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Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College (Italian Studies) May 1988. Dissertation: Between Poetic Truth and Historical Falsehood: Fictions of Chivalry in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato
M.A. Bryn Mawr College (Medieval Studies) May 1983
B.A. Summa cum laude, Texas A&M, Commerce (English and History) May 1980
Five College (Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, University of Massachusetts) Professor of Italian, Director of Italian Studies at the University and Director, Five College Center for the Study of World Languages
2003-2006 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, (awarded to Five Colleges, Incorporated), $535,000 for "Maximizing Linguistic Resources for the Independent Learner on the Liberal Arts Campus" (project director)
2000-2003 Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE), from the
US Department of Education, (awarded to Five Colleges, Incorporated) $238,538 for "LangMedia II" (project director)
2002-2003 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (awarded to Five Colleges, Incorporated)
$75,000 for "New Approaches to the Study of Languages of the World: Pilot Projects in African Languages" (project director)
2000-2001 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (awarded to Five Colleges, Incorporated)
$50,000 planning grant to assess less-commonly taught language needs in the Five College consortium (project director)
1999-2001 The National Security Education Program (NSEP), division of the Department of Defense (awarded to Five Colleges, Incorporated) $244,492 for "The Five College Foreign Language Media Archive" and to establish the LangMedia website http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu. (project director)
Mazzocco, Elizabeth H.D. "Eleonora d'Este and the Heroines of Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato: Challenging Gender Stereotypes at the Ferrara Court, forthcoming in The Court Reconvenes: Courtly Literature Across the Disciplines: selected proceedings of the 9th Congress of the
ICLS, ed. Chantal Phan et al.
Mazzocco, Elizabeth H.D. with Angelo Mazzocco. "The Decameron in Italian Renaissance Comedy," in Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron. Ed.James McGregor..New York: Modern Language Association, 2000. pp. 42-49.
Mazzocco, Elizabeth H.D. "LangMedia, a WorldWide Website for Language and Culture, and the Role of International Students in its Creation," in New Technologies and Language Learning. Ed. Spreen Carol. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 2002. pp. 121-34.
Mazzocco, Elizabeth H.D. creator and producer. The Five College Foreign Language Laserdisc Series (a series of 11 30-minute laserdiscs and accompanying computer programs for language/culture study). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Mazzocco, Elizabeth H.D. "The Heritage versus the Non-Heritage Language Learner: The Five College Self-Instructional Language Program's Solutions to the Problem of Separation or Unification," ADFL Bulletin 28:1(1996): 20-24.
Mazzocco, Elizabeth H.D. co-editor with R. Davis and M. Lyman-Hager,
Learning to See, Seeing to Learn: The Five College Foreign Language Resource Center Mellon Conference Proceedings. Amherst: Five Colleges Inc., 1991.
Five College Supervised Independent Language Program
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