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Italian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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Patrizio Ceccagnoli

Lecturer of Italian

Contact Information

Location: Herter Hall 305
Phone: (413) 545-4951
Email: patrizio AT frital.umass.edu

Education

Laurea, magna cum laude, Italian and Classics, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy, 2001
Certification of Secondary Teaching, (Italian and Classics), Università degli Studi di Perugia - S.I.S.S. (School of Specialization for Secondary Teaching), full marks, 2003
MA, Italian, Columbia University, 2006
PhD, Italian, Columbia University, 2011

Selected Publications

Articles:

  • "'Il Poema di Fiume.' Un inedito marinettiano" (critical edition). L'Ellisse 5 (2010): 209-39.
  • "'Necrofilia e prosopopea della materia: La personificazione in Marinetti" (essay). Annali di Italianistica 27 (2009): 309-31.
  • Co-Editor (with Paolo Valesio), Canoni assenti. Proceedings of "Absent Canons," A Comparative Conference on Contemporary Italian Poetry, in Semicerchio - Rivista di poesia comparata, 38.1 (2008), with a Preface, pp. 3-4.
  • "'Lo sguardo rimasto solo.' Intervista a Milo De Angelis" (interview with a critical introduction). Italian Poetry Review 2 (2008): 461-73. Also published in De Angelis Milo, Colloqui sulla poesia. I. Vincentini, ed. Milano: La Vita Felice, 2008, pp. 101-114.
  • "'Capitalismo e narcisismo.' Intervista a Edoardo Sanguineti" (interview). Italian Poetry Review 2 (2008): 474-90.

Translations:

  • With Susan Stewart. "New Poems," translations of Milo De Angelis. Gradiva 37-38 (2010): 160-71.
  • With Susan Stewart. From Theme of Farewell, poems of Milo De Angelis. Poetry 3 (2007): 222-23.
  • With Susan Stewart. "Contemporary Italian Poetry." TriQuarterly 127 (2007): From Theme of Farewell, poems of Milo De Angelis, pp. 74-83; from Cose, poems of Edoardo Sanguineti, pp. 182-95; from Il cuore del girasole, poems of Paolo Valesio, pp. 204-13.

Teaching Experience

Columbia University, Department of Italian, Adjunct Professor, Fall 2011.
Fordham University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Adjunct Lecturer, Fall 2011.
Columbia University, Department of Italian, Instructor of Italian, 2005-2011.


Research interests

19th- and 20th-century Italian Literature and Culture; Italian and European Avant-garde of the 20th century; Giacomo Leopardi and Italian Romanticism; theory and practice of translation; textual criticism and literary theory.