Lorenzo Giachetti

BIO:

Conference and Seminar Papers:

"“O Mother, forgive your son.” Writing, Autobiography and the Myth of Lost Innocence in Albert Camus's The First Man." PAMLA, San Diego (November 2013)

"A Psychogeography of the Monstrous in Le Premier Homme." International Albert Camus Colloquium: "Topography and Toponymy," Boise State University (April 2013)

"Camus's Monster Caligula." PAMLA, Seattle University (October 2012)

Presiding Officer, "Urban Myths" (Special Session). PAMLA, Scripps College (November 2011)

"Errantry and Self-Discovery in André Breton's Nadja." PAMLA, Chaminade University (November 2010)

"Shock and Revelation in André Breton's Nadja." Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, Stanford University (May 2010)

"Deciphering the Bildung in Michel Tournier's La goutte d'or." PAMLA, San Francisco State University (November 2009)

Panel Chair, "The Abject and the Sublime." Northern California Renaissance Conference, San Jose State University (May 2009)

"Un monstre naissant: Britannicus between conception and articulation." Northern California Renaissance Conference, San Jose State University (May 2009)

"Le langage des fleurs et des choses muettes: Formal détournement in Baudelaire's Voyage Poems." PAMLA, Pomona College (November 2008)

Panel Chair, "Children's literature." PAMLA, Western Washington University (November 2007) 

Teaching Experience:

Stanford University:

ITALLANG 5C, Intensive First-Year Italian, Third Quarter, Instructor (Summer 2013)

ITALLANG 2A, Accelerated First-Year Italian, Part 2, Instructor (Spring 2013)

ITALLANG 1A, Accelerated First-Year Italian, Part 1, Instructor (Winter 2013)

FRENGEN 192E, Images of Women in French Cinema, TA, 2 sections (Spring 2012)

FRENLIT 131, Absolutism, Enlightenment and Revolution in 17th and 18th century France, TA (Winter 2012)

FRENLANG 21C, Second-Year French, First Quarter, Instructor (Autumn 2011) 

FRENLANG 250S, Reading French, Instructor (Summer 2011)

FRENLANG 3, First-Year French, Third Quarter, Instructor (Spring 2011)

FRENLANG 60E, French Cooking, Instructor (Spring 2011)

FRENGEN 55N, After Epic: Romance, Lyric, and Novelistic Responses in Western European Literature, TA (Spring 2011)

FRENLANG 60E, French Cooking, Instructor (Winter 2011)

FRENLANG 5C, Intensive First-Year French, Third Quarter, Instructor (Summer 2010)

FRENGEN 192E, Images of Women in French Cinema, TA, 2 sections (Spring 2010)

FRENLIT 130, Survey of French Literature: Medieval and Renaissance, TA (Autumn 2009)

FRENLANG 22, Second-Year French, First Quarter, Instructor (Autumn 2009)

FRENLANG 3, First-Year French, Third Quarter, Instructor (Spring 2009)

FRENLIT 131, Absolutism, Enlightenment and Revolution in 17th and 18th century France, TA (Winter 2009)

FRENLANG 2, First-Year French, Second Quarter, Instructor (Winter 2009)

FRENLANG 1, First-Year French, First Quarter, Instructor (Autumn 2008)

FRENGEN 192E, Images of Women in French Cinema, TA, 2 sections (Spring 2008)

Notre Dame de Namur University:

Lecturer in French and Italian (Autumn 2013-)

Lecturer in French (2012-2013)

San Jose Learning Center:

Instructor of French, Italian, ESL and Creative Writing (Summer 2012)

Professional Associations:

Société des études camusiennes

ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)

PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)

MLA (Modern Language Association)

Elected Positions:

PAMLA, graduate student representative (2009-10)

Research Assistantships:

Teagle Foundation research group, assistant to Professor Marisa Galvez (2010-11 academic year)

Assistant to Professor Laura Wittman (2008-09 academic year)

DLCL Research Unit:

Language, Literature and Mysticism (Summer, Autumn 2010)

Troubadours Art Ensemble, in conjunction with Performing Trobar (Autumn 2009, Winter 2010)

Other Activities:

Humanities Education focal group

Maison française, Graduate Theme Affiliate (2010-11 academic year)