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John Mastrogianakos
112 Chatham Av.
Toronto, Ontario
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EDUCATION:Ph. D.(Italian) University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (June 2001)
MA. Italian. McGill University, Montréal, Québec (1990-94).
B.A.Honors (Italian). McGill University (1988-90).
B.A.Modern Languages & Linguistics. McGill University (1984-87).
Pre University DEC. Dawson College (1982-84).
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
-Italian Modernism, Neo-realism & Neo-avant-garde poetics
-Film Theory and Criticism (Neo-realism & Experimental film)
-Italian Pedagogy
-Comparative Theory: Liminality and Post-structuralism
THEORETICAL PARADIGM:
-Liminal theory of literature & linguistic self-reflexivity
-Poly-system theory of Literature.
-Possible Worlds Fictional Semantics.
-Adaptation Theory: From Narrative to Film/Drama
ACADEMIC AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS:
Mc Gill University Faculty Scholar: Ann Noad Dudley Prize (1990). [$350.00] [SESS G.P.A: 3.61]
University of Toronto Open Doctoral Fellowship (1995-2000).
Louisiana State University grant: Council on Summer Research (January, 2003). [6,000$]
Louisiana State University Grant: Research Fellowship for Junior Tenure Track Faculty (Fall 2004) [Suspension of teaching duties for Fall 2004]
LANGUAGE TEACHING ABROAD:
(June 1-July 6, 2007)
LSU IN ITALY: Coordinated with a colleague a 5 week Interdisciplinary Program of Art History and Italian Literature in Bologna with excursions to Ferrara, Venice and Rome.
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TEACHING HISTORY:
ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE SCHOOL (2010-)
Part-time Instructor: Italian language.
BROCK UNIVERSITY (2007-2009)
2008-09- Assistant Professor of Italian. Brock University. Taught Introductory level Italian courses. Coordinator of Beginner’s Italian Program.
2007-08-Assistant Professor of Italian. Brock University. Taught IntroductoryIntermediate Italian course. Coordinator of Beginner’s Italian.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY (2000-2007):
2001-2007- Assistant Professorof Foreign Languages & Comparative Literature. Louisiana State University. Assistant Coordinator of Curriculum and Program Development for the Program of Italian.
Language courses taught at LSU (2001-2007):
- All levels of Italian Language and Grammar from introductory to advanced levels:
Ital 1001/02/2101/2102/3060
Literature courses taught at LSU: (2001-2007):
- Ital 3072: Literature Survey from Renaissance to Post-Modernism.
- Ital 2155: 20th century Modernist Poetry, Prose, Drama, Film.
Literature course taught at Program for Comparative Literature: (2003; 2006)
(2003): CPLT 7120-01:Postmodernism: (De)-Constructive or (Re)-constructive? From Modernist Expressionand Marginality to Postmodern Identification and Liminality.
(2006): CPLT 7120-01: Exploring the Properties of Liminality in Modern and Postmodern Literature (Peninsular Spanish, South American, Italian, 1960s American authors).
2000-2001- Instructor. Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Louisiana State University.
-Six ½ semester Italian language and grammar courses (August 2000-May 2001)
-One ½ semester Survey of Modern Italian Literaturecourse (August 2000-May 2001).
CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL COLLEGE
2000- Instructor:Teaching Italian Language. Department of Modern Languages. (Beginner’s & Intermediate) St-Lambert (Jan-May 2000).
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY:
1999- Teaching assistant: Italian language tutorial, (Beginner’s) (Sept-Dec 1999).
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO:
1995-1999- Teaching assistant:Teach Italian Language (Beginner’s), University of Toronto (1995-99).
CEGEP ANDRE LAURANDEAU:
1994- Instructor: Teach Italian Language in Adult Education Program (Beginner’s & Intermediate),(1994).
MCGILL UNIVERSITY:
1990-1994- Teaching assistant:Teach Italian Language (Beginner’s), McGill University(1990-94).
PUBLICATIONS
a) Journal articles:
“Metaphors of Self-Preservation in Il berretto asonagli and Il giuoco delle parti” (Quaderni d’Italianistica Vol. 19, No.1. Spring 1998).
“Storytelling and the ‘Dialogics of Variation’ in Paolo Maurensig’s La variante di lüneburg”(Quaderni d’Italianistica Vol. 20, No 1-2 1999).
Structure and Anti-Structure in Luciano Bianciardi’s Aprire il fuoco
(Italian Culture Vol.20, 2002)
“The Bianciardi Paradox: The “Marginality” of Fiction as Social Criticism” (publication of proceedings for the conference: Transitions: Perspectives and Shifts in Italian Literature and Linguistics,” Publisher: (Fiesole: Cadmo 2003.)
“‘Embedded Fabulae’ as Praxes of Subversion in Luciano Bianciardi’s La vita agra,” (Forum Italicum. Vol. 37, No. 1. Spring 2003).
“La dialecttica “polisistemica” ne Integrazione di Luciano Bianciardi”(Il Gabellino (Year 5,No. 7. May (2003).
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`b) Review articles:
Review article: Christina Della Coletta. Plotting the Past. Metamorphoses of Historical Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction. Indiana: PurdueUniversity Press, 1996. Pp.268 (Quaderni d’Ïtalianistica Vol. 19, No. 1. Spring 1998).
Review article:Luciano Cheles and Lucio Sponza. The Art of Persuasion: Political Communication in Italy from 1945 to the 1990's. New York, N Y: St. Martins, 2001. Reviewer’s title: “Symbolic Coalition between Cultural Form and Empirical Discourse.” The Review of Communication (Vol 3, No. 4. October 2003).
Review article: Claudia Nocentini. Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood. UK: Northern Universities Press, 2000 Pp. 106 (Rivista di studi italiani No. 1, June 2004)
Review article: Franco Ricci. Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures. Word and Image in the Works of Italo Clvino. Toronto, Buffulo, London. University of Toronto Press, 2001 (Rivista di studi italiani No. 1, June 2004)
JOURNAL ARTICLE: (Submitted)
“Il visconte dimezzato” and the Divergence of Representational Systems: An Allegory of the Debates between Neo-Realist and Neo-experimentalist poetics” (Forum Italicum)
WORKS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS
ESSAY: “‘Social Drama’ in Luigi Pirandello’s‘Cosi e’ se vi pare’: An Allegory ofRepresentational Poeticsand Modernist Self-Reflexivity.”
ESSAY:“UrbanLiminality: The City as Cognitive Site of Epistemological Acquisition in Walter Benjamin’sand Italo Calvino’sUrban Allegories.”
BOOK:The Poetics of Liminality: Luciano Bianciardi between Realist Signification and Narrative Self-Reflexivity. (September 2010)
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
2007-2009.Coordinator of Curriculum Development for Beginner’s Italian Program.Brock University. Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Culture.
2001-2007.Coordinatorfor Italian Section.Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures (Louisiana State University Italian program)
Peerevaluation. Italian (LSU)
LanguageText-bookreviewandordering (Italian)
Syllabuscreationandpeer assessment (Italian)
Course proposals and curriculum development (Italian)
Web designs for Department of Foreign Languages
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“Form vs. Content: Luciano Bianciardi and the 1960s Neo-avant-garde Debates” (Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities) Concordia University, May 2010.
“Monstrous Interations in ‘Il visconte dimezzato’” (Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities) Carleton University,May, 2009
“Così è se vi pare: A Liminal Reading.” (Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 31 – 2 June, 2008)
``Dialectic of the Threshold. Walter Benjamin`s Early Drafts of the Arcades
Project.``Starting the Process. First Drafts, Sketches, Experiments.
Brock University, October 27, 2007)
“Liminal Imagery and Metaphors of Anti-Structure in Walter Benjamin`s `ArcadesProject` and Italo Calvino`s `Marcovaldo.`
(ACLA, Cities of Refuge Panel, Puebla, Mexico. April 19-22, 2006)
“Beyond the Periphery: Urban Perceptions as Thresholds of Experience.(Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, May 28-May 30, 2005)
“StructureandAnti-structureinPaleFireandLavariante di lüneburg”
(Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May 29-31, 2004).
“Crossing the Boundaries between the Fictional and the Factual: The Grotesque Metaphor of Tommaso Landolfi’s Gogol’s Wife,”Kentucky Foreign Language Conference KFLC, April 24-26 2003).
“Implications of the Miracolo Industriale in 1960's Italy: The Bianciardian Example of Rhetorical Form vs Industrial Content,” Transitions: Perspectives on Shifts in Italian Literature and Linguistics. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, (November 2-3 2001).
"Fiction as Ideological Subversion in the Industrial Narrative of Luciano Bianciardi,” (Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, June 4, 2000).
“Fictional Horizons: The World as Text and Metaphor in Paolo Volponi’s Macchinamondiale and Thomas Mann’s Tristan,” (Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, June 1, 1998).
“Structures of Deception in Il giuoco delle parti and Il berreto a sonagli,”
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Memorial University, St. John’s Newfoundland, (June 1, 1997).
“Role-playing, Identity, and Gender Conflict in two Pirandellian Plays,”
(Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Brock University, St Catharine, Ontario, (May 31, 1996).
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ACADEMIC SERVICE AT LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
-Creation of Italian Web-Site.
-Scholarship Obtainment, 10 scholarships granted yearly to LSU students from the Conero language school program in the Marche region of Italy (2001-02).
-Open house, Assisted Dr. Ricapito (Director of Italian program) with The Second Annual Journey to Global Opportunities(November 12, 2001).
-Dean’s Representative, Thesis Committee(March 22, 2002).
-Proposed modifications to Italian Minor accepted(December, 2003)
-Comparative Literature External Thesis Advisor(appointed February, 2003)
LANGUAGES SPOKEN & WRITTEN:
Italian(native fluency)
Modern Greek(native fluency)
English(native fluency)
French(near-native fluency)
Spanish (reading comprehension)
REFERENCES
Emily Batinsky. Associate Professor. Chair of Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Louisiana State University.
Rocco Capozzi. Professor. University of Toronto.
Corrado Federici. Professor. Brock University. Director of Italian Program.
Luca Somigli. Associate Professor.University of
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