Gambarota, Paola

Associate Professor

Ph. D., Italian Literature, Yale University, 2002
Ph. D., German Studies, University of Pavia, 1997
Laurea, Modern Foreign Languages, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli, 1987
Joined Rutgers in 2007
Address: AB 5111 - 15 Seminary Place
Tel. 848-932-5169
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern Italian Literature, Theories of Language and Nation, European Pre-War Avant-garde, Film

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

• Classics of Italian Cinema 
• Exploring Naples. History, Art, and Culture
• Italian Literature and Fascism
• Italian Civilization II (modern)
• Italian Literature of the Ottocento
• Twentieth-Century Poetry: Tradition and Experiment

Graduate

• War and Experience. Twentieth-Century Italian Narratives
• Language and Nation in Italian Thought
• Poetry, Theory, and Modernity
• Giambattista Vico and His Modern Readers

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Chair, Jury of Rome Prize for Modern Italian Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2018.

• ACLS Frederick Burkhardt fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 2015 - 2016.

• American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Book Prize for Irresistible Signs (Toronto UP, 2011), June 2012.

• Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, April 2012.

• Rutgers University Award for Distinguished Contribution to Undergraduate Education, Spring 2011.

• MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies for Irresistible Signs, December 2010.

• Lauro de Bosis Fellowship, Harvard University, 2006-07.

• The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellowship for Distinguished Service as Writing Intensive Instructor, Yale University, 2002.

• Bass Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 2002.

• Giles Whiting Foundation Dissertation Prize Fellowship in the Humanities, 2001-2002.

• DAAD Research Fellow, The German Office for Academic Exchange, Freie Universität Berlin, 1988-1990.

• The Austrian Ministry of Education and Research Fellowship, University of Vienna, 1987.

• RUI Foundation Fellowship for Studies Abroad, University of Munich, 1983.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books 

• Irresistible Signs: The Genius of Language and Italian National Identity. University of Toronto Press, 2011. 
  
  • Review of Irr Signs Historiogr. Linguist
  • Review of Irr Signs Italian Culture
  • Review of Irr. Signs Italica
  • Review of Irr. Signs. Lexia. Rivista di Semiotica
• Surrealismo in Germania. Udine: Campanotto Editore, 1997.
  • Review of Surrealismo in Germania

• American Naples: Cross-Cultural Memories of an Occupation (in progress)

Articles

• "Uomo Qualunque. The Transnational Making of Italian Post-War Populism." The Italianist,39, I (2019): 44-63. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02614340.2019.1586318

• “The Fall of Naples: Percezioni e rappresentazioni americane della liberazione di Napoli.” In Leggere il tempo negli spazi. 1943 a Napoli, in Campania, nel Mezzogiorno e Mediterraneo. Special Issue of Meridione. Sud e Nord nel Mondo . Ed. Francesco Soverina. 2-3 (2015): 255-268.

• “Abandoning the Polyphonic Nation. Vico’s ‘True Dante’.” In L’Italia allo specchio. Linguaggi e identità italiane nel mondo. Eds. Fabio Finotti and Marina Johnston. Venezia: Marsilio, 2014, 83-91.

• “Vico in Times of War: Views from a Refugee Camp.” Italica 87, III (Fall 2010): 355-373.

• “Come agisce Balestrini su Arp: le traduzioni nel Verri e la canonizzazione del Dada.” Rivista di Studi Italiani, XXIII, 1 (2005): 147-165 (copyrighted 2008).

• “The Syntax of Passions: Vico and Bouhours,” Romanic Review, 97, 3-4 (2006): 285-307. 

• “Beyond Revealed Religions: Saba, the Creatures, and the Political Animal,” Modern Language Notes 120, 1 (2005): 137-160.

• “Donne e Sud nel cinema di Francesco Rosi,” Women in Italian Cinema/ La donna nel cinema italiano. Ed. Tonia Caterina Riviello. Roma: Edizioni Libreria Croce, 2001, 167-188.

• “Notizen zu Kunderas Broch-Lektüre,” Germanoslavica. Zeitschrift für germano-slavische Studien, VI, 1 (1999), 47-60.

• “Visconti’s Ossessione and Garnett’s The Postman Always Rings Twice: Creativity and Convention,” La Fusta. Journal of Italian Literature and Culture, XI (Fall 1997-Spring 1998), 98-109.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, American Association for Italian Studies, American Association of Teachers of Italian.