| 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 Nineteent-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)
will follow.
Professor Eric Zakim, Assistant at
Maryland, coediteth a volume on Mediterranean Studies with him (Mercy
and Truth have met together!), in whose stable of doctrine thou shalt
find, among other things, the rack of scripture, the ass of simpleness,
the ox of discretion, and Miriam illuminating. Zakim and Dainotto both
weep bitterly for each word.
Then 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. Education:
- PhD New York University, 1995
- MA New York University, 1990
- Laurea, cum laude University of Catania, Italy, 1986
Research Interests:
Literature and Place, Nationalism and Regionalism,
Aesthetic Theory, Italian Idealism, Translation Theory,
Autobiography, Ideas of
Europe, European Visions of the New World,
The Cultural Formation of the Italian Nation. Representative Publications (More Publications)
- Europe (in Theory). Duke University Press, 2007.
- "Asimmetrie mediterranee. Etica e mare nostrum." NAE 3 (2003): 3-18.
- "The Gubbio Papers: Historic Centers in the Age of the 'Economic Miracle'." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 8:1 (2003): 67-83.
- Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
- "The `Other' Europe of Michele Amari: Orientalism from the South." Nineteent-Century Contexts 26:4 (2005): 18-27.
- "The Canonization of Heinrich Heine and the Construction of Jewish-Italian Literature." The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy Ed. Stanislao Pugliese. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002, 131-138.
- R. Dainotto. "The Discreet Charm of the Arabist Theory." European History Quarterly 36:1 (2006): 7-29.
- "The Importance of Being Sicilian: Italian Cultural Studies, sicilitudine and je ne sais quoi." Italian Cultural Studies (2001): 201-219.
- "Goethe's Backpack." SubStance 105:33 (2005): 6-22. [html]
- "Tramonto and Risorgimento: Gentile's Dialectics and the Prophecy of Nation." Making and Unmaking Italy: The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento Ed. Alberto Ascoli and Krystyna von Henneberg. Oxford: Berg., 2001, 241-256.
- "La città e il represso. Moderno, postmoderno, e l' immaginario del(la) capitale." Golem. Il futuro che passa Ed. Fausto Carmelo Nigrelli. Roma: ManifestoLibri., 2001, 49-72.
- "Die Rhetorik des Regionalismus. Architektonischer Ort und der Geist des Gemeinplatzes." Die Architektur, die Tradition und der Ort: Regionalismen in der europaäischen Stadt Ed. Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2000, 15-30.
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