Salvatore Bancheri, Past President
2018-2020
Department Italian Studies
University of Toronto
Tel: (416) 669-4672
E-mail: salvatore.bancheri@utoronto.ca
Biography:
- 2011- Chair of the Department & Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies
- Full professor 2006-07 & 2009-2011 Graduate Coordinator and Associate Chair of the Department
- 2007-08 Acting Chair and Graduate Chair of the Department
Director of the Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies , for which he created the Digital Archives , the G.P. Clivio online Dictionary of Italiese , and the Iacobucci Centre Monograph series - Editor of Italian Canadiana (vols. 16-20)
- Associate Chair of the Italian Department in 1997-98, 2001-2003, 2006-2007
- Acting Associate Chair of the Department of French, German and Italian at the University of Toronto at Mississauga in 2004-2005;
- Assoc. with Middlebury College (Lang. schools), Vermont
- theatrical director
- textual criticism, religious theatre, l8th-century literature, Sicilian literature, second language teaching and learning, drama: theory and performance, Italian Canadian Studies
- development of CALL software, computer research
- Auth. La comunità trapanese di Toronto /The Trapanese Community of Toronto (1996)
- Co-auth. Ultimate Italian Advanced (1998, 2003); Con fantasia : Reviewing and Expanding Functional Italian Skill (1995, 2006, 2007); Living Language: Italian All the Way (1994, 2000, 2004); Laboratory manual to accompany Lettura e conversazione (1990); Lettura e conversazione (1986); Adesso! An Introduction to Italian. Workbook/Lab Manual. (2006)
- Ed. Tempi vecchi tempi nuovi (1991)
- Co-ed. series Biblioteca Emigrazione; Pietro Aretino e le culture del Rinascimento ( 1995);
- Critical al. of ” Il riscatto d’Adamo nella morte di Gesù Cristo ” (1995)
- Computer-assisted language learning software and multimedia: Co-auth. Italian Placement Test. Windows versions: 2.0 (2001), 1.0. (2000); MAC versions: 3.0 (2000), 2.0 (1999), 1.0 (1998); Italian Hypergrammar. Windows versions: 2.0 (2001), 1.0. (2000); MAC versions: 4.0 (2001), 3.0 (1999), 2.0 (1998), 1.0 (1996); Italian Assessment Test. MAC versions: 3.0 (2000), 2.0 (1999), 1.0 (1998); Living in Italy / Vivere in Italia. VHS & PAL video version (1998), digitized version for Windows & MAC (1999); Vita quotidiana in Italia. VHS & PAL video version (1998); digitized version for Windows & MAC (1997); Italian Interactive Dialogues : Vocabulary Study (1997), Culture Study (2000); Italian Hypertemplates (1995); Multimedia Interactive Games in Italian (1995); L’uomo dal fiore in bocca (1995); Multimedia Interactive Dictation in Italian (1995)
- Articles on textual criticism, theatre, second lang. teaching and learning; Boccaccio, Delfino, Goldoni, De Grandi, Scammacca, Riccobene, Italian Culture, Italian Canadian Studies.