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Massimo Riva, Professor of Italian Studies

Massimo Riva's Full Curriculum Vitae
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Appointments

2002-   Professor of Italian Studies and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
2002 (winter) Visiting Professor, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazioni IULM, Milan
1993-2001 Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Brown University
1994-01   Campus Director, Brown University Program in Bologna, Italy
1995-96   Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut at Storrs (Spring)
1990-93   Asst. Professor (tenure track), Brown University
1989-90   Visiting Exchange Professor, Univ. for Foreigners, Siena, Italy
1988-90   Director, University of Massachusetts Study Abroad Program, Siena, Italy
1987-90   Asst. Professor (tenure track) Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst
1986-87   Visiting Asst. Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1985-86   Visiting Lecturer, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (Spring)
1983-85   Lecturer, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
1982       Assistant Director, Rutgers Summer Studies (Urbino, Italy)
1981-82   Visiting Lecturer, Rutgers University

Awards

2004-06  NEH, National Education Projects, $170,000 (Virtual Humanities Lab)
2003-04   Faculty Seminar Grant, Francis Wayland Collegium, Brown University
2001-03   NEH, National Education Projects, $160,000 (Decameron Web)
2001-02   Scholarly Technology Group, Brown U., Faculty Grant, $31,000 (Pico Project)
1999-01   NEH, Education and Technology Program, $170,000 (Decameron Web)
1999       Brown University, Curriculum Development Grant
1995       Brown University, Wriston Merritt Grant
1989       Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Italy

Editorial and Advisory Boards

-- member of the Editorial Board of the Electronic Journal The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies
-- member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies
-- member of the Advisory Board of the Yale University Press series on Italian Literature and Thought
-- member of the Advisory Board of Bollettino '900 , Electronic Newsletter of Italian Literature
-- editor of La Fusta. Journal of Italian Studies, Dept. of Italian, Rutgers University (1982-83)

Publications

Books

1. Italian Tales. An Anthology of Contemporary Italian Fiction, New Haven: Yale University Press, November, 2004.
2. Melanconie del Moderno. Disagio della nazionalità e critica dell'incivilimento nella letteratura dell'Ottocento, Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2001, 178 p.
3. Saturno e le Grazie. Ipocondriaci e malinconici nella cultura italiana del Settecento, Palermo: Sellerio 1992, 305 p.

Essays and Short Fiction in Print and Online

4. Christmas Carol, Zibaldoni e altre meraviglie, Trimestrale online di racconti, studi, pensieri, stupori letterari, I, 3, 2003.
5."Old Masters, New Trends: Contemporary Italian Cinema in the Light of Neo-neorealism," in: Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 8 (2), 2003, 284-298.
6."Iper-Romanzo, in: A Pocket Gadda Encyclopedia, The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies, 2003.
7. "Le frecce della mente: Calvino, Arakawa e l'iper-romanzo", in: Italo Calvino Newyorkese, Proceedings of the International Symposium "Future Perfect. Italo Calvino and the Reinvention of Literature," ed. by Anna Botta and Domenico Scarpa, Cava de' Tirreni (Salerno, Italy): Avagliano Editore, 2002, 117-145.
8. "The Arrows of the Mind: Calvino, Arakawa and the hypernovel," in: E-Literature in E-Publishing, ed. by Paola Carbone, Milan: Mimesis, 2002, 99-122.
9. "Therapy in the Garden: Boccaccio's Purgatorial Eden," in: Paradise on Earth. The Garden of Eden from Antiquity to Modernity, ed. by Regina Psaki, Global Publications, Binghamton University, 2002, 115-148.
10. "Per Speculum Melancholiae: the Awakening of Reason Engenders Monsters," in: Literary Monsters, ed. Keala Jewell, Wayne State University Press, 2001, 279-296.
11. "Beginning/Ending/Openness/Consistency. Models for the Hyper-Novel", Annali di Italianistica, 18, 2000, "The Sense of an Ending/The Sense of a Beginning", 109-132.
12. "Boccaccio Online: Teaching the Decameron as Hypertext at Brown University," in: New Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron, ed. J. Mc Gregor, Modern Language Association series on New Approaches to Classical Texts, 2000, 172-182.
13. "Heros/Eleos: l'ambivalente terapia del mal d'amore nel libro chiamato Decameron, cognominato prencipe Galeotto," Italian Quarterly, XXXVI (2000), 69-106.
14. "Nel giardino di Boccaccio: sulla ricezione romantica del Decameron," in: La Questione Romantica. Romanticismo/Medievalismo, 7/8, 1999, 41-62.
15. "Leopardi, l'inattuale: Tristano contro Zarathustra," Giacomo Leopardi poeta e filosofo, ed. Alessandro Carrera, Florence: Cadmo, 1999, 59-80.
16. "Verso un nuovo enciclopedismo? Nuove tecnologie e comunità del sapere", Le Comunità virtuali, ed. Paola Carbone and Paolo Ferri, Milan: Mimesis, 1999, 161-186.
17. "Pier Paolo Pasolini in Nord America: problemi di ricezione e prospettive," in: Pasolini e Bologna, ed. by Davide Ferrari and Gianni Scalia, Bologna: Pendragon, 1998, 229-239.
18. "La novella tra testo e ipertesto: il Decameron come modello", in: Dal primato allo scacco. I modelli narrativi tra Trecento e Seicento, ed. Gian Mario Anselmi, Florence: Carocci 1998, (with Michael E. Papio), 65-85.
19. "L'autore come antropologo: Pier Paolo Pasolini e la morte dell'etnos," Annali d'Italianistica, "Literature and Anthropology," 15, 1997, 237-65.
20. "Trasmissione dei classici e nuove tecnologie," in: Internet e le Muse, ed. by Patrizia Nerozzi, Milan: Mimesis, 1997, 80-98.
21. "Per una comunità della formazione letteraria. Il WWW e la nuova italianistica", Bollettino 900, 1996, Proceedings of the Symposium: "Internet: ricerca e didattica," University of Bologna.
22. "Il Decameron come ipertesto," in: Lingua, Letteratura, Computers, ed. Mario Ricciardi, Turin: Bollati-Boringhieri, 1996, 117-137.
23. "Literary PostModernism and the Scientific Rediscovery of Time," Social Science Information, 33, 4 (1994), 649-661.
24. "Taming Desire: Asymmetries and Reciprocity in Carlo Goldoni's Gli Innamorati," Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 11, 1993, 225-249.
25. "Federico Fellini (1920-1993)," in: Issues, (1993), November 5.
26. "Agorafobia e conversione," in: Anna Dolfi, ed., Nevrosi e follia nella letteratura moderna, Roma: Bulzoni, 1993, 87-110.
27. "Verso la penisola blu", in: Gianni Celati, ed., Narratori delle riserve, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1992, 252-259.
28. "Il promesso libretto: un frammento amoroso nell'epistolario di V. Alfieri," in: Anna Dolfi, ed., Frammenti di un discorso amoroso nella letteratura moderna, Roma: Bulzoni, 1992, 43-58.
29. "Saul o del furor divino," in: Anna Dolfi, ed., Malinconia, malattia malinconica e letteratura moderna, Roma: Bulzoni, 1991, 131-151.
30."Leopardi e la poetica della malinconia," Gradiva. International Journal of Literature, 8-9, (1990-91), 29-46.
31. "Noterelle su Metastasio e la malinconia," in: Musica '90, Bologna: Grafis Edizioni, 1990, 36-40.
32. "Some remarks on Nihilism and Secularisation," History of European Ideas, vol. XI, (1989), special issue: Nietzsche's Influence on Contemporary Thought, 979-988.
33. "Ortis o dell'ombra amorosa: le Ultime Lettere e la genesi del simbolismo sepolcrale," Italian Quarterly, 111, (1988), 15-39.
34. "Melanconia dannunziana: lo spleen del letterato e il mito dell'eroe," Quaderni dannunziani, 3-4 , (1988), special issue: D'Annunzio a Yale, Paolo Valesio, ed., Milano, Garzanti, 1989, 105-125.
35. "Illuminismo e prodromi di una malattia romantica: il caso Verri-Beccaria," Critica Letteraria, 56, (1987), 581-605.
36. "Malattia dell'immaginazione e immaginazione della malattia: ipocondria e malinconia nella letteratura italiana del Settecento," Lettere Italiane, 3, (1987), 346-377.
37. "Totus Mundus agit Histrionem. Per un'iconografia letteraria della follia alle origini dell'età barocca," Critica Letteraria, 45, (1984), 673-683.

Book reviews

38. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2, 3 (1997), 378-83. (Books reviewed: Sam Rohdie, The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Indiana University Press, 1995; Patrick Rumble, Allegories of Contamination, University of Toronto Press, 1996; Maurizio Viano, A Certain Realism, University of California Press, 1993).
39. Italian Quarterly, 127-28, Winter-Spring 1996, 120-24. (Review of: Paolo Valesio, Gabriele D'Annunzio: The Dark Flame, New Haven, 1992, ).
40. Italian Quarterly, 129-30, Summer-Fall 1996, 113-17. (Review of: Angiola Ferraris, La vita imperfetta. Saggio sulle Operette Morali, Torino, 1991.

Translation

41. Felix Gilbert, "Jacob Burckhardt e il mondo moderno," Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico, VII, (1982).
42. Grand Hotel Viaggio Notturno," translation from Robert Coover, The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell), Providence: Burning Deck, 2003).