GIOVANNA M. G. SUMMERFIELD

Curriculum Vitae

 

EDUCATION

2004                 Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures w/minor in European and

Mediterranean History

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

“Credere aude: Mystifying Enlightenment."

Committee Chair: Prof. William Calin

Committee Members: Profs. Raymond Gay-Crosier, Susan Read Baker,

Rori Bloom, and Sheryl T. Kroen

 

2003                 Certificate (Continuing Training of Teachers of French)

                        Cultural Services of the French Embassy/Northwestern University

 

2000                 M.A. in French Literature w/minor in European and Mediterranean History

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

                        “Dominique Vivant Denon: Uncovering the Skeletons in the Closet.”

                        Defended with Honors - Committee Chair: Prof. Raymond Gay-Crosier

 

2000                 Certificate (Literature, and Art) - Cours de civilisation

                        LA SORBONNE, Paris, France

 

1998                 B.A. in Government w/minor in History

                        UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

 

1984-89            Courses in Law, Politics, and Languages

                        UNIVERSITA' DI CATANIA, Italy

                        Facolta' di Scienze Politiche

                   

1982                 Diploma in Foreign Languages and Literatures (with Highest Honors)

                        Specialist in: English, French and German

                        LICEO LINGUISTICO GARIBALDI, Catania, Italy

 

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Jan 2006           Assistant Professor (Italian and French)      

                        Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

 

2004-2005         Visiting Assistant Professor (French and Italian)

                         Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

 

2002 – 2004      French Instructor

Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

 

2001 - 2002       Fellow for UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

                        University of Florida, Gainesville

 

2000 - 2001       Research Assistant for French Graduate Research Professor

                        University of Florida, Gainesville

 

1998 - 2002      Graduate Teaching Assistant/Associate (French and Italian)

                        University of Florida

 

1996 - 1998       Language Instructor (French and Italian)

                        Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL

 

1990 - 1992       Language Instructor (Italian)

                        North-Oxfordshire College of Art, Banbury, England

                        Northamptonshire College of Art, Brackley, England

 

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

The long eighteenth-century (1660-1830) French and Italian literature; religious and philosophical movements; comparative literary studies; contes de fées; translations; European and Mediterranean history/civilization; psychology; material culture.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Auburn University                            First-Year French

                                                Second-Year French

                                                First-Year Italian

LAC Courses (3rd-Year Level) in French and Italian

 

 

University of Florida                        French Literature Survey (co-taught w/ tenured faculty)

                                                French Civilization 1945-- (co-taught w/tenured faculty)

Second-Year French Grammar and Conversation

                                                First-Year French (1130, 1115 and 1131)

                                                First-Year Italian (1130 and 1131)

Santa Fe Community

College Community Ed              Conversational French

Conversational Italian

 

North-Oxfordshire                    Conversational Italian

and Northamptonshire                Italian for Business

Colleges

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

No Tomorrow (Translation of Point de lendemain by Dominique Vivant Denon)

            Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.

 

Ritmi…incontrastati rumori del cuore.  Rome: Albatros Editrice, 1984. 

            Recognized with the ALA DELLA VITTORIA Medal.

 

 

 

 

Articles and Book Chapters
  “Interdisciplinary Innovation and the Italian Renaissance: An Adjunct LAC Course”

            Culture Out of Bounds. Heinle Thomson, 2006.  

 

 “Modèle d’un cours hybride de débutants en langue française: une réponse à la
            diversité dans l’apprentissage » (with Dr. Paine), Dialogues et cultures 50,

            2006.

 

 “Technical Transference or Cultural Adaptation: Songs in Translation.” Translation

            Directory. 29 Sept 2003.

 

 “Contes de fées by Women of the Seventeenth-Century: New Discourses of Sexuality

            and Gender.” Les femmes au Grand Siècle . Wetsel, David /Frédéric Canovas

            (éds) Tome II, Biblio 17, Bd. 144. Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002.

 

  “Le thème du narcissisme dans L’immoraliste.” (abstract) BAAG (Bulletin des Amis

            d’André Gide,  October 2001).

 

   “Three Translations of ‘La Chanson du mal-aimé’ by Guillaume Apollinaire.”

            Translation Journal.  2 Apr 2001.

 

 

Reviews

Dare l’anima: Storia di un infanticidio.  Torino: G. Einaudi editore, 2005.

New Perspectives on Eighteenth Century, Vol. 3 (2006).      

 

Le Muse in Loggia (Massoneria e letteratura nel Settecento). Milano: Edizioni Unicopli,

2002.    NPEC, (New Perspectives on Eighteenth Century). Vol. 2 (2005).

 

 

Works in Progress

Domenico Tempio: Poems and Fables.  (A translation from Sicilian into Italian and English –

            To be submitted to Legas Publishing).

 

Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature. (A collection of essays - To be submitted to 

            Cambridge Scholars Press).

Translation of La mascherata by Carlo Goldoni (submitted to Two Lines).

 

 

 “Gli arancini di Montalbano: More Than A Sicilian Culinary Note” (submitted to

            Metamorphoses  - Italian Special Issue).

 

 

“Strategie per l’inclusione dell’italiano nel curriculum universitario” (submitted to

Bordighera Press)

 

 “ ‘Tra fidi e fitinzia: La Sicilia religiosa di Pirandello, Verga e Martoglio” (submitted to
            Annali d’italianistica)

 

 “Freemasonry: A Momentous Attempt to Attain Perfection” (submitted to EMF: Studies in
            Early Modern France, vol. 12).

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Nov 2005          “Eighteenth-Century Bildungsroman and Travel Journal as Vehicles of

                         Masonic Agenda” SAMLA, Atlanta, Ga.

 

Apr 2005          “Languages Across the Curriculum at Auburn University: Past, Present,

 and Future” LAC Symposium at Auburn University, Auburn, AL.

 

Mar 2005          “Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety: Mastering the Self through Alchemy,

                        Physiognomy, and Marianism” ASECS, Las Vegas.

 

Dec 2004          “Strategie per l’inclusione dell’italiano nel curriculum universitario”

                         Italian Studies in the South East, organized and hosted by the Consulate

                         General of Italy in Miami and FAU (Italian Program).

 

July 2004          "Outline for Designing a Hybrid Introductory French Language Course 

                        with WebCT Software."  AATF Congrès Mondial des Professeurs de

                        Français, Atlanta, Ga. (Co-presenter).

 

Mar 2004          “Analyze This: A bon Vivant and a Philosophe Inconnu, Sharing the

Burden of Monetary Debt and Spiritual Deviancy.” SEASECS, Savannah,

Georgia.

 

Aug 2003          “Julie et Rousseau: une martyre et son hagiographe”  ISECS International

                        Conference, Los Angeles, California.

 

Feb 2003           “Dominique V. Denon: A Mason and His Works” SEASECS, Columbia,

 South Carolina.

 

May 2001         “Rousseaunian (Im)pressions and (Ex)pressions within Music and

                        Language.” XIIth Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseaus Association.

                        Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

 

May 2001         “Contes de fées by Women of the Seventeenth Century: New

                        Discourses of Sexuality and Gender.” NASSCFL. Tempe, Arizona.

 

Mar 2001          “Condorcet’s Public Education: A Current Concept of Guaranteed

                        Knowledge and Democracy.”  SEASECS Annual Conference.

                        Huntsville, Alabama.     

 

Jan 2001           “Le thème du narcissime dans L’Immoraliste.”

                        GIDE EN FLORIDE - International Conference. Sarasota, Florida.

 

June 2000         “Nora, le nom de la révolution.” International Annual Francophone

                        Congress.  Sousse, Tunisia.

 

April 2000         Roundtable Discussion with Edouard Glissant.   Romance Languages

and Literatures Department, University of  Florida.

 

Mar 2000          “Woman, Wake Up.”  SEASECS Annual Conference.  Savannah,

                        Georgia.  Certificate for Best Paper Title.

 

 

INVITED LECTURES

Mar 2006          Presentation of I Vitelloni (Censorship/Carnevale) JCS Museum,

                        Auburn University (forthcoming)

 

March 2005      “Le français branché” Teaching with Technology at Auburn

 

Feb 2005           “I partiti politici italiani” – invited by Dr. Katainen for FLIT3510,

                        Italian Culture through Films

 

June 2004         “Le français branché” for Prospective Students and their Parents

                        at Auburn University

 

March 2004      “Le français branché” Teaching with Technology at Auburn

 

Nov 1999          “Myriam Ben: Critical analysis of the Algerian author’s works.”

                        Entre Nous, University of Florida. 

 

Dec 1998          “San Juan de La Cruz:  Multicultural Reading” My Italian translation

                        of the author’s poems.  Entre Nous, University of Florida.

           

                       

ACADEMIC HONORS

Jan 2006           NIAF (National Italian American Foundation) Grant for

                        University Italian Clubs.

2005                 Travel Grant.  Foreign Languages and Literatures and College

                        of Liberal Arts.  Auburn University

2004                 Travel Grant. Foreign Languages and Literatures, and College

                        of Liberal Arts.  Auburn University

2004                 Auburn University Advanced Summer Academy

2004                 Travel Grants.  Romance Languages and Literatures, Graduate

                        Research Program, and SGC, University of Florida

2003                 Auburn University Summer Academy

2003                 Outstanding Graduate Student (Ph.D). Romance Languages and

                        Literatures.  University of Florida

2003                 Travel Grants.  Romance Languages and Literatures, and

Graduate Research Program (University of Florida)

2001-02            Fellowship - UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

2001                 Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society

2001                 Travel Grants.  Student Government Council, Romance Languages

                        and Literatures Department (University of Florida)

2000                 O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship.  College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (UF)

2000                 Outstanding Graduate Student (M.A.). Romance Languages and

                        Literatures (University of Florida)

2000                 Travel Grants.  Student Government Council, Romance Languages

                        and Literatures, and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

2000                 McGraw Hill Professional Travel Grant.

2000                 Research Assistantship, RLL, University of Florida.

2000                 Teaching Assistantship, RLL, University of Florida.                    

1999                 Teaching Assistantship, RLL  University of Florida.

1998                 Teaching Assistantship, RLL, University of Florida.

1998                 Alpha Sigma Lambda, University of Maryland.

1993-94            Dean’s List, University of Maryland.

1982                 High School Valedictorian, Italy.

1982                 Banco di Sicilia Scholarship, Italy.

 

 

SERVICE

Academic
March 2006      Session Chair, The Country Mouse and City Mouse of

Eighteenth-Century Literature.  SEASECS Annual Conference,
Athens, Georgia (forthcoming) 

 

Jan-Nov 2006    Secretary, SAMLA, Comparative Literature Session.

 

Jan 2006--         Editorial Board (Reviewer), Bridges, Interdisciplinary Refereed Journal

 

2005-present     Member, AU Senate, Non-Tenure Instructor Committee

2005-present     Director, Summer Program in Taormina, Italy

2005 -present    Advisor, Undergraduate Italian (Minor in Italian Studies)

2005-present     Member, Scholarship Committee

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Award

 

2005-present     Advisor, Il Club Italiano, Auburn University

 

2005                 Reviewer for McGraw Hill (Avanti!) and Prentice Hall (Chez Nous)

 

2005                 Organizer, L’Ora della Merenda (Italian Conversation Table)

 

2004-present     Director , Languages Across the Curriculum Program

 

2004-present     Member, Material Culture Reading Group at Auburn University

 

March 2004      Session Chair, Finance and Fiction.  SEASECS Annual Conference,                 

                          Savannah, Ga

 

2003-2004         Organizer, French Scholar and Lecture Series (Alabama Humanities

                        Foundation In-House Speaker Professor Catherine Daniélou,

                          and Professor Francis Assaf - University of Georgia)

 

2003-2004         Organizer, IntraPerspectives, Interdisciplinary Forum, AU

 

2003-present     Organizer, French Film Series. Auburn University

 

2003-present     Web Co-Designer, FLFR1010/FLFR1020 WebCT courses

                           Foreign Languages and Literatures

 

March 2003      Presenter, Annual Pi Delta Phi Initiation Ceremony, FLL/French, Auburn

                          University.(for Invited Francophone Speaker).

 

2001-2002         President/Founder, Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society), Mu Omega Chapter, University of Florida

                                 

2001                 Appointed Member, Second-Year French Textbook Committee.

                           RLL, University of Florida

                                 

2000-present     Editorial Board, C18-L’s Selected Readings, a monthly interdisciplinary

                           bibliography on the long XVIII century (1630-1830).

                           Monitor of French Review, French Studies, History of

                           Religions, Religion and Literature, and Christianity and Literature

 

March 2000      Session Chair, New Women in a New World.  SEASECS Annual Conference.

                          Savannah, Georgia

 

1999                 Appointed Member, Search Committee for Italian Faculty.  RLL, University

of Florida

 

1998-2001         Elected Student Rep, Graduate Student Council, French Department, University of Florida

 

1998-1999         Advisor, Italian Club: “VIVA ITALIA,” University of Florida

 

 

Community

1999-2002         Translator/Tutor, Gainesville, Florida

 

2001-2002         Volunteer Speaker , Alachua County School Board (Multi-cultural events)

 

1999-2001         PTA Officer, Book Fair Committee Chair. Lawton Chiles Elementary School.

                          Gainesville, Florida

 

1998                 Area Coordinator, Exchange Student Program. ISE, New York based

 

1998-1999         Activity Volunteer, Expo Children’s Museum.  Gainesville, Florida

 

1997                 Area Coordinator, Exchange Student Program. IEF, New York based

 

1994                 Volunteer Art Instructor, Elementary Schools of Albermarle County, Charlottesville, Virginia. 

 

 

Related Professional Activities

1988-1989         Export Sales Manager Assistant.  Relations with: France, Belgium,

Germany, and Italy.  Bronnley Soap Ltd.  Brackley, UK

                                      

1985-1986         Interpreter, U.S. Air Force.  MWR, Comiso, Italy

 

1982-1985         Import/Export, Sales Manager.   Relations with:  Turkey, Greece, Sweden.        

                          Musumeci S.re.  Catania, Italy

 

 

PERSONAL

Languages:     Italian               Native

                        French              Near-native

                        English              Near-native

                        German            Advanced Level

                        Latin                 5 years of Dedicated Study

                        Spanish             Reading and Listening

 

 

Affiliations:      Modern Language Association

                        South Atlantic Modern Language Association

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Arba Sicula (Sicilian Dawn)

Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

                        Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies

                        American Association of Teachers of French

North-American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society)

 

 

 

                                                                                                                             01/08/06