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Education:
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, M.A. Johns Hopkins, M.A. Miami University, B.A. Kenyon College
Teaching and Research Interests:
Professor Matteo's research interests span all periods of Italian
literature, with an emphasis on the modern periods, as well as literary
theory and Italian cinema.
Professional Activities:
Executive Secretary, American Association for Italian Studies,
1987-93; MLA Division Executive Committee,
Italian literature, 17th century to present, 1988-92; editor, Il
Gonfaloniere , Newsletter of AAIS, 1987-95; advisory boards: Machiavelli
Studies, Italian Culture, Italica. Professor Matteo served as the
editor of Italian Culture, the journal of the American Association
for Italian Studies, from 2001 to 2002. He has organized and hosted four
symposia, has convened and chaired more than 60 conference
panels, and has presented more than 100 papers at professional meetings
and colloquia.
Selected Publications:
Professor Matteo has published six books, including Textual
Exile: The Reader in Sterne and Foscolo (Peter Lang, 1985); co-editor
of The Reasonable Romantic: Essays on Alessandro Manzoni (Peter Lang,
1986); and Italian Echoes in the Rocky Mountains (AAIS, 1990); as
well as more than seventy articles, reviews, and other publications on
diverse periods and figures of French and Italian literature and cinema,
from Le Roman de la rose and Marco Polo, to Vico and "Ossian," to
contemporary figures Giose Rimanelli and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Professor Matteo's latest book is Radici Sporadiche: Letturatura, Viaggi, Migrazioni, published in 2007. Recent edited books include Africa Italia: Due continenti si avvicinano (1999), co-edited with Stefano Belluci, and ItaliAfrica: Bridging Continents and Cultures (2001), collections of articles derived from papers presented at the Africa Italia symposium he organized at Miami University in November, 1998.
Italian American Symposium Pictures
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