EDUCATION

1986-1991: Yale University, Department of Comparative Literature:  M.Phil., 1989; Ph.D., 1991.

1982-1985:  University of California, San Diego:  B.A. summa cum laude, with highest distinction in General Literature

HONORS AND GRANTS

2004: Dean's Lecture Award, University of Vermont

2004, 2003, 2001:  Dean's Fund for Faculty Development, University of Vermont

2002, 1999:  Instructional Incentives Grant, University of Vermont

2001:  CTL laptop workshop

1999, 1997:  Summer Stipend, University Committee on Research and Scholarship, University of Vermont

1990-1991:  Mellon Dissertation Fellowship

1987-1990:  Yale University Fellowship

1986-1988:  Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

1985:  Burckhardt Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay, U.C. San Diego

1984-1985:  John Muir College Caledonian Society

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 2005-present: Professor of Romance Languages, University of Vermont

1999-2005:  Associate Professor of Romance Languages, University of Vermont

1993-1999:  Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, University of Vermont

1991-1993:  Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Connecticut College

1989-1990:  Teaching Fellow, Yale University

1988-1990:  Reading, Writing, and Foreign Language Tutor, Sylvan Learning Center, Hamden, CT

1985:  Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego

BOOKS

The Women in God's Kitchen: Cooking, Eating, and Spiritual Writing. New York: Continuum, 2005.

Italian Made Simple. New York: Broadway Books, 2003

The Voices of Gemma Galgani:  The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint. Co-authored with Rudolph Bell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Maternal Impressions:  Pregnancy and Childbirth in Literature and Theory. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Angela of Foligno's Memorial. Edited with introduction, notes, and interpretive essay. Translation bby John Cirignano. Cambridge:  D.S. Brewer, 1999.

Saint Hysteria:  Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European Culture.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1996.

TRANSLATION

Edward Curtis. I grandi guerrieri. Rome: Contrasto, 2004.

ARTICLES

"Angela of Foligno." Forthcoming in the Yale Guide to Medieval Holy Women. Ed. Alastair Minnis and Rosalynn Voaden. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

"The Short-Legged Fairy: Reading and Teaching Pinocchio as a Feminist." Forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Pinocchio and Its Adaptations. Ed. Michael Sherberg. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006.

"Braiding Bridges with Mysticism, Literature, Theory. The Case of Margaret Mazzantini’s Non ti muovere." Quaderni d’Italianistica XXIII.2 (2002): 87-99.

"Washing Lettuce with Holy Water: Food and Spirituality in Angela of Foligno's Memorial." Rivista di studi italiani XX.1 (June 2002): 116-128.

"Of Stockfish and Stew: Feasting and Fasting in the Book of Margery Kempe." Food and Foodways 10.4 (2002): 171-182.

"'That in Giving Me Life, You Still Remain Alive':  Fetal Beginnings and Maternal Endings at Two Centuries' Ends." Annali d'Italianistica18 (2000):  255-276.

"Pregnant Bodies of Knowledge:  Italian Narratives of Fetal Movement (1880's-1920's)."  Rivista di studi italiani17.1 (1999):  222-241.

"What Should a Woman Smell Like?  Body and Language in Capuana's Profumo." American Journal of Italian Studies 21.58 (1998):  112-127.

"'Di mamma ce n'è una sola':  Fascism, Demography, and the Mother's Voice in Ada Negri's 'Niobe.'" Italian Culture 15 (1997):  115-130.

"Looking Fat:  Ironizing Fetishism in Marchesa Colombi's Un matrimonio in provincia."  Quaderni d’Italianistica XVIII.2 (Fall 1997):  273-282.

"Parturition, Parting, and Paradox in Turn-of-the-Century Italian Literature (D'Annunzio, Aleramo, Neera)." Forum Italicum 31.2 (Fall 1997):  343-66.

"'L'abito non fa la monaca':  Clothing and Gender in Giovanni Verga's Storia di una capinera." Italian Quarterly 34.133-134 (1997):  33-46.

 "Impressive Cravings, Impressionable Bodies:  Pregnancy and Desire from Cesare Lombroso to Ada Negri." Annali d'Italianistica 15 (1997):  137-157.

"Le parole del Verbo:  Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Christianity."  Annali d'Italianistica15 (1997):  341-348.

"Difference, Repetition, and the Mother-Daughter Bond in Ada Negri." Rivista di studi italiani 15.1 (June 1997):  55-74.

"Gazing at the Veil, Unveiling the Fetish: The Case of Camillo Boito's Short Stories."  Italian  Quarterly 33.129-130 (Summer-Fall 1996):  29-43.

"On the (Un)Representability of Woman’s Pleasure:  Angela of Foligno and Jacques Lacan."  In Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages.  Ed. Jane Chance.  Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 1996.  239-262.

"Rappresentazione della violenza / Violenza della rappresentazione: 'La Leda senza cigno' e 'La Violante dalla bella voce,' di G. D'Annunzio." Forum Italicum 29.2 (Fall 1995):  266-285.

"Visions of the Mystic / Mystical Visions:  Interpretations and Self-Interpretations of Gemma Galgani." Annali d'Italianistica 13 (1995):  371-386.

"Italian Women Mystics:  A Bibliographical Essay." Annali d'Italianistica 13 (1995):  401-435.

"Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?  Constructing the Female Corpse in Scapigliatura."  Italian Culture 12 (1994):  175-187.

"Writing the Rite:  Text and Sacrifice in Drieu La Rochelle." French Forum 18.2 (May 1993):  213-230.

"(Re)Constructing the Incipit:  The Sublimation of Narrative Beginnings in Calvino and Freud."  Comparative Literature Studies 30.1 (1993):  53-68.

"Mysticism, Abjection, Transgression:  Angela of Foligno and the Twentieth Century." Mystics Quarterly 17.2 (June 1991):  61-70.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Thérèse of Lisieux.” Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Ed. Bonnie G. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (forthcoming).

“Religious Aspects of Fasting and Food.” Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Margaret Schaus. New York: Routledge, 2006 (forthcoming).

"Hysteria."  "Medicine."  "Mysticism." The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature.  Ed. Rinaldina Russell.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1997.  157-158; 201-202; 216-218.

BOOK REVIEWS

Giulia Bigolina, Urania: A Romance, edited and translated by Valeria Finucci. Annali d'Italianistica 23 (2005): 286-288.

Massimo Riva, ed., Italian Tales: An Anthology of Contemporary Italian Fiction. Annali d'Italianistica 23 (2005): 355-356.

Arcangela Tarabotti, Paternal Tyranny, edited and translated by Letizia Panizza. Forthcoming in Annali d'Italianistica 23 (2005): 293-295.

Karen Pinkus, The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome. Annali d'Italianistica 22 (2004): 478-480.

Valeria Finucci, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance. Annali d’Italianistica 21 (2003): 608-609.

Valeria Finucci and Kevin Brownlee, eds. Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History. Annali d’Italianistica 20 (2002): 587.

Florinda Iannace, ed.  Maria Vergine nella letteratura italiana.  Annali d'Italianistica 19 (2001):  341-343.

Karen Pinkus, Bodily Regimes:  Italian Advertising under Fascism. Romance Quarterly (2000).

Elena Urgnani.  La vicenda letteraria e politica di Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel.  Annali d’Italianistica 18 (2000):  501-503.

Luisetta Elia Chomel.  D'Annunzio:  Un teatro al femminile.  Italian Culture 16.1 (1998):  221-224.

Martin Roberts, Michel Tournier:  Bricolage and Cultural Mythology. Romance Quarterly 44.3 (Summer 1997):  189-190.

Juliana Schiesari, The Gendering of Melancholia:  Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature Bulletin of the History of Medicine 68 (1994):  718-719.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

"Wash Your Lettuce Well, Eat Dessert First, and Don't Forget to Play with Your Food: Eating and Cooking Lessons from Christian Holy Women." Dean’s Lecture, University of Vermont, April 2004.

“Nourishing Souls and Feeding Bodies: The Work of Christian Holy Women.” Institute for Catholic Studies. John Carroll University, March 2004.

"Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice? Sweets, Celibacy, and Women’s Holiness." Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, February 2004.

"From the Mundane to the Divine: Braiding Bridges with Mysticism, Literature, Theory. The Case of Margaret Mazzantini’s Non ti muovere (2001)." Annual Convention of the American Association of Italian Studies. Georgetown University, March 2003.

"The Naked Teacher: Unveiling Technology in the Italian Classroom." Faculty Seminar, Department of Romance Languages, University of Vermont. March 2002.

"Maternal Impressions." Faculty Seminar, Department of Romance Languages, University of Vermont. October 2000.

"The Ecstasy of Saint Hysteria."  International Colloquium on Women Mystics.  Canisius College, October 1995.

"Visions of the Mystic/Mystical Visions."  Symposium on Gender Issues in Church and Society.  Saint Michael's College, October 1994.

"Mystic and Hysteric, Mystic as Hysteric."  Annual Convention of the American Association for Italian Studies. University of Wisconsin at Madison, April 1994.

"Fantasies of Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Italy."  Annual Convention of the American Association for Italian Studies. University of Texas at Austin, April 1993.

"Jean-Martin Charcot's Le démoniaques dans l'art."  Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies.  SUNY Binghamton, October 1992.

"Parme de biastemare in ziò ch'io dico."  Annual Convention of the American Association for Italian Studies. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, April 1991.

OTHER LECTURES

"Teaching and Learning Italian at UVM." Presentation to the External Board of Advisors, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont, April 2003.

"Weaving the Web in and out of the Italian Classroom." Presentation to the UVM Board of Trustees, University of Vermont, October 2002.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Italian Grammar, Literature, and Culture web pages:
http://www.uvm.edu/~cmazzoni

2005: Reviewer for the journal Mystics Quarterly

2005: Reviewer for textbooks published by: Heinle; McGraw-Hill; Prentice Hall

2004: Tenure Reviewer for Rutgers University and Ohio University

2004: Reviewer for Prentice Hall

2004: Chaired session: “Women's Voices.” Narrative Conference. University of Vermont.

2004: Reviewer for the journal Excavatio

2003-present: Faculty Mentor, University of Vermont

Fall 2003-present: Admissions Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont (Chair for AY 2004-2005 and 2005-2006)

Fall 2002: MLA Prize Selection Committee (Jeanne and Aldo Scaglione Prize)

2001-present:  Language Resource Center Advisory Committee, University of Vermont

1993-present:  Academic Advisor, Italian Transfer Advisor, Italian study Abroad Advisor, Italian Minor Advisor

2000-2003:  Faculty Standards Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont

1996-1999:  Program Director, La casa italiana, University of Vermont

1994-1999:  Faculty Advisor, Catholic Student Association, University of Vermont

1994-1997:  Nominations and Elections Committee, University of Vermont

1994, 2000:  MLA interview committee

1992: Chaired session:  "Women's Voice:  Pro and Con." Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies.  SUNY Binghamton.

LANGUAGES

Italian:  native; English:  near-native; French:  excellent reading knowledge; Spanish and Latin:  reading knowledge