Stefano Morello
Doctoral Candidate in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY
veritas44@gmail.com | 555 Main Street, Apt 1709, NY, NY 10044
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, The Graduate Center, CUNY, ABD, Expected March 2024
Certificate in American Studies
Dissertation: “Let’s Make a Scene! East Bay Punk and Subcultural Worlding”
Eric Lott (Director), Cindi Katz, Ammiel Alcalay, and Ivy Wilson (Northwestern University)
M.A. English, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2017
Thesis: “Experiencing Wallace Stevens’ Poetry. Towards a Neuroaesthetics of Pragmatism”
M.A. English, Università 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 di Torino (Italy), 2013
Thesis: “Dematerializing Little Italy – From Buffer Zone to State of Mind”
B.S. Business Information and Communication Management, Università di Torino (Italy), 2012
Thesis: “Put Me on Stage and I will be Beautiful: Film Settings and Place Making”
TEACHING AND OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
2022-24 Research Fellowship, Department of Humanities.
Project: “The Circulation of Modern(ist) Italian Literature and Culture in the U.S.: Events, Networks, Influences (1949-1973).” Principal Investigator: Maria Cristina Iuli.
Two-year doctoral research fellowship (Assegno di ricerca) within the L-LIN/11 (American Literature and Languages) Scientific Disciplinary Sector.
Key Responsibilities and Achievements:
- Teach undergraduate courses in American Literature.
- In Fall 2022, I designed and co-taught with Prof. Cristina Iuli the first-ever course offered in Italy at the intersection of US literary studies and Digital Humanities.
- In Fall 2023, I co-designed and co-taught with Prof. Cristina Iuli a graduate course and an undergraduate course on Race in US literature. Both courses combined traditional and digital approaches to the study of literature and a final archival recovery project (currently under development).
- Develop and coordinate projects at the intersection of American Studies and Digital Humanities, including “The Beats in/and Italy.”
- Conduct research on the relationship between authors associated with the Beat Generation and Italy in the context of post-WWII transatlantic cultural exchanges.
The City College of New York, CUNY
2021-23 Digital Humanities Specialist, Division of Humanities & the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities funded position. Project: “Building a Digital Humanities Minor at The City College of New York.” Principal Investigators: Renata Kobetts-Miller and Thomas Peele.
Key Responsibilities and Achievements:
- Designed, secured funding for faculty, and ran a program to scale up Digital Humanities pedagogy in the Division of Humanities and the Arts. In the context of this program, I trained seven faculty from across the college to implement DH assignments in their curriculum; I also provided support to help them design their syllabi and assignments.
- Co-designed and supported “Mapping Slavery and Freedom,” a course taught by Prof. John Blanton that introduces students to digital mapping and data visualization practices through a public-facing collaborative research project culminating in the publication of an interactive digital map representing elements of the histories of slavery and emancipation in colonial and revolutionary Massachusetts.
- Co-designed and co-taught (with Prof. Isabel Estrada) “Activism and the College Experience: From Anti-Fascism to #MeToo,” an undergraduate course cross-listed with the English, History, and Political Science departments. The course made use of archival material (including historical literary texts) to examine political activism, and its representation, on the City College campus (as a metonym for US college campuses) from the global conflict between totalitarianism and democracy in the 1930s to current movements such as #occupywallstreet, #blacklivesmatter, and #metoo. The class included a semester-long DH archival recovery project and producing an open access digital edition of a historical text.
- Conceptualized, designed, and recruited instructors for “Foundations of Data Science” a new course that introduces the fundamental concepts and computational techniques of data science to students majoring in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
- Taught workshops on Digital Humanities methodologies and tools to faculty and staff.
- Supported faculty to introduce Digital Humanities theory and tools in their pedagogy.
Università di Torino, Italy
2022 Research Fellowship, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society
Project: “Digital Activism on Twitter.” Principal Investigator: Angela Zottola.
Duties include scraping, cleaning, and annotating social media data concerning digital activism in the United States, through Digital Humanities tools.
2022 Graduate Advisor. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures. Duties include co-supervising, with Prof. Andrea Carosso, two M.A. theses in the fields of Digital Humanities and Italian American Studies.
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2020-21 Instructor and Curriculum Co-Developer. Digital Humanities Research Institute. National Endowment for the Humanities funded position. Project: “Further Expanding Digital Humanities Communities of Practice.” Principal Investigator: Lisa M. Rhody.
Key Responsibilities and Achievements: Taught and co-developed the curriculum for a two-week (60 hours) intensive summer institute that offered training to faculty from across the United States aiming to teach Digital Humanities skills at their home institutions. The institute’s open access core curriculum includes training in the command line, Git, Python, Databases, Digital Mapping, and Text Analysis tools.
2018-20 Digital Fellow, GC Digital Initiatives.
Supervisors: Matthew K. Gold and Lisa M. Rhody.
Key Responsibilities and Achievements:
- Instructor and curriculum co-developer for the Digital Research Institute, an annual week-long (30 hours) intensive training course where Graduate Students and Faculty learn core digital research skills and tools (including the command line, GitHub, Python, Omeka, and more) while connecting with peers in an interdisciplinary environment.
- Supported and offered consultations to faculty and graduate student on Digital Humanities projects across the disciplines.
- Devised, taught, and supported graduate workshops on using digital tools to advance research in the humanities (including WordPress, Omeka, Tropy, Command Line, ArcGIS, Data Ethics, and Python).
- Founded the Digital Archive Research Collective (DARC), a platform and interdisciplinary working group that addresses the needs of faculty and students working on digital archival research at The Graduate Center. DARC organized events (both training in Digital Humanities and talks by experts in the field) and created a Wiki that offers access to intra- and extra-institutional resources.
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.
- Supported the editorial process of the student digital publication QC Voices.
- Taught workshops on public writing for the humanities on topics such as visual rhetoric, conducting literary research, writing about popular culture, and digital literacy.
2016-18 Instructor of Record.
- Fall 2016. Two sections of English 110, College Writing. Theme: Celebrity Culture. (4 credits/50 contact hours each section). The course examines the arts and practices of effective writing and reading in college, especially the use of language to discover ideas via inquiry into themes. The topic of Celebrity Culture is explored reading primary literary texts and literary criticism to which students learn to respond and build upon. Methods of research and documentation are taught, along with some introduction to rhetorical purposes and strategies.
- Fall 2017. One section of English 110, College Writing (4 credits/50 contact hours). “Celebrity Culture,” see description above.
One section of English 130, Writing About Literature (3 credits/35 contact hours “Writing the Counterculture”). Using texts from across the second half of the twentieth century that express an oppositional stance to the hegemonic order of their respective times, the course focuses on the study of US literature and how to engage in scholarly conversations about literature by using close reading of primary and secondary sources, conducting original research, and developing analytical arguments about literary texts in different genres.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
| 2023 | Presidential Research Fellowship. $28,000. Service-based fellowship year to assist Provost’s Office staff with special projects. It provided with the opportunity to build skills salient to program administration, faculty leadership, and project management and coordination. |
| 2023 | Transformative Learning in the Humanities. $7,500. On behalf of the Center for Teaching and Learning at CCNY. It provided stipends for faculty to train in and adopt Digital Humanities tools and methods in their courses, with an eye to producing public-facing and renewable assignments. Principal Investigator (with Olivia Ildefonso). |
| 2023 | The New York Public Library’s Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship. $26,000. Will fund advanced research for a book on cultural, architectural, and public health policy responses to immigration, poverty, and disease on the Lower East Side at the turn of the 20th century. |
| 2022 | Center for Place, Culture and Politics Dissertation Fellowship. $10,000. Seminar Supervisors: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, David Harvey, Peter Hitchcock. |
| 2022 | Publics Lab Summer Public Research Fellowship. $4,000. Funded the development of the Italian American Open Syllabus (IAOS), a crowd-sourced open access digital publication. |
| 2021 | Connect New York Grant. $4,000. Digital Exhibit: “The Lung Block: A New York City Slum & Its Forgotten Italian Immigrant Community.” |
| 2021 | Open Pedagogy Fellowship. Mena Rees Library, The Graduate Center, CUNY. $2,000. Funded interactive training on finding openly licensed resources to use in the classroom. |
| 2021 | GC Dissertation Fellowship Award. $25,000. |
| 2020
2020 |
Doctoral Student Research Grant, Ph.D. Program in English. $1,200. Funded archival research at the D.C. Punk Archives (District of Columbia Public Library) and the Aaron Cometbus Punk and Underground Press Collection (Cornell University Library). Early Research Initiative Award for Archival Research in American Studies. $4,000. Funded archival research at the SF Punk Archive (San Francisco Public Library). |
| 2019 | The Wellcome Hub Fellowship for Transdisciplinary Research. $10,000. Funded commissioned research on transdisciplinary initiatives across Europe, North America, and Australia. “Wellcome Hub Transdisciplinary Research Landscape Mapping.” |
| 2019 | Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts & Science Grant, The Futures Initiative. $500. Co-funded archival research in Sicily. |
| 2019 | GC Urban Studies Core Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. $10,000. Funded training and provided scholarly support to interdisciplinary research. |
| 2019 | Digital Dissertation Award, The New Media Lab. $1,000. Award for incorporating innovative technology in doctoral research. “East Bay Punk Digital Archive.” |
| 2018-19 | Provost’s Digital Innovation Start-up Grant, GC Digital Initiatives. $4,000. Digital Archive: “East Bay Punk Digital Archive.” |
| 2018-21 | GC Digital Fellowship. $28,000/year. Selective service-based fellowship based in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Graduate Center. |
| 2018 | Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Early Research Initiative. $4,000. Funded preliminary ethnographic and archival research in the San Francisco Bay area. |
| 2018 | Doctoral Student Research Grant, Ph.D. Program in English. $1,400. Funded preliminary ethnographic and archival research in the San Francisco Bay area. |
| 2018 | Social Justice Award, The New Media Lab. $500. Award for creating a digital project based on the principles of equality and solidarity. “East Bay Punk Digital Archive” |
| 2018-19 | Lost & Found Archival Research Grant. $3,000 (total). Funded traveling and the digitization of zines and other ephemeral publications in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 2018 | Participatory Budget Grant, Doctoral Student Council. $3,000. Funded the redesign of the English Program’s student’s lounge to create a space that fosters socialization and creativity. Project Manager and Principal Applicant (on behalf of the English Student Association). |
| 2017 | Jacqueline Schiller Scholarship, City University of New York. $1,000. Merit based scholarship. |
| 2017-19 | The Futures of American Studies Institute Travel Award. $1,000 each. Travel and tuition award to attend a week-long intensive research-based summer school at Dartmouth College. |
| 2015-18 | Graduate Center Fellowship, Ph.D. Program in English. $27,000/year. Service-based teaching fellowship. |
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
| 2025 | Morello, Stefano. “Tracing Literary Transfers: The Infrastructure of Transatlantic
Cultural Exchanges between Italy and the United States, 1949-1972.” In Modern Language Notes, 140 (1), Special Issue “Re-Modernist Italy: Literatures in the Transatlantic Postwar Years” (Under consideration). |
| 2024 | Morello, Stefano. “Scene transatlantiche: l’eco italiane nella Beat Generation.” In Iuli, Cristina and Stefano Morello, eds. Trame transatlantiche: relazioni letterarie tra Italia e Stati Uniti, 1949-1972. Mimesis Edizioni. |
| 2024 | Morello, Stefano and Kerri Culhane. “From the “Lung Block” to the ‘China Virus’
Public Health, Xenophobia and US Identity Formation over the American Century.” In Public Health and the American State, G. P. Scott-Smith, Gaetano Di Tommaso, and Dario Fazzi, ed., Edinburgh University Press: forthcoming. |
| 2023 | Bartley, Travis, Nicole Cote, Matthew K. Gold, Stefano Morello, and Zach Muhlbauer. “Archival Inversions: Rethinking Knowledge Infrastructures through the CUNY Distance Learning Archive.” In Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 13 (3). |
| 2021 | Morello, Stefano and Marco Petrelli. “The Eyes on All People: Policing the City upon a Hill.” JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, n. 5 (2021): 5-12. |
| 2020 | Morello, Stefano, ed. “American Studies and Digital Archives. A Forum on Collaborative Knowledge Preservation, Accessibility, and Pedagogy.” América Crítica, vol. 4, no. 2: 143-155. |
| 2020 | Morello, Stefano. “Digital Humanities at CUNY: Building Communities of Practice in the Public University.” América Crítica, vol. 4, no. 2: 113-122. [Rivista scientifica, Area 10] |
| 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.” In 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 Youth on The O.C.” Comparative Studies in Modernism, n. 11 (2018): 121-136. [Rivista di classe A, Area 10] |
EDITED VOLUMES
| 2025 | Iuli, Cristina, Aaron Jaffe and Stefano Morello, eds. Modern Language Notes, 140 (1), Special Issue “Re-Modernist Italy: Literatures in the Transatlantic Postwar Years”. |
| 2024 | Iuli, Cristina and Stefano Morello, eds. Trame transatlantiche: relazioni letterarie tra Italia e Stati Uniti, 1949-1972. Mimesis Edizioni (Forthcoming). |
| 2021 | Morello, Stefano and Marco Petrelli, eds. “‘Watching the Watchmen:’ The State of Policing in US Cultural Production.” JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, n. 5. |
| 2020 | Morello, Stefano and Fiorenzo Iuliano, eds. “An Epistemology of Doing. Digital Humanities and American Studies.” América Crítica, vol. 4, no. 2. [Rivista scientifica, Area 10] |
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
| 2017- | Founder and co-editor-in-chief, JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy). |
| 2017- | Editor, Amèrica Critica. |
BOOK REVIEWS
| 2023 | Morello, Stefano and Marco Petrelli. “Cormac McCarthy, Il passeggero.” L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, n. 7/8. |
| 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: 27 |
| 2015 | Morello, Stefano. “Nick Hornby, Funny Girl.” L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, n. 7/8: 46. |
INVITED TALKS/GUEST LECTURER
| 2023 | “Digital Humanities and American Studies.” Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics. Università di Pisa. Pisa, Italy. |
| 2023 | “‘The Sound of a New World Being Born’: East Bay Punk, Applied Refusals, and Infrastructural Bricolage.” Department of Public and Applied Humanities. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. |
| 2022 | “Chasing the Ghost of the Lung Block: Archival Recovery, Pedagogy, and Public Humanities.” Vedere la storia nel mondo degli audiovisivi. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Modena, Italy. |
| 2022 | “(Dis)Content to Live in a Pig-Sty: Making a Home Italian and Making an Italian
American.” Family Ecologies: Family as/at Home. University of Bamberg. Bamberg, Germany. |
| 2022 | “Archiving the Present During and Beyond the Pandemic.” With Steve Brier, Matthew K. Gold, Nicole Cote, Zach Muhlbauer, Travis Bartley. Keynote talk for the Transitions and Transactions: Literature Pedagogy in Community Colleges conference. Borough of Manhattan Community College. New York, NY. |
| 2022 | “Dall’Università al Mondo del Lavoro: Digital Humanities.” Seminario del corso di lingue in Lingue, Letterature e Culture dell’Europa e delle Americhe. Università degli Studi di Napoli, “L’Orientale.” Napoli, Italy. |
| 2022 | “Digital Archive: From Theory to Praxis.” Introduction to Digital Humanities seminar. New York University. New York, NY. |
| 2021 | “American Studies and Digital Archives.” Remote Archival Encounters seminar, English Program. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2019 | “Digital Humanities is/as…” Ph.D. Program 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 | “La città dalle due anime.” Neapolitan Narratives from Ferrante to Gomorra: Literature, Cinema, Television seminar, Comparative Literature Program. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2017 | “Tenement Life in the Lung Block: 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
| 2023 | “Recovering John Henry Hewlett: A Study in Southern Racial Solidarity.” 27th Biennial AISNA Conference. Università di Perugia. Narni, Italy. |
| 2022 | “Archival Inversions: Rethinking Knowledge Infrastructures through the CUNY Distance Learning Archive.” With Travis Bartley, Nicole Cote, Matthew K. Gold, Zach Muhlbauer. DH Unbound. Virtual conference sponsored by Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. |
| 2022 | “American Economy/Italian Ecology: Making and Unmaking the Lung Block.” With Kerri Culhane. Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, New York, NY. |
| 2021 | “From the “Lung Block” to the “China Virus”: Public Health, Xenophobia, and US Identity Formation over the American Century.” With Kerri Culhane. Public Health and Disease in the American Century. Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, The Netherlands. |
| 2021 | “’No Fun, My Babe, No Fun’: Iggy’s Being (White) in America.” 26th Biennial AISNA Conference. Università dell’Aquila. L’Aquila, Italy. |
| 2021 | “In and For the Public University: Building DH Communities of Practice at CUNY.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2021. University of Victoria. Victoria, Canada. |
| 2021 | “The CUNY Digital History Archive and the CUNY Distance Learning Archive.” With Stephen Brier, Chloe Smolarski, Matthew K. Gold, Travis Barley, Nicole Cote, Zach Muhlbauer. Infrastructural Interventions. King’s College. London, UK. |
| 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
| 2023 | “The Beats in/and Italy,” a collaborative Digital Humanities project that emerged from the Fall 2022 American Literature IIA I co-taught with Cristina Iuli at the University of Eastern Piedmont. It provides an interactive comprehensive account of the presence and depictions of Italy by several authors associated with the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac, Diane Di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, and Bob Dylan. |
| 2022 | The Italian American Open Access Syllabus, a crowd-sourced digital collection of reusable and remixable resources to learn and teach about the Italian diaspora in the United States (Expected launch: January 2024). |
| 2022 | Co-editor (with Isabel Estrada) of Let My People Know: The Story of Wilfred Mendelson, ‘Mendy,’ August 17, 1915 – July 28, 1938 an archival recovery project critically annotated by the students in the Spring 2022 course “Activism and the College Experience” at The City College of New York. |
| 2022 | Co-author (with Stefano Gabbiani and Maria Ilaria Tonelli) of Chasing the Ghost of the Lung Block, an open access documentary film that, through oral history and conversations with public intellectuals, investigates the cultural legacy of an Italian American community physically displaced from New Yok City’s Lower East Side in the 1930s. |
| 2020 | Founding team member, co-curator, and project manager 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. |
| 2017-21 | “The Lung Block: A New York City Slum & Its Forgotten Italian Community,” an 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—that looks at the progressive narrative of the infamous Lung Block as the epicenter of disease, contrasting it with the lived experience of the Italian immigrant tenement dwellers living in the area. The show was later developed into a permanent digital exhibition and Open Educational Resource. Sponsored by The Department of Records and Information Services of the City of New York, The Calandra Italian American Institute, The Center for the Humanities, and Queens College Makerspace. |
| 2017-21 | Web developer and administrator for the Italian Association of American Studies website. |
| 2016-21 | 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
| 2022-24 | Graduate Council’s Structure Committee. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 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- | 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. |
| 2017-20 | Graduate Council’s English Program Representative. 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. |
| 2017-18 | Co-organizer and web developer, English Student Association. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2016-17 | Librarian, English Student Association. The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
| 2016-21 | Co-chair, AISNA Graduates. |
SELECT ORGANIZED PANELS AND PUBLIC EVENTS
| 2023 | Book Launch Roundtable: Martino Marazzi, Through The Periscope: Changing Culture, Italian America. A conversation on the intersection between Italian and American Studies with the author, Loredana Polezzi, and Eric Lott. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. |
| 2021 | “Me as the Not-Me: Difference, Recognition, and Identity Formation in US Culture.” Co-organizer and panelist. 26th Biennial AISNA Conference. Università dell’Aquila. L’Aquila, Italy. |
| 2021 | “Voting Divide: The Changing Boundaries of Citizenship in the United State.” Graduate Student Conference. Co-Organizer. Centro Studi Americani. Rome, Italy. |
| 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
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2017-19 |
The Futures Institute of American Studies. Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH. |
| 2022 | Anti-Racist Pedagogies: Best Practices for Teaching American Literature in Ethnically Diverse Italy. University of Eastern Piedmont. Vercelli, Italy. |
Digital Humanities
| 2022 | Summer School for Literary Studies & Digital Humanities. Universiteit Leiden. Leiden (NL). |
| 2020 | Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School. Keble College. 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 Series. 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 and Queens College. New York, NY. |
| 2019 | Web developer. The Association for Computers and the Humanities. |
| 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
American Studies Association (ASA); Italian Association for North American Studies (AISNA); European Association for American Studies (EAAS); International American Studies Association (IASA); Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH).
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.
Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor
English and Digital Humanities Programs,
The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
mgold@gc.cuny.edu
Duncan Faherty, Associate Professor
English and American Studies Programs,
Queens College, City University of New York.
Cindi Katz, Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences Program,
The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
New York, NY
August 30, 2023
