Stefano Morello
Doctoral Candidate in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Expected 2023
Certificate in American Studies
Dissertation: “Let’s Make a Scene! East Bay Punk and Subcultural Worlding”
Eric Lott (Director), Wayne Koestenbaum, Ammiel Alcalay, Cindi Katz, and Ivy Wilson
M.A. English, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2017
Thesis: “Experiencing Wallace Stevens’ Poetry. Towards a Neuroaesthetics of Pragmatism”
M.A. English, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Italy), 2015
Thesis: “The Lung Block, a New York City Slum and Its Forgotten Italian-American Community”
M.A. American Studies, Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy), 2013
Thesis: “Dematerializing Little Italy – From Buffer Zone to State of Mind”
B.S. Business Information and Communication Management, Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy), 2012
Thesis: “Put Me on Stage and I will be Beautiful: Film Setting and Place-Making”
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
| 2019 | The Wellcome Fellowship for Transdisciplinary Research |
| 2019 | Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts & Science Grant, The Futures Initiative |
| 2019 | GC Urban Studies Core Dissertation Fellowship |
| 2019 | Digital Dissertation Award, The New Media Lab |
| 2018-19 | Provost’s Digital Innovation Start-up Grant, GC Digital Initiatives |
| 2018-21 | GC Digital Fellowship |
| 2018-19 | Lost & Found Archival Research Grant |
| 2018 | Participatory Budget Grant, Doctoral Student Council |
| 2017 | Jacqueline Schiller Scholarship, City University of New York |
| 2015-18 | Graduate Center Fellow (GCF), Ph.D. Program in English |
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
| 2020 | Morello, Stefano. “Digital Humanities at CUNY: Building Communities of Practice in the Public University.” América Crítica, vol. 4, n. 2: 113-122. |
| 2020 | Morello, Stefano. “No Longer, Not Yet: Retrofuture Hauntings on The Jetsons.” De Genere, n. 6 (2020): 113-127. |
| 2020 | Morello, Stefano. “Kinship at the Margins: Punk-Rock Modes of (Dis-)Association.” Family in Crisis? Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives. Andrea Carosso and Eva-Sabine Zehelein, eds., Transcript Verlag: 159-172 |
| 2019 | Morello, Stefano. “On Jamming: ‘Study’ and the Unstudied.” Jam It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy, n.1 (2019): 4-9. |
| 2018 | Morello, Stefano. “Like Mother Like Daughter, Like Father Like Son. The Spell of Age in The O.C.” Comparative Studies in Modernism, n. 11 (2018): 121-136. |
BOOK REVIEWS
| 2017 | Morello, Stefano. “The Birth of a Nation.” Il Mestiere di Storico, n. IX (1, 2017): 15. |
| 2016 | Morello, Stefano. “Scott McCloud, The Sculptor.” L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, n. 12 (2016): 27. |
| 2015 | Morello, Stefano. “Gregory Corso, Gasoline.” L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, n. 4 (2015): 25. |
| 2015 | Morello, Stefano. “Nick Hornby, Funny Girl.” L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, n. 7/8 (2015): 46. |
INVITED TALKS
| 2019 | “Digital Humanities is/as…” Dottorato in Digital Humanities – Tecnologie Digitali, Arti, Lingue, Culture e Comunicazione. Università degli Studi di Torino. Torino, Italy. |
| 2019 | “The Italian Community of the Lung Block.” Departments of Modern Languages, Urban Studies, and Labor Studies. Manhattan College. New York, NY. |
| 2019 | “Curator’s Talk: The Lung Block Exhibit.” Department of Records and Information Services. New York, NY. |
| 2019 | “Putting the Lung Block on the Map.” – “Mapping Contagion,” a symposium hosted by The Center for the Humanities, New York Public Library, and The Wellcome Collection. New York Public Library. New York, NY. |
| 2018 | “‘Mom and Dad Will Never Understand’ – Subcultural Modes of (Dis-)association.” Family in Crisis? International Conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain. |
| 2017 | “The Lung Block: Immigrant Displacement in the Name of Public Health.” Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere. Università degli Studi di Torino. Torino, Italy. |
| 2016 | “Like Mother Like Daughter, Like Father Like Son. The Spell of Age in The O.C.” Transnational Perspectives on the State of the Family in Europe (Germany and Italy) and the United States. International Conference. Villa Vigoni. Menaggio, Italy. |
SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
| 2020 | “Death is a Star: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Punk’s Alleged Demise.” With Michelle Cruz Gonzales. PopCon 2020. Museum of Pop Culture. Seattle, WA. |
| 2019 | “Towards a Punk Epistemology: Reflections on the Making of the East Bay Punk Digital Archive.” 25th Biennial AISNA Conference. Università di Catania. Ragusa, Italy. |
| 2018 | “An Uncommon Commons – 924 Gilman and the Making of a Punk Heterotopia.” Ne-MLA. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. |
| 2017 | “Una città dalle due anime: Setting, Atmosphere, and Local Identity in Gomorra La Serie and Un posto al sole.” AAIS / CSIS Joint Conference. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. |
| 2017 | “‘At Least It’s not Bill Graham!’ – 924 Gilman and the Making of a Punk-Rock Commons.” Peripheral Matters. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2017 | “Mapping the Punk Rock Commons: Unity and Dissent in the East Bay.” 24th Biennial AISNA Conference. Università di Milano. Milan, Italy. |
| 2017 | “Rock Against Bush and the Political Awakening of Mainstream Punk.” The Vibrating World: Soundscapes and Undersongs. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2016 | “Elitist Whisperers: Snobbery and the Self-Exposure of High Society from Daisy Miller to Gossip Girl.” I Love Pop. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
DIGITAL PROJECTS, PUBLICATIONS, AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
| 2020 | Founding team member of the CUNY Distance Learning Archive, a crowdsourced archive of personal and institutional documentation related to the City University of New York’s move to online learning spaces in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. |
| 2020 | “Teaching with Omeka,” a tutorial that explores different ways to use Omeka and digital archives in the classroom, with a focus on its pedagogical and public-facing capacities. |
| 2019 | Curator, broker, and consultant for Larry Livermore’s archive at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. |
| 2019 | “Introduction to Omeka,” a resource for educators, scholars, and archivists interested in understanding the conceptual challenges of digital archives and creating an online database of digital archival items and a public-facing exhibition using Omeka, an open-access Content Management System. |
| 2018-20 | Web developer and editor for QC Voices, a collaborative publication featuring writers from Queens College. |
| 2017-20 | East Bay Punk Digital Archive. An award-winning website that aims to preserve and make available the subjugated knowledge – zines, artworks, and other ephemera – produced by participants in the punk-rock commons that loomed in and around the San Francisco Bay Area between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s. |
| 2017-19 | “The Lung Block: A New York City Slum & Its Forgotten Italian Community.” Exhibit co-curated with architectural historian Kerri Culhane and hosted by the Department of Records and Information Services of the City of New York and The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| 2017-19 | Web developer and administrator for the Italian Association of American Studies website. |
| 2016-19 | Web developer and administrator for the Graduate Forum of the Italian Association of American Studies website, a repository of opportunities and events for early career scholars in the field. |
ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES AND LEADERSHIP
| 2019-21 | Art Science Connect Committee. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2019-21 | Alumni Committee, English Student Association. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2019-20 | Faculty Membership Committee, Ph.D. Program in English. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2018-20 | CUNY 2020 Committee. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2018-20 | American Studies Certificate Advisory Committee. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2018-19 | Participatory Budget Committee, Doctoral Student Council. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2017-19 | Executive Committee, Ph.D. Program in English. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2018-20 | Lounge and Library Committee, English Student Association. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2017-18 | Chair and Grantee, ad-hoc English Lounge Renovation Committee, English Student Association. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2017-18 | Curriculum Committee, First-Year Writing Program. Queens College, CUNY. |
| 2017-18 | Co-chair, English Student Association. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2017- | Founding Editor-in-Chief, JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy). |
| 2017- | Editor, Amèrica Critica. |
| 2017-18 | Co-organizer and web developer, Graduate Student Conference Committee, English Student Association. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2016-17 | Librarian, English Student Association. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2016-21 | Co-chair, AISNA Graduates. |
TEACHING AND OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2018-21 Digital Fellow, GC Digital Initiatives.
2017-18 Research Assistant for Eric Lott, Distinguished Professor.
2015-16 Research Assistant for Ashley Dawson, Professor.
Queens College, CUNY
2018-20 Writing at Queens Fellow.
2016-18 Instructor of Record: College Writing (Celebrity Culture in the United States), Writing About Literature (Countercultural Revolutions).
ORGANIZED PANELS AND SELECT PUBLIC EVENTS
| 2019 | “Decolonizing the Digital Archive.” Co-organizer and panelist. 25th Biennial AISNA Conference. Università di Catania. Ragusa, Italy. |
| 2019 | “A Dialogue with Lawrence Livermore.” Punk Rock Raduno. Bergamo, Italy. |
| 2019 | “Women in Comics: The State of Scholarship and Opportunities for Professionalization.” Organizer. English Program Friday Forum. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2019 | “The Making of a Slum: A Discussion on Immigration, Housing & Health Policy in New York City, Past & Present.” Organizer and discussant. The James Gallery. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2019 | “Critical Karaoke.” English Program Friday Forum. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2018 | “Rethinking 1968 and the Global Sixties.” Graduate Student Conference. Co-Organizer. Centro Studi Americani. Rome, Italy. |
| 2018 | Breaking Through: Textures and Aesthetics of Rupture. Graduate Student Conference. Co-organizer. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2017 | “West Coast, Left Coast.” Co-organizer and panelist. 24th Biennial AISNA Conference. Università di Milano. Milan, Italy. |
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
American Studies
| 2017-19 | The Futures Institute of American Studies. Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH. |
Digital Humanities
| 2020 | Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School. University of Oxford. Oxford, UK. |
| 2019 | Advanced Omeka Workshop. NYCDH Week. New York University. New York, NY. |
| 2018 | Introduction to Omeka Workshop. NYCDH Week. New York University. New York, NY. |
| 2018 | GC Digital Research Institute. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2017 | Digital Writing Workshop. Queens College, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2016 | The Lexicon of DH Workshop. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
Poetics
| 2019 | “Critical Poesis” Workshop (led by Sara Jane Stoner). St. Mark’s Poetry Project. New York, NY. |
| 2019 | “The Vocal Trace” Workshop (led by Judah Rubin). St. Mark’s Poetry Project. New York, NY. |
| 2018 | “Prosody, Privatization, Performance, and Peace” Workshop (led by Robert Kocik). St. Mark’s Poetry Project. New York, NY. |
| 2018 | “A Verse Record: Poet’s Journals/Journal Poems” Master Class (led by Stacy Szymaszek). St. Mark’s Poetry Project. New York, NY. |
| 2017 | “Embodying Voice in Page and Performance” Workshop (led by Tracey Morris). St. Mark’s Poetry Project. New York, NY. |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 2018 | Web developer. The Graduate Center. New York, NY. |
| 2017 | Web developer. CUNY Research Foundation. New York, NY. |
| 2010-2012 | Student Services and Educational Programs Assistant. YouAbroad SRL (Foreign exchange program). Torino, Italy. |
| 2007-2010 | Communications Assistant. World Exchange Program Italia SRL. Torino, Italy. |
MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Italian Association for North American Studies (AISNA); American Studies Association (ASA).
LANGUAGE COMPETENCES
Fluent in Italian and English (spoken and written). Beginner-intermediate skills in Spanish and French.
REFERENCES
Eric Lott, Distinguished Professor
English and American Studies Programs
The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Cindi Katz, Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences Program,
The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Duncan Faherty, Assistant Professor
English and American Studies Programs
Queens College, City University of New York.
