ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE

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1 ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION PH.D. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA Italian Language and Literature, May 2012 Cultural Memory in Contemporary Narrative: Andrea Camilleri s Montalbano Series Francesco Erspamer (chair), Salvatore Nigro, and Giuliana Minghelli SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE, PISA Visiting Scholar, MA BA HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA Classical Philology, 1998 BROOKLYN COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Classics, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1996 PUBLICATIONS EDITED VOLUMES Eckert, Elgin K. and Zachary Nowak (eds.) Italian Food: Fact and Fiction. In Preparation for Berg Publisher. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Andrea Camilleri: the Author as Public Intellectual in Italica, vol. 90,1 (forthcoming). Montalbano, the Tragedian in L ANELLO che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature, vol. 24, 2012: Theatre and Theatricality in Italian Literature and Visual Media. Stefano Boselli, ed. (forthcoming). PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS Murder in Sicily: Commissario Montalbano Talks About His Author s Literary Traditions, in Cicioni M. and Di Ciolla N. (eds.) Differences, Deceits, and Desires: Murder and Mayhem in Italian Crime Fiction. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, ARTICLES IN COLLECTIONS In cibo veritas Food Preparation and Consumption in Özpetek s Queer Films with Zachary Nowak in Italian Food: Fact and Fiction. Eckert, Elgin K. and Zachary Nowak (eds.). New York: Berg, (forthcoming) ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT 1

2 Commissario Montalbano a tavola: Food in Andrea Camilleri s Police Series in Italian Food: Fact and Fiction. Eckert, Elgin K. and Zachary Nowak (eds.). New York: Berg, (forthcoming) The Semiotic Flexibility of Italian Food with Zachary Nowak in Italian Food: Fact and Fiction. Eckert, Elgin K. and Zachary Nowak (eds.). New York: Berg, (forthcoming) L episodio della peste come chiave di una interpretazione morale e politica delle opere di Tucidide, Manzoni e Camus. Contaminazione. Quaderni di Synapsis IV, Le Monnier, Firenze, BOOK REVIEWS Review of Una lama di luce by Andrea Camilleri in Romance Sphere, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Department of Romance Languages, October ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES Alessandra Scala in Walker, Gina Lurie (ed.) Memoires of Women Writers, vol. III. Chawton: Chawton House Library, (forthcoming) Olimpia Fulvia Morata in Walker, Gina Lurie (ed.) Memoires of Women Writers, vol. III. Chawton: Chawton House Library, (forthcoming) "Isabella de Cordeaud" in Memoires of Women Writers, vol. II. Walker, Gina Lurie (ed.) Chawton: Chawton House Library, Helen Lucretia Cornaro-Piscopia in Walker, Gina Lurie.(ed.) Memoires of Women Writers, vol. II. Chawton: Chawton House Library, OTHER ACADEMIC WRITINGS Cultural Memory in Contemporary Narrative: Andrea Camilleri s Montalbano Series in Romance Sphere, May Change, Innovation, and Globalization in Andrea Camilleri s Montalbano Series in Massari S., Orsitto F.and Spani G. (eds.) Echi Oltremare, Il sogno nelle similitudini della Divina Commedia di Dante in Biblioteca Phoenix, vol 29, pp Firenze: Ass. Carla Rossi Academy, IN PREPARATION Eckert, Elgin K. Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano Series: Sicilian Crime beyond the Mafia. Monograph. ca. 325 p. Memories of War, Memories of Invasion: the Years of Facism and Beyond in Andrea Camilleri's Historical Narrative in Italy in WWII and the Transition to Democracy (NeMLA vol. XXXVI), ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT 2

3 TEACHING 2011-currently UMBRA INSTITUTE (PERUGIA) DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES Instructor Italian Literature and Cinema of the Twenty-first Century Crime: Fiction and Reality in Contemporary Italian Society Italian Language: Italian 101, 110 Tutorial: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics HARVARD UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL IN ABRUZZO AND TUSCANY Assistant Program Director and Instructor Study Abroad: Mapping the Cultures of Italy DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Instructor Elementary Italian Language Advanced Italian Language: Parliamo dell Italia Oral Expression: La musica dell'italiano Teaching Fellow The World of Dante s Divine Comedy DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY Teaching Fellow Rome of Augustus Images of Alexander the Great BROOKLYN COLLEGE (CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK) DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS Lecturer Core 1: Origins of Western Civilization (Intensive Summer Course) TEACHING INTERESTS: Contemporary Italian Literature, Food Studies, Dante, The Mafia in Literature and Film, Women in Twentieth Century Italian Literature, The Holocaust and World War II in Literature and Film, Italian Cinema, Italian Opera, Italian Theater ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT 3

4 CONFERENCES, LECTURES, TALKS CONFERENCES ORGANIZED 2012 Italian Food: Fact and Fiction, Perugia (Italy), June 8-9, 2012 Guest Speakers: Ken Albala, Massimo Montanari, Allen Grieco; 60 panelists PANELS ORGANIZED 2012 Literature and Food. Italian Food: Fact and Fiction, Perugia (Italy), June 8-9, Andrea Camilleri. American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) Conference. May 24-26, 2011 (Erice, TP). INVITED LECTURES 2012 Il Francesco di Dante. Guest Lecture for the Connecticut College Summer Program in Perugia (Umbria) Italy June 2, Paradiso XI e il santo di Assisi. Guest Lecture for the Franciscan Heritage Program of the Saint Bonaventure University in Perugia (Umbria) Italy October 21, Giallo in città: regionalità nella giallistica italiana contemporanea. Lecture sponsored by the region of Abruzzo and the city of Vasto. Vasto (Abruzzo), July 7, Some basic uses of RAI Streaming Video Programming at all Levels of University Italian Instruction Convegno sull insegnamento dell Italiano. Lecture sponsored by the Italian Consulate General of Boston. Cambridge (MA), May 12, Montalbano e la cucina: quando la letteratura sposa la gastronomia. Lecture sponsored by the region of Abruzzo and the city of Vasto. Vasto (Abruzzo). July 4, I luoghi di Dante: un approccio diverso ad una lettura della Divina Commedia. Carla Rossi Academy for Dante Studies. Monsummano Terme (Italy), June 11, Il Bildungsroman come definito da Wilhelm Dilthey e la trama dell eroe Ruggiero nell interno dell Orlando furioso di Ariosto. Carla Rossi Academy for Dante Studies. June 15, 2005 in Monsummano-Firenze, Italy Le tradizioni letterari di Andrea Camilleri. Carla Rossi Academy for Dante Studies. Monsummano Terme (Italy), June 16, Dall intelletto alla realtà divina: Platone, San Paolo e Dante e l uso della parola sogno. Carla Rossi Academy for Dante Studies. Monsummano Terme (Italy), June 30, PAPERS PRESENTED 2012 Montalbano a tavola Food in Camilleri s Crime Series. Italian Food: Fact and Fiction, Perugia (Italy), June 8-9, Immigrants and Immigration in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction. Canadian Society for Italian Studies (CSIS) conference. Venice, Italy on June 24, ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT 4

5 2011 Change, Innovation, and Globalization in Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano Series. Echi Oltremare Conference. Rome, Italy on June 18, Andrea Camilleri Writer and Public Intellectual. American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) Conference. May 24-26, 2011 (Erice, TP) Regionality in Modern Italian Crime Fiction. Dudley House Crosstalks, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), November 17, Camilleri in the classroom and Montalbano beyond the RAI. AAIS-AATI Conference, May 24-27, 2006 (Genoa, Italy) Andrea Camilleri and the New Sicilian Literary Tradition Second Annual Robert Dombrowski Memorial Conference, Sept , 2005 (Storrs, CT.) 2004 Il Bildungsroman di Ruggiero nell interno dell Orlando furioso di Ariosto. First Annual Robert Dombrowski Memorial Conference, Sept , 2004 (Storrs, CT) Murder in Sicily: Commissario Montalbano talks about his Literary Traditions. Murder and Mayhem: Crime in the Mare Nostrum conference, July 5-7, 2004 (Prato, Italy) Contempt and Popularity: Commissario Montalbano faces Andrea Camilleri s critics. Boston College Romance Studies Conference. March 26-27, 2004 (Boston, MA) Cosa faranno di noi? The Holocaust in Italian Literary Fiction. Modern Languages Association (MLA) Annual Conference Dec , 2002 (New York City, NY). PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 2003 UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA AND UNIVERSITÀ DI SIENA, Bertinoro (FO), Italy Synapsis European School for Comparative Literature, September FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI, Venice, Italy Corso di aggiornamento per italianisti, July HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA Derek Bok Center Writing Fellow Program, Spring CARLA ROSSI ACADEMY FOR DANTE STUDIES, Monsummano Terme (PT),Italy Graduate Seminar in Ermeneutica dantesca, Summer UNIVERSITÀ PER GLI STRANIERI PERUGIA, Italy Corso di aggiornamento per insegnanti dell Italiano, June 2001 ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT 5

6 GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS Certificates for Excellence in Teaching HARVARD UNIVERSITY, DEREK BOK CENTER Summer 2009, 2007, 2006 Study Abroad: Mapping the Cultures of Italy Fall 2006 Italian A Fall 2005 Italian A Spring 2003 Italian A, The World of Dante s Divine Comedy Spring 2002 Italian A Fall 2002 Italian A Fall 2001 Italian A, The World of Dante s Divine Comedy 2008 Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Humanities MRS. GILES WHITING FOUNDATION Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA 2004 Borsa di studio post-laurea SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE, PISA (ITALY) 2003 Travelling Scholarship Scuola Normale di Pisa Exchange Program HARVARD UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA 1995, 1994 Alice Kobler Award in Classics BROOKLYN COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (NY) RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Coordinator for Academic Programs UMBRA INSTITUTE (PERUGIA) Interim Director of Academic Program Development UMBRA INSTITUTE (PERUGIA) 2008 Assistant Dean HARVARD UNIVERSITY SUMMER PROGRAM IN ITALY (VENICE) 2006 Research Assistant HARVARD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES/ RAI INTERNATIONAL ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT 6

7 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS MLA (Modern Languages Association) AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies) Deutscher Romanistenverband (DRV) CSIS (Canadian Society of Italian Studies) English bilingual German bilingual Italian near-native fluency French reading knowledge Spanish reading knowledge Ancient Greek Latin LANGUAGES AND SKILLS Good command of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel and PowerPoint ) Basic knowledge of InDesign, Dreamweaver and HTML ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT 7