Colleoni 1 Federica Colleoni, PhD Education  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Ph.D. Italian, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, December 2010 Dissertation: Violenza politica e identità nazionale: trauma, spettralità e allegoria nella letteratura e nel cinema contemporanei. (Chair: Professor Vincenzo Binetti). Available at: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/78833  Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy Laurea in Lettere, 2001 (Equivalence with M.A. Indiana University)  Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana M.A., Italian, 2000  Università degli Studi, Bergamo, Italy -Corso di Perfezionamento post-laurea, Teaching Foreign Languages, 1997 -Laurea specialistica, French and English Language and Literature, 1996. Thesis: André Breton poeta fra tradizione e avanguardia (Chair: Professor Mario Bensi). Teaching Experience  Full time Instructor of Italian, University of South Florida, Tampa (FL), 2013-present -Elementary and Intermediate Italian -Italian film and literature (independent study) -Mafia in the Movies (In English)  Full time Instructor of Italian, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green (OH), 2012-2013 -Elementary and Intermediate Italian -Italian civilization and culture  Adjunct Instructor, James Madison University, Harrisonburg (VA), 2010-2012 -Elementary and Intermediate Italian -Intensive Italian -Italian 465: Italian Cinema (face-to-face and online) -Italian 460: Italian Culture through Media  Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI), 2005-2010 -Elementary and Intermediate Italian -Italian 232 (topic course): Italian Language and Culture through Classic and Contemporary Film -Italian 270 (upper level): XX Century Italian History and Culture through Literature and Media  Graduate Student Instructor of Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) 1998-1999  Lecturer of Italian, Lake Erie College, Painesville (OH) 1997-1998 Colleoni 2 Certificates  Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI Graduate Certificate in Online Instruction, 2011  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Graduate Teacher Certificate, 2008  Università per Stranieri, Siena, Italy D.I.T.A.L.S Certificate (Didattica Italiano a Stranieri), 1997 Publications Chapters in book:  “Maledetti vi amerò, ovvero l’immaginazione sconfitta dalla realtà”. Il cinema di Marco Tulio Giordana. Rome: Vecchiarelli (forthcoming 2014).  “Violenza politica, trauma e memoria in Pasolini. Un delitto italiano e in Romanzo Criminale”. Forme, volti e linguaggi della violenza nella cultura italiana. Brescia: Edibom, 2012  “Rivoluzione nazionale o rivoluzione sociale? Il Risorgimento dei Taviani in San Michele aveva un gallo, tra Pisacane, Bakunin e Tolstoj”. Cinema e Risorgimento: Visioni e Re-Visioni. Rome: Vecchiarelli, 2012  “Orrore e violenza politica in Raul Montanari, La verità bugiarda”. Il Romanzo poliziesco. La storia, la memoria. Italia. Bologna: Astrea, 2009 Edited collections:  Co-editor (with Inge Lanslots and Elena Dalla Torre): Il cinema di Marco Tullio Giordana. Rome: Vecchiarelli (forthcoming 2014).  Co-editor (with Francesca Parmeggiani): Forme, volti e linguaggi della violenza nella cultura italiana. Brescia: Edizioni Edibom, 2012  Co-editor (with Monica Jansen). Bollettino ‘900: Culture di resistenza nell’Italia contemporanea. Immaginare la precarietà. 2010. Refereed Articles:  “Fanon, Violence, and Rebellion in Italian Cinema: The Case of Valentino Orsini”. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. (forthcoming 2014).  “Spettri della violenza: gli anni Settanta in alcuni romanzi del nuovo millennio”. Enthymema. 2013. Available at: http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/article/view/2705 Colleoni  3 “Comencini, Cantet, Loach. Rappresentazioni di lavoratori precari nel cinema europeo”. Bollettino ‘900: Culture di resistenza nell’Italia contemporanea. Immaginare la precarietà, 2010. Available at: http://www3.unibo.it/boll900/numeri/2009-i/  “La violenza politica come spettro e come trauma in Il Segreto di Geraldina Colotti e in Arrivederci amore, ciao di Michele Soavi”. Carte Italiane: Italy 1968. Representations in Italian Culture. s.2, vol.4, 2008. Available at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/italian_ucla/carteitaliane/Series2/Vol4/S2-4-12/ Book introductions:  Fernando Goméz Mancha. Il corpo disobbediente. Brescia: Edibom, 2011 Selected Review Articles:  Paul Furlong. “Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola”. Modern Italy, 2014  Erika Diemoz: “A morte il tiranno. Anarchia e violenza da Crispi a Mussolini”. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2013. Invited  Eleanor Canright Chiari. “Undoing Time. The Cultural Memory of an Italian Prison”. Annali d’Italianistica, 2013  Letizia Modena: “Italo Calvino’s Architecture of Lightness. The Utopian Imagination in an Age of Urban Crisis”. Annali d’Italianistica, 2013  Maria Pia De Paulis-Dalembert (ed.): “L’Italie en jaune et noir. La littérature policière de 1990 à nos jours”. Annali d’Italianistica, 2011  Luciano Parisi: “Come abbiamo letto Manzoni. Interpreti novecenteschi”. NEMLA Italian Studies. 2010 Selected Conferences  “Violence, Africa, Fanon: Valentino Orsini’s Journey”. Fanon in Italy: A Symposium organized by the Postcolonial Research Group of Newcastle University. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, June 2013.  Organizer and chair of a session entitled: “Il cinema di Marco Tullio Giordana”. MLA Conference. Boston, MA, January 2013.  “The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti”. Diasporas Changing the World: JMU Foreign Languages Department Conference. Harrisonburg, VA, March 2012.  “La Guerra di Nora di A. Tavassi la Greca: la violenza politica, il doppio, la famiglia”. Altered States: University of Pennsylvania French and Italian Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA, March 2012.  “L’Africa di Pontecorvo e Orsini: La battaglia d’Algeri e I dannati della terra”. N.E.V.I.S. Conference, Rome, Italy, June 2011. (Paper published in the Proceedings, available at: Colleoni 4 http://www.ebook.it/S/Narcissus.me/autori_vari/Arte/PDF/Italy_the_Mediterranean..._And_Beyond._Atti _della_conferenza_Echioltremare_Roma_2011.html)  “Sacco e Vanzetti e Giordano Bruno di Montaldo come displacements cinematografici”. NEMLA Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2011.  “Il cinema di Valentino Orsini e la violenza politica” (a paper presented as co-organizer and co-chair of a double session entitled Narration of Violence in Italian Film and Literature). AAIS Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, April 2010. Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships  Grant to participate in the CIT Summer Institute for Online Course Development, James Madison University, March-May 2012  Grant to participate in The Rome Seminar 2011, in Rome, Italy, entitled: Italia ‘Glocale’/‘Glocal’ Italy, sponsored by the Italian Studies Program, Notre Dame University, June-July 2011. http://italianstudies.nd.edu/rome-seminar/2011-seminar-participants/  Rackham one-term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2010.  Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan, 2008  Humanities Research Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2008  Romance Languages Department Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan, 2005, 2007  Rackham Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan, 2006  Romance Languages and Literatures Department Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2004-2005  European Union ERASMUS Scholarship, Université Lumière, Lyon, France, 1992-1993 University Service  Member of a Faculty Learning Community to research and implement “Service Learning” at USF, Tampa, 2013  Organizer of Italian film screenings at USF, Tampa, 2013-2014.  Organizer of cultural events (Italian film screenings, Tavola Italiana, Toledo Museum of Art visit), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2012-2013  Co-organizer of cultural events (Italian Film Festival, Unification of Italy Celebration), James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 2010-2012  Organizer, Italian Film Series. Created and implemented a Department Italian Film series, University of Michigan, 2007-2010  Facilitator, Teaching Practice session, and “Teaching Strategies for Foreign Language Courses” workshop, New Graduate Students Orientation held by the Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007 Colleoni 5 Affiliations AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies); AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian); MLA (Modern Language Association)