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Patrizia La Trecchia

Dr. Patrizia La Trecchia, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, serves as Head of the Italian Program. She organizes and oversees a wide range of language, culture, and literature courses. She interviews, assesses, and recommends the hiring of part-time personnel or graduate students to teach beginning Italian courses. She serves as language coordinator, organizing multiple sections of Elementary and/or Intermediate Italian Language and developing syllabi and coordinated assessments for other teachers in the language program. She has launched new curricular proposals and serves as faculty advisor for the undergraduate Italian Club at USF.
Dr. La Trecchia joined the faculty of the Department of World Languages from the University of Pennsylvania where she received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature with coursework at the Annenberg School of Communication. She received her Laurea of Dottore in Comparative Literature and Film Studies from the Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale with workshops in film editing and photography with leading experts of the Centro Sperimentale of Cinematografia (National School of Cinema) in Rome. She also received a diploma in professional subtitling from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

She teaches interdisciplinary courses in 20th century Italian culture, society and film, in addition to Italian literature and language. Her research interests include Italian and European film, cultural studies, globalization, popular culture, the “Italian Southern Question,” and the Italian American Diaspora. 

Her work includes publications on Italian and European film, music and globalization, modern and contemporary Italian literature, and audiovisual translation. She is currently working on a book-length project on the South, focusing specifically on the case study of the city of Naples. She is completing a film textbook on Il postino for Edizioni Farinelli set for publication at the end of summer 2009.  This project originates from her teaching “Italian Conversation Through Film” at USF.

Courses Designed and Taught:

Italian Cultural Studies
Southern Italy and the Italian American Experience
Readings in Italian Literature and Culture
Italian Composition
Italian Conversation I & II – Italian Conversation Through Film

Books:

La Trecchia, Patrizia. Il Postino: Film Study Textbook. New York: Edizioni Farinelli, 2009.

Articles:

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Traveling South: Naples as a Site of Crossing and Migration in the Mediterranean.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6. 2 (2009): 152-170.

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Images of Immigration in Neapolitan Cinema, South-South Migration and the Italian South in Global Context: World Napoli and Bianco e nero alla ferrovia.” In Grace Russo Bullaro, ed., From Terrone to Extra-Comunitario: New Manifestations of Racism in Contemporary Italian Cinema. Leicester, UK: Troubador Italian Studies Series. Forthcoming (2009).

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Sites of ‘Glocal’ Representations and Artistic Resistance: The Neapolitan Urban Imaginary in Antonio Capuano’s Sacred Silence.” Studies in European Cinema. Forthcoming (2009).

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Il teatro comico di Carlo Goldoni: i problemi della rappresentazione teatrale fino alla drammaturgia contemporanea.” Studi sul Settecento e l’Ottocento 4 (2009).

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Dalla parola all’immagine: sonorità e immagini napoletane nel Decameron di Pier Paolo Pasolini.” Rivista di Letteratura Italiana XXVII, 1 (2008): 101-117.

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Raffaele La Capria.” In Gaetana Marrone and Paolo Puppa, ed., Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. London: Routledge, 2006. 989-991.

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Fabrizia Ramondino.” In Gaetana Marrone and Paolo Puppa, ed., Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. London: Routledge, 2006. 1546-1548.

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Il cinema di poesia e la ‘messa in scena’ di amore e amicizia in Amori in corso di Giuseppe Bertolucci.” Cinemasessanta 3/4 (2005): 49-62.

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “New Media (B)orders in Contemporary Neapolitan Music: Rethinking Aesthetic Experience in the Age of Globalization.” Italian Cultural Studies 2001. Ed. Anthony J. Tamburri. Boca Raton, FL: Bordighera Press, 2004. 69-92.

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Il bell’Antonio di Mauro Bolognini e L’ultimo uomo di Friedrich Murnau: dramma dell’identità e Kammerspielfilm.Cinemasessanta 1/2 (2003): 85-95.

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Dubbing: An Italian Case Study.” Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 6 (1998): 113-124.

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Tradizione e innovazione in Film di Samuel Beckett II.” Cinemasessanta 1 (1997): 32-37.

La Trecchia, Patrizia. “Tradizione e innovazione in Film di Samuel Beckett I.” Cinemasessanta 5/6 (1996): 34-44.



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