Francesca PANGALLO

Francesca Pangallo (1989 - Milano, MI) - Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2036-9916 

EDUCATION

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Ph.D. in Italian Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (IT): (2017/2019) – VIVA Examination Date: March 20, 2020. Final Dissertation Title: Passaggi di Stato. Traduzione e ricezione dell’opera di Primo Levi negli Stati Uniti [translated as: A State of Matter: Translation and Reception of Primo Levi's Work in the United States]. Final Grade: Excellent. Supervisor: Professor Alessandro Cinquegrani; Focus on: Contemporary Italian Literature, American Literature, Postmodern Literature, Comparative Literature, Postmemory Literature, Holocaust Studies, Translation Studies and Linguistics.
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Visiting Student, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge (UK): (Spring Term 2019); Supervisor: Professor Robert S. C. Gordon; Focus: Holocaust Studies, Genocide Studies, Translation Studies (English/Italian).
• M.A. in Italian Literature and Philology, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (IT): (March 2016)
 Final Grade: 110/110 with Merit .
Dissertation Title: Eden. Variazioni sul mito.
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Summer School Program Ca’ Foscari-Harvard/CFHSS (IT): (Summer 2013) / Harvard University and Ca’ Foscari University; Faculty Mentors: Professor Werner Sollors, Professor Glenda Carpio. Member of the CFHSS Student Committee 2013.
• B.A. in Classics, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (IT): (March 2012). Final grade: 107/110.
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Erasmus Full-time Exchange Student, University of Warwick (UK) (2010/2011).
• High School Diploma, Liceo Classico G. Nolfi (IT): (2008) – Final Grade 100/100. 

WORKING AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor, Ca' Foscari University of Venice - School of International Education (SIE) - (IT) ongoing: Class Code SIE 029- Italian Language - Pre-Intermediate (B1), 6 cfu; Spring 2021; Fall 2021; Spring 2022.
• Research Grant Scholarship, Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Humanities (DSU) (IT): Dec. 1, 2021 – June. 30, 2022, Grant Denomination: "Storytelling e Orientamento Narrativo" within the FAMI-IMPACT Veneto, cofounded by the European Union and the "Fondo Asilo Migrazione e Integrazione" (FAMI) 2014-2020.
• Adjunct Professor, Foundation Year Program - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - School of International Education (SIE) - (IT), Oct. 2021 – Feb. 2022 - Class Code FOY 06 - Italian Literature, 12 cfu; Academic Year 2021/2022.
• Research Fellow, Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Humanities (DSU) (IT), Sept. 30, 2020 – Sept. 30, 2021:
 Research Grant Denomination: Myth and Archetypes inside Corporate Storytelling [Mito e archetipi nella narrazione d’impresa (ITA)] within the project "Slow Life, Slow Stories: a different way of narrating sustainable businesses" funded by the Veneto Region and developed by Ca’ Foscari University.
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Independent Research Contractor, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Department of Humanities (DSU) (IT), June 15, 2020 – Sept. 14, 2020:  Supervisor: Professor Alessandro Cinquegrani. Grant Description: Bibliographic research on storytelling features and styles regarding Holocaust and Holocaust-related narratives in both American and Italian cultures. [This research is part of the 2016 Interdepartmental University Project entitled: Jungian and Post-Jungian Hermeneutic Models from Literature to Business].
• Assistant Residence Director, Harvard University, Boston (MA), USA, and Venice (IT), 2017 and 2018 editions: Main contact in charge for Harvard University (Faculty, TAs, and student families) during the program; linguistic support for Harvard students; coordination of activities and field trip logistics organised by the hosting University (Ca’ Foscari); healthcare procedures and emergency response management. Writing Clinic Lab: Teaching class on Academic English Writing and Composition for the Italian students enrolled in the program.
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Italian Language Intern, Part-time Faculty Member for the Romance Languages Department, Colgate University, Hamilton (NY), USA: (2016/2017), Teaching support in Italian Language and Literature. Italian Club Event Coordinator. Faculty Supervisors: Professor Franziska Merklin, Professor Monica Facchini. Classes offered: ITAL 121, ITAL 122 – elementary; ITAL 201, ITAL 202 – intermediate; ITAL 223 – Italian Cinema; ITAL 361 – advance.

SELECTED CONFERENCES AND PUBLIC LECTURES

• Annual Italian Conference: Letteratura e Potere/Poteri, XXIV Congresso 25/09/2021 Nazionale AdI – Associazione degli Italianisti, Catania, Italy, 2021. Panel title: “Il saggismo degli scrittori: forme letterarie dell’intervento storico in Italia, 1945-2000”, Presentation Title: Contemporaneità del passato: Giuseppe Pontiggia nel dibattito culturale e letterario italiano.
• International Conference: «Passeurs». La cultura italiana fuera de Italia (1945-1989): Recepción e Imaginario - Literatura, Cine, Medios, Universidad de Buenos Aires (ARG), 26-28 agosto 2021, <http://eventosacademicos.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CIP/Passeurs2020>. Presentation Title: “If This Was a Literary Case”: la tradizione dell’opera di Primo Levi negli Stati Uniti.
• Virtual Series of Lectures: Holocaust Memory Representation Evolution and Primo Levi; Testimony: cycle of Lectures tailored for High Schools (Istituto Besta Treviso, Comune Padova Ufficio Giovani) students in occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day - Jan. & Feb. 2021 and 2022.
• Primo Levi Summer School 2021: Primo Levi.Transnational Perspectives/Primo Levi. Prospettive Transazionali, organised and presented by the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Notre Dame (USA), Università di Pavia (IT); sponsored by Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi di Torino (IT), Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Londra (UK); Nanovic Institute for European Studies & Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame (USA), Wiener Holocaust Library (UK): https://primolevisummersch.wixsite.com/website; July 23-26, 2021; Presentation Title: “If This Is (not) Fiction” - Resistance of Levi’s Narrative Choices in Representing the Holocaust within the Contemporary, Post-Memory Literary Landscape.
• International Conference: “Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS) 2021 Annual Conference”, 11-12/06/2021; Panel Title: “Effetto Rinascimento: Images of the Renaissance in Contemporary Culture and Society”: <https://canadianassociation foritalianstudies.org/Program-2021>; Presentation Title [co-presented with Dr. Veronica Tabaglio]: Business and Renaissance: A Critical Inquiry on a Frozen Myth.
• International Conference: “American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) 2021 Annual Conference” (online event) 28/05/2021–06/06/2021; Panel Title: “What Present for the Resistance?”, <https://aais.wildapricot.org/cfps/9903122?tpg=3>; Presentation Title: “A Public Affair”: Oblivion of the Partisan Heroic Figure within the Contemporary Italian Debate.
• Virtual Study Day: Narratives of Women in Prison: Between Survival and Creation, March 24-25, 2021, Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada): <https://calenda.org/831946?lang=en>; Presentation Title: “Time and Punishment”: Literary Action for a More Intentional Time Investment in Sant’Eufemia Women’s Detention Center in Venice, Italy.
• Public Lecture: “Per non dimenticare” in occasione della XV giornata della memoria, Circolo Alfredo Vivian Partigiano, Venezia (IT), 28 gennaio 2020. Presentation Title: La Shoah nel nuovo millennio: una ricostruzione prospettica per un corretto uso della memoria storica nella società contemporanea.
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: Representation of Disaster, March 8-9, 2019, University of Pittsburgh (USA), 8-9 March 2019, <https://www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu/event/graduate-conference-representations-disaster>. Presentation title: Drowning into History: Literary Investigation and Representation of Contemporary Mass Murder Episodes.
• International Conference: Past (Im)perfect Continuous. Trans-Cultural Articulation of the Postmemory of WWII, Università La Sapienza, Roma (IT), 26-28 June, 2018 <https://web.uniroma1.it/Programma Postmemory Conference.pdf>. Presentation title: Memoria anti-narrativa: Primo Levi o l’impossibilità del romanzesco.
• Canadian Society for Italian Studies (CAIS) 2018 Annual Conference, University of Ottawa (CA), 11-13 May 2018, <https://canadianassociationforitalianstudies.org/resources/Documents/conference2018-programme-final.pdf>. Presentation Title: Translating as Other People’s Trade: Primo Levi’s take on Literary Translation.
• Annual Italian Conference: Convegno COMPALIT – Associazione di teoria e storia comparata della letteratura: Schermi. Rappresentazioni, immagini, transmedialità, Università degli Studi di Verona (IT), 18-20 December, 2017<http://www.compalit.it/convegni/schermi-rappresentazioni-immagini-transmedialita/>. Presentation Title: Snapchat come nuovo strumento di espressione del soggetto anti-edipico nel XXI secolo.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Italian (Mother tongue); 

• English (C1) - IELTS Academic Band Score: 7.5 (2019); 

• French/Spanish (A2);
• Ancient Greek and Latin (Philology and translation).