• Brown University, PhD, Italian Studies, May 1998.  Dissertation:  “Figure della giustizia e sapienza della scrittura: per uno studio ermeneutico della poetica manzoniana.”  Dissertation director:  Anthony Oldcorn.  Readers: Massimo Riva, Paolo Valesio.
• Brown University, MA, Italian Studies, May 1995.
• University of Bologna, Laurea in lettere, summa cum laude, 1991.  Thesis: “Sguardo e alienazione: le novelle di Tozzi”.  Thesis director:  Ezio Raimondi.  Subjects studied: Classical literature: Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Linguistics.

• SUNY New Paltz Major Discretionary Salary Increase (2004)
  
• SUNY New Paltz, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Faculty Development Funds (2004)
  
• SUNY New Paltz Minor Discretionary Increase (2001)
  
• Brown University Italian Studies Visiting Fellow (August 2000 - August 2001).
• SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Project Award (on Recommendation from the Committe on Research, Awards and Leaves and the Office of Academic Affairs), June 2000 - May 2001.
• SUNY New Paltz Faculty/Staff Development Award, Spring 2000.
• Graduate School, Brown University Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 1998.
• Friends of Italian Studies Research Grant (Academic Committee: David Kertzer, Anthony Molho, Massimo Riva), Brown University, Summer/Fall 1997.
• The Brown University Edna Salomon Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996-1997.
• Recognition for the 1997 “Outstanding Achievement Award” for Commitment to Teaching and Educating (OSIA), conferred by the Governor of the State of Rhode Island.
• Renaissance Alliance Lodge, Order Sons of Italy in America, Fellowship in recognition of “Scholarly research in the field of Italian literature and also for the advancement of Italian culture and tradition”, April 1997.
• Italian Studies Department, Brown University, Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996-1997.
• Graduate School, Brown University Fellowship, for participation at the AAIS Convention in Tempe, AZ, April 1995.
• Italian Studies Department, Brown University Fellowship, for participation at the AAIS Convention in Tempe, AZ, April 1995.
• Graduate School, Brown University Fellowship, for participation at the AATI Convention in Atlanta, GA, November 1994.
• University Research Fellowship, Brown University 1993-1994.
• Bonivento Academic Scholarship for High School Excellence, Liceo “D. A. Azuni”, Sassari, Italy, 1983-1984.
• Advanced Studies Award, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy, Summer,1983.
• Latin Studies High School Award, Liceo Classico “D. A. Azuni”, Sassari, Italy, 1982.

State University of New York at New Paltz

Assistant Professor

• Italian Literature II ("Women Sublime and Romantic Nature"): Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Fall 2001.
• Italian Literature I ("From Hell to the Center of the Universe"): Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2000.
• Italian Cinema ("The Myth of Rome"): Fall 2003; Fall 2002; Spring 2001.
• Italian Society in Film: Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2002; Spring 2000.
• Italian Composition adn Conversation I: Fall 2006.
• Intermediate Italian II: Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Spring 2004.
  
• Intermediate Italian I: Fall 1999.
• Elementary Italian II: Spring 2002; Spring 2001; Spring 2000.
• Elementary Italian I: Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003; Fall 2002; Fall 2001; Fall 2000; Fall 1999.

 Instructor

• Advanced Italian I (Film Discussion Section): Fall 1997.
• Intermediate Italian II: Spring 1999, Spring 1997, Spring 1996.
• Intermediate Italian I: Fall 1998, Fall 1996, Fall 1995.
• Introductory Italian II: Spring 1995.
• Introductory Italian I: Fall 1994.

• Italian 161 (Anthony Oldcorn’s “Dante Alighieri: One Man’s Search for Meaning”): Fall 1998.
• History 139 (David Kertzer’s “Modern Italian History”): Fall 1997. Responsible for the FLAC (Foreign Language Across the Curriculum) Section.
• Italian 102 (Massimo Riva’s “Boccaccio’s Decameron in Hypertext”): Spring 1995.

 Instructor

• Introductory Italian I: Spring 1998, Fall 1997, Fall 1996, Spring 1995, Summer 1994.
• Intermediate Italian I: Fall 1994.

 Adjunct Faculty

• Language 101, section 03 (“Elementary Italian 1”): Fall 1998.

 Instructor

• Introductory Italian I: Spring 1999, Spring 1996.

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Decameron Web Hypertext Project (http://www. brown.edu/Research/ Decameron), a hypermedia Internet archive of information designed for the teaching and study of the Decameron: 1995-present.
• Member of the Editorial Board of «L’Orlando. Avventure nel presente. Rivista della Redazione Europea per la Ricerca Espressiva» (http://www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/assrere/lorlando/lorlando.htm), North American Contact:  February 1997-present.
• Member of the North American Editorial Board of the «Bollettino’900» (http://www2.comune.bologna.it/bologna/boll900/): 1996-1998.
• Collaborator of the «Bollettino ’900» and administrator of the Brown University mirror web site: 1996-1998.
• Collaborator (translator of abstracts) of the «Journal of Modern Italian Studies», David I. Kertzer and John A. Davis, eds.:  October 1997.
• Collaborator on Ugo Volli’s Survey (Università degli Studi di Bologna) on the Image of Italy and Italian Culture in the U.S.A., sponsored by the I.U.L.M. (Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne di Milano): fall 1995.
• Contributor of bibliographical entries to the 1991 and 1992 volumes of Bibliografia generale della lingua e della letteratura italiana (BiGLLI), Enrico Malato, ed. (Roma: Salerno Editrice, 1994 and 1995, respectively).

• Communicative Language Teaching;
• Italian Historical and Descriptive Linguistics;
• Literature in Hypertext Environment;
• Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Italian Fiction;
• Romanticism (European and Italian);
• Italian Cinema and Theater;
• Renaissance Philosophy.

• "Il matrimonio come luogo della giustizia: un accostamento di Manzoni a Proudhon" forthcoming in Italica.
  
• “Un anno sull’altipiano nella Grande guerra di Monicelli: momenti di una narrazione cinematografica,” in Intersezioni, 25, 1, 2005, pp. 53-81.
  
• Edgar Allan Poe sposo promesso dinanzi ai Betrothed Lovers del Manzoni," in La Questione Romantica, issue IX, 2000, pp. 139-155;
• “Lo sfondo e il primo piano tra memoria e narrazione: sulla Casa venduta e altre novelle tozziane”, in Il lettore di provincia, a. XXVII, n. 97, dicembre 1996, pp. 37-52;
• “Lo sguardo teatralizzato e la dissimulazione dell’esproprio nella Casa venduta di Federigo Tozzi”, in Lingua e stile, a. XXXI, n. 2, giugno 1996, pp. 293-328;
•  “L’Hypertext Hotel di Robert Coover”, in Bollettino ’900, 4-5, maggio 1996, pp. 30-33;
• Contributor: M. Riva, “Il Decameron come ipertesto: un’esperienza didattica alla Brown University”, in AA.VV., Lingua Letteratura Computer, a cura di M. Ricciardi, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1996, pp. 117-137;
• “La scrittura come «vertigine della dissoluzione»: una proposta di lettura di Con gli occhi chiusi di Federigo Tozzi”, in Strumenti critici, a. XI, n.1, gennaio 1996, pp. 23-50;
• Review, Da Verga a Eco. Strutture e tecniche del romanzo italiano, a cura di G. Catalano, Napoli, Pironti Editori, 1991
• , in Lingua e stile, XXVIII, n. 4, dicembre 1993, pp. 613-616.

• "Romantic Nature and Feminine Sublime: Teaching Manzoni's The Betrothed." American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2004.
• " Il matrimio come luogo della giusntizia (o dell'ingiustizia) in Manzoni e Proudhon", Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, CA, 2003.
• Presided session: "Nature and Animals in Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature", Modenr Language Association Convention, San Diego, CA, 2003.
  
• “Casi d’eroici antieroi: Monicelli e Rossellini tra le due guerre,” AAIS Convention, Washington, DC, March 13-16, 2003.
• "'Mercennarium faciunt studium sapientiae': l'umanesimo della coscienza nell'Oratio  di Pico della Mirandola," AAIS Convention, Columbia, MO, April 18-21, 2002.
• "The Textual Evolution of Pico della Mirandola's Oratio de hominis dignitate," Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 12, 2002.
• “Il cibo della giustizia e la giustizia del cibo: il modello materno della sapienza nel Manzoni da In morte di Carlo Imbonati agli Inni sacri,” AAIS Convention, Philadelphia, PA, April 19-21, 2001.
• Organization of the panel: “La sapienza della scrittura e la giustizia dell’autore nella letteratura italiana,” AAIS Convention, Philadelphia, PA, April 19-21, 2001.
• “Il Tolstoj di Pasolini in Teorema (an investigation into the significance of Tolstoy’s presence in the artistic vision of Teorema)", AAIS Convention, New York, NY, April 13-15, 2000.
• “La donna e il cibo: una figura della giustizia nella scrittura manzoniana”, AAIS Convention, Chicago, IL, April 2-5, 1998.
• “Il sublime e la donna: una proposta di lettura di Fosca di Ugo Igino Tarchetti”, AAIS Convention, Tempe, AZ, April 20-23, 1995.
• “Lo sguardo del narratore nella Casa venduta di Federigo Tozzi: la teatralizzazione e l’alienazione della parola”, AATI Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 18-20, 1994.

• Book: "Tozzi e la vertigine della letteratura."
• Article: "The Sublime Woman in Tarchetti's Fosca."
• Collaborator on the Progetto Pico, (http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/ pico) a philological and hypertextual project dedicated to the Oratio de hominis dignitate of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Pier Cesare Bori, ed. (Università degli Studi di Bologna): March 1997-present.
• Article: “L'archetipo cristologico e le sue contro-figure nell'opera di Pasolini.”  An earlier version of this paper was presented at the AAIS Convention, New York, NY, April 13-15, 2000.
• Book (editor)" Augusto Murri's Lessons: A Medical Path to the Truth.
• Book: "Figure della giustizia e sapienza della scrittura nell'opera di Manzoni."

• Modern Language Association.
• American Association of Teachers of Italian.
• American Association of Italian Studies.
• American Dante Society.
• Italian American Writers Association.
• International Society of Phenomenology and Literature.
• International Association for Philosophy and Literature.