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Personal Profile: Highly motivated teacher and researcher. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Good organiser; networking skills. Remaining calm under strict deadlines.

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Education: Secondary School, Liceo Classico, (Italy), 1975-80. Diploma in Classics.

Istituto Universitario Orientale (Italy) 1980-85, BA in English and Modern Languages, (English, German, Spanish) First Class Honors (Summa cum Laude). Dissertation: ‘The Methodologies of Cultural Studies’

University of Sheffield (UK) 1990-91, Degree of Master of Arts in The Language and Philosophy of Criticism. Dissertation: ‘Criticism, Ideology and Deconstruction’. Grant  of the Italian Ministry of Education.

University of Sheffield (UK) 1992-96 Ph.D .in English Literature. Thesis: ‘Fluctuations of Fantasy: Postmodernist Contaminations in Angela Carter's Fiction'. Grant of the Italian Ministry  of Education.

Current Employment: (Since December 1st 2005): Lecturer & Programme Leader in Contemporary Media Theory, Media Arts & Imaging, DoJ, University of Dundee (UK).
Main duties: Teaching at UG level. UG & PhD Supervision; Research & Dissemination.
Administrative duties: Socrates/Erasmus students exchange programme coordinator; member of the  following committees: Learning & Teaching DJCAD; CASE College Board; Research  Fund Committee; College Library representative.

Areas of current teaching and research: Cultural implications of New Media, Media Criticism, Cinema & New Technologies, Net Art.

Previous Employment:

1986-1990 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of English Language & Literature, Istituto Universitario Orientale, (Italy).

1995- 1997 Postdoctoral Leverhulme Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London working on the research project: ‘Imperial Cities: Landscape, Space and Performance in Rome and London (1850-1950)’.

1997-2003 Research Fellow in Visual Culture, School of American & Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK, working on the research project: ‘Literary and Visual representations of Three American Cities 1870s-1930s’. Project’s Web Site http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities/

Main duties: Teaching at postgraduate and undergraduate level (see Teaching Portfolio below for details); Research and dissemination; Collaborated to the design of the 3Cities Project Web Site http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities/ Co-editor and contributor to City Sites: Chicago and New York, 1870s to 1930s, A. Notaro et al eds. Electronic Book; available at http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/ Supervision of Undergraduate, MA and PhD Dissertations; Internal PhD examiner; Regular convener of the Urban/Visual Culture(s) Research Seminar; Organiser, in the context of the 3Cities Project, of the Symposium ‘Urban Space and Representation’, Nottingham, 16  May 1998; Organiser, in the context of the 3Cities Project, of the International Conference 'Cities and Representation II', Nottingham, 4-5 April   2003 (Plenary Speaker: Prof. Giuliana Bruno, Harvard University, conference programme at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities/

Administrative duties: Personal Tutor, Socrates, students exchange programme coordinator and personal tutor, European Research Contact for the School of American & Canadian Studies; Director of the Visiting Speakers Programme

2004-2005 Assistant Professor, Television and Digital Media, Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)

Main duties: Teaching: (UG) ‘Digital Art & Culture in a Postmodernist Context’,  ‘Gender, Sexuality and the City’, ‘Visual Culture’; UG & PG Dissertation Supervision; Research and Dissemination

Administrative duties: Socrates/Erasmus programme co-ordinator; first year tutorship programme co-ordinator

 TEACHING PORTFOLIO:

University of Nottingham (UK) 1997-2003

Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) 2004-2005

 Media Arts
University of Dundee (UK)
current

  • Contemporary Media Theory Level 2
  • Contemporary Media Theory Level 3
  • Contemporary Media Theory Level 4 Dissertations

Professional Qualifications/Memberships:

(2010-current) MEMBER OF THE AHRC PEER REVIEW COLLEGE

PGCAP (The Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice), Training and Staff Development Unit, University of Nottingham. Accredited by the ILT (The British Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education) and by SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association). February 2001. 

(1985-1990) Member of the Italian Association of English Studies (AIA) 

(1997-2003) Member of the British Association of American Studies (BAAS) 

(2007-current) Member of the American Association of Cultural Studies (ACS)

(2008-current) Member of the Society for Media & Cinema Studies (SMCS)

 (2008-current) Member of the Media, Communication & Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)

(2009-current) Member of The European Network for Cinema & Media Studies Association) (NECS)

(2009-current) Member of the European Association For Communication Research (ECREA)

 


Staff Development:

 Objective-Setting and Personal Review, 23rd April 2010

Equality & Diversity Training Certificate 17 February 2010

Using Technology  in Face to Face Teaching 2 December 2009


Web 2.0, 13 March 2008

APD First year Experience Conference 19 June 2007 organized by CASE


Good practice in working with International students 6 June 2007


Developing & Supporting student professionalism through the curriculum 30 May 2007


Voice care for lecturers 31 January 2007


Blackboard Bytes; wikis. blogs & podcasting 7 December 2006


Introduction to MY PDP pg the university's personal development planning resources for research postgraduates 10 November 2006


Plagiarism detection 1 November 2006

Staff Working with International Students', Training and Staff Development Unit, University of Nottingham, May 2003

 'Using the Internet in your Teaching' Information Services Directorate, University of Nottingham, April 2002 

'E-Learning' Seminar, University of Nottingham, School of Education, February  2002 

'Career Planning' Workshop, Training and Staff Development Unit, University of Nottingham, October 2001 

'Assessment Options in the Web Environment', Information Services Directorate, University of Nottingham, May 2001

'Introduction to PowerPoint 97', IT Staff Training, School of Continuing Education, December 2000.

‘A  Web Publisher’s Guide’ Training and Staff Development Unit, University of Nottingham’, June 2000. 

‘Create Your Own Web Pages’ Course, Training and Staff Development Unit, University of Nottingham, October 1997

 

Juror for the European Academic Software Award, EASA, 2000
On the Editorial Review Board of the following academic journals:
Palma, Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon. 
Scientific Journals International (SJI). http://www.scientificjournals.org (USA)
Communication, Culture and Critique, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cccr (USA)

In  the advisory committee for the following research projects:

 Mobile Cities and their representation in contemporary Anglo-American Culture’, University of L’Aquila (Italy), Project Director: Professor Laura Di Michele.

‘Computers, Art & Pedagogy’, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Project, Director Professor Letizia Jaccheri.
 


She is also member of the teaching & research board of the taught PhD programme in Culture, Language & Politics of Communication, Department of Communication Studies, Universita’ di Teramo (Italy).

Fluency in languages other than English: Italian (native), Dutch, German & Spanish (intermediate).

 Computer Skills: Word, Power Point, Internet, Outlook, GroupWise, Eudora, Blackboard

 Hobbies: Classical music, Opera, Internet, theatre, travel.

 

 
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