Dr. Brunella Piccione Windsor ILLC Dept., CSU Chico Tel: 530-898-4063 Email: bwindsor@csuchico.edu I. EDUCATION DEGREES - 2012 Ph.D. in Historical Linguistics from the Università della Sapienza, Rome, Italy. Dissertation: Aspetti linguistici e culturali dell italiano di migrazione in California. - 2000 Master in Music from the State University of Chico, California. - 1985 Diploma in Piano Performance in 1985 from the Italian Conservatorio di Musica. - 1983 Master in Modern Languages and Literatures from the Università degli Studi di Firenze Dissertation: I romanzi di Marguerite Yourcenar. Voyage au bout de l homme. CERTIFICATES - 2001 Certificate of Completion, Web CT Workshop Series, TLP, CSU Chico - 1978 English Language First Certificate, British Institute, Florence, Italy LANGUAGES - Italian Native - English Near Native - French Near Native - Spanish Intermediate - German Elementary TEACHING EXPERIENCE II. INSTRUCTION - 2013-1992 Lecturer Italian and French, California State University, Chico - 1983-1990 Tenure Professor French and Music, Italy State School System, Florence - 1978-2007 Private Instruction Piano and Music Theory COURSES TAUGHT (at California State University, Chico 2013 1992) - Italian 101 First Semester Italian - Italian 102 Second Semester Italian - Italian 201 Third Semester Italian - Italian 202 Fourth Semester Italian 1
- Italian 302 Composition and Conversation: Selected Readings - Italian 301 Italian Composition and Conversation: Debating on Italian Contemporary Society - Italian 320 Advanced Conversation and Phonetics: Contemporary Italian Literature - Italian 320 Advanced Conversation and Phonetics: Italian Fairy Tales - Italian 340 The journey of our life: a bilingual reading of Dante's Divina Commedia - Italian 399 Special Problems - French 101 First Semester French - French 102 Second Semester French - French 201 Third Semester French - French 202 Fourth Semester French - Italy on your own, Center for Continuing Education (Summer 1992) COURSES TAUGHT (outside California State University) - The world of Dante, USAC Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy (Summer 2008) WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS ATTENDED - 2011 Spring Panelist in a Wimba Live Classroom, organizer Prof. Hilda Hernandez, CSU Chico - 2010 Spring Online Teaching Boot Camp, College of Humanities, CSU Chico - 2010 Fall Faculty and Staff Diversity Summit, three-day retreat, CSU Chico - 2010 Fall Panelist in Tips from International Faculty on working with International Students, Celt Conference, CSU Chico - 2009 Spring CLTA Conference, Foreign Language Association, Sacramento CA - 2001 Fall Web CT Workshop Series, Technologies Learning Center, CSU Chico GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS - 2013 Spring Professional Development Fund, HFA Dean s Office - 2010 Spring Professional Development Fund, HFA Dean s Office - 2003 Fall Grant Adobe Software Company for the development of The Italian Village PUBLICATIONS Articles III. PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT - 2012 Eredi del Vecchio Mondo, Pionieri nel Nuovo: gli Italiani in California, in Third Annual N.E.V.I.S Conference: Echi Oltremare Rome, Italy online proceedings; edited by S. Massari, F. Orsitto, G. Spani (forthcoming) Translations - 2006 Frutti insperati (Bread upon the water) by Mueller G. R., D. Shah Publisher, 1999 (English- Italian) 2
- 1998 Development of Creativity in Children: Didactic tools for children from 5 to 10 years old, by Cerioli L., Antonietti A., (Italian-English) - 1994 Il ricordo di sè, (Self Remembering) by Burton R.E., Ubaldini Editore, Roma 1994, (English- Italian) - 1986 Il Regno Impossibile (L'impossible Royaume) by Kalisky R., Editrice Omnia, Palermo, (French-Italian) SCHOLARLY WORK Papers Presented - 2011, 18 June, Echi Oltremare, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), Rome, Italy, Fourth Annual Conference: Eredi del Vecchio Mondo, Pionieri nel Nuovo: gli Italiani in California - 2010, 16 November, The Other and the Elsewhere in the Italian Culture, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), Second Annual Conference CSU Chico, CA: Elementi di confronto culturale nell esperienza Italo-Americana in California Sessions, Panel, and Roundtables Chaired - 2011, 7 November, Transnational Echoes in Italian Literature and beyond at Transcultural Italy, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), Third Annual Conference CSU Chico, CA: - 2011, 18 June, Mediterranean Echoes in the World at Echi Oltremare, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), Rome, Italy, Fourth Annual Conference - 2010, 16 November, Percorsi altri : tra cinema italiano e l altrove italo-americano at The Other and the Elsewhere in Italian Culture, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), Second Annual Conference CSU Chico, CA Teaching Tool Designed -2003 The Italian Village: audio-visual interactive dictionary for the Italian language with R.Vertolli Dept. of Graphic Design, CSU Chico IV. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY & COMMUNITY SERVICE Advisor - 2013-2008 C.I.A.O. (Chico Italian Academic Organization) with Prof. F. Orsitto - 2013-2005 Italian Tutor with Prof. F. Orsitto - 2013-2000 IP and USAC programs - 2013-1998 Italian Conversation Hour Collaborator of Prof. F. Orsitto - 2012, 22-24 October, Fifth Italian Lecture Series, CSU Chico, CA 3
- 2012, 22-23 October, Italy in the Age of Globalization, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), CSU Chico, CA, Sixth Annual Conference - 2011, 26 March, 5 April, 3 May, Fourth Italian Lecture Series, CSU Chico, CA - 2011, 20 April, Bitter Bread, Gianfranco Norelli, screening and lecture CSU Chico, CA - 2011, 17-18 June, Echi Oltremare, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), Rome, Italy, Fourth Annual Conference - 2011, 8 November, Third Italian Lecture Series, CSU Chico, CA - 2011, 7 November, Transcultural Italy, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), Third Annual Conference CSU Chico, CA - 2010, 17 November, Second Italian Lecture Series, CSU Chico, CA - 2010, 15-16 November, The Other and the Elsewhere in the Italian Culture, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), Second Annual Conference CSU Chico, CA - 2010, April 6, 13, 29, First Italian Lecture Series, CSU Chico, CA - 2009, 9 November, Otherness in Italian Culture, N.E.V.I.S. (New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies), First Annual Conference CSU Chico, CA Events organized and coordinated at CSU, Chico - 2013-2008 Fall & Spring semesters Pasta Olympics with C.I.A.O. & Prof. F. Orsitto - 2013-2010 Fall & Spring semesters Ciao Italia with C.I.A.O. & Prof. F. Orsitto - 2011-2008 Fall visits by Red Bluff High School - 2010, 29 April, La bella Lingua, Dianne Hales CSU, lecture, CSU Chico, CA, - 2004-2006 Italia Romantica, fundraising event for the Italian program, CSU Chico, CA with Prof. E. Frongia Film Presentations - 2011 May Days and Clouds by S. Soldini (2007) - 2009 March Breads and Tulips, by S. Soldini (2002) Work as Manuscript Reviewer - 2011-2010 ME, Multicultural Echoes Literary Magazine - 2010 Piazza: Luogo d incontri, by Melucci, Tognozzi, Heinle Cengage, 2013-2009 En avant! by B. Anderson, C. Golato, S. Blatty, McGraw Hill Company, 2011-2009 Salve by C. Larese Riga, Heinle Cengage, 2011-2007 Avanti, by J. Aski, D. Musumeci, Mc Graw Hill 2007 Work for Study Abroad - 2013-1998 interviewer for IP - 2009 Established a Direct Student Exchange Program with the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy - 2007 Onsite visits to USAC campuses in Lunenburg, Germany, and Viterbo, Italy 4
MEMBERSHIPS - 2013-2008 C.I.A.O. - 2012 Phi Sigma Iota EXTRA-CURRICULAR EXPERIENCE - 2013-1983 Freelance Translator and Interpreter - 2007-2006 Quality Rater Italian and French Language, Google, CA - 2006 2002 Program Director for Apollo Arts, Oregon House, CA - 1996-1992 Director of Lexis Translating, Chico, CA Last updated 3/7/2013 5