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Giuseppe Gazzola

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BA, Università di Genova
MA, University of Notre Dame
Ph.D, Yale University

Associate Professor
Former Fellow, Humanities Institute at Stony Brook (2015)
Office: 2123 Humanities Building 

Email: giuseppe.gazzola@stonybrook.edu
Academia: https://sbsuny.academia.edu/GiuseppeGazzola 

Giuseppe Gazzola is an Associate Professor of Italian in the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University. He holds a PhD. from Yale University (2008) and received his Masters from the University of Notre Dame (1999). His research focuses on European literature and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he has published articles on Gozzano, Foscolo, Marinetti. 

  • Research Interest

    Research Interest

    European Romanticism

    Theories of Canon Formation

    Modernist and Postmodernist Theories

    My research focuses on European literature and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the list of my recent publications includes “Un entomologo in India: l’orientalismo consapevole di Guido Gozzano,” ISSA 24.2 (2011); Italy from Without (edited, SAGE, 2013); “Betting Against Themselves: Conflicting Conceptions of Love in Così fan tutte, o: la scola degli amanti” MLN 130.1 (2015); “European Man and Writer: Romanticism, the Classics, and Political Action in the Exemplary Life of Ugo Foscolo,” (The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism, 2015); and Versi e Prose: Marinetti traduce Mallarmé (Società Editrice Fiorentina, forthcoming). Montale, the Modernist, which discusses the belonging of the Nobel-prize-winning Italian poet Eugenio Montale in the Anglo-American category of modernism, will be published by Olschki in 2016; the edition of G.A. Borgese's unpublished drama, "La fuga in Egitto," is under examination at Einaudi. A complete list of my publications, conferences, awards, and courses can be found in my CV. 

     

  • Projects

    Projects

     

  • Publications

    Publications

     

  • Courses

    Courses

    SBU 102.144 (GLS 102) This course contains graphic language: Semiotics and comics.

    Do we read comics, or do we watch them? How does the grammar of comics function? What is semiotics and what does it have to do with comics? How does this mode of simultaneous seeing and reading complicate conventional approaches to a text? We will be talking about narratives and the visual arts, using the form of comics as a pretext, and a text, to speak about the semiotic function. As a SBU 102 course, this class will focus on learning how to read a text. 

    1 credit, Letter Grading

     HUI  231: Italian Cinema

    The cinematic representation of gender, class, and sexual politics in post-World War II Italian films and the relationship of these themes to Italian history, society, and culture are discussed. Films by directors such as Bertolucci, Fellini, and Wertmuller are studied. Readings include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory. 

    3 credits

    HUI 331: Lessons on Love from the Italian Lyric Tradition

     

    3 credits

     ITL 313: History of Italian Food

     

    3 credits

    ITL 441/552: The Roaring Twenties

     

    3 credits

  • Books

    Books

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