Alessandro ZAMMATARO

Alessandro Zammataro

 

Linton Rd, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK• alessandrozammataro@gmail.com • +44 07759180093; +39 3770862500

         

 

 

 

EDUCATION 

 

DPhil, Medieval and Modern Languages (3 years of attendance) University of Oxford Dissertation: Antonio Grifo’s illuminations as Visual Commentary to Dante’s Divine Comedy and Petrarch’s Canzoniere Supervisor: Prof. Simon Gilson (Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies)

Since 2020 Oxford, UK Expected Defense  April 2024

 

Master of Arts, Comparative Literature City University of New York, Graduate Center

February 2019 New York, NY

 

Teacher Certification Program for Secondary Education Deaprtment of Pedagogy, University of Catania

Jauary-July 2013 Catania, IT

 

DPhil, Italian Studies  Department of Humanities, University of Catania

March 2011 Catania, IT

Dissertation: The architecture of the soul and the mystical city. Tozzi between modernity and the Middle Ages. Concordance and analysis of the poems, 3 vols.

Advisors: Prof. Giuseppe Savoca, Prof. Antonio Di Silvestro 

 

Master of Arts, Italian Literature  Department of Humanities, University of Catania

July 2007 Catania, IT

Dissertation: The musical lexicon in the poetry of Salvatore Quasimodo

Advisors: Prof. Giuseppe Savoca, Prof. Antonio Di Silvestro 

 

Master of Arts, Bassoon Music Institute “Vincenzo Bellini”

November 2002 Catania, IT

Dissertation: The bassoon solo from the Renaissance to the Twentieth century

 

 

 

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Brooklyn College, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Spring 2016 –  2019

ITA 1010, Italian Basic Language Skills 

ITA 1020, Italian Intermediate Language Skills 

CORC 3106, Text and Context (Italian Literature in Translation)    

 

Bronx Community College, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor	Spring 2018 – 2019
ITL-111, Elementary Italian I ITL-112, Elementary Italian II
Fordham, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor	Fall 2016 –  2018

ITAL1001, Elementary Italian I

ITAL1001, Elementary Italian I

 

LIM College, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Fall 2015 – 2020

LANG 1521, Conversational Italian I

LANG 1522, Conversational Italian II

 

Queens College, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Fall 2014 – Fall 2015

ITAL–111, Elementary Italian I

ITAL–112, Elementary Italian II

 

FIT, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor	Fall 2014
ITAL-111, Elementary Italian I
Italian Test Admnistrator	2010 - 2013 Catania, IT

Member of the examination committee for the release of the official “PLIDA” test (Certification of

Italian as a Foreign Language), “Dante Alighieri” International Society, University of Catania

 

 

Teaching Assistant

Since 2008 Catania, IT

Honorary Fellow in "Philology of Italian literature" 

Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Catania.

 

• 2011-2012:    Cino da Pistoia and the Dante's norm of the Dolce stil novo; The poetry of

Salvatore Quasimodo: survey of the manuscripts of La vita non è sogno (Undergraduate courses)

 

• 2010-2011:    Philological and codicological study of Francesco Petrarca's manuscripts Vatican     Latin 3195-3196; Franco Sacchetti from manuscript Ashb. 574 (Graduate courses)
• 2009-2010:    The Sicilian school of the early poets in the Tuscan literature and tradition; Study     and analysis from the digital reproduction of the manuscripts Vatican Latin 3793, Palatino 418, Laurenziano Redi 9 (Undergraduate and Graduate courses) 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

 

Books

 

Il Canto della Vergine. Storia mistica e immagini del Medioevo nella poesia di F. Tozzi (2013), Roma, Aracne Editrice.

 

Le architetture dell’anima e la città mistica. Tozzi tra modernità e Medioevo, dottorato di ricerca in italianistica (Lessicografia e semantica del linguaggio letterario europeo, XXIII ciclo, coordinatore Giuseppe savoca, Tutor Antonio DI Silvestro, Vol. I tesi, Vol. II testo e liste di frequenza, Vol. III Concordanza.

 

 

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

 

 

 

Letteratura, illusione e romanzesco: storia ed elaborazione de Il maestro dei ragazzi, in «Esperienze letterarie», Roma - Pisa, Fabrizio Serra Editore, accepted (si allega dichiarazione del direttore della rivista).

 

 

D’agata Cristian, Zammataro, Alessandro. Introduzione all’Edizione Scientifica Digitale del Manoscritto de Il fu Mattia Pascal di Luigi Pirandello (MS. Ital. 83, Houghton Library, Cambridge, USA), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10477827

 

 

La recensione di capuana ai «Malavoglia»: dal manoscritto all’edizione digitale, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10536403 

 

 

Esempi di restauro digitale dell'«Enrico IV» di Luigi Pirandello. DOI  10.5281/zenodo.10156897

 

 

Rileggere il manoscritto del «Fu Mattia Pascal» tra scrittura e riscrittura. Esempi di restauro digitale del MS. Ital 83. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10156855

 

 

D’agata Cristian, Zammataro, Alessandro. Il Fu Mattia Pascal - Edizione critica digitale del manoscritto (ms. Ital 83, Houghton Library, Harvard University). DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10155406

 

 

Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal, Edizione critica digitale a cura di Alessandro Zammataro e Christian D’Agata, promossa dalla Commissione Nazionale per l’Edizione dell’Opera Omnia di Luigi Pirandello, presidente prof. Angelo Pupino, segretario prof. Aldo Maria Morace, available at:

<https://pirandellonazionale.it/download/evtms/index.html> 

 

 

Rileggere il manoscritto del «Fu Mattia Pascal» tra scrittura e riscrittura: metodi ed esempi di restauro digitale del MS. Ital 83, Edizione critica digitale nazionale dell’opera omnia di Luigi Pirandello, disponibile open access al sito <www.pirandellonazionale.it> (published by December 2023)

 

 

Alessandro Zammataro, Rebecca Bowen, Ero e Leandro: mitologia e temi lirici in una postilla al 

Purgatorio XXVIII (v. 73) nel ms. Urb. Lat. 366, «Filologia Antica e Moderna», XXXI, 51, 2022, (accepted, published by 2023).

 

 

Image Manipulation Tools for Petrarch’s Philology, New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (NTMRS), Iter Press in collaboration with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020, p.157-194.

 

 

I libri della Memoria. La biblioteca ideale di Federigo Tozzi tra letteratura e filologia, in Memoria della modernità. Archivi ideali e archivi reali, a cura di Clara Borrelli, Elena Candela, Angelo R. Pupino, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2013, pp. 755-766.    

 

 

Tozzi, Formìggini e «La città della Vergine», tra mercato e Medioevo, in Autori, lettori e mercato nella modernità letteraria, a cura di Ilaria Crotti, Enza Del Tedesco, Ricciarda Ricorda, Alberto Zava, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2011, pp. 447-458.

 

 

 

 EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

 

MANAGING EDITOR

May 2017-August 2018

Managing Editor; Coordinator of Technical Development; 

Project Manager; Web Design and Web Development.

 

Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (NYU, CUNY)

https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu

 

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT

March 2017-Ongoing

Centro di Informatica Umanistica at the University of Catania

COPYEDITOR

March 2018- Ongoing

“Journal of Italian Translation” edited by

 Professor Luigi Bonaffini (Brooklyn College, New York) 

LAYOUT EDITOR

January 2016- Ongoing

Coordinator of Technical Development; 

Project Manager; Web Design and Web Development.

GC Advocate (City University of New York)

 

DIRECTOR   Francesco Petrarca from Manuscript to Digital Culture  International Symposium, University of Oregon

April 2010

• Shot and edited an audio/video multimedia lesson in HD (720p) by Professor Giuseppe Savoca about digital philology of Francesco Petrarca’s manuscripts
• Created English subtitles
• Composed an original musical theme to accompany the presentation at the symposium
• Implemented 3D animation of manuscripts’ digital images

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL PROJECTS AND RESOURCES 

 

 

Équipe dell’Edizione Nazionale Digitale delle opere di Luigi Pirandello          University of Catania    The Edition of the Complete Works of Luigi Pirandello is a project led by the National Commission and appointed by the MIBACT, aiming to present readers with a new, vibrant, and reliable corpus of Pirandello’s works. The initiative benefits from the collaboration with Mondadori, which is Pirandello’s historical publisher. The digital version aims to create a web space for the dissemination and in-depth exploration of ‘works in progress’ leading up to the publication of the National Edition. It provides scholars and enthusiasts with a highly integrated collection of words, images, soundtracks, and activities. Availble at https://www.pirandellonazionale.it	April 2022-Ongoing
Digital Critical Edition of Pirandello, “Il fu Mattia Pascal”          University of Catania    Author of the diplomatic critical edition of the Ms. Ital 83 of Il fu Mattia Pascal. Developer of the online Digital Edition designed using the open source software EVT. Author of the Digital Restoration Essay entitled Rileggere il manoscritto del Fu Mattia Pascal tra scrittura e riscrittura: metodi ed esempi di restauro digitale del MS. Ital 83. This essay focuses on the description of the philological and palaeographical matters involved in the restoring process of deleted text in Ms. Ital 83.  Availble at https://www.pirandellonazionale.it/2023/download/evtms/	April 2022-Ongoing
Digital Critical Edition of Dante, “Divina Commedia”, 2nd Edition          Edited by Prue Shaw, Emeritus Reader In Italian, University College London Available at www.dantecommedia.it, ISBN 1-904628-21-4   Philological and Palaeographical contributor for the commentary section of the Website and the editorial material, Test User of the Website and User Interface designer	November 2021
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT	March 2017-Ongoing
Centro di Informatica Umanistica at the University of Catania. Editor of Digital Critical Edition using XML TEI encoding, software coding in HTML and CSS.
City Tech’s OpenLab   Digital Pedagogy Fellows: support team for teaching and learning, coordinator of Digital Pedagogy seminars, support team for the open source blog and social network on WordPress and BuddyPress. Developer of digital tools, testing and functionality, and help-documentation creator.	August 2018
Virtual Reality Language Learning	March 2018

Director of the project for Language Learning with Virtual Reality funded by the Brooklyn College Open Educational Resource (OER) 

 

 

 

 

Online Italian Language Course

March 2018

Developer of an open access Online Italian Language Course in collaboration with Brooklyn College Open Educational Resource (OER) 

https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/c.php?g=877554&p=6382542

 

 

INVITED TALKS

 

 

A brief Journey into Digital Palaeography and Virtual Restoration. Methods and Examples of  Digital Restoration of Pirandello’s Ms. Ital 83. «AWRC (Ancient World Research Cluster) Early Career Research Festival», Wolfson College, University of Oxford, November 23th, 2023

 

Transfromation and Identity in Amara Lakhous, Camilleri and Sciascia

Syracuse Academy, January 8, 2022

 

The Themes of Migration and Identity in Quasimodo, Sciascia and Tomasi di Lampedusa

Syracuse Academy, June 18, 2018 

 

Teaching Language and Literature Using a Virtual Reality Cooperative Learning Environment

Brooklyn College, CUNY, April 19, 2018, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

 

Petrarch’s Manuscript in the Digital Era

Brooklyn College, CUNY, May 3, 2017, Department of History

 

Federigo Tozzi: «Il canto dell’anima»

Catania, May 25, 2010, lecture organized by University of Catania and Dante Alighieri International Society

 

“Le canzoni del sonno”. The poetry of Salvatore Quasimodo

Catania, March 25, 2009, lecture organized by University of Catania and Dante Alighieri International Society

 

 

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

 

 

 

Ricezione e interpretazione delle figure arboree del «Canzoniere» di Petrarca nell’opera di Antonio Grifo. ADI, Contemplare/abitare: la natura nella letteratura italiana, XXVI Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione degli Italianisti, Napoli, 14-16 Settembre 2023.  

 

Digital Text Studies Workshop, Wolfson College Digital Cluster, Chair and Organizer, Oxford, June 7th 2023.

 

Il commento verbo-visivo di Antonio Grifo alla «Commedia» di Dante tra esegesi e iconografia.

International Dante Conference, Alma Dante 2023, Ravenna 17-20 maggio 2023

 

Antonio del Grifo’s Illuminations as Visual Commentary to Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Dante’s Commedia. Perlego Network, 16th June, 2022 

 

Antonio del Grifo’s unpublished Canzoniere between Dante and Petrarch,

Oxford Research Seminar, University of Oxford , Department of Medieval and Modern Languages, 13th June 2022.

 

Antonio del Grifo’s Marginalia in Ms Canonici Ital. 73: the Unpublished Commentary to Petrarch’s “Thriumphi”

Oxford Research Seminar, University of Oxford , Department of Medieval and Modern Languages, 17 December 2022.

 

Dai “Classici del ridere” alla Grande Enciclopedia Italiaca. Angelo Fortunato Formìggini e le “ficozze filosofiche” del fascismo. ADI (Associazione degli Italianisti), Catania, 24th annual convention, 23-25 settembre 2021.

 

Antonio del Grifo’s Marginalia in Ms Canonici Ital. 73: the Unpublished Commentary to Petrarch’s “Thriumphi”

Oxford Research Seminar, University of Oxford , Department of Medieval and Modern Languages, 17 December 2020.

 

Antonio del Grifo’s Illuminations as Visual Commentary to Petrarch’s Canzoniere. RSA (Renaissance Society of America), New Orleans Riverside, 22–24 March 2018.

 

Language Learning with Technology. NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), Baltimore, Maryland, 48th annual convention, March 24-26, 2017.

 

Stream of Technology: Gamification for L2 Learning. NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), Hartford, Connecticut, 47th annual convention, March 17-20, 2016.

 

Image Manipulation Tools for Petrarch’s Philology. NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), Hartford, Connecticut, 47th annual convention, March 17-20, 2016.

 

«Gli alberi perduti». Images of nature in the poetry of Salvatore Quasimodo. The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, International conference "Sicily: Language, Art, and Culture", February 11-12, 2016.

 

Digital Paleography in the Petrarch’s Vat. Lat. 3195-3196. NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), Hartford, Connecticut, 47th annual convention, March 17-20, 2016.

 

Italo Calvino. The invisible author. NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), Hartford, Connecticut, 47th annual convention, March 17-20, 2016.

 

Petrarch’s Manuscripts in the Digital Era. SCSC (Sixteenth Century Society and Conference), Vancouver, October 22-25, 2015.

 

Books of Remembrance. The ideal library of Federigo Tozzi between literature and philology

Naples, June, 7-10 2011, MOD International meeting (Italian Society for the Study of Literary Modernity)

 

Tozzi, Formìggini and «La città della Vergine», between market and Middle Ages

Padova-Venice, June 16-19, 2009, MOD International meeting (Italian Society for the Study of Literary Modernity)

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

 

Fixed Term Senior Researcher

2024–2025 Catania, IT

 

Project: C.O.Ver.Le.S.S. (Corpus On line del Verismo tra Letteratura, Storia e Società) 

Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Di Silvestro

Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Catania

 

 

Research Assistant

2007–2010 Catania, IT

Project: Forms of intertextuality among Petrarch, Leopardi, and contemporary poets.

Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Savoca

Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Catania

 

Research Assistant

2007–2010 Catania, IT

Project: Forms of rewriting in Italian (and European) literature between authors and readers: editions, translations, comments, and "marginalia".

Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Savoca

Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Catania

 

SELECTED AWARDS

 

2018-2019

• Writing Across the Curriculum Fellowship, CUNY
• Digital Pedagogy Fellowship, City College of Technology, CUNY
• OER Fellowship, Brooklyn College, CUNY

 

2017-2018

• Managing Editor Fellowship, Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, CUNY

 

2013-2018

• Graduate Center Fellowship, CUNY

 

2011

• Scholarship from “Dante Alighieri Society” for a research project about the Medieval Italian language in the Twentieth Century Tuscan poets.

 

2007-2011

• Scholarship from the University of Catania for PhD research

 

SKILLS

 

Computer

 

• Operating systems: IBM AS/400, Linux/Unix, Mac OSX 11.xx, Windows, Android, IpadOS,
• CSS, HTML, XML, TEI, WordPress, BuddyPress
• Typography: advanced use of InDesign, QuarkXpress, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Pages, keynote and the open source Open Office suite
• Internet browser and email clients
• Photo and Video editing, post-production processing in 2D/3D with Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Premiere, InDesign, After Effects (3D animation), Final Cut, Motion, Aperture, Logic
• Advanced configuration of hardware and drivers, Management and configuration of wired and wireless networks
• Multi-channel Audio and MIDI sequencer using Cubase (Windows) and Logic (Mac Os XI)

    

Languages

• Italian: native language
• English: native fluency
• French: reading knowledge
• Spanish: reading knowledge
• Latin: fluent

 

 

Oxford, 1/31/2024