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Dr. Daniela De Pau

 
   
    Daniela De Pau, Ph.D.
    Associate Teaching Professor of Italian
    Coordinator of the Italian Program
       
    Office:    48-212A  
    Phone:    (215) 895-2165  
    Email:     dd62 @ drexel.edu  
       
       
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Italian (and European) Cinema; Relationship between Literature, Cinema and other Arts; Women Writers; The tradition of the Comic and of the Fantastic; Traveling Literature; Autobiography; Politics of Immigration and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Italy.

 
  SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
     
 
Il Divo
  • Daniela De Pau & Rita Pasqui. L'abito e la moda. Letture di autori italiani. (Publisher pending), 2012. (work in progress)
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  • "Calvino, the Fairytale, and two Stories for Children" in Whitehead Claire ed. Critical Insight: The Fantastic. Salem Press. Massachussets, 2012. (to be published)

  • Daniela De Pau & Lillyrose Veneziano Broccia. Film Study Program: Il divo. New York: Edizioni Farinelli, 2011. (68 pages)
     
 
  • Daniela De Pau & Simone Dubrovic eds. (& introd). Zoom “d’oltreoceano”: istantanee sui registi italiani e sull’Italia. Vecchiarelli. (Manziana) Rome, 2010 (351 pages). Articles included:
    • " L’avanguardia solitaria di Franco Piavoli” in Zoom “d’oltreoceano”: istantanee sui registi italiani e sull’Italia.
    • “Al di là delle ideologie: la coraggiosa investigazione di Marco Tullio Giordana” in Zoom “d’oltreoceano”: istantanee sui registi italiani e sull’Italia.
    • “Alessandro D’Alatri e l’etica della testimonianza” in Zoom “d’oltreoceano”: istantanee sui registi italiani e sull’Italia.
    • “Ferzan Ozpetek e le sfide della modernità” (co-authored with Simone Dubrovic) in Zoom “d’oltreoceano”: istantanee sui registi italiani e sull’Italia.
 
  • Daniela De Pau & Georgina Torello, eds. (and introd.) Watching Pages, Reading Pictures: Cinema and Modern Literature in Italy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle: 2008 (440 pages).

  • "Il realismo fantastico delle inchieste donne mie" in We Want Roses Too, online volume on feminism in cinema in Jura Gentium Cinema, 2010.

  • "Archibugi, a writer on the set" in Daniela De Pau & Georgina Torello, eds. Watching Pages, Reading Pictures: Cinema and Modern Literature in Italy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle: 2008.

  • "Con gli occhi chiusi"da Tozzi alla Archibugi, per aprirli con il cinema ", Modern Language Studies Journal, 2006.
 
  • "Dacia Maraini and the poetics of female migration". Refereed Selected Proceedings of the Seventh International ISSEI MIT Press, 2004: CD ROM, (2006).

  • "Benni e le nuove avventure di Pinocchia: comici appunti per una moderna 'Education Sentimentale", Modern Language Studies Journal, 2005 issue.

  • "Una sfida giocosa. Maraini-Stein 'di due una di una due," Italian Culture, vol. 20, n. 2 2002 (2004).

  • "L'Edipo decapitato e L'Eros consolatore in Crudeltà all'aria aperta," RLA, v. 12, 2000 (2004).

  • "The mosaic of an artistic people: 'Recita napoletana' by Giovanna Mozzillo", International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 1, (2003).

  • " The autobiographical landscape in Maria Orsini Natale. " Refereed Selected Proceedings of the Sixth International ISSEI MIT Press, 2002: CDROM, (2003).

  • "A challenging nostalgia in search of reunion. Desire in 'The distance from the moon' by Italo Calvino," West Virginia University Philological Papers, vol 49, (2002).

  • "Dionisio l'anacronista. La parodia della figura del medico in 'Enrico IV," Working Papers in Romance Literatures and Philology, v. 2, Fall (1997): 67-80.


 
 
COURSES USUALLY TAUGHT:
  • Lower level Italian and Spanish language courses
  • IAS 360 The Mediterranean in Film
  • ITAL 331The Sixties - From Paper to Screen
  • ITAL 333 Female Autobiographies
  • ITAL 371 Masterpieces of Italian Cinema - Italian Women Writers of Short Stories
  • ITAL 411 Federico Fellini - The Poetics of the Fantastic - The Cinematographic Genre of "Italian Comedy" - Histories of Immigration
  • ITAL 431 Italian Female Directors - Humor in Twentieth Century Literature - Hands-on reality: intellectual involvement after '68 - Italian Cinema of Poetry
  • ITAL 471 Pasolini Between Literature and Cinema - History of Italian Cinema - New Regionalisms in a Global World - Contemporary Italian Cinema - Shifting Borders in Italian Cinema
  • ITAL 480 Minor Thesis Direction
  • ITAL 499 Italian Journalism
  • Lang 180: Bernardo Bertolucci: poetry and revolution

 





Areas of Study:
Anthropology
BA | Minor

Communication
MS | BA | BS | Minor

Criminal Justice
BS | Minor

Urban Environmental Policy
MS | BS | Minor

Modern Languages
Minor

Sociology
BA | Minor

Culture & Communication
Ph.D.


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