ROSALIA COLOMBO ASCARI
Curriculum Vitae
Education
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Abilitazione all’insegnamento (State Examination),
Milano, Italy, 1961
Doctor in Modern Foreign Languages, Bocconi
University, Milano, November 1960.
Majors: French and Italian Studies
Minors: Latin, Spanish & English
Dissertation: Aloysius Bertrand et les
petits romantiques.
Teaching Certificate, Istituto “Carlo Tenca,”
Milano, 1956.
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Professional
Experience
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Sweet Briar College, 1983-present
1999-00, Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Conversation
and Composition, Images and Reality in Italian Cinema
1999, July, Urbino, Italy, Directed Studies in
Italian Language and Italian Renaissance Literature
1998-99, Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Film
and Literature, Seminar on Italian Poetry
1998, July, Urbino, Italy, Directed Studies in
Italian Language and Italian Modern Literature
1997-98, Beginning and Intermediate Italian, The
Novella, Seminar on Manzoni
1997, July, Urbino, Italy, Directed Studies in
Italian Language and Italian Renaissance Literature
1996-97, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Modern Italian Literature, Business
Italian, Seminar
1996, July, Urbino, Italy, Directed Studies in
Italian Language and Italian Renaissance Literature
1995-96, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Conversation and Composition, Images and
Reality in Italian Cinema, Seminar, Special Study on Translation
1995, July, Mary Washington College Summer Program
in Italy, taught: patterns of Language and Cultural Expression
1994-, Full Professor
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Survey of Italian Literature, Special
Study, Sabbatical for Spring Term
1993-94, Chair and Associate Professor
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Readings in Contemporary Italian
Literature, Business Italian, Special Studies on Italian Women Writers,
Seminar on Manzoni
1992-93, Associate Professor
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Composition and Conversation, Freshman
Seminar (De Italia), Survey of Italian Literature, Seminar on Pico della
Mirandola, Independent Study on Boccaccio’s Decameron
1991-92, Associate Professor
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Business Italian, Seminar on Manzoni, The Novella, Honors
Seminar: Film and Literature
1990-91, Associate Professor
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Readings in Contemporary Italian
Literature, Images and Reality in the Italian Cinema
1989-1990, Associate Professor, tenure-track
position
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Survey of Italian Literature, Survey of
Italian Poetry, Seminar on Boccaccio’s Decameron
1988-89, Associate Professor, tenure-track
position
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Conversation and Composition, Business
Italian
1987-88, Associate Professor
Beginning and Intermediate Italian, Conversation and Composition, Studies in
the Italian Novel
1986-87, Visiting Associate Professor
Intermediate Italian, Survey of Italian Literature, Business Italian
1985-86, Visiting Associate Professor
Survey of Italian Literature in the 19th and 20th
Centuries, History and Culture from Roman Italy to the Present, Studies in
the Novella
1984-85, Visiting Assistant Professor, French and
Italian
Intermediate French and Italian, Survey of Italian Literature, Conversation
and Composition
1983-84, Visiting Assistant Professor
Intermediate French and Italian, Business Italian
Middlebury College Italian School, 1966-86
Summer 1986, Studies in Language (graduate course)
Summer 1985, Studies in Language, Business Italian
(graduate course)
Summer 1984, Intermediate Italian, Business
Italian (graduate course)
Summer 1983, Studies in Language (graduate course)
Summer 1982, Studies in Language (graduate course)
Summer 1981, Studies in Language (graduate course)
Summer 1980, Intermediate Italian, Advanced
Italian (graduate course)
Summer 1979, Advanced Italian (graduate course)
Summer 1978, Techniques of Self-Expression, Oral
and Written, Advanced Italian (graduate course)
Summer 1977, Techniques of Self-Expression, Oral
and Written, Advanced Italian (graduate course)
Summer 1976 Advanced Italian (graduate course)
Summer 1975, Advanced Italian (graduate course)
Summer 1973, Language I
Summer 1972, Language I
Summer 1967, Italian Conversation
Summer 1966, Italian Conversation
Mary Washington College, 1966-83
1983-84, Beginning and Intermediate French
1980, Fall, Intermediate Italian
1974, Summer, Intermediate French and French Survey
1971-72, Instructor in French
Beginning and Intermediate French, Survey of French Literature, Seminar on
Stendhal
1970-71, Instructor in French
Beginning, Intermediate and Survey
1966-67, Instructor, Language Laboratory
Other Institutions
Catholic University, April 1995: Member of Ph.D.
Committee for Stefania Lucamante: Elsa Morante – Canoni di Scrittura
College of William and Mary: Intermediate Italian
Catholic University, Washington D.C.: Italian
Stylistics (graduate course)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA:
Survey of Italian Literature
Università Bocconi, Milano, Instructor in French
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Publications
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Books (published)
Il Testo: Analisi dello stile e stile
dell’analisi, a textbook for advanced language practice and stylistics;
in collaboration with Grazia Pozzi, San Francisco: Austin & Winfield
1995.
Feminism and Socialism in Anna Kuliscioff’s
Writings, section in volume Mothers
of Invention, edited by Robin Pickering-Iazzi, University of Wisconsin,
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, December 1995.
L’analyse du texte: Etude de la langue et
de la culture française par le texte: in collaboration with M. T. Killiam, San Francisco: Austin and Winfield 1993: a textbook for structural
analysis and textual interpretation.
Le Française, où, quand, combien
(grammar and tapes), CEPA, Milano, 1968.
Articles and Reviews
“Recent
French Cinema,” in Contemporary French
Civilization, September 1993; in collaboration with M. T. Killiam.
“Coscienza
sociale e femminismo,” FAVA, vol.
46, 1, 1990.
Translation
of Roberto Micheloni, Sua Altezza Il
Pomodoro, for Studio Mellini-Pellizzari, Parma, 1988.
“Il punto
sulla famiglia italiana,” Acts of the
Northeast Conference, New York City: 1984.
Reviews
Luisetta Chomel: D’Annunzio, Un teatro al
femminile, in Italica, Summer 1999
Olschki,
Leo S. ed. Geografia Storia e Poetiche
del Fantastico, in Annali
d’Italianistica, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December
1998.
Parati,
Graziella. Public History, Private
Stories: Italian Women’s Autobiography. Minnesota: University of
Minnesota Press, 1996, in Annali
d’Italianistica, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December
1998.
NTC’s Beginner’s Italian and English
Dictionary. Lincolnwood: NTC Publishing Group, 1995, in The Modern Language Journal, vol. 80,
No. 1, Spring 1996.
Silvia
Vegetti Finzi, Psicoanalisi al
femminile. Bari: Editori Laterza, 1992, in Annali d’Italianistica, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, December 1995.
Graziana
Lazzarino & Annamaria Moneti, Da
Capo. 3rd ed., Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1992, in Italica, vol. 71, No. 4, Winter 1994.
Enzo Neppi, Soggetto e fantasma: Figure dell’autobiografia,
in Annali d’Italianistica,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 1993.
Catalogo della scrittura femminile a
stampa, ed. by Anna Santoro, Napoli: CPE, 1990, in Annali d’Italianistica, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
December 1992.
Maria Di
Giovanna, La fuga impossibile,
Napoli: Federico Ardia, 1989, in Annali
d’Italianistica, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December
1992.
Silvia
Vegetti Finzi, Il bambino della notte,
Milano: Mondadori, 1990, in Annali
d’Italianistica, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December
1992.
Contemporary Women Writers in Italy,
ed. by S. Aricò, Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1990, in Annali d’Italianistica, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 1991.
Ada Testa, Women in Italian Culture, Toronto:
Dovehouse Editions, Inc., 1989, in Annali
d’Italianistica, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December
1991.
Anna Santoro,
Narratrici italiane dell’Ottocento,
in Annali d’Italianistica,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 1990.
Maria
Messina, a) La casa nel vicolo, b) Gente che passa, c) Piccoli gorghi, in Annali d’Italianistica, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 1990.
Papers
April 1999,
Northeast Conference, New York City, “Lingua e dialetti nell’Italia
Contemporanea.”
April 1999,
AAIS, Eugene, Oregon. “Realtà sociale negli ultimi film di Gianni Amelio.”
April 1998,
Northeast Conference, New York City: “Cinema contemporaneo.”
April 1998,
International Conference at the University of Cork, Ireland: “Space and Time
in the Cinematic Versions of Caine’s The
Postman Always Rings Twice”
February
1997, AAIS, Winston-Salem: “Il Mondo Contadino in Una Donna Di Ragusa.”
April 1997,
Northeast Conference, New York City: “Mutamenti nella Lingua e Cultura
Italiana.”
November
1995, ACTFL-AATI, Los Angeles: Chair, “Italian Renaissance Literature”;
paper: “Realtà siciliana nei racconti di Maria Occhipinti.”
April 1995,
AAIS, Arizona State University: “Maria Occhipinti: una scrittura per
l’azione.”
April 1994,
AAIS, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Chair, “Da una donna alla Libreria
della Donna.”
November
1993, ACTFL-AATI, San Antonio: “Prospettiva storica del femminismo italiano.”
April 1993,
AAIS, Austin: “Socialismo o femminismo?”
November
1992, ACTFL-AATI, Chicago: “Realtà italiana nel carteggio Turati-Kuliscioff.”
April 1992,
Northeast Conference, New York City: “Cinema italiano contemporaneo.”
November
1990, AATI Convention, Nashville: “Maria Messina: un silenzio che accusa.”
November
1989, AATI Convention, Boston: “Femminismo ed evoluzione sociale agli albori
del XX° secolo.”
April 1987,
Northeast Conference, New York City: “La Storia nella Storia di Elsa Morante.”
November
1985, AATI Convention, New York City: “Formazione linguistica e informazione
economica.”
April 1984,
Northeast Conference, New York City: “Il punto sulla famiglia italiana,”
published in Acts of the Northeast
Conference, 1984.
April 1982,
Northeast Conference, New York City: “Il cinema italiano.”
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College Service
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Advising
1993-96, Modern Languages and Literatures Advisor
1989-98, First-Year Advisor
1988-present, Italian Studies Advisor
College Committees
1999-present, Women and Gender Studies Committee
1997-present, Judicial Committee
1997-present, Faculty Marshall
1995-97, Chairs Council
1995-99, International Studies Committee
1995-96, Women and Gender Studies Committee
1992-93, Summer Program Committee
1991-92, Interdisciplinary Committee
1991-92, President, Faculty and Staff Club Committee
1991-94, Instruction Committee
1991-92, Chair, Winter Term Subcommittee
1991-92, College Council
1990-91, Secretary, Faculty and Staff Club Committee
1990-93, Faculty Representative to the Board
1989-91, Lectures Committee
1989-91, Church and Chapel Committee
1989-91,
Representative of Women and Gender Studies Committee for Ewald Symposium 91
1988-91, Faculty Grants Committee
1988-91, Career Planning Committee
1988-91, Women and Gender Studies Committee
Off-Campus Winter Term Courses
January 1998, Winter Term in Italy, Pirandello e Verga
January 1996, Winter Term in Italy, The Betrothed
January 1990, Winter Term in Italy, The Decameron
January 1989, Winter Term in Italy, Manzoni in Translation
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Grants
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Interdisciplinary
Grant to attend the annual convention of the AAIS in Eugene, Oregon, April
1999.
Sweet Briar
Grant to attend the Berkeley Program in Oxford, England, July 1999.
Faculty Grant
for air fare to attend the Bradley Seminar in Berlin and Prague, June 1997.
Faculty Grant
to study the works of Maria Occhipinti and feminist movements in Sicily,
February, March and August 1995
Faculty Grant
to chair a session and present a paper at the 1995 Annual AATI Convention in
Los Angeles
Interdisciplinary
Grant to chair a session and present a paper at the 15th Annual
Convention of the American Association of Italian Studies, April 1995
Interdisciplinary
Grant to attend the Sixth International Feminist Book Fair, Melbourne,
Australia, July 28-31, 1994
Interdisciplinary
Grant to attend a Seminar on the teaching of Business Courses, University of
Rhode Island, Kingston, October 14-16, 1993
Interdisciplinary
Grant for six weeks in Italy to do research on women’s commitment to social
change in four different geographic areas, 1993-94
Interdisciplinary
Grant for two weeks to do research at Sormani and Brera Libraries in Milan,
Italy on Anna Kuliscioff, Summer 1992
Interdisciplinary
Grant for an NCTE Summer Institute, for Teachers of Literature to
Undergraduates, Myrtle Beach, SC, 1992
Interdisciplinary
Faculty Grant to attend a Literature and Film Seminar, Key West, January 1992
Interdisciplinary
Faculty Grant to attend Sarasota French Film Festival, November 1991
Gilpin
Faculty Enrichment Grant for research at MOMA, New York City, Summer 1991
Gilpin
Faculty Enrichment Grant for research on Italian Society and Movies in the
Eighties, Summer 1990
Sweet Briar
Faculty Grant for Seminar on the Use of Videos, Nashville, 1990
Sweet Briar
Faculty Interdisciplinary Travel Grant to Italy for research on “Feminism and
Social Issues in Early 20th Century,” 1989
Sweet Briar
Faculty Grant for Seminar on Teaching Business, Monterey, California, 1988
“Luigi
Bocconi” Grant for dissertation research in France: 1959-60, Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris
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Faculty Development
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2000:
Culpeper Workshop on website, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, January 11-14
1993: Seminar
on Business Italian, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, October 14-16,
1993
1993:
Virginia College Learning Association, Fourth Annual Sharing Conference,
February 19-20, Sweet Briar College
1992: Seminar
on Cinema, conducted by Marvin D’Lugo, April, Sweet Briar College
1992: Visual
Literacy Workshop (“Metamorphosis Project”) conducted by Harvey Breverman,
October 18-20, Sweet Briar College
1991:
Conversations About the Role of Ideology in the Global Community, Francis
Fukuyama, March 1991, University of Virginia
1990:
Symposium: “Testing the Waters,” Sweet Briar College, December 6
1990:
Seminar, The Future of the Humanities, Expanding the Canon, J. Cullen,
Hampden-Sydney College, May 15-16
1990:
Seminar, Reading the Medieval World, University of Virginia, April
1990: Faculty
Development Workshop, The Freshman Year Experience, April 20-21
1990: Panel
Discussion on Giotto, April 17, Sweet Briar College
1989: Mellon
Seminar, Williamsburg, Virginia
1985: French
School, Middlebury College, Course on Semiotics
1984: French
School, Middlebury College, Course on Linguistics
1963: Summer
Seminar for French teachers, University of Pau, France
1962: Summer
Seminar on Translation, Université de Grenoble, France
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Professional Travel
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Summer 1995:
Ragusa, Sicily to research on Maria Occhipinti
Summer 1994:
Melbourne, Australia to do work on “Women in rural areas.”
Summer 1992:
two weeks in Milano, Italy, for research at Sormani and Brera Libraries
Summer 1990:
one month in Milano, Italy, for research at Brera Library
Summer 1989:
two months in Milano, Italy, for research at Biblioteca Sormani
Summer 1988:
two months in Italy and France
Summer 1984:
three weeks in Rome
Summer 1960:
two months in Paris
Summer 1959:
two months at the Sorbonne, Paris
Summer and
Fall, 1958, Ecole D’Intèrpretes, Geneva, Switzerland
Summer 1957:
three months in Madrid, Spain
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Professional
Memberships
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American
Association of Italian Studies
American
Association of Teachers of Italian: Nominated for the national position of
Secretary/Treasurer for 1994
Associazione
Laureati Università Bocconi
Association
of Middlebury Italian School Alumni
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