Fabian Alfie

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CV (abbreviated)

Last updated: 12/18/2008

PhD

University of Wisconsin,
Madison

Italian: Medieval Specialization
PhD Minor: Folklore

May 1995

 

Dissertation: “‘Se io potesse con la lingua dire’: Tradition and Innovation in Cecco Angiolieri’s Poetry.” 

Director: Professor Christopher Kleinhenz

 

 

 

 

 

MA

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Italian

May 1991

 

 

 

 

BA

University of Kansas

Italian, English

January 1988

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE    

Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, University of Arizona.  Responsible for teaching introductory, intermediate, and advanced language courses; courses on Italian literature; General Education courses in translation on Italian; and a General Education course on Italian Folklore.  Responsible also for service duties associated with holding a tenured position.

 

August 2003 — Present

Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian, University of Arizona.  Responsible for teaching introductory, intermediate and advanced language courses; courses on Italian literature; General Education courses in translation on Italian literature.  Responsible for designing and teaching Italian 240: Italian Folklore and Popular Culture.  Responsible also for service duties associated with holding a tenure-track position.

August 1997 — July 2003

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

  1. 2008 UA College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award.
  2. 1991 Departmental Graduate Student Award. Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE           

The University of Arizona Orvieto Institute.  Responsible for conducting the following classes on site: Italian 202z—Accelerated Italian; Italian 310; Italian 496A—Medieval Italian Poetry.

June 2008


The University of Arizona Orvieto Institute.  Responsible for conducting the following classes on site: Italian 202z—Accelerated Italian; Italian 310; Italian 496A—Medieval Italian Poetry.

 

June 2007

 

 

The University of Arizona Orvieto Institute.  Responsible for developing, in part, the Italian curriculum for the Orvieto Institute.  Responsible for conducting the following classes on site: Italian 102z—Accelerated Introductory Italian; Italian 202z—Accelerated Intermediate Italian; Italian 399 / 499—Independent Studies.

June 2005

 

 

 

Director, Summer Language Institute for the University of Kansas in Florence, Italy.  Responsible for conducting Summer Language Institute on site, assigning grades and assisting students
 

June 1993

 

 

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

  1. "Accessus ad Auctores": Studies in Honor of Christopher Kleinhenz, co-edited with Andrea Dini. (Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies). Forthcoming.
  2. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri’s Poetry and Late Medieval Society.  “Italian Perspectives” 8.  Series editors Z. G. Baranski and A. L. Lepschy.  Leeds (UK): Northern Universities Press, 2001. 

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES

  1. “Dante’s Purgatorio as Text.”  Romance Philology 59 (Fall 2005): 121-128.
  2. “Noterella sulle rime di Pietro de’ Faitinelli: Il Magliabechiano VII 1034.”  Letteratura Italiana Antica 8 (2007): 137-140. 
  3. “Lapo Gianni’s Improperium: Intertextualities with Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia.”  Article accepted for publication in Rivista di Studi Testuali 8 (2006); the manuscript currently stands at 22 pages. 
  4. “The Morality of Misogyny: The Case of Rustico Filippi, Vituperator of Women.”  Quidditas 25 (2004): 43-70. Article is also linked at: http://humanities.byu.edu/rmmra
  5. “Traditional, Comic Sonnets in the Magliabechiano VII 1034 Manuscript.”  Rivista di Studi Italiani 21: 1 (giugno 2003): 15-37.  
  6. “Re-reading the ‘Phoenix’: An Interpretation of Cino da Pistoia’s ‘Infra gli altri diffetti del libello.’”  Italian Culture 21 (2003): 1-18. 
  7. “Punishing God: Politically Motivated Blasphemy in the Italian Comic Poetry of the Fourteenth Century.”  Medievalia et Humanistica 30 (2003): 33-54.
  8. “‘O cinquecento, e cinque, e diece guarda’: A Riddle Poem and Dantesque Mosaic.”  Italica 81: 1 (Spring 2004): 1-15.  Article is also linked at: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00213020.html
  9. “Giovanni Pellegrino and Salomone:  A Fifteenth-Century Tenzone between a Christian Writer and a Jewish Poet.”  Prooftexts 23: 1 (January, 2003): 94-109.  Article is also linked at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/prooftexts/  
  10. “Cast Out: The Topos of Exile in Cecco Angiolieri, Pietro de’ Faitinelli and Pieraccio Tedaldi.”  Annali d’Italianistica 20 (2002): 113-124.
  11. “A Sonnet Ascribed to Saint Catherine of Siena: Attribution and Intertextualities.”  Italian Quarterly 39: 153-154 (Summer-Fall, 2002): 5-17. 
  12. “Durante’s Ars Amandi: A Structural Reading of the Fiore.”  Forum Italicum 36: 1 (Spring, 2002): 5-25.
  13. “Rustico’s Reputation: Ramifications for Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati.”  Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America (EBDSA): http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa/index.html (linked under “Minor Works”).
  14. “Men on Bottom: Homoeroticism in Cecco Angiolieri’s Poetry.”  Medievalia et Humanistica 28 (2001): 25-44.
  15. “One Year—or Two Decades—of Drunkenness?  Cecco Angiolieri and the Udine 10 Codex.”  Italica 78: 1 (Spring, 2001): 18-35. Article is also linked at: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00213020.html
  16. “Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Jean de Meun, Durante and Bindo Bonichi.”  Rivista di Studi Italiani 18: 1 (June 2000): 34-59. 
  17. “For Want of a Nail: The Guerri-Lanza-Cursietti Argument regarding the Tenzone.”  Dante Studies 116 (1998): 141-159. 
  18. “Love and Poetry: Reading Boccaccio’s Filostrato as a Medieval Parody.”  Forum Italicum 32: 2 (Fall, 1998): 347-374.
  19. “Immanuel of Rome, alias Manoello Giudeo: The Poetics of Jewish Identity in Fourteenth-Century Italy.” Italica 75: 3 (Fall, 1998): 307-329. Article is also linked at: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00213020.html
  20. “‘I’ son sì magro che quasi traluco’: Inspiration and Indebtedness among Cecco Angiolieri, Meo dei Tolomei and Il Burchiello.”  Italian Quarterly 35: 135-136 (Winter-Spring, 1998): 5-28.
  21. “Poetics Enacted: A Comparison of the Novellas of Guido Cavalcanti and Cecco Angiulieri in Boccaccio’s Decameron.”  Studi sul Boccaccio 23 (1995): 171-196.
  22. “Self-Reflexive Moments in Cecco Angiolieri.”  Italian Culture 13 (1995): 27-38.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. “‘What’s This Guy’s Problem?’: Teaching the Historical and Cultural Background to Petrarch’s Dissidio.”  Accepted for publication in Approaches to Teaching Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Petrarchism, eds., Andrea Dini and Christopher Kleinhenz.  Manuscript stands at 10 pages. 
  2. Entry, “Rustico Filippi.”  Forthcoming in the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Thirteenth-Century Italian Literature, eds., Z. G. Baranski and T. Cachey (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman).  Manuscript stands at 17 pages.
  3. Entry, “Folgore da San Gimignano / Cenne da la Chitarra.”  Forthcoming in the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Italian Literature of the Fourteenth Century, eds., Z. G. Baranski and T. Cachey (Columbia SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman).  Manuscript stands at 22 pages.
  4. Entry, “Cecco Angiolieri.”  Forthcoming in the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Italian Literature of the Fourteenth Century, eds., Z. G. Baranski and T. Cachey (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman).  Manuscript stands at 24 pages. 
  5. “The Violent Poetics of Inversion, or The Inversion of Violent Poetics: Meo dei Tolomei, His Mother, and the Italian Tradition of Comic Poetry.”  In Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature: A Casebook.  Ed., Albrecht Classen.  New York & London: Routledge, 2004.  207-223.