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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2018- Lancaster University, Department of Languages and Cultures, Lancaster, UK Associate Lecturer
2012-16 Columbia University, Department of Italian, New York, NY Teaching Fellow
2011-16 Gayatri Chrakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, NY Research Assistant
2009-11 Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium Research Fellow
EDUCATION
2011-17 Columbia University, New York, NY Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature
2008-09 Columbia University, New York, NY M.A. in Italian (Francqui Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation)
2007-08 Leuven, Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels Universities M.A. in Comparative Literature (magna cum laude)
2005-07 Leuven University, Belgium M.A. in Romance Philology, French and Italian (summa cum laude)
2003-05 Leuven University, Belgium B.A. in Romance Philology, French and Italian (magna cum laude)
PUBLICATIONS
Book Manuscript
Faces of the Earth: Universality and World Literature After Empire
Articles
–“‘A World To Win’: China, the Afro-Asian Writers’ Bureau, and the Reinvention of World Literature,” Critical Asian Studies (2018). (print article forthcoming)
-“Naissance de l’auteur. Se souvenir de Foucault après 25 ans,” Romaneske 34 (2009), 13-14.
Conference Proceedings
“Questa sera si recita a soggetto di Pirandello fra Pasolini e il Living Theatre,” in Bart Van Den Bossche & Monica Jansen eds., Conference proceedings of Le passioni di Pirandello, Universities of Leuven and Antwerp, May 11-12, 2010 (Firenze: Cesati & Helmond: Stichting Luigi Pirandello, 2010) 291-300
Catalog Essays
“Environed,” Catalog Essay for Wang Xu Solo Exhibition, Gallery 456, New York, 2014
Book Reviews
-Review of Beatrice Barbalato ed., Le carnaval verbal d’Ascanio Celestini: Traduire le théâtre de narration? (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2011) in Incontri: rivista europea di studi italiani, vol 27, 2 (2012), 132
-Review of Giudicetti, Gianpaolo – Lizza Minuti, Marinella, Le città e i nomi. Un viaggio tra le Città invisibili di Italo Calvino (Torino: Nero su Bianco, 2010), in Lettres Romanes 65 (2011), 245-247.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS
-Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – Bandung Humanisms: Towards a New Understanding of the Global South International Workshop—“The Afro-Asian Writers’ Bureau and the Reinvention of Universal Culture” (by invitation)
-NYU Villa La Pietra & Kunsthistorisches Institut Max Planck, Florence, Italy – “Pier Paolo Pasolini: Image/Body/Site” Conference – ” ‘Bandung Man’: Pasolini’s L’odore dell’India and Italian Thirdworldism” (by invitation)
-Yale University, CT – “The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini” Conference – “Planetary Pasolini: The Indian and African Documentaries”
-New York University, NY – “Capitals”: ACLA Annual Meeting – “Avant-garde Magicians: Humanism and Deconstruction in Chinese Art Practice of the 1980s”
-Cardozo Law School/NYU, NY – “La Ricotta in Context” Workshop – “Pasolini’s Non-Actors”
-University of Pennsylvania, PA – “Altered States” French & Italian Graduate Student Conference – “Friendship Hotel. Spaces of Globalization in Barthes’, Moravia’s, and Kristeva’s Chinese Travelogues.”
-Rutgers University, NJ – “immagiNazione” Graduate Student Conference – ”An Italian in Beijing. Pasoliniʼs Critique of Globalization in Le mura di Sanaʼa Between Moravia, Antonioni, and the Cultural Revolution.”
-University of California, Los Angeles – “Forbidden Ideas” Graduate Student Conference – “Hammer and Sickle. Reading Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Review of the 1975 Warhol Exhibition at Ferrara.”
-University of Warwick, UK – Plenary Session of the annual Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium – “State of Fluxus. Changing Theatrical and Everyday Space in Pasolini’s Collaborative Projects with the Living Theatre of New York (1966-69).”
-Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium – International Pirandello Conference – “Guardare la gente che passa. Questa sera si recita a soggetto di Pirandello fra Pasolini e il Living Theatre.”
-University of Michigan, MI – Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, ‘Queer Spaces, Queer Bodies’ panel – “Making Gay. Queering Theatrical Space in Pasolini’s Theatre.”
-Brown University, RI – Annual “Chiasmi” Graduate Student Conference at Brown and Harvard Universities – presentation on Pasolini and the Living Theatre.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
2016-17 Mellon International Travel Award, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for research in Paris & Beijing
2014 Institute for World Literature (Harvard University), Hong Kong
2008-09 Francqui Fellowship of the Belgian American Educational Foundation; Scholarship of the Fernand Lazard Foundation
2007-08 Scholarship of Excellence of the Roger Dillemans Foundation; “Stipendium” of the Academia Belgica, Rome
2007 F.J. Mertens Award for the best Master’s Thesis in Romance Literature at the University of Leuven
2005-06 Université de Paris, Paris IV – La Sorbonne — European Union’s Erasmus Exchange Program, EU Mobility Scholarship and stay at German-speaking Maison Heinrich Heine of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
2004 Scholarship of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura — four-week Italian Summer School Program at Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy
2003 First Laureate of the National French Proficiency Olympiad “La Tour Eiffel – Olyfran” (Belgium) – Awarded a five-week French summer school program at Laval University, Canada by the Quebec Government and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2014-15 University Senator (GSAS – Humanities)
2013-15 Inaugural Student Representative of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to Columbia’s Arts Initiative Advisory Group
2011-15 Department Representative to Columbia’s Graduate Student Advisory Council
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014 Curator – Wang Xu, “What’s the Weather Like Today?” Solo Exhibition, New York, NY
2013 Intern – Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY
2009-11 Book Project Assistant on New York Times bestselling book – Nina Burleigh, writer/journalist, New York, NY
2010-11 Artist Assistant – Jinny Yu, Artist in Residence at ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
2009-10 Intern – International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY
VOLUNTEERING
2008/2012 Organizing for America, registering voters in State College, PA (2008, Columbia University Democrats) and Philadelphia, PA (2012, OFA Field Organizer Academy); canvassing in Ohio (2012, LGBT for Obama)
2007 Argos Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2005 International Building Organization, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 School 55, R’azan, Russia
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