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| Roberto Dainotto, Chair of Romance Studies and Professor of Romance Studies, Italian Studies
- Contact Info:
Teaching (Spring 2012):
- ITALIAN 225S.01, STORIA E ROMANZO
Synopsis
- Languages 305, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- (also cross-listed as AMI 220S.01, GERMAN 221S.01, ICS 281ES.01, LIT 280S.01)
- Office Hours:
- Appointments through Rebecca Smith (rsm443@duke.edu)
- Education:
| PhD | New York University | 1995 |
| MA | New York University | 1990 |
| Laurea, cum laude | University of Catania, Italy | 1986 |
- Specialties:
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Italian
Modern and Contemporary
European Studies
Historicism
Poetics
Space Studies, Urban Studies
Theory of the Novel
Marxism
The Enlightenment in a Global Perspective
- Research Interests:
Current projects:
The Philosophy of Praxis from Labriola to Gramsci., Vincenzo Cuoco's epistolary novel "Platone in Italia*, The narrative of Luciano Bianciardi., The Italian-American represented in Italian Culture. Modern and contemporary Italian culture. His publications include Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities (Cornell UP, 2000), Europe (in Theory) (Duke UP, 2007), and the edited volume Racconti Americani del ‘900 (Einaudi, 1999). His research interests include the Italian historicist tradition (Vico, Cuoco, Manzoni, Labriola and Gramsci), the formation of national identity between regionalism (including the so-called “Southern Question” and “Jewish Question”) and European integration; Italian cinema.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Europe (in Theory)
(2007), Duke University Press (Winner of the 2010 Laura Shannon Prize of the Nanovic
Institute for European Studies..)
- Asimmetrie mediterranee. Etica e mare nostrum,
NAE, vol. 3
(2003),
pp. 3-18
- The Gubbio Papers: Historic Centers in the Age of the 'Economic Miracle',
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 8 no. 1
(2003),
pp. 67-83
- Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities
(2000), Ithaca: Cornell University Press
- R. Dainotto, Historical Materialism as New Humanism: Antonio Labriola’s ‘In Memoria del Manifesto dei Comunisti’ (1895),
Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 25
(2008),
pp. 265-282
- The Canonization of Heinrich Heine and the Construction of Jewish-Italian Literature,
in The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy, edited by Stanislao Pugliese
(2002),
pp. 131-138, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press
- R. Dainotto, Of the Arab Origin of Modern Europe: Giammaria Barbieri, Juan Andrés, and the Origin of Rhyme,
Comparative Literature, vol. 58 no. 4
(Fall, 2007),
pp. 271-292
- The Importance of Being Sicilian: Italian Cultural Studies, sicilitudine and je ne sais quoi, edited by Graziella Parati and Ben Lawton,
Italian Cultural Studies
(2001),
pp. 201-219, Boca Raton: Bordighera Press
- Goethe's Backpack,
SubStance, vol. 105 no. 33
(2005),
pp. 6-22 [html]
- Tramonto and Risorgimento: Gentile's Dialectics and the Prophecy of Nation,
in Making and Unmaking Italy: The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento, edited by Alberto Ascoli and Krystyna von Henneberg
(2001),
pp. 241-256, Oxford: Berg.
- La città e il represso. Moderno, postmoderno, e l' immaginario del(la) capitale,
in Golem. Il futuro che passa, edited by Fausto Carmelo Nigrelli
(2001),
pp. 49-72, Roma: ManifestoLibri.
- Die Rhetorik des Regionalismus. Architektonischer Ort und der Geist des Gemeinplatzes,
in Die Architektur, die Tradition und der Ort: Regionalismen in der europaäischen Stadt, edited by Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani
(2000),
pp. 15-30, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
- R. Dainotto, The Discreet Charm of the Arabist Theory,
European History Quarterly, vol. 36 no. 1
(2006),
pp. 7-29
- The `Other' Europe of Michele Amari: Orientalism from the South,
Nineteent-Century Contexts, vol. 26 no. 4
(2005),
pp. 18-27
- Vico's Beginnings and Ends: Variations on the Theme of Origins of Language,
Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 18
(2000),
pp. 13-28
- Conferences Organized
- Shifting the Geographies of Knowledge, December 2005
- Romancing the Humanities, Co-Organizer, 2003-04
It is said in his legend that Professor
Dainotto's PhD from New York University was in Comparative Literature,
and only when he was struck by an illumination under the statue of
Washington Duke, possessed by the spirit of JB our Founder, he started
pronouncing burning words in Italian and was appointed Assistant
Professor in that Field. The image of Garibaldi spake unto
him and said: "Roberto, go and spread Italian words, that manyfold
students can hear." And he went and taught, as thou can see, on
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Italian literature and culture, and
fascism and Reconstruction, and Mediterranean Studies and European
Unions; and he wrote in
European History Quarterly,
SubStance, Nepantla,
Critical
Inquiry, Segno, NAE, Journal
of Modern Italian
Studies, Annali
d'italianistica, Italian-Americana, and in
collections in Italy and abroad. On a time, he wrote about excrements,
which scholars naturally abhor, but it reminded him of sublime
ecstasies, and anon he wrote that for Postmodern
Culture; wherefore he went to publish Il racconto americano (Einaudi
Scuola) and Place
in Literature (Cornell UP, 2000), to which Europe (in
Theory)
did follow.
Let us devoutly pray this teacher,
Professor Dainotto, to be our instructor and soccur and aid us in our
adversities and curricula, and help, that we may after this short life
at Duke come into everlasting life in the other world called real. |
