Chiara Fabbian, Regional Representative                        Midwest (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI, MN, IO)

2017-2019

Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies
University of Illinois, Chicago
Tel: (312) 355-8485
E-mail: cfabbian@uic.edu 

Biography:

Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago
M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1999
Laurea, University of Padova, Italy

Major Interests 
Eighteenth to twentieth-century Italian literature; literature and anthropology; migration writing; women’s writing; curriculum development.
Selected Publications 
Books

Chapters in Books

  • “Heavenly Aromas and Tough Stomachs in Benvenuto Flori’s L’evangelica parabola delle vergini prudenti e delle stolte” Scenes from Italian Convent Life. An Anthology of Convent Theatrical Texts and Contexts. Ed. Elissa Weaver. Ravenna: Longo editore, 2009. 53-90.

Articles

  • “Lessons Learned: Design and Implementation of Italian Blended Language Courses.” Co-authored with Emanuela Zanotti Carney and Maja Grgurovic. Submitted. 
  • “Instructional Planning for the Italian Writing Curriculum. The University of Illinois at Chicago’s Experience.” Co-authored with E. Zanotti Carney. Forthcoming (Italica). 
  • “Embracing the Body: A Woman’s Journey in Il paese del vento by Grazia Deledda.” Lingua Romana. Vol 11, issue 2, Fall 2013. Editors: J. Haraguchi and I. Klein. Special issue: Women and Territories in Italian Literature and Culture. http://linguaromana.byu.edu/contents_v11i2.html
  •  “A ciascuno il suo. L’abito, il corpo e il profumo in Rubè di Giuseppe Antonio Borgese.” Italica 80.1 (2003) 21-39. 
  • “Poesia in cucina: Lina e il mondo femminile nella rappresentazione di Umberto Saba.” MLN 117.1 (2002) 174-193.
  • “Gozzano, la signorina Felicita e la perplessità crepuscolare.” Canadian-American Journal of Italian Studies, September 2000, 75-90.
  • Paolo Cherchi. Ministorie di Microgeneri. A cura di Chiara Fabbian, Alessandro Rebonato, Emanuela Zanotti Carney. Ravenna: Longo, 2003

    Book Reviews 

    • Melissa Coburn. Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013. Pp. 127. Papers on Language and Literature. No. 3, 2016. 
    • Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000. Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression. Edited by Patrizia Sambuco. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015. Pp. 197. Journal of Modern Italian Studies Volume 21, Issue 2, Cover month March 2016. 
    • “Non sto quindi a Napoli sicura di casa”. Identità, spazio e testualità in Fabrizia Ramondino. A cura di Adalgisa Giorgio. Perugia: Morlacchi editore, 2013. Pp. 395. Italian Culture. Forthcoming. 
    • Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy. Between Private and Public Spheres. Edited by Katharine Mitchell and Helena Sanson. Bern: Peter Lang, 2013. Pp. 276. Annali d’italianistica, Vol 32, 2014. 
    • Stato e Chiesa nel Mezzogiorno napoleonico. Atti del quinto seminario di studi “Decennio francese (1806-1815).” Napoli, 29-30 maggio 2008. A cura di Costanza D’Elia. Napoli: Giannini, 2011. JMIS Vol. 18, no. 4, 2013.
    • A. Maggi, Uttering the Word.The Mystical Performances of Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, a Renaissance Visionary. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998, in Forum Italicum, Fall 1998.
    • Stephen Sartarelli, trans. Umberto Saba. Songbook, Selected Poems. Riverdale-on-Hudson: Sheep Meadow Press,1998, in Forum Italicum, Fall 1999.
    • L. Parisi. Borgese.Torino, Tirrenia, 2000, in Annali D’Italianistica 20 (2002) 534-537.

    Fellowships, Honors and Awards

    • Special contribution (5,000 euroes in students’ scholarships) from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of the Italian language, 2015-16
    • 2014 AAUSC (American Association University Supervisors and Coordinators) travel grant
    • Elected AATI Regional Representative for the Midwest, 2014-2016
    • Secretary, Italidea-Midwest, 2010-2016 
    • President, Women Studies Caucus (AAIS), 2013-2015
    • Secretary, Womens Studies Caucus (AAIS), 2011-2013
    • UIC Foreign and Classical Languages Award for Curricular Development, 2012
    • Teaching Recognition Award from the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2012
    • Special contribution (Italian Lecturer) from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of the Italian language, 2011-12 
    • UIC Foreign and Classical Languages Award for Curricular Development, 2011
    • UIC Inspire Award, 2011
    • Advisor of the Year Award (nominated), 2011
    • UIC Foreign and Classical Languages Award for Curricular Development, 2010
    • UIC Foreign and Classical Languages Award for Curricular Development, 2009
    • Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-06
    • Padova University postgraduate scholarship, 1992