CURRICULUM VITAE | cindystanphill

Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy June 2013
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Dissertation Committee: Professors Massimo Ciavolella

(co-chair), Clorinda Donato (co-chair), Thomas Harrison,

Lucia Re, and Janet Smarr

Areas of Specialty: Medieval Literature (representations

of the female body and the use of the feminine voice in

poetry), Early Modern Literature and Eighteenth Century

Studies (development and translation of prose narrative

and the rise of the novel).

Period: Medieval, Renaissance/Early Modern Studies,

Eighteenth Century and Translation studies

M.A. Master of Arts in English December 2006
California State University, Long Beach,

Long Beach, California

Advisor: Professor Brit Mize
Concentration: Medieval English, Italian, and Latin

Literature within a comparative framework including

one year of study abroad at CSU Firenze, IT

B.A. Bachelor of Liberal Arts May 2001 California State University, Long Beach

Major: English Literature and Creative Writing
Minor: Comparative Literature-Italian Language

and Literature focus

A.A. Associate in Arts degree May 1999 Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, California

Major: Comparative Literature and Creative Writing

Cecchetti Graduate Student Award 2012
For excellence in teaching and distinguished graduate

work: UCLA

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship 2011

directed by Professor Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA): UCLA

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship 2010

directed by Professor Thomas Harrison (UCLA): UCLA

Eugene V. Cota-Robles: Four year fellowship at UCLA, 2009-2013

including two years of teaching beginning and

intermediate Italian and two years of Graduate

Research Mentorship (directed by Professor Massimo

Ciavolella, UCLA).

George L. Graziadio Scholarship: 2005-2005

Study abroad schoalrship through the George L.

Graziadio Center for Italian Studies at CSULB.

Sally Casanova Scholar: 2003-2004

A year long program including a summer

research project at a CSU

(CSU system-wide scholarship)

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Teachers of

Italian (AATI)
American Association of Italian

Studies (AAIS)
American Council on the Teaching of

Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Society for Eighteenth-

Century Studies (ASECS)
Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

Skills and Qualifications

Fluent in Italian
Fluent in Spanish
Reading knowledge/Intermediate

in French
Reading knowledge Old and

Middle English
Reading Knowledge of Classical

Latin
1 semester of study in Medieval

Latin

Managing Editor, 2014-2016

California Italian Studies Journal (CIS)

Part-time Lecturer, 2012-current

California State University, Long Beach
• Full preparation and instruction of first and second

year Italian for Spanish speakers (this project is part

of an NEH grant)

Teaching Assistant, 2010-current

University of California, Los Angeles
• Full preparation and instruction of Beginning

Italian
• Full preparation and instruction of Intermediate

Italian
• Assisting in Italian Club events at UCLA

Part-time Lecturer, 2007-current

Long Beach City College
• Full preparation and instruction of Beginning Italian
• Conducting weekly Language Lab workshops
• Advising the LBCC Italian Club

Part-time Lecturer, 2007-2009

California State University, Long Beach
• Full preparation and instruction of first and

second year Italian

Tutor, Writer’s Resource Lab, 2003-2004/2006

California State University, Long Beach
• One-on-one tutoring
• Leading special group tutoring sessions
• Conducting workshops dedicated to the required

Writing Proficiency (WPE)

Exam and for ESL students

Graduate Assistant, 2002-2005

California State University, Long Beach
• Courses: Pagan Culture and The Comic Spirit, both

sections fulfill upper division Interdisciplinary, Diamond

and Diversity course requirements for the completion

of a BA or BS at CSU
• Leading special group study sessions
• Presenting occasional lecture hall instruction
• Grading all exams and essays for both courses

PAD Tutor Program, 2001

California State University, Long Beach
• Assisting instructor in the high school classroom
• Personal tutor to high school seniors with the intention

of helping them sharpen their writing skills to pass exit

exams

CURRICULUM VITAE

“Damned if She Does and Damned if She doesn’t: The

Griselda Complex in Moderata Fonte’s Il merito delle

donne.” Women in Hell: Francesca Rimini & Friends

Between Sin, Virtue, and Heroism. Ed. Ferruccio Farina.

Rimini: Editrice Romagna Arte e Storia, 2013. 130 – 145. 2013

“The Translation of the British Novel in Venice: Pietro

Chiari andCarlo Gozzi.” The Centre and the Margins in

Eighteenth – Century British and Italian Cultures. Eds.

Frank O’Gorman and Lia Guerra. Newcastle: Cambridge

Scholar Publishing, 2013. 68 – 86. 2013

Introduction to “(Dis) Unity in Italy,” Carte Italiane 2.8

(Los Angeles: 2013 Lulu Press, 2013). 2013

Introduction to “Forbidden Ideas: Controversial Modes of

Engagement in the Italian Intellectual Tradition,”

Carte Italiane 2.7 (Los Angeles: UCPress, 2011). 2012

“From Moll Flanders to Pamela: Pietro Chiari’s Progressive

Madamigella D’Avire in La filosofessa italiana.” Presented at

the annual ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century

Studies) conference, held in Williamsburg, Virginia –

March 20 – 23, 2014. 2014

“Discord on Stage: Venetian Polemics and the

Rise of the Novel” presented at the Italian Graduate

Student Association’s annual conference
“Italian Polarities” – January 17-18th 2013

“Pietro Aretino: Deviant authorship, Vendettas and

‘Literary Extortionism,’” presented at the American

Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) thirty-second

annual conference in Charleston, South Carolina. 2012

“Damned if She Does and Damned if She Doesn’t:

The Griselda Complex in Moderata Fonte’s Il merito

delle donne,” presented at Women in Hell: Francesca

da Rimini & Friends Between Sin, Virtue, and Heroism –

an international conference under the auspices of the

Italian Consulate General of Italy – at UCLA and the

Istituto Italiano di Cultura. 2012

“The Translation of the British Novel in Venice: Pietro Chiari

and Carlo Gozzi,” presented at the 43rd annual meeting:

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies” (ASECS)

in San Antonio, Texas. 2012

“‘Literary Extortionism’, I poligrafi, and Pietro Aretino in

sixteenth-century Venice” Presented at the Third annual

Medieval and Renaissance Students’ Association (MaRSA)

conference at California State University, Long Beach. 2012

“Periphery and Center in the Evolution of the Novelistic

Genre: John Cleland’s Authoring of Fanny Hill and its Italian

Translations 1764-1904,” Presented with Professor Clorinda

Donato at Third Anglo-Italian Conference on 18th Century

Studies (BSECS/ISCES) - The Marginal and the Mainstream

in the Eighteenth Century, York, England 2012

“Translating Fanny Hill in Italy: Carlo Gozzi’s La Meretrice

inglese (The English Whore),” Presented at the 42nd annual

Meeting: The American Society for Eighteenth-Century

Studies” (ASECS) Vancouver, British Columbia. 2011

“Forbidden Ideas: Controversial Modes of Engagement

in the Italian Intellectual Tradition.” Moderator for Italian

Graduate Student Association’s (IGSA) Conference at UCLA. 2011

“Italian Visualities.” Visual culture and Global Pratice.

(Moderator) at the 45th annual Compartive Literature

Conference: CSULB. 2010

“Boccaccio and L’elegia di Madonna Fiammetta: A

Renaissance Man Hidden in a Feminist Disguise.” Paper

presented at the annual Women’s History Month Conference, CSUF. 2007

“Boccaccio’s Sexual Politics in L’elegia di Madonna

Fiammetta” Presented at the 42nd annual Comparative World

Literature Conference “Women, Sexuality, and Early Modern

Studies,” CSULB. 2007

“Existential and Mystical Love: Chaucer’s Troilus and

Criseyde and Dante’s Divine Comedy.”Paper presented

at the 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies

at Kalamazoo, Michigan. 2004

Incoming Managing Editor,

California Italian Studies Journal (CIS) 2014-Current

Editor-in-Chief, Carte Italiane 2010—2012
University of California, Los Angeles
• Managed all aspects of an annually published academic

journal for the Department of Italian Studies at UCLA

Annual Conference Organizer/Funding: “(Dis) Unity in Italy” 2010—2011
University of California, Los Angeles
• Managed all aspects of funding for the two-day conference:
funding received from the Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies (CMRS), Campus Programming

Committee (CPC), Graduate Students Association (GSA),
and the Department of Italian, UCLA: Total $4200

Annual Conference Organizer/Funding: “Forbidden Ideas” 2010—2011
University of California, Los Angeles
• Managed all aspects of funding for the two-day conference:
funding received from the Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies (CMRS), Center for Eurasian and European
Studies (CEES), Graduate Students Association (GSA), and
the Department of Italian, UCLA: Total $3600

Managing Copy Editor, Carte Italiane 2010—2012
University of California, Los Angeles
• Final editing of copy for print of the annually published

journal for the Department of Italian Studies at UCLA

Layout and Design Editor, Genre 2001—2002
California State University, Long Beach
• Final proofing of all articles for the literary journal

(published annually out of the Comparative Literature

Department)
• Head Designer; managed layout, design, production and

publication

College of Liberal Arts, Student Council 2000—2001
California State University, Long Beach
• Handling the publicity for all events on campus as the

Publicity Coordinator

English Students Association, Student Council 2000—2001
California State University, Long Beach
• Handling the publicity for all events for or sponsored by

the English Department as the Publicity Coordinator

Honors and Awards

Cecchetti Graduate

Student Award 2012

Eugene Cota-Robles four

year Fellowship 2009—2013

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM) 2011

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM) 2010

Sally Casanova Scholar 2004

English Students Honor Society 2001

Cum Laude Graduate 2001

Presidents Honor Roll

Distinguished Student

Award 1999—2001