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Graduate Student Conference Participation

Italian Studies Conference Presentations

Information will be forthcoming.

Italian Studies Conference Presentations

Amanda Pascali:

  • Translating a Sicilian Requiem: Rosa Balistreri’s Forty-Minute Protest Song and the Global Fight Against Femicide; April 2026, Chiasmi "Fuori Luogo" Conference On Displacement(s) and Becoming; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; and June 2026, American Association of Italian Studies Conference (AAIS); Sassari, Italy

Italian Studies Conference Presentations

Amanda Pascali:

  • To Sing and Recount - The Legacy of Rosa Balistreri; October 2024, Italian-American Studies Association Conference (IASA); Fayetteville, Arkansas

Italian Studies Conference Presentations

Amanda Pascali:
  • To Sing and Recount - The Legacy of Rosa Balistreri; July 2024, American Association of Teachers of Italian Conference (AATI); Catania, Italy
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Italian Studies Conference Presentations

Arianna Avalle:  
  • The Ultimate Ferrante Experience: Convergence Culture, Literary Tourism and the Quest for Authenticity, 2021 PCA National Conference; virtual
  • Elio and Oliver’s Romantic (Grand) Tour: Gender, Genre and Media-Induced Tourism in Call Me By Your Name, AAIS 2021 National Conference; virtual
Dylan Gilbert:
  • Lessons from Scanzano: The Question of Nuclear Waste in the European Context, Council of European Studies; virtual
Valerio Rossi:
  • Places as signifiers: the spatial organization of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, South Central Renaissance Conference 2021; virtual
  • Picturesque realism: Visconti’s “La Terra Trema” between myth and reality, 27th International Conference of Europeanists; virtual

Italian Studies Conference Presentations

Arianna Avalle:
  • Elio and Oliver's Romantic (Grand) Tour: Gender, Genre, and Media Induced Tourism in Call Me By Your Name, Symposium Queer(ing) Italian Cultures: Home and Beyond ATI; Toronto, Canada
  • Chair for panel with Professor Bonifazio and Claudia Pisano: Narrating the American Frontier: Cowboys and American Indians in Italian comics, 2022 AAIS Conference; virtual
  • Dante in the Digital Age: Revitalizing the Divina Commedia Through Media Translation, AATI International Conference; Lucca, Italy Arianna Avalle
  • The Ultimate Ferrante Experience: Convergence Culture, Literary Tourism and the Quest for Authenticity, Lecture for America-italy Society of Philadelphia; virtual
Francesca Beretta:
  • The Netflix Effect: Streaming Culture into the Language Classroom, SCMLA; Houston, TX
Guido Capaccioli:
  • Freed from the Fear of Hell: Machiavelli’s Restyling of Afterlife and His Theory of Emancipation, Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies; Chicago, IL
Dylan Gilbert:
  • Matera rivistata: Pasolini’s Modern Take on an ‘Ancient’ City, 2022 MLA Annual Convention; Washington, D.C.
  • Cold Spaghetti: Genre and the Environment in Corbucci’s Il grande silenzio (1968), Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute; New York City, NY
  • Echoes of Scanzano: Italy’s Continued Quest for a National Nuclear Waste Depository, The 28th International Conference of Europeanists. Istituto Universitário de Lisboa; Lisbon, Portugal
Francesca Passaseo:
  • “We want everything!”: The self-annihilation of the working-class identity and its potentiality in Vogliamo tutto, 2nd Annual UCLA Graduate conference in Political Theory; virtual
  • Franca Rame’s Lo stupro and narrative testimony as a political act in the Italian sexual violence debate, Politics of Vulnerability in Contemporary Women’s Writing and Creative Practices; IMLR (UK) - virtual presentation
Claudia Pisano:
  • Chair for panel with Professor Bonifazio and Arianna Avalle: Narrating the American Frontier: Cowboys and American Indians in Italian comics, 2022 AAIS Conference; virtual
Valerio Rossi:
  • Word and Image in Giovanni Verga’s “Vita dei Campi”: Illustrated Fiction and the Picturesque Aesthetic, AAIS Conference; Bologna, Italy

Italian Studies Conference Presentations

Arianna Avalle:  
  • The Ultimate Ferrante Experience: Convergence Culture, Literary Tourism and the Quest for Authenticity, 2021 PCA National Conference; virtual
  • Elio and Oliver’s Romantic (Grand) Tour: Gender, Genre and Media-Induced Tourism in Call Me By Your Name, AAIS 2021 National Conference; virtual
Dylan Gilbert:
  • Lessons from Scanzano: The Question of Nuclear Waste in the European Context, Council of European Studies; virtual
Valerio Rossi:
  • Places as signifiers: the spatial organization of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, South Central Renaissance Conference 2021; virtual
  • Picturesque realism: Visconti’s “La Terra Trema” between myth and reality, 27th International Conference of Europeanists; virtual

French and Italian Conference Presentation Attendance (alphabetically ordered by last name)

Andrea Blatz, Science Fiction and Popular Cultures (HawaiiCon), Kailua-Kona, HI

Robert Bucci, 2020 MLA Convention; Seattle, WALE

Karina High, SLE Societas Lingusitica Europaea, Leipzig, Germany

Valerio Rossi, American Association for Italian Studies, Columbus, OH

Sarah Le Pichon, MLA, Seattle, WA

Maxence Leconte, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Washington, D.C.

Tracey Adams, Journées FLORAL, Paris, France

Joshua Griffiths, Journées FLORAL, Paris, France

Jim Law, Linguistic Society of America,New Orleans, LA

Please note that COVID-19 has impacted our graduate student conference participation during  Spring 2020 and Summer 2020 as most conferences were cancelled starting around March. The graduate students who were accepted to present at a conference, but unfortunately, the conference was cancelled due to COVID-19 were: Kate Nelson, Emily Martin, Valentin Duquet, Keith Wagner, Kevin P. Nonin, Francesca Beretta, Vanessa Fanelli, Noémie Hamaide, Andrea Blatz, and Arianna Avalle. 

French and Italian Conference Presentation Attendance (alphabetically ordered by last name)

Tracey Adams, North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, New York City, NY; Français dans les métropoles multilingues, Birmingham, United Kingdom

David Barny, Français dans les métropoles multilingues, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Andrea Blatz, S cience Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI

Amanda Bush, Northest Modern Language Association, Washington, DC

Valentin Duquet, 20th & 21st Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Oklahoma City, OK

Vanessa Fanelli, MLA, Chicago, IL; Northest Modern Language Association, Washington, DC

Joshua Griffiths, 49th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Athens, Georgia

Karina High, Rencontres lyonnaises des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique historique, L'Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France

Brendon Kaufman, Lingusitics Society of America, New York City, NY

Jim Law, 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Maxence Leconte, Sport Literature Association, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France

Sarah Le Pichon, MLA, Chicago, IL; Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA

Elizabeth Mayne, American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland, OR

Kate Nelson, California State University Sacramento 4th Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, Sacramento, CA

Rozen Neupané, Globalising sociolinguistics 2, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

Rachel Poulin (Dorsey), New Words and Linguistic Purism University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Marylise Rilliard, Français dans les métropoles multilingues, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Valerio Rossi, International Dante Conference - Alma Dante 2019, Ravenna, Italy

Elisa Valentini, XIII Conference of Italian Researchers in the World, Dallas, TX

Amelia Wells, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA

Other Professional Development Opportunities

Editorial Assistants

Several graduate students have served a term as the managing editor for Nineteenth-Century Contexts, under the mentorship of the journal’s Editor, Professor Alexandra Wettlaufer. Currently, Molly Deaver is serving in this capacity. A former managing editor, Andrea Blatz,  has recently been hired as an Associate Editor for the University of Chicago Press.

Since 2018, graduate students have worked with Professor Bonifazio to gain editorial experience at gender/sexuality/italy. One of our graduate students who had previously worked in this capacity as Graduate Editorial Assistant is now serving as Editorial Manager of the journal. Graduate students also have the opportunity to contribute to this journal as book reviewers.

 

Graduate Student Information on Funding Requests for Conference Partipication

Graduate Student Request for Travel Funds

Italian Studies students who wish to receive funding for conference travel are highly recommended to speak to their Graduate Advisor as early as possible, preferably at the start of the fall semester.

Those who are advised to request Departmental funds should also use the Graduate Student Request for Travel Funds.  It must be submitted along with proof of conference participation and an abstract of the presentation along with receipts connected to this conference travel. Approval to use these funds should occur once the student has been accepted to present at a conference to make sure they have support from their dissertation supervisor and/or Graduate Advisor in order to use these professional development funds.  

Students, typically Italian Studies graduate students, who are approved for a Professional Development Award from the Graduate School should compile the necessary documents, as outlined in the PDA information below, and contact the Graduate Coordinator when ready to apply.  

International Travel

International travel for academic purposes must be authorized by Texas Global.  Failure to receive proper authorization could affect your scholarship.  Please review the Travel Authorization website for further details. 

Professional Development Awards (PDA)

The Office of Graduate Studies also provides support for students to attend major professional meetings at which they present an original paper based on their research. These funds are typically reserved for our Italian Studies graduate students within the Department. A call for PDA funds request will be sent out at the beginning of the fall semester for the entire academic year from the Graduate Coordinator, but the funds request should also be discussed with the Graduate Advisor.