity’. A Fable di William Faulkner
come anti-romance”. Fictions. Studi sulla narratività. Vol. 2 (2004): 107-31. Special issue
on “Romance & Novel”
“Da Atopia a Utopia: Gli indiani interstiziali di Sherman Alexie” [From Atopia to Utopia.
Sherman Alexie’s interstitial Indians]. Acoma. Rivista Internazionale di Studi NordAmericani. 27 (Estate - Autunno 2003): 117-125
“The (Mis)fortune of Emerson in Italy”. Anglistica. a.i.o.n. 6.1 (2002): 103-31
“Una contro-epica americana? Guerra e pace nella Columbiad di Joel Barlow” [An American
Counter-Epic? War and Peace in Joel Barlow’s Columbiad]. Acoma. Rivista
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Internazionale di Studi Nord-Americani. 20 (Autumn 2000): 69-78
“Mission of Mercy/Mission of Murder. Saving Private Ryan e la cultura dei Baby Bombers”.
Acoma. Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nord-Americani. 18 (Winter 2000): 13-22
“L'ultimo dei mohicani: il romanzo, il film e il problema dell'identità nazionale” [The last of the
Mohicans: the novel, the film, and the problem of national identity]. Acoma. Rivista
internazionale di studi nord-americani. 12 (Winter 1998): 27-36
“Per una teoria del romanzo indiano-americano” [Towards a theory of the American Indian novel].
Acoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nord-americani. 9 (Winter 1997): 9-20
“Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War Stories and the Critique of the Martial Spirit”. Studies in American
Fiction, 19 (Autumn 1991): 125-132
“The Horrors of War: The Red Badge of Courage, the Spectacle of Ideology and the Ideology of
Spectacle”. Igitur, II (luglio-dicembre 1990): 23-53.
“ ‘Art Made of Dawn’: An Introduction to Contemporary Native American Poetry”. European North
American Indian Studies, 2 (1985): 174-189.
“Alce Nero scrive: la stampa indiana negli anni '60 e '70” [Black Elk writes: American Indian
newspapers in the 60’s and 70’s]. Studi Americani 25-26 (1980): 431-456.
“Gli Indiani d'America oggi: un caso di colonialismo interno” [American Indians today: a case of
internal colonialism]. Written in collaboration with Paola Ludovici. Politica Internazionale,
10 (1980): 71-79.
f) Reviews and interviews (selected)
“Poetry, Pragmatism, and American Literature: An Interview with Richard Poirier”. College Hill
Review. An online quarterly exploring style in the arts and the humanities 5
(Winter/Spring 2010). http://www.collegehillreview.com/005/0050201.html.
Review of The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James by Mark McGurl.
Stephen Crane Studies 14.2 (2005): 24-27.
“Il fiume incontenibile della storia”. Review of Mississippi. Il grande fiume: un viaggio alle fonti
dell'America by Mario Maffi. Il Manifesto, September 23, 2004.
“Americhe senza nativi”. Review of American Holocaust by David Stannard. Il Manifesto-Alias, 11
(March 16, 2002): 17-18.
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Review of Stephen Crane in War and Peace, a special issue of War, Literature and the Arts. Stephen
Crane Studies 10.1 (2001): 18-20
“L'università del narcisismo. Mercato, ricerca, specialismi nell'università e nella critica americana”
[The university of narcissism. Market, research, specialization in American criticism and the
American university]. Interview with Franco Moretti (in collaboration with Alessandro
Portelli). Acoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nord-americani 4 (1995): 61-5
“Un nuovo storicismo, American style”. Review of The New Historicism, ed. by Haram Veeser.
Igitur, 2 (luglio-dicembre 1991): 125-32
“Uomo ecologico e uomo economico: indiani d’America tra storia e mito”. Review of Keepers of the
Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade by Calvin Martin. I Giorni Cantati,
3-4 (Settembre-Dicembre 1987): 12-15
“Scheletri indiani”. L’indice dei libri del mese. Anno XII, Luglio 1995. 7. Review of The Lone
Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie.
g) Translations (from English into Italian)
Sherman Alexie, The Business of Fancydancing and The Summer of Black Widows. Partially
translated with tht title Il powwow della fine del mondo. Urbino: Quattroventi, 2003
Stephen Crane, The Monster. Italian title: Il mostro, Venezia: Marsilio, 1997
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage. Italian title: Il segno rosso del coraggio, Roma:
Newton Compton, 1993
Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell (in collaboration with Paola Ludovici). Published in
Italian in two separate volumes: L'amore è un cane che viene dall'inferno, Roma: Savelli,
1981 e Los-Angeles 462-0614, Roma, Savelli, 1982
Neal Cassady, The First Third. Italian title: Vagabondo, Roma: Savelli, 1980. Republished by
Mondadori in 1998 with the title I vagabondi
Carolyn Cassady, Heart Beat. Italian title: Cuore di Beat, Roma: Savelli, 1980
James Welch, Winter in the Blood (in collaboration with Paola Ludovici). Italian title: Inverno
nel sangue, Roma: Savelli, 1979
Critical essays on Richard Foreman, published in Italy with the title Luogo + Bersaglio, Roma:
Edizioni Officina, 1980
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PAPERS READ AT CONFERENCES, CONFERENCE ORGANIZING, INVITED LECTURES
“Brian Turner’s Cosmopolitan Poetry: ‘Guarding the Bomber’ and the Iraq War.” 5th World
Congress of the International American Studies Association (I.A.S.A.), Szczecin, 2013
“Stephen Crane’s ‘A Mystery of Heroism’.” The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth
Colllege, June 2013
“The American Epic between War and Peace: From Joel Barlow’s Columbiad to Melville’s MobyDick.” École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, September, 21 October 2012.
“Beyond the Linguistic Netherworld: Writing the Iraq War.” Atelier Amérique du Nord, Université
Lumière Lyon 2, 7 October 2012
“The Rhetorical Equivalent of War.” The International Forum for U.S. Studies and the Unit for
Criticism and Interpretive Theory. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, September
2011
“Italians and American Indians, or, ‘Itandians’ in Red and Black.” 5th World Congress of the
International American Studies Association (I.A.S.A.), Rio de Janeiro, July 2011
“Negotiating Violence and Identity in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer”. Transnational Americas.
First Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, Essen,
Germany, November 2010
“From Sicily 1943, to Iraq 2003. Enlisting John Hersey’s A Bell for Adano as Propaganda for the
American Empire”. 4th World Congress of the International American Studies
Association (I.A.S.A.), Beijing, September 2009
“War and Peace in Joel Barlow’s Columbiad”. War and American Identity. An International
Conference. Clinton Institute, University College, Dublino, March 20-21, 2009
“Give Peace a Chance. War and Peace in American Studies”. The International Forum for U.S.
Studies. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2008
“Subversive Americanization as an alternative to the discourses of ‘anti-Americanism’: US
radicalism and/in the ‘long Italian 60’s’. Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation
Third World Conference of the International American Studies Association. Università di
Lisbona. 20-23 September, 2007
“What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Anti-Americanism? An Italian Perspective”.
America in the World. Discourses of “Americanization” and “Anti-Americanism”. The
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International Forum for U.S. Studies. University of Iowa, April 2006
Coordinator, with Jane Desmond, of “Anti-Americanism and Anti-Imperialism”. A
Workshop of the 2nd World Congress of the International American Studies
Association, University of Ottawa, August 2005
“Mythic Pro-Americanism: An Italian Odyssey” (written in collaboration with Alessandro
Portelli). 2nd World Congress of the International American Studies
Association University of Ottawa, August 18-20, 2005
“Ad Bellum Purificandum. Giving Peace a (Fighting) Chance in American Studies”. The
Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth Colllege, June 2005
“Reimmaginare il passato. Il romanzo indiano-americano tra rappresentazione della storia
e paradigmi mitici” [Reimagining the past. The Native American Novel between history and
mythical paradigms]. La Storia nel romanzo (1800-2000). Associazione Culturale Malatesta.
Rocca Malatestiana, Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna, May 2004
“Reversing the Captivity Narrative: James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk”. XVI Biennial
Conference of A.I.S.N.A (the Italian North- American Studies Association).Rome,
November 2003
“Read with Mussolini. The Italian Reception of Emerson under Fascism”. Emerson 2003. An
International celebration of the Emerson Bicentennial. “Sapienza” University of Rome,
October 16-18, 2003
Organizer (with Daniele Fiorentino and Matteo Sanfilippo) of the Interdisciplinary Seminar The
State of the Art in American Studies. Rome, Centro Studi Americani, June 3-5, 2003
“ ‘For we are all killers, on land and on sea’: Melville, il viaggio per mare e la violenza”. “Da
Ulisse a:..... ( Il viaggio per mare nella letteratura, nel cinema e nella musica). Imperia,
University of Genova, October 2002
“Chiefly Known By His Rod: The Book of Jonah, Mapple’s Sermon, Scapegoating”. Moby-Dick
2001. An Interdisciplinary Celebration. Hofstra University, October 18-20, 2001
“An American Counter-Epic? Peace and War in Joel Barlow’s Columbiad”. Pace e Guerra nella
Cultura Italiana ed Europea del 700. Convegno della Società Italiana di Studi del Settecento.
University of Viterbo, May 2000
“From Atopia to Utopia: Sherman Alexie’s Interstitial Indians”. XV Biennial Conference of
A.I.S.N.A (the Italian North- American Studies Association). Siracusa, October 1999
“L'indiano nella storiografia letteraria americana” [The Indian in American literary historiography].
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Geografie d'identità: l'ovest nelle culture nord-americane. Settimana di studi americani,
Università di Macerata, March 20, 1998
Coordinator (with Donatella Izzo) of “The Same Old Story? The Impact of New Historicism on
American Studies”. A Workshop of the XIV Biennial Conference of A.I.S.N.A (the Italian
North-American Studies Association). Pescara, October 25-27, 1997
“Ahab's Errand and Ishmael's Errancy: Moby-Dick between William Spanos' Destruction and Donald
Pease's New Americanism”. XIV Biennial Conference of A.I.S.N.A (the Italian NorthAmerican Studies Association). Pescara, October 25-27, 1997
“The Lawyer’s Discipline: On Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby’”. Invited Lecture. Franklin College,
Lugano, 7 Aprile 1997
Coordinator of “ ‘The Mystery of Heroism’: Stephen Crane and American War Writing. A
Workshop of the XII Biennial Conference of A.I.S.N.A (the Italian North-American Studies
Association). Rome, October 25-27, 1995
“Is Peace to War as Metonimy is to Metaphor? Some Thoughts on Crane, Hemingway, and the
Mystery of Heroism”. XIII Biennial Conference of A.I.S.N.A (the Italian North-American
Studies Association). Rome, October 25-27, 1995
“Stephen Crane, ‘Il mostro’ e la ‘small town’” [Stephen Crane, “The Monster”, and the Small
Town]. Conferenza presso l'Università di Pescara, Marzo 1995
“L'immagine dell'indiano nella letteratura americana: testi, teorie e ideologie” [The image of the
Indian in American literature: texts, theories, and ideologies]. Vecchie e nuove frontiere: gli
indiani d'America e l'altro. Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Roma. Rome, Palazzo
delle Esposizioni, February 4-5, 1994
“American Indian narrative, between utopia and mimesis”. Per una topografia dell'altrove,
Convegno Internazionale di Studi. University of Salerno, November 24-26, 1993
“Leslie Silko’s Ceremony, Nuclear Power, Storytelling”. XII Biennial Conference of A.I.S.N.A (the
Italian North-American Studies Association), Venice, October 27-30, 1993
“Melville’s Politics and the New Historicism”. Melville Colloquium organized by the Associazione
Italiana Studi Nord-Americani, Rome, December 1990
“The Dialectic of Ideology and Popular Culture in Maggie, a Girl of the Streets”. Invited Lecture.
Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, February 1990
“Father Mapple’s Sermon in Moby-Dick and the Manipulation of Biblical Discourse”. Invited
Lecture. Yeshiva University, New York City, January 1990
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“The Spectacle of Ideology and the Ideology of Spectacle in Stephen Crane's Red Badge”. Invited
Lecture. Pasadena. California Institute of Technology, January 1989
“Northrop Frye and the Politics of the Bible”. International Conference on Northrop Frye.
“Sapienza” University of Rome, May 1987
“A story leading to Kopit: Indians and Native Americans”. Invited lecture, “Sapienza” University of
Rome, Aprile 1987
“ ‘Tracks, a little faint’: notes on contemporary American Indian literature”. Primo Congresso
Internazionale di Antropologia Storica. Cultura Planetaria: Omologazione o Differenza?.
Rome, October 1984
“Spectacle and Ideology in Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage”. First Graduate Student
Symposium, Rutgers University, April 1983
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
International American Studies Association
Associazione Italiana Studi Nord-Americani (Italian North American Studies Association)
Modern Language Association of America
Stephen Crane Society
Melville Society
SERVICE
a) To the university
Director, Doctoral Program in English-Langauge Literatures, “Sapienza” University, 2008present
Chair, Departmental Committee on Research Evaluation Methods, 2010-2013
University Evaluation Committee 2004-06
Teaching and Curricula Supervision Committee 1998-2001; 2006-2010
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b) To the profession
President, International American Studies Association, 2011Vice-President, International American Studies Association, 2007-2011
Executive Council, International American Studies Association, 2005-07
Board Member, Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani (Italian North-American Studies
Association) 2007-09
Secretary, Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani (Italian North-American Studies
Association), 2005-07
Co-editor-in-chief, Ácoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nord-americani [A quarterly journal of
American Studies published in Italy since 1994] 2001-present
Editorial Board, Ácoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nord-americani, 1994-2001
Editorial Board, RIAS. Review of International American Studies, 2007-present
Advisory Board, Fictions. Studi sulla narratività, 2000-present
ACADEMIC AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND VISITING APPOINTMENTS:
Faculty Member, The Futures of American Studies Summer Institute, Dartmouth Colllege, June
2013
Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, September-October 2012
Visiting Scholar, International Forum for United States Studies (I.F.U.S.S.), University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign, September 2011
Visiting Scholar, International Forum for United States Studies (I.F.U.S.S.), University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign January-February 2008.
Faculty Member, The Futures of American Studies Summer Institute, Dartmouth Colllege, June
2005
Italian National Research Council (C.N.R.) grant for a project on “The American War Novel,
1993-95
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Louis Bevier Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1989-90
Dottorato di Ricerca Fellowship, Italian Ministry of Education, “Sapienza” University of Rome,
1984-87
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1980-81