Lucia GEMMANI

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2023-2024: - Visiting Professor: SIE (School for International Exchange), Università Ca' Foscari, Venice

                  -  Professor (Italian Language and Literature), Liceo S. Caterina, Mestre (Ve)

2022 - 2023: Professor, Middle School, Convitto M. Foscarini, Venezia. 

2019 - 2022: Lecturer, Department of French and Italian, The University of Iowa

2019 - 2021: Visiting Scholar, French and Italian Department, Indiana University

2018 - 2019: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, The University of Iowa

2017 - 2018: Visiting Lecturer of Italian, French and Italian Department, Indiana University

Spring 2017: Teaching Assistant, French and Italian Department, Indiana University

Fall 2016: Research Assistant to Dr. Karolina Serafin, Director of Italian Language Program, French and Italian Department, Indiana University

2015 - 2016: Research Assistant to Prof. Massimo Scalabrini, Chair, French and Italian Department, Indiana University

Spring 2015: Teaching Assistant, French and Italian Department, Indiana University

Fall 2014: Associate Instructor, French and Italian Department, Indiana University

2013 - 2014: Associate Instructor, French and Italian Department, Indiana University

2011 - 2012: Language Fellow, Department of Italian and Classics, Mount Holyoke College

EDUCATION: Higher Education

July 2018: Ph.D., Italian (Renaissance Studies, Music, Theater), Indiana University – Bloomington,

                Dissertation title: The Materiality of Battle: Warfare between Fiction and Reality in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Literature, Music and Theater.

                Minor: Music History and Literature, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.

December 2013: M.A., Italian, Indiana University – Bloomington.

February 2011: M.A./Laurea Specialistica, Philology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.

                Dissertation Title: Studio sulle 'Lagrime di San Pietro' di Luigi Tansillo. Edizione e commento del Canto I.

December 2008: B.A. /Laurea, Italian Literature, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.

                Dissertation Title: Bibliografia sul 'Galateo' di Della Casa dal saggio di Ettore Bonora (1956) al saggio di Klaus Ley (1984).

EDUCATION: Additional Professional Training

October 2022: Specialization course: Nuova didattica per le lingue, la metodologia CLIL, eCampus, Italy. 

June 2020: Certificate, Percorso Formativo Docenti (24 CFU), eCampus, Italy

2018-2019: Renaissance Society of America Mentorship Program. Mentored by Prof. Paola Ugolini, SUNY at Buffalo.

July 2017: Certificate: European Summer University in Digital Humanities, Leipzig. Supporting Areas: Humanities Data and Mapping Environments. 

July 2012: Certificate: Tuck Business Bridge Program, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

May 2012: Certificate with Distinction, Sociology, Mount Holyoke College. Supporting Areas: Film Studies

HONORS & AWARDS

2017: ETCL & DHSI (Electronic textual Culture Lab & Digital Humanities Summer Institute) fellowship, University of Victoria, BC, Canada.

2017: Olga Ragusa Graduate Award, Indiana University.

2015: Eneria Ruggeri Award, Indiana University.

2015: Associate Instructor Teaching Award, Indiana University.

2012-2013: College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University.

2012: Tuck Business School Scholarship, Tuck Business School at Dartmouth

2011-2012: Foreign Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed articles

“Violenza ludica ed erotica per esorcizzare la guerra: i giochi nell'Adone di Marino.” Annali d’italianistica. Cervigni, Dino. Ferrari, Chiara. Pelosi, Olimpia, edd. 35: Violence Resistance Tolerance Sacrifice in Italy’s Literary & Cultural History, pp. 147-176. http://www.ibiblio.org/annali/toc/2017.html

Refereed Book Chapters

“Perspective Cities: Staging Transferable Spaces in the Learned Comedy.” Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Culture. Andrea Scapolo and Angela Porcarelli, edd.  Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. Pp. 65-80.

Refereed Books

Gemmani, Lucia and Paola Ugolini (edd.) Women and War in the Early Modern World. Amsterdam University Press (in progress: proposed timeline for publication: Spring 2025). 

OER Textbooks (Italian L2)

Gemmani, Lucia, Lottini, Irene, Sartini-Rideout, Claudia. Piacere! Elementary Italian at the University of Iowa. University of Iowa Pressbook. 2022. https://pressbooks.uiowa.edu/piacere/ 

Dallavalle, Sara. Dolasinski, Lisa. Gemmani, Lucia. Magni, Isabella. Paltrinieri, Carlotta (authors). Paese che vai… Intermediate Italian. Co-editor with Sara Dallavalle and Karolina Serafin. Indiana University Pressbook, 2021.