Jeffrey T. Schnapp

 

EMPLOYMENT
VISITING AND HONORARY PROFESSORSHIPS AND APPOINTMENTS
SELECTED LEADERSHIP/ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
EDUCATION
ACADEMIC HONORS
PUBLICATIONS: Books, Monographs, and Catalogues
PUBLICATIONS: Special Issues Edited
PUBLICATIONS: Essays
PUBLICATIONS: Translations, Commentaries, and Editions
PUBLICATIONS: Databases, Websites, and Multimedia Publications
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS, WORK IN PROGRESS
CURATORIAL AND DESIGN WORK (selected)
GROUP RESEARCH PROJECTS
FILM, MEDIA, AND INTERVIEWS (selected)
RECENT INVITED LECTURES, CONFERENCES (selected)
EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS
FOUNDATION BOARDS, RESEARCH CENTER BOARDS, CONSULTING WORK
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED (selected)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE/ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
LANGUAGES

 
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››EMPLOYMENT   

  • 1998-present: Rosina Pierotti Chair in Italian Literature, Stanford University.
  • 1993-present: Full Professor of French & Italian (2/3); Full Professor of Comparative Literature (1/3), Stanford University. Affiliated with Modern Thought and Literature, and the Department of German.
  • 1985-1993: Associate Professor of French & Italian, and Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
  • 1983-1985: Assistant Professor of French and Italian Literature, Dartmouth College.
  • 1976-1978: Lecteur d'anglais, Faculté de Droit et Sciences Economiques, Université de Nice, France.

››VISITING AND HONORARY PROFESSORSHIPS AND APPOINTMENTS   

  • 2008-2009: Visiting Mellon Professor in Digital Humanities, UCLA.
  • 2006-: Researcher, European Forum, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.
  • Spring 2003: Visiting Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano (dipartimento di storia) and Università IULM (letterature comparate), Milan, Italy.
  • Fall 2002: UERJ/PUC Visiting Professor, Center for Literary Studies, Pós-Graduaçâo em Letras, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and Departamento de Letras, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Spring 2002: Visiting Professor, Università IULM, Milan, Italy.
  • Spring 2001: Visiting Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley.
  • Winter 1999: Walker-Ames Professor, University of Washington, Seattle.
  • Summer 1997: Visiting Professor, Departamento de Letras, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Winter 1995: Visiting Professor, Scuola di Dottorato, Dipartimento di Filosofia del Linguaggio, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy.
  • Summer 1995: Visiting Professor, Pós-Graduaçâo em Letras, Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Winter 1992: Visiting Professor of Italian, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Summer 1991: Visiting Professor of Italian, University of Pennsylvania/Bryn Mawr Program in Florence.
  • Fall 1986: Visiting Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University.

››EDUCATION   

  • Ph.D. (1983), Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
  • B.A. (1975), Hispanic Studies (minor in Studio Art), Vassar College.
  • Also: a) graduate work in Art History, Classics, and Comparative Literature (1978), Faculté de Lettres, Université de Nice, France; b) advanced language, literature, and art historical coursework, Università degli Studi, Siena (summer 1977); and c) Diplomado en Filologia Hispanica (1974), Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

››SELECTED LEADERSHIP/ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES   

  • Founder and director, Stanford Humanities Lab: 2000- (co-director since 2006)
  • Director of Graduate Studies, French and Italian Studies 2007-
  • Chairman, Department of French and Italian Studies: 1998-2001
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature: 1997
  • Chairman, Department of Comparative Literature: 1993-96
  • Co-Chair (w. Mary Pratt), Division of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures: 1994-95
  • Member of Faculty Council of the School of Humanities and Sciences, 1992-96
  • Chairman, Italian Studies: 1985-1987, 1988-1993

››ACADEMIC HONORS, PRIZES, AND GRANTS (selected)   

  • July 2009 -- major grant from the Danish Ministry of Science (SHL/Bornholms Kunstmuseum partnership) for SPEED limits
  • May 2009 -- Gallerie della Memoria, with Elizabetta Terragni (Studio Terragni) and Filmwork (Trento), major public commission from the Provincia Autonoma di Trento and the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino, for construction of two tunnel galleries and development of the WWI exhibition Il popolo scomparso.
  • Feb. 2008 -- Stanford Institute for Creativity in the Arts seed grant for building virtual galleries for SPEED limits
  • Nov. 2007-- awarded 2006 Modernist Studies Association's prize for the year's best book for Crowds (Stanford U. Press)
  • Oct. 2007-- Media X startup grant for SPEED limits
  • Summer 2007-- Senior Mellon Fellow, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Canada
  • 2006 — National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship
  • Spring 2005 — Getty Research Institute fellow
  • Sept. 2004 — The Wolfsonian-FIU research fellowship
  • Dec. 2003 — awarded 2003 Phoenix Award by CELJ for Significant Editorial Achievement as co-editor of the Johns Hopkins University Press journal Modernism/modernity
  • Oct. 2003 — Edward H. Benenson Lecturer in Art and Art History, Duke University
  • 1996 — Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, C.A.S.V.A., National Gallery of Art
  • 1995 — Hewlett Foundation Summer Travel Grant
  • 1993-1995 — University Fellow, Stanford University
  • 1993 — Hewlett Foundation Summer Travel Grant
  • 1992 — Travel/Research Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • 1991 — National Humanities Center Fellowship
  • 1991 — Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
  • 1987 — National Endowment for the Humanities Junior Fellowship
  • 1982 — Mabelle McLeod Lewis Foundation Fellowship
  • 1982 — Fullbright-Hays Research Fellowship
  • 1975 — at Vassar College: Matthew Vassar Scholar, summa cum laude, Spanish Consulate Prize in Hispanic Studies, Phi Beta Kappa.

››PUBLICATIONS: Books, Monographs, and Catalogues   

  • The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's Paradise.  Princeton & Guildford: Princeton U P, 1986.
  • David Humphrey. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1988.
  • L'Espositione di Bernardino Daniello da Lucca sopra la Commedia di Dante.  Ed. with Robert Hollander; in collaboration with Kevin Brownlee and Nancy J. Vickers.  Hanover & London: U P of New England, 1989.
  • The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante's Commedia.  Ed. With Rachel Jacoff.  Stanford: Stanford U P, 1991.
  • Staging Fascism: 18 BL and The Theater of Masses for Masses.  Stanford: Stanford U P, 1996. Preface by Hal Foster. Expanded edition (in Italian translation), 18 BL. Mussolini e l'opera d'arte di massa.  Milan: Garzanti Editore, 1996.
  • A Primer of Italian Fascism.  Ed. With commentary, chronology, and introduction.  Trans. by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Olivia E. Sears, and Maria Stampino.  European Horizons series.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
  • Gaetano Ciocca.  Costruttore, inventore, agricoltore, scrittore.  Preface by Giorgio Ciucci; appendices by Massimo Martignoni and Paola Pettenella.  Quaderni di Architettura 3.  Museo di Arte Moderna, Trento-Rovereto.  Milan: Skira, 2000.
  • Jonathan Hammer.  Step Right Up!  (Blackface/Caranegra) Madrid, Spain: Galería Fúcares, 2000.
  • Vedette fiumane.  L'occupazione vista e vissuta da Madeleine Witherspoon Dent Gori-Montanelli, crocerossina americana, e da Francesco Gori-Montanelli, Capo del Genio e del reparto fotografico.  Ed. With introduction, notes, and iconographic apparatus.  Trans. Valentina Ricci.  Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2000.
  • Hugo Ball/Jonathan Hammer, Ball and Hammer (Tenderenda the Fantast).  Ed. and introduced by Jeffrey T. Schnapp.  New Haven: Yale U P, 2002.
  • Anno X. La Mostra della Rivoluzione fascista del 1932: genesi - sviluppo - contesto culturale-storico - ricezione.  With an afterword by Claudio Fogu. Piste - Piccola biblioteca di storia 4. Rome-Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2003.
  • Building Fascism, Communism, Democracy: Gaetano Ciocca—Builder, Inventor, Farmer, Writer, Engineer. Stanford: Stanford U P, 2003.
  • In cima-- Giuseppe Terragni per Margherita Sarfatti (Architetture della memoria nel '900). Ed. And introduced by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Centro Internazionale Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, June 26, 2004-January 6, 2005. Contributors include Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Massimo Martignoni, Reinhart Koselleck, Marina Sommella Grossi, Marco de Michelis, and Ilaria Abbondandolo. Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2004.
  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Teatro. Ed., introduced, and annotated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. 2 vols. Milan: Oscar Mondadori, 2004.
  • Revolutionary Tides. Authored, ed., and curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts (9/14/2005-12/31/2005); The Wolfsonian-Florida International University (2/24/2006-6/25/2006). Milan and New York: Skira - Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, 2005. [Also published in French edition, Vagues Révolutionnaires; and Italian edition L'arte del manifesto politico, Milan: Skira, 2005, with worldwide distribution provided by Rizzoli International]
  • Crowds. Co-edited and introduced with Matthew Tiews. Multimedia, multiauthor volume. Contributors include: Susanna Elm, Christine Poggi, Katherine Hayles, Stefan Jonsson, Joy Connolly, Andrew Uroskie, John Plotz, Allen Guttman, Charles Tilly, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, and others. Stanford: Stanford U P, 2006.
  • Neoantiqua - Nove ensaios sobre literatura, linguagem e pensamento na Idade Média e no Renascimiento.  Introduction by Luiz Costa-Lima.  Trans. Erick Felinto de Oliveira, Alessandra Vannucci, and Maria Lucia Daflon. (Collection of essays, translated into Portuguese).  Rio de Janeiro: Eduerj (Editora da Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro), 2008.
  • Italiamerica, ed. and introduced by Emanuela Scarpellini and Jeffrey T. Schnapp, vol. 1 forthcoming Milan: IL Saggiatore, fall 2008.
  • Modernitalia. Dodici saggi intorno al futurismo. (Collection of essays, some previously published, translated into Italian). Under consideration with various publishers.

››PUBLICATIONS: Special Issues Edited   

  • "Fascism and Culture," ed. w. Barbara Spackman, Stanford Italian Review 8.1/2 (1988).
  • "The Aesthetics of Fascism," CO-edited w. George Mosse, Journal of Contemporary History 31.2 (April 1996).
  • "Cultural and Technological Incubations of Fascism," CO-edited with H. U. Gumbrecht, Stanford Humanities Review 5 supplement (1996).
  • "Disciplining Literature," CO-edited with William Egginton and Peter Gilgen, Stanford Humanities Review 6.1 (Spring 1998).
  • "The Athlete's Body," CO-edited with H. U. Gumbrecht, Ryan Johnson, and Karen Bergquist, Stanford Humanities Review 6.2 (Winter 1998).
  • "Archeologies of the Modern," CO-edited with Michael Shanks and Matthew Tiews, Modernism/modernity 11.1 (Jan. 2004).

››PUBLICATIONS: Essays   

  • "On/Against Mass Culture Theories," with the Tabloid Editorial Collective (Jean Franco, Mary Louise Pratt, Tania Modoleski, Dana Polan, Kathleen Newman, and Ron Imhoff), Tabloid: A Review of Mass Culture and Everyday Life 1.1/2 (Spring-Summer 1980): 3-12; reprinted in The Tabloid Reader, ed. Peter Gibian, [New York: Routledge, 2000]).
  • "Mannequins," Tabloid: A Review of Mass Culture and Everyday Life 1.1/2 (Spring-Summer 1980): 63-68.
  • "On/Against Mass Culture II: Regrouping," with the Tabloid Editorial Collective (as above plus Peter Gibian, Annie Janowitz, and Rick Paulson), Tabloid: A Review of Mass Culture and Everyday Life 1.3 (Winter 1981): 3-9.
  • "The Militarization of Everyday Life, w. the "Tabloid Editorial Collective" (as above plus Ed Cohen), Tabloid: A Review of Mass Culture and Everyday Life 1.4 (Summer 1981): 3-16.
  • "Politics and Poetics in F. T. Marinetti's Zang Tumb Tuuum," Stanford Italian Review 5.1 (1985): 75-92.
  • "Nietzsche's Italian Style: Gabriele D'Annunzio," Stanford Italian Review 6.1/2 (1986): 265-77; reprinted in Nietzsche in Italy, ed. Thomas Harrison, (Saratoga: Anma Libri, 1988).
  • Review of Conrad H. Rawski, Petrarch's Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul, Romance Philology 47.3: 83-85.
  • "Dante's Sexual Solecisms: Gender and Genre in the Commedia," Romanic Review (Jan. 1988): 143-63; reprinted in The New Medievalism, ed. K. Brownlee, M. S. Brownlee, and S. J. Nichols, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U P, 1991), pp. 201-25.
  • "Trasfigurazione e metamorfosi nel Paradiso dantesco," pp. 273-92 in Dante e la Bibbia, ed. G. Barblan, Biblioteca dell'Archivium Romanicum 210, (Florence: Olschki, 1988).
  • "Forwarding Address" [on Italian Futurism and Fascist Modernism], Stanford Italian Review 8.1/2 (1988): 53-80.
  • "Virgilio madre e Beatrice ammiraglio: Generi grammaticali e letterari nella Commedia," pp. 221-42 in Dante in America, eds. R. Hollander and G. C. Alessio, (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1989).
  • Review of Peter Dronke, Dante and Latin Lyric Poetry, Italica 66 (Winter 1989): 460-3.
  • "Le parole del silenzio in Gabriele D'Annunzio," Quaderni Dannunziani 3-4 (1989): 35-55.
  • "Between Babel and Pentecost: Imaginary Languages in the Middle Ages," pp. 175-206 in Modernité au moyen âge: Le défi du passé, eds. C. Méla and B. Cazelles, (Geneva: Droz, 1990).
  • "Shades" [On a Portrait by De Chirico], Art Issues 13 (Sept./Oct. 1990): 20-26; reprinted in Italian trans. as "Ombre," IL Verri (fall 2001).
  • "Cultural Integration and Disintegration in the Europe of 1992," Italian Journal: A Bimonthly Digest of Italian Affairs 4.5 (1990): 3-6; reprinted in Insieme/Together (Winter 1990).
  • "Virgin Words: Hildegard of Bingen's Lingua ignota and the Development of Imaginary Languages Ancient to Modern," Exemplaria 3.2 (Oct. 1991): 1-32.
  • "Introduction," with Rachel Jacoff, pp. 1-15 in The Poetry of Allusion; reprinted in Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations, ed. Stephanie Quinn, (Waucondia, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2000).
  • "Sì pia l'ombra d'Anchise si porse: Paradiso 15.25," pp. 145-56, 279-80 in The Poetry of Allusion.
  • "Dante's Ovidian Self-Correction," pp. 214-23, 289-93 in The Poetry of Allusion.
  • "Fascism's Museum in Motion," Journal of Architecture Education 45.2 (Feb. 1992): 87-97.
  • "Reading Lessons: Augustine, Proba and the Christian Détournement of Antiquity," Stanford Literature Review 9.2 (fall 1992): 99-123; published in German as "Lesestunden" in Writing/Schrift/Ecriture, eds. H. U. Gumbrecht and K. L. Pfeiffer, (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1993); and in Portuguese trans. as "Lições de Leitura: Agostinho, Proba e o détournement cristâo da antiguidade," in monographic issue of Cadernos da Pós/Letras 15 (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1995): 9-50, with an introduction by João Cezar de Castro Rocha (5-8).
  • "Epic Demonstrations: Fascist Modernity and the 1932 Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution," pp. 1-37, 244-52 in Fascism, Aesthetics, and Culture, ed. Richard J. Golsan, (Hanover & London: U P of New England, 1992).
  • "Heads of State," Art Issues 24 (Sept./Oct. 1992): 23-28.
  • "A Commentary on Commentary in Boccaccio," South Atlantic Quarterly 91.4 (Nov. 1992): 813-34. Published in an expanded Italian version as "Un commento all'autocommento nel Teseida" in Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1992).
  • "Machiavellian Foundlings: Castruccio Castracani and the Aphorism," Renaissance Quarterly (Winter 1992): 1-24.
  • "Introduction to Purgatory," pp. 192-207 in The Cambridge Companion to Dante, ed. Rachel Jacoff, (Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1993).
  • "18 BL: Fascist Mass Spectacle," Representations 43 (Summer 1993): 89-125.
  • "Filippo Tommaso Marinetti" [introduction to and textual commentary], pp. 103-18 in Twentieth Century Italian Poetry: An Anthology, eds. Lawrence Smith and John Piccone, (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993).
  • "The Family Album," [introduction to portfolio of prints], n.p. in The Family Album, ed. David Humphrey, (East Topsham, Vermont: Cone Editions, 1993).
  • "Injured by the Light: Violence and Paideia in Dante's Purgatorio," Dante Studies 111 (1993): 107-18.
  • "Ogni mostra realizzata è una rivoluzione ovvero le esposizioni sironiane e l'immaginario fascista," in collaboration w. Claudio Fogu, pp. 48-61 in Mario Sironi: 1885-1961, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, (Rome: Electa Editrice, 1993).
  • "Propeller Talk," Modernism/modernity 1.3 (Sept. 1994): 153-78.
  • "Border Crossings: Italian/German Peregrinations of the Theater of Totality," Critical Inquiry 21.2 (Summer 1994): 80-123; published in Italian translation as "Passaggi di frontiera.  Peregrinazioni italo-tedesche del ‘teatro della totalità,'" Intersezioni 14.3 (Dec. 1994): 435-68; published in German translation in Dimensionen historischen Vergleichens.  Der Fall Weimar, eds. F. Balcke and B. Schmitt, (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1997).
  • "Between Fascism and Democracy: Gaetano Ciocca--Builder, Inventor, Farmer, Engineer," Modernism/modernity 2.3 (Sept. 1995): 117-57.
  • "Tragedy and the Theater of Hell," Libri poetarum in quattor species dividuntur--Essays on Dante and Genre special issue, ed. Zygmunt Baranski, supplement² -- The Italianist 15 (1995): 100-27.
  • "Canto della materia I: IL rayon e i tessuti autarchici," pp. 211-42 in "Le arti e le scienze," Annuario di Estetica 1995, ed. Stefano Zecchi, (Bologna: IL Mulino, 1996).
  • "Worte des Schweigens in D'Annunzios Fiume-Reden," pp. 133-45 in Der Dichter als Kommandant. D'Annunzio erobert Fiume, ed. H. U. Gumbrecht, F. Kittler, and B. Siegert, (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1996).
  • "Fascisms-in-the-Making," w. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, "Cultural and Technological Incubations of Fascism" special issue, Stanford Humanities Review 5 Suppl. (1996): iii-v.
  • "Fascinating Fascism," Journal of Contemporary History 31.2 (April 1996): 235-44.
  • "Brazilian Velocities: On Marinetti's 1926 Trip to South America," with João Cezar de Castro Rocha, South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 13.2-3 (Summer/Fall 1996): 105-56.  Published in an abridged Portuguese version as "As velocidades brasileiras de uma inimizade desvairada: O (Des)encontro de Marinetti e Mário de Andrade em 1926," Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC) [Rio de Janeiro] 3 (1996): 41-54.
  • "UN tempio moderno" [on the Danteum project], pp. 267-79 in Giuseppe Terragni.  Opera completa, ed. Giorgio Ciucci, Triennale di Milano, (Electa: Milano, 1996).
  • "O Canto da Matéria (IV)," pp. 150-70 in Interseções: A  Materialidade da Comunicação, ed. João Cezar de Castro Rocha, (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Imago/EDUERJ, 1996).
  • "Lucanian Estimations," Atti del Seminario Dantesco Internazionale 1, Quaderni Società Dantesca Italiana 7, ed. Zygmunt G. Baranski, (Florence: Le Lettere, 1997): 111-34, followed by discussion 135-48.
  • "The Fabric of Modern Times," Critical Inquiry 24 (Autumn 1997): 191-239; to be reprinted in Science and Literature, ed. Pierpaolo Antonello, (Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2004).
  • "Crash" [research report], Center 17 (1997), National Gallery of Art, Wash., D.C., 133-6.
  • "Fascism after Fascism," pp. 63-85 in Fascism's Return: Scandal, Revision, and Ideology since 1980, ed. Richard J. Golsan, (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997).
  • "Along the Fault Line.  An Epilogue to Disciplining Literature," "Disciplining Literature," Stanford Humanities Review 6.1 (Spring 1998): 143-52.
  • "Comp What?  Some Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism,"  "Disciplining Literature," Stanford Humanities Review 6.1 (Spring 1998): 155-59. 
  • "The Athlete's Body, Lost and Found," with H. U. Gumbrecht, Ted Leland, and Rick Schavone, Stanford Humanities Review 6.2 (Winter 1998): vii-xii.
  • "Crash (Speed as Engine of Individuation)," Modernism/modernity 6.1 (January 1999): 1-49;  published in abridged Portuguese version as "Crash.  Uma antropologia da velocidade" in VI Congresso Abralic, 1998 (cd-rom); full Portuguese version appeared as "Crash: uma antropologia da velocidade ou por que ocorrem acidentes ao longo da estrada de Damasco," Lugar Comum.  Estudos de mídia, cultura e democracia 8 [Rio de Janeiro] (May/Aug. 1999): 21-62.
  • "Art/Lit Combines; or, When a Pipe is only a Pipe," Profession (1998): 37-50; published in Portuguese translation as "Art/Lit Combines, ou, Quando um cachimbo é apenas um cachimbo," pp. 45-54 in Leituras do ciclo, ed. Ana Luiza Andrade, Maria Lucia de Barros Camargo, and Raul Antelo, (Chapecó, Brazil: Abralic/Editora Grifos, 1999).
  • "The Killer Pace," Art Issues 58 (Summer 1999): 30-33.
  • "The Fascist Century," pp. 1-xxi in A Primer of Italian Fascism, (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000).
  • "Purgatorio," The Dante Encyclopedia, Richard Lansing, general editor, (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000), 723-8.
  • "Paradiso," The Dante Encyclopedia, Richard Lansing, general editor, (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000), 674-8.
  • "Bernardino Daniello," The Dante Encyclopedia, Richard Lansing, general editor, (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000), 246.
  • "Lucan," The Dante Encyclopedia, Richard Lansing, general editor, (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000), 572-3.
  • "Lo zucchero di Suckert, la mala leche di Malaparte," pp. 123-53 in ed. Renato Barilli and Vittoria Baroncelli, Curzio Malaparte.  IL narratore, IL politologo, IL cittadino di Prato e dell'Europa, (Naples: CUEN, 2000).
  • "Lectura Dantis: Canto 30, Inferno" pp. 75-84 in Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife.  Essays in Honor of John Freccero, eds. Alison Cornish and Dana Stewart, Binghamton Medieval and Early Modern Studies, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000).
  • "Dante," vol. 1, 305-15 in World Poets, ed. in chief Ron Padgett, 3 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 2000).
  • "Biting the Hand that Feeds You (On the 70th Anniversary of the Manifesto Antropófago)," "Anthropophagy Today? / Antropofagia Hoje" special issue, Nuevo Texto Critico 23/24 (fall 2000): 242-7.
  • "1354 –Charles IV meets Petrarch in Mantua on the way to his coronation in Rome," in The New History of German Literature, gen. ed. David E. Wellbery, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U P, 2000); published as "Des Dichters Traum vom Herrscher.  Karl IV. trifft Petrarca im Mantua," German trans. Hans-Horst Henschen, in Merkur--Deutsche Zeitschrift für Europäisches Denken 616 (summer 2000): 708-16.
  • "The Adventures of Mother Cartridge-Pouch," [excerpt reprinted from Staging Fascism] pp. 11-20 in Theatre and War 1933-1945--Performance in Extremis, ed.  Michael Balfour, (New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2001).
  • "Fronteiras: Ascensão e queda da multidão," Veredas--A Revista do Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil 6.61 (Jan. 2001): 26-31.
  • "No Future," "The Future of Literary Studies / L'avenir Des etudes littéraires" special issue, special eds. Walter Moser and H U Gumbrecht, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 9 (2001): 90–96; simultaneously published as  The Future of Literary Studies, (Edmonton: Library of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 2001).
  • "Velature," (revised Italian translation of "Shades") IL Verri 46.16 (May 2001): 96-108.
  • "The Romance of Aluminum and Caffeine," special issue on "Things/Objects," ed. Bill Brown, Critical Inquiry 28.1 (Fall 2001): 244-69; reprints in Things, ed. Bill Brown, (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004); abridged version in pp. 95-99 in Manifesta7 Companion eds., Rana Dasgupta, Nina Montmann, and Avi Pitchon, The Rest of Now section, ed. Rana Dasgupta and Raqs Media Collective, (Milan: Silvana Editore, 2008); full reprint in Morf (Amsterdam), forthcoming 2008.
  • "Driven," Qui Parle 13.1 (Fall/Winter 2001): 137-56.
  • "The Mass Panorama," Modernism/modernity 9.2 (April 2002): 1-39.
  • "Colisões," Veredas--A Revista do Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil 6.72 (Nov. 2002): 42.
  • "Gorilla Art" [on an epistolary exchange between Karl Vossler and F. T. Marinetti], Modernism/modernity 9.4 (Nov. 2002): 667-73; published as "Arte gorila" in Portuguese translation in Matraga 15 (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro): 47-58; published in expanded Italian version in L'Uomo nero. Materiali per una storia delle arti della modernità 1.2 (June 2004): 9-14.
  • "Trionfo e invisibilità dell'asfalto," catalogue essay, pp. 139-146 in (a) Asfalto: IL carattere della città, ed. Mirko Zardini, Triennale di Milano, (Milan: Electa Editrice, 2003).
  • "Three Pieces of Asphalt," Grey Room, [spring 2003]: 1-23.
  • "Petrarch's New Antiquity," pp. 236-245 in Zeit und Text, ed. Andreas Kablitz, Wulf Österreicher and Rainer Warning, (Munich: Fink Verlag, 2003).
  • "Suor," pp. 15-28 in Literatura e Cultura, ed. Heidrun Krieger Olinto and Karl Erik Schollhammer, (Rio de Janeiro: Editora PUC Rio - Edições Loyola, 2003).
  • "The Rebirth of Tragedy," forthcoming in Medieval Theatricality, eds. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Andreas Kablitz, Jan-Dirk Mueller, Stephen J. Nichols, Eugene Vance, Rainer Warning, and Michel Zink, (Stanford: Stanford U P, 2007).
  • "Multidões," pp. 652-75 in A Historiografia Literária e as Técnicas de Escrita (Do manuscrito AO hipertexto), ed. Tánia Dias and Flora Süssekind, Rio de Janeiro: Edições Casa de Rui Barbosa / Veira e Lent, 2004.
  • "La linea errante (sulle architetture immaginarie di Piero Portaluppi)," pp. 211-228 in Piero Portaluppi, linea errante nell'architettura del Novecento, ed. Luca Molinari and the Fondazione Piero Portaluppi (Ferruccio Lupi and Massimo Martignoni), (Milan: Skira, 2003) in support of "Piero Portaluppi --linea errante nell'architettura italiana del '900," Triennale di Milano, 9/19/2003-1/4/2004.
  • "Archeology, Modernism, Modernity," with Michael Shanks and Matthew Tiews, introduction to "Archeologies of the Modern" special issue, Modernism/modernity 11.1 (Jan. 2004): 1-16.
  • "Excavating the Corporativist City," essay on the BBPR/Ciocca city plan for Pavia and modernist archeology, "Archeologies of the Modern" special issue, Modernism/modernity 11.1 (Jan. 2004): 89-104; published in Italian as "Scavi nell'urbanistica corporativa" in L'Uomo nero. Materiali per una storia delle arti della modernità 4 (2005).
  • "Flash Memories (Sironi on Exhibit)," pp. 22-49 in special issue on "Politics and Aesthetics of Memory" in South Central Review 21.1 (Spring 2004) with response by Marian Eide (pp. 50-53); expanded version in Claudia Lazzaro and Roger J.Crum, eds., Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy, (Ithaca and London: Cornell U Press, 2005), 223-238, 279-281.
  • "Commenti alla tavola rotonda conclusiva," pp. 387-9 and 401 in Futurismo - Dall'avanguardia alla memoria, ed. Vincent Giroux and Paola Pettenella, Documenti del MART 8, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto / Yale University Beinecke Rare Book Library, (Milan: Skira, 2004); published in English as Futurism - From avant-garde to memory, ed. Vincent Giroux and Paola Pettenella, Documenti del MART 8, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto / Yale University Beinecke Rare Book Library, (Milan: Skira, 2006)
  • "Rayon/Marinetti," pp. 225-251 in Science and Literature in Italian Culture from Dante to Calvino, ed. Pierpaolo Antonello and Simon A. Gilson, European Humanities Research Center, (Oxford: Legenda, 2004).
  • "IL monumento senza stile," pp. 13-23 in In cima-- Giuseppe Terragni per Margherita Sarfatti (Architetture della memoria nel '900), ed. and curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Centro Internazionale Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, June 26, 2004-January 6, 2005, (Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2004); revised English version published as "The Monument Without Style (On the Hundredth Anniversary of Giuseppe Terragni's Birth)," Grey Room 18 (Winter 2004): 2-25.
  • "Una teatralità senza confine," pp. v-liv in vol. 1, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Teatro, edited by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, (Milan: Oscar Mondadori, 2004).
  • "Cronologia delle principali attività teatrali," pp. 801-29 in vol. 2, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Teatro, edited by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, (Milan: Oscar Mondadori, 2004).
  • "Bad Dada (Evola)" [essay on the Dada phase of Julius Evola's career], pp. 30-55 in The Dada Seminars, eds. Leah Dickerman and Matthew S. Witkovsky, CASVA seminar papers 1, National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2005.
  • "Macchina sovranaturale," photomontage plus brief essay, in collaboration with Daniele Ledda, Terragni cento per cento, ed. Silvia Bigliardi, (Milan: Le Monografie di Arkitekton, 2006).
  • Ten narrative captions for individual posters, in Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Revolutionary Tides. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts / The Wolfsonian-Florida International University 9/15/2005-6/25/2006. Milan and New York: Skira, 2005.
  • "Introduction," with Matthew Tiews, pp. ix-xvi in Crowds, eds. Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews, (Stanford: Stanford U P, 2006).
  • "Mob Porn," pp. 1-45 in Crowds, eds. Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews, (Stanford: Stanford U P, 2006). [modified/expanded rewriting of "The Mass Panorama"]
  • "L'utopia dell'arte totale," pp. 300-306 in L'arte del XX secolo - Protagonisti, movimenti, gruppi e temi dell'arte dal 1900 ad oggi. Le avanguardie storiche 1900-1919, ed. Valerio Terraroli et al., (Milan: Skira, 2005).
  • "Anatomie dell'operaio (appunti)," pp. 35-41 in Tempo Moderno. da Van Gogh a Warhol. Lavoro, macchine e automazione nelle Arti del Novecento, ed. Germano Celant, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, April 13 - July 30, 2006, (Milan: Skira, 2006).
  • "The Contracted Cinema," special issue on "IL testo in movimento," Contemporanea 4 (2006): 87-100.
  • "Mostre," pp. 78-85 in Kunst und Propaganda IM Streit der Nationen 1930-1945, eds. Hans-Jorg Czech and Nikola Doll, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, (Dresden: Sandstein Verlag, 2007).
  • "OrnaMenti," pp. xviii-xx, in Daniel Virtuoso and Giuliano Centrodi eds., Orodautore, omaggio a Piero, Galleria Comunale di Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo, 24 March-22 July 2007, (Arezzo: Nuova Grafica Fiorentina, 2007).
  • "Arte e propaganda," forthcoming in vol. 2 of L'arte del XX secolo - Protagonisti, movimenti, gruppi e temi dell'arte dal 1900 ad oggi, ed. Valerio Terraroli et al., (Milan: Skira, 2007).
  • "Epilogue," Picture This!: Reading World War I Posters, ed. by Pearl James, (forthcoming Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008).
  • "UN ponte sull'oceano: Henry Furst," forthcoming in Italiamerica, ed. by Emanuela Scarpellini and Jeffrey T. Schnapp, vol. 1, Milan: IL Saggiatore, spring 2008; revised English version of text under consideration at MLN.
  • "Quick Flick," forthcoming in Futebol!, ed. João Cezar de Castro Rocha, (Rio de Janeiro, 2008).
  • "O ruido das coisas e dos nomens," forthcoming in Poéticas do inventário -- Coleções, Listas, Séries e Arquivos NA cultura contemporânea, eds. Tania Dias and Flora Sussekind, (Rio de Janeiro 2008).
  • "L'abitare mobile americano," in Casa per tutti, ed. Fulio Irace et al., Triennale di Milano, (Milan: Electa, 2008).
  • "Bruno Munari's Bombs," forthcoming in Magazines, Modernity, and War // Revistas, Modernidad y Guerra," ed. by Jordana Mendelson, Actas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2008.
  • "The People's Glass House," fortcoming in special issue on "Intellectuals and Nationalism," South Central Review 25.3 (Fall 2008).
  • "Chi è l'architetto moderno?," pp. 225-249 in L'architetto - ruolo, volto, mito, ed. Guido Beltramini and Howard Burns, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, (forthcoming Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2008); revised English version "The face of the modern architect,"Gray Room 33 (fall 2008): 6-25.
  • "Animating the Archive," First Monday - Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet 13.8 (August 2008).
  • w. Michael Shanks, "Artereality," forthcoming in What Is Art Education? A 21st-Century Question, ed. Steven Madoff, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008). Advanced version available at http://documents.stanford.edu/michaelshanks/270.
  • "Fish Tales (Gehry)," forthcoming in Achille Bonito Oliva et alii, I portatori del tempo. Storia delle arti contemporanee vol. 1: IL tempo comico, Milan: Electa, 2008.
  • "Otherworlds," forthcoming in Lynn Hershman: Life to the Power of n, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 2008.
  • "Touch and Transport in the Middle Ages," forthcoming in special issue dedicated to John Freccero of MLN (Comparative Literature issue), 2009.

››PUBLICATIONS: Translations, Commentaries, and Editions   

  • "Gabriele D'Annunzio's 'The Beast Who Wills'," (trans., introd. And commentary), Stanford Italian Review 6.1/2 (1986): 247-63; reprinted in Nietzsche in Italy, ed. Thomas Harrison, (Saratoga: Anma Libri, 1988).
  • "Selections from the Great Debate on Fascism and Culture: Critica Fascista 1926-1927," CO-edited/authored with Barbara Spackman, Stanford Italian Review 8.1/2 (1988): 235-72.
  • Gabriele D'Annunzio, "La bestia elettiva," (annotated edition) Quaderni Dannunziani 3-4 (1989): 55-59.
  • "The Preface to the Hausmärchen of the Brothers Grimm: Translation and Commentary," with H. U. Gumbrecht, pp. 475-92 in Medievalism and the Modernist Temper, eds. R. Howard Bloch and Stephen J. Nichols, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U P, 1996).
  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Velocità brasiliane, edition, commentary, and translation, South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 13.2-3 (Summer/Fall 1996): 133-41, 153-6.
  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, "Wrapping the World in Italrayon," introduction, edition, commentary, and translation, Critical Inquiry 24 (Autumn 1997): 239-45.
  • Hubert Damisch, Moves.  Schaken en kaarten met het Museum, translation with Isabel Guerlac, (Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 1997).
  • "Editore contro o come me: la corrispondenza Malaparte-Vallecchi dal settembre 1947 al luglio 1950," introduction, edition, and commentary, pp. 154-69 in ed. Renato Barilli and Vittoria Baroncelli, Curzio Malaparte.  IL narratore, IL politologo, IL cittadino di Prato e dell'Europa, (Naples: CUEN, 2000).
  • Mario Sironi, Massimo Campigli, Carlo Carrà, Achille Funi, "The Manifesto of Muralism," appendix to "Flash Memories," pp. 238-240 in Claudia Lazzaro and Roger Crum, eds., Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy, (Ithaca and London: Cornell U Press, 2005).
  • Bibliografia delle opere di Henry Furst, appendice a "UN ponte sull'oceano: Henry Furst--Bibliografia," forthcoming in Italiamerica, ed. by Emanuela Scarpellini and Jeffrey T. Schnapp,, vol. 1, Milan: IL Saggiatore, fall 2008.
  • Translations of Gérard de Nerval, Marcel Proust, João do Rio, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and Virgilio Marchi, forthcoming in Speed Reader section of SPEED limits, ed. Jeffrey T. Schnapp, (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009).

››PUBLICATIONS: Databases, Websites, and Multimedia Publications   

  • collaborator 1983-1984; associate director 1984-1985, Dartmouth Dante Project (http://dante.dartmouth.edu/) [director Robert Hollander], pilot database project involving seven hundred years of commentary tradition on Dante's Commedia. Funding support provided by Dartmouth College, The Dante Society of America, La Società Dantesca Italiana, The Mellon Foundation, Apple Computer Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, The AT&T Foundation, and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
  • director, http://crowds.stanford.edu, website launched Sept. 2005, designed by Animated Design, Oakland, CA. Supported by the Seaver Institute and the President's Innovation Fund at Stanford University. Published in the Spring 2006 Ephemera issue of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, USC Annenberg School.
  • Director, http://revolutionarytides.stanford.edu, website launched Sept. 2005, designed by Animated Design, Oakland, CA. Supported by the Seaver Institute, the Cantor Arts Center, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Hoover Institution. Winner of Silver Addy award in the Arts and Sciences Category from the Bay Area Ad Council.
  • design and production work on installation videos and slide shows on R. Buckminster Fuller, Airstream, TVA housing, Joseph Eichler, and Drop City for "Casa per tutti," Triennale di Milano, May 1-Sept. 1, 2008.
  • chief curator, Gallerie della Memoria, Second Life island counterpart to I Trentini e la Grande Guerra exhibition, Trento Sept.-Nov. 2008, funded by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento.
  • brainstorming and consulting work on all Stanford Humanities Lab projects, including public art, database, exhibition and multimedia installation projects, as well as mixed reality programming and production work, 2000-.

››UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS, WORK IN PROGRESS   

  • review of Roberto Dullio, Introduzione a Bruno Zevi, forthcoming in Domus, Nov. 2008.
  • Casa come me: Villa Malaparte. Book under contract with McRae Publishers, Florence, Italy. Forthcoming spring 2009.
  • Quickening (an anthropology of speed).  Book in progress, under contract with Yale U P.
  • SPEED limits, a companion volume to the exhibition divided up into SPEED writings, SPEED readings (a historical anthology), and SPEED runs (a visual essay); forthcoming May 2009 with Princeton Architectural Press.
  • Makers of the 1960's, research project on the graphic designer Quentin Fiore, the producer Jerome Agel, and their "massaging" of the messages of Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Jerry Rubin, et al.
  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Scritti di viaggio, edited by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, (Milan: Oscar Mondadori, forthcoming 2006).
  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurist Theater, edited and trans. by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. (Proposed English edition of vol. 2 of Marinetti, Teatro [Milan: Oscar Mondadori, 2004]).
  • "A Portrait of Homo Velox," essay on Baroque poetics, wit, and the modern culture of speed.
  • "Sweat," essay on sudor in medieval moral philosophy, medicine, and literature.
  • Songs of Matter.  Chapters: "Speed Metal"; "Rayon/Marinetti"; "Glass/Terragni"; "Luminous Aluminum"; "Cement/Gladkov"; "Asphalt," "Styrene Song/Queneau."  1/2 complete.
  • "Rubber Sole," article on Ferragamo shoes and the Autarchy campaign of the 1930's (in preparation).
  • "Antennas," article on antenna designs and fantasies (in preparation).

››CURATORIAL AND DESIGN WORK  (selected) 

  • "L'architetto - ruolo, volto, destino," guest curator for 20th century portion of exhibition, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, 2011.
  • "SPEED limits," guest curator, a collaborative project between the Stanford Humanities Lab, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), the Wolfsonian-FIU (Miami), and the Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Denmark, scheduled to open at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in May 2009. Involves the building of a large-scale virtual exhibition on a new virtual world platform which will be supported by several physical exhibitions and the SPEED limits book/catalogue.
  • "I Trentini e la Grande Guerra (IL popolo scomparso/la sua storia ritrovata)," curator/designer/developer of an experiential WWI history exhibition in two abandoned 300 meter highway tunnels in Trento, Italy, in collaboration with Elisabetta Terragni (Studio Terragni) and Filmwork (Trento); a partnership with the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino (director Giuseppe Ferrandi); funded by the Provincia Autonoma del Trentino-Alto Adige, open Aug. 19 - Nov. 16, 2008.
  • "Casa per tutti," guest curator, in collaboration with Fulvio Irace et alii, Triennale di Milano, May-Sept. 1, 2008.
  • "Orodautore. Omaggio a Piero", co-curator with Philippe Daverio, Galleria Comunale di Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo, March 24-July 22, 2007.
  • "Revolutionary Tides," guest curator, a partnership between the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts (Stanford), The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, the Hoover Institution Archives, and the Stanford Humanities Lab; exhibition ran Sept. 14, 2005 - Dec. 31, 2005 at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts; Feb. 24, 2006 - July 25, 2006 at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University.
  • "In cima-- Giuseppe Terragni per Margherita Sarfatti (Architetture della memoria nel '900)," guest curator, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Palazzo Barbaran da Porto, Vicenza, June 26, 2004-Jan. 6, 2005.
  • "Piero Portaluppi -- Linea errante nell'architettura italiana del '900," member of curatorial team, Triennale di Milano, 9/19/2003-1/4/2004.
  • "Asfalto/asphalte/asphalt -- IL carattere della città," consultant to guest curator, Triennale di Milano, 2003.

››GROUP RESEARCH/ART PROJECTS (selected)   

  • SPEED limits - project director and chief curator; development of virtual exhibition platform/project in collaboration with the Stanford University Computer Graphics Lab MERU project; project host: the Stanford Humanities Lab (Henrik Bennetsen, Matteo Bittanti, Gordon Knox et alii); project partners: Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Bornholms Kunstmuseum; project funding for virtual exhibition: Danish Ministry of Science. Initial development work 2007-2008; virtual exhibition construction 2009-2010.
  • Climate Clock - Second Time design project, in collaboration with Lynn Hershman, Rafael Lozano-Hemer, Jeffrey Aldrich, and Henrik Bennetsen, (spring 2008).
  • Pontos de Cultura/Cultural Hot Spots, in collaboration with Gordon Knox, Claudio Prado, and the Brazilian Ministry of Culture; development of SHL-based platform for support, coordination, international launch of existing cyberculture/cyberactivism initiative in Brazil; currently seeking funding from various foundatons.
  • Twelve Degrees of Freedom -- Buckminster Fuller's Twentieth Century. Director (with Roberto Trujillo, Stanford University Libraries, and Hsiao-Yun Chu [Fuller archive]); a research venture carried out as a collaborative undertaking between the Stanford Humanities Lab and the Stanford University Libraries, 2001-2005.
  • Italiamerica - Le radici culturali dell’americanismo nel XX secolo.  Principal Investigator (with Emanuela Scarpellini, Università degli Studi di Milano); a collaborative three stage publication/research project with the Fondazione Mondadori, carried out under the joint aegis of the Stanford Humanities Lab and the University of Milan, 2004-. The first volume was completed in 2007.
  • Crowds. Principal Investigator (with Matthew Tiews); other team members include Joy Connolly, Jobst Welge, Haun Saussy, Marisa Galvez, Heather Farkas, and Andrew Uroskie.  A long-term research, web, and exhibition project on the crowd in the Western cultural-political imaginary.  Completed under the aegis of the Stanford Humanities Lab, 2000-2005 with funding from The Seaver Institute

››FILM, MEDIA, AND INTERVIEWS (selected)   

  • "Sulle Gallerie della memoria a Trento," interviewed by Guido Barbieri, Radio 3 Suite, Radio Tre (RAI, Italian Public Radio), Aug. 25, 2008.
  • "Le Gallerie della memoria," interviewed by Gianfranco de Turris, Radio Uno (RAI, Italian Public Radio), Aug. 19, 2008.
  • "La guerra e il suo popolo - Storie di gente qualunque," interviewed by Alessandro de Bertolini, Corriere del Trentino, Aug. 13, 2008, p. 13 Corriere della sera (edizione per il Trentino).
  • "Serious Play: Intervista a Jeffrey Schnapp di Andrea Genovese," Salone del Mobile special issue "Il Design ci salverà! Ma come?," Seventh Floor 11.2 (April 2008): 18-19.
  • "La parola ai professori: Il futuro del web sarà a 3d," interviewed by Mauro Garfofalo, "Nòva --ricerca innovazione creatività" supplement, Il Sole 24 Ore, Feb. 28, 2008.
  • Interviewed for documentary film (in progress) The Perfect Cappuccino, director Amy Ferraris, scheduled for completion in early 2008.
  • "Scienze umane da laboratorio. Parla Jeffrey Schnapp," interviewed by Stefano Gulmanelli, "Nòva --ricerca innovazione creatività" supplement, Il Sole 24 Ore, Aug. 2, 2007.
  • video interview on Futurism, integrated into Luca Buvoli's multimedia installation "A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow - Un bellissimo dopodomani,” Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Jan.-May, 2007; Arsenale, Biennale di Venezia, May-July 2007.
  • "La forza Usa?," interviewed by Cristina Casadei, Il Sole 24 Ore, May 18, 2007.
  • "Un genio insopportabile," interviewed by Marco Iacona for book on Julius Evola, Jan. 2007.
  • Interviewed on speed and/as myth with reference to the "Mitomacchina" exhibition at Museo di Arte Moderna (MART), program webcast by Form.Art / Filmwork (Trento), with Adolfo Orsi, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Pier Luigi Cerri, and Enrico Morteo, November 2006.
  • "Play (Hard and Fast)," video talk (interviewer Matteo Bittanti), to be broadcast at Games@IULM conference, May 3, 2006.
  • "Big Humanities," podcast of talk presented on Feb. 17, 2006 at Humanitech, UC Irvine, http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech/newmediaconference/FriPM2.mp3g.
  • Interviewed by Isabelle Somma re. Dante Alighieri's Commedia, forthcoming in Aventuras na História (São Paulo, Brazil).
  • "Art and Propaganda" (35 min. documentary film), featuring Jeffrey Schnapp, produced by Andrew Moisey for broadcast on http://crowds.stanford.edu, initial release date Nov. 2005.
  • "Un libro: Gli impianti del dovere e della guerra di Antonio Riccardi," L'Argonauta, Italian National Radio (RAI 2), Dec. 26, 2006.
  • "Manifesti politici del '900," interviewed by Gianfranco de Turris, GR2, Italian National Radio (RAI 2), Dec. 21, 2006.
  • "On Crowds," interviewed by Robert P. Harrison, Entitled Opinions, KZSU fm, Nov. 29, 2005.
  • "Strength in numbers: Humanities Scholars put heads together," interviewed by Linda Weber, Show/case section, Stanford Magazine, Nov-Dec. 2005.
  • "La folla protagonista del Novecento," interviewed on Fahrenheit, Italian national radio (RAI 3), Sept. 14, 2005.
  • "On plastics," interviewed by Massimo Martignoni, Casa Vogue, Oct. 2005.
  • "Intorno al centenario Terragni," interviewed with Pippo Ciorra and Attilio Terragni, Radio 3 Suite program, hosted by Oreste Bossini, Italian national radio (RAI 3), Dec. 30, 2004.
  • "Interview with Merce Cunningham," R. Buckminster Fuller and Friends: A Conversation Series, Stanford Video, Nov. 2004.
  • "Terragni dalla storia alla modernità - Intervista con l'italianista americano Jeffrey T. Schnapp", interviewed by Alberto Longatti, Cultura e Spettacoli, La Provincia (Como), Oct. 28, 2004, p. 44.
  • Interviewed by Oreste Bossini, Radio3 Suite program, Italian national radio (RAI 3), July 15, 2004.
  • Interviewed by Gianfranco de Turris re. In Cima -- Giuseppe Terragni per Margherita Sarfatti, Italian national radio news (RAI Uno), GR1, June 26, 2004.
  • Feature article and interview, "S'inaugura domani al palazzo Barbaran da Porto l'esposizione curata da Jeffrey Schnapp: lo abbiamo intervistato," Il Giornale di Vicenza, June 25, 2004, p. 33.
  • Interviewed by Antonio Riccardi, morning program, Swiss National Radio (Italian program), Feb. 16, 2004.
  • Interviewed by Gianfranco de Turris re. Anno X. La Mostra della Rivoluzione fascista del 1932, Italian national radio news (RAI Due and RAI Tre) GR2 and GR3, Nov. 30, 2003.
  • "Interview with Norman Foster," R. Buckminster Fuller and Friends: A Conversation Series, Media Solutions, Oct. 2003.
  • Interviewee and scholarly consultant, "Libera 1903-2003 -- Memoria di un architetto moderno" (documentary film), a Filmwork (Trento-Milan) production, with Massimiliano Fuksas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Vittorio Savi, Giorgio Ciucci, Lisa Ponti, Giovanni Marzari et alii; director Stefano Canzio, producer Luca dal Bosco, released fall 2003, www.filmwork.it.
  • "E il fascismo creò la politica dell'immagine," presentation by Giovanni Belardelli, Corriere della sera (July 23, 2003): 31.
  • "Mostra del 1932: L'avanguardia diventa liturgia," interviewed by Andrea Cortellessa, Il Manifesto (July 19, 2003): 21.
  • "Interview with Theodore Roszak," R. Buckminster Fuller and Friends: A Conversation Series, Media Solutions, April 2003.
  • "Asfalto," interviewed with Mirko Zardini and Ezio Giraldi, Radio3 Suite program, hosted by Oreste Bossini, Italian national radio, Rai Tre Radio, March 25, 2003.
  • "Interview with Kenneth Snelson," R. Buckminster Fuller and Friends: A Conversation Series, Media Solutions, Feb. 2003.
  • "Interview with Allegra Fuller-Snyder," R. Buckminster Fuller and Friends: A Conversation Series, Media Solutions, Jan. 2003.
  • "End Paper: Flights of Fancy," The Chronicle Review -- Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 4, 2002): B19.
  • "Dopo il sogno tecnologico," interviewed by Ida Dominijanni, Il Manifesto (Sept. 15, 2002): 12.
  • "Pot of Gold: Simple Octagonal Aluminum Espresso Pot Overflows with the Lore of Coffee Drinking," interviewed by John Tanasychuk, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Feb. 21, 2002): 1e-8e.
  • "Interview with Thomas Zung," R. Buckminster Fuller and Friends: A Conversation Series, Media Solutions, Feb. 13, 2002.
  • "Interview with Ed Applewhite," R. Buckminster Fuller and Friends: A Conversation Series, Media Solutions, Jan. 30, 2002.
  • "Interview with Shoji Sadao," R. Buckminster Fuller and Friends: A Conversation Series, Media Solutions, Jan. 16, 2002.
  • "Sotto il velo del melting plot," interviewed by Ida Dominijanni, Il Manifesto (Sept. 29, 2001): 8.
  • "Stanford Humanities Lab Offers Opportunities for Collaboration and Alternative Forms of Research and Teaching," Academic Leader 17.10 (Oct. 2001): 8.
  • "Un genio al MART: L'archivio Ciocca: un ingegnere che scoprì il futuro," interviewed by Sandra Mattei, Alto Adige [Trento] (Feb. 2, 2001): 15.
  • "Sem massa e sem mitologias.  Entrevista com Jeffrey Schnapp," interviewed by Cecilia Costa, Prosa e Verso supplement, O Globo [Rio de Janeiro] (Sept. 16, 2000): 6.
  • "Taking Dance to Strange New Places [interview with Pina Bausch]," San Jose Mercury News (Oct. 24, 1999): 1, 4.
  • "An Evening with Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Tanztheater," interviewer and moderator, Presidential Lectures and Symposia, Stanford, October 18, 1999.
  • "Un simbolo, eroe della Nazione," Tuttolibri [La Stampa] (April 18, 1996): 3.
  • "Anzichè arte rivoluzionaria, furono soltanto luci, chiasso e sparatorie," Corriere della Sera (April 27, 1996): 23.
  • "Vanguarda e Pós-modernidade: Entrevista com Jeffrey T. Schnapp," interviewed by Rubens Alves Pereira and João Freire Filho, Escrita 2.3 (July-Dec. 1997): 240-62.
  • "Ligações perigosas.  Pesquisadores de Stanford reavaliam as relações entre os modernistas e o fascismo,"  interviewed by Marília Martins, O Globo—Segundo Caderno, (Sept. 22, 1996): 1-4.
  • "Fiasco littorio sul Lungarno," interviewed by Pierpaolo Antonello, L'Unità (July 1, 1996): 7.
  • "Fascism and Culture," interviewed by Matthew Leonard, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast July 1993.
  • "Art and Propaganda," interviewed by Wayne Pond, Soundings, National Public Radio, broadcast Oct. 1992.
  • "The Dartmouth Dante Project," interviewed by Susan Stamberg, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, broadcast March 1985.
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››RECENT INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCES (selected)   

  • (Concluding round table participant, Mellon Foundation conference on “Digital Archivalism, the Liberal Arts College, and the Humanities,” Haverford College, April 2009.)
  • (Keynote address, Conference on Culture and Totalitarianism(s), University of Manchester, England, Nov. 2008.)
  • (Inaugural lecture, Center for Transnational Studies, University of Machester, England, Nov. 2008)
  • (Keynote address, Centennial international conference on Italian Futurism, U of Pennsylvania, Nov. 2008.)
  • "Limiti di velocità," plenary address, VeDrò conference, Associazione VeDrò, Centrale Fies de Drò, Italy, August 2008.
  • "The Role of Interdisciplinarity in Cultural Heritage Studies," Università del Salento, Scuola Superiore ISUFI, July 2008.
  • "The Miracle Metal," Manifesta 7: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, opening round table, July 2008, Bolzano, Italy.
  • "Welcoming Remarks," Frontiers of Interaction IV, Turin, July 2008.
  • "Mixed Realities," Inventio seminar, organized by the Dept. of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway, but held at Stanford University, May 2008.
  • "Lessons," Homecoming: John Freccero Back at Hopkins conference, Dept. of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University, May 2008.
  • "Animating the Archive," keynote address, WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World, IMLS-NEH, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, March 2008.
  • "What is to be learned from Crowds?" Xerox Parc, BayChi (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction = SIGCHI), March 2008.
  • Chair of panel on mixed reality, 6th Media X Annual Meeting, Stanford University, March 2008.
  • A conversation on virtual worlds (Rebecca Moore, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Wagner James Au), Metaverse U summit, Feb. 2008, Stanford U.
  • Participant, "Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Scholarship," Federation of American Scientists and SRI International, Mellon Foundation, Menlo Park, Feb. 2008.
  • "Piero Portaluppi's Acrostic Architecture," Eikones (NSF Bildkritik), Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Jan. 2008.
  • A public conversation with Jeffrey Schnapp and Yve-Alain Bois, hosted by Sylvia Lavin , "Hi-C’s Criticism and Conversation in Architecture" symposium, UCLA Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, Nov. 2007.
  • Convenor and participant, "A round table about Modernism/modernity," MSA 9 international congress, Long Beach, CA, Nov. 2007.
  • A conversation about current trends in studies of modernism and modernity with Victoria Rosner, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Jing Tsu, Depts. of English and Comp. Lit., Yale University, October 2007.
  • "The Face of the Modern Architect," Mellon lecture, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Oct. 2007; "Ideas Matter" lecture series, Gerald Hines College of Architecture, U of Houston, Oct. 2008.
  • Keynote address, "Frontiers of Interaction III - Virtual Environment and Internet of Things," organized by Idearium, University of Milano, Bicocca, Milan, June 2007.
  • Respondent, "La rivoluzione dei consumi," Dipartimento di Scienze della Storia e della Documentazione storica, Università Statale di Milano, Milan, and Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, May 2007.
  • "L'archivio rianimato," Fondazione Valore Italia (Ministero delle Attività Produttive), preparatory workshop for the Esposizione Permanente del Made in Italy e del Design Italiano, Rome, Feb. 2007; Dipartimento INDACO, Politecnico di Milano, May 2007; keynote for "Un diluvio di giornali - L'illustrazione satirica: metolodogia d'indagine e catalogazione iconografica, Centro APICE, dipartimento di storia dell'arte, dello spettacolo e della musica, Università Statale di Milano, Milan, May 2007.
  • "Bruno Munari's Bombs," symposium on "Magazines, Modernity, and War," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Jan. 2007; Deutsche Historisches Museum, April 2007; Depts. of English, Comparative Lit., Italian, and Art, Yale University, Oct. 2007.
  • "The Research Agenda," Creator/Collector/Catalyst: The University Art Museum in the Twenty-first Century, organized by the Wolfsonian-FIU and Princeton University Art Museum, held in association with Art Basel-Miami Beach, Miami Convention Center, Dec. 2006.
  • Co-chair, round table, Premio Impresa-Cultura-Speciale X edizione, Venice, Italy, November 2006.
  • "O ruido das coisas e dos nomens," Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 2006.
  • "Inventorio e reportagem," keynote address, international seminar on "Poéticas do inventário -- Coleções, Listas, Séries e Arquivos na cultura contemporânea," Centro de Pesquisa, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2006.
  • "Lo strumentario dell'architetto del '900," international seminar on "L'architetto - ruolo, volto, destino," Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, May 2006.
  • "Five Backgrounds / One Foreground," Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, April 2006.
  • "Lectura Dantis: Inferno 13 ," two performances with composer Douglas Johnson and the Ives String Quartet, Stanford Continuing Studies, March 2006.
  • "The Crowded Frame," The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, Florida, March 2006.
  • "Big Humanities," "New Media, Technology, & The Humanities" conference, Humanitech and the Dept. of Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine, Feb. 2006.
  • "Augmented Architecture," SHL/Sci_Arc symposium on Design, Practice, and Education, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Dec. 2005.
  • "Art in Propaganda (The Making of Revolutionary Tides)," special session on Art and Propaganda, MSA conference, Chicago, Nov. 2005.
  • "Out of the Monastery into the New Millennium," keynote address, International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Common Ground Group, Cambridge, England, Aug. 2005.
  • "Quickening -five timeslices through the anthropology of speed," Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, June 2005; Freie Universität Berlin, April 2007; Dept. of History, UC Berkeley, Dec. 2007; UCLA, March 2008.
  • Round table on Black Mountain College, with Merce Cunningham, presentation of "Interview with Merce Cunningham," R. Buckminster Fuller and Friends, Stanford Lively Arts, March 2005.
  • "Sweat," Charles S. Singleton / Villa Spellman seminar, Johns Hopkins University center, Florence, Feb. 2005.
  • "The Contracted Cinema," keynote address, "Il testo in movimento: Themes and Techniques in Italian Film and Literature," De Bosis Conference, Dept. of Romance Languages, Harvard U, Feb. 2005.
  • "Bad Dada (Evola)," Dept. of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dec. 2004.
  • "Terragni archeologo del futuro," GT04 (Centenario Nazionale Giuseppe Terragni), Unione Industriale di Como, Como, Oct. 2004; giornata di studi su Giuseppe Terragni, dipartimento di storia dell'arte, University of Milan, Jan. 2005.
  • "Scavi nella città corporativa," conference on "L'identità dell'artista negli anni Trenta," Fondazione Cariplo, Fondazione Corrente and the University of Milan, May 2004.
  • "A Portrait of Homo Velox," "Speed, Technology, and the Invention of Change 1800-1919" conference, Center for Modern Studies and Dept. of English, UCLA, March 2004; "Den teknologiske texturen -- Möten mellan humaniora och informationstecknik" conference, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Jan. 2005.
  • "Two Faces of Homo Velox," Athletics and Aesthetics conference, Dept. of Spanish, Princeton University, March 2004.
  • "Modernitalia: Three Lectures -- The Corporativist City, Piero Portaluppi's Errant Line, Bad Dada (Evola)," Edward H. Benenson Lectures, Dept. of Art and Art History, Duke University, October 2003.
  • "Arte e totalitarismo," with Alessandro Carli, Giovanni Belardelli, and Claudio Fogu; Fondazione Ideazioni, Palazzo del Comune, Perugia, Mary 27, 2003.
  • "Il fascismo come religione politica – Modelli di rappresentazione della storia negli Anni Trenta," with Massimo Baioni, Maddalena Carli, and Claudio Fogu; Dipartimento di studi storico-sociali e filosofici, Facoltà di lettere, University of Siena, Arezzo campus, May 28, 2003.
  • "Anno X," with Massimo Mastrogregori, Alessandra Muntoni, Claudio Fogu; Facoltà di architettura, U of Rome (La Sapienza), May 30, 2003.
  • "Gaetano Ciocca e i progetti per lo stato corporativo," Giornata di studio sull'architettura e politica negli anni del fascismo, School of Architecture, U of Trieste, May 2003.
  • "Blood on the Stage," seminar on war and violence, Scuola Superiore/Oxford/Cambridge initiative, U of Bologna, May 2003.
  • "Laboratorios para la ciencias humanas?," keynote address, Congreso internacional interdisciplinario sobre el discurso artistico visual, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, March 2003.
  • Respondent and participant in round table, "Dall'avanguardia alla memoria -- Futurismo/Futurism," Mart/Yale Beinecke nternational symposium, Rovereto, March 2003.
  • "The SHL Crowds Project," with Matthew Tiews, Marisa Galvez, John Hill, and Joy Connolly, CICIS conference, UCLA, March 2003.
  • "Tarmac Lit," keynote address, Entralogos Conference, Cornell U, Feb. 2003.
  • "Work in Progress: CRASH," Italian Studies Colloquium, Cornell U, Feb. 2003.
  • "Titus Livy and the Corporativist City," conference on The Modern Setting of the Classical Text, Gentle Foundation, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Jan. 2003.
  • "Artists and Print Media in the 1920-1930s," respondent, Modernist Studies Association conference, U of Wisconsin, Madison, Nov. 2002.
  • "Suor" Seminar on "Estudos de Literatura e de Cultura," Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 2002.
  • "Sironi on Exhibit" Northwestern U, March 2002; Conference on "Cultural Memory and Aesthetics," Center for Literary Studies, Texas A & M University, April 2002.
  • "Information and Communications Technology in Postsecondary Humanities Education," Transforming Postsecondary Education with ICT, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council, January 2002.
  • "O futuro das ciencias humanas," Escola de Governo/CPDA, UFRJ and Pos-graduação em Letras, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 2001.
  • "The Oceanic Mass," SUNY Buffalo, March 2001; Frankel Humanities Center, U of Chicago, April 2002.
  • "Ciocca e l'archittetura industriale –Giornata di studio," with Fulvio Irace and Alessandro De Magistris, Politecnico di Milano [Milan], Academia di San Luca [Rome] and Museo di Arte Rovereto-Trento, Jan. 2001.
  • "Sweat," The Medieval Senses II, Stanford U, November 2000.
  • "The Marriage of Espresso and Aluminum [A History of the Bialetti Moka Express]," conference on Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, Carnegie Museum of Art, November 2000; The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, Feb. 2002.
  • "On Historytelling," Zeitlichkeit-Geschichlichkeit Kolloquium, Iphofen/Franken, Oct. 2000.
  • "A imprensa na Italia fascista."  Seminar on A Historiografia Literária e as Formas de Escrita (Do manuscrito ao Hipertexto), Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 2000.
  • "Nova Antiqua.  A simulação antes da época da simulação."  Literatura como Evento conference, Departamento de Letras, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 2000.
  • "A encenação da multidão," Uni-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 2000.
  • "D'Annunzio's Magic Tent," Einführung in di italienische Literatur, Villa Vigoni, Como, June 2000.
  • "Una crocerossina americana a Fiume," keynote, AISLLI conference, Gardone Riviera, June 2000.
  • "The Anthopology of Speed," Sonderforschung Literatur und Anthropologie, Universität Konstanz, Germany, June 2000.
  • "The Mass Panorama," Arts and Publics seminar, Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern U, Chicago, February 2000; revised and abridged version presented at "Specters of Enlightenment," Stanford Humanities Center, April 2000; Dept. of Art History, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, June 2000.
  • "Constant Comment.  Dante and dantismo." ACLA conference, Yale U, February 2000.
  • "Petrarchan Time Loops," conference on Text und Zeit in Honor of Wolf-Dieter Stempel, Bad Homburg, Germany, July 1999.
  • "Three Lectures on Italian Fascism," N.E.H. Summer Institute on Memory, History, and Dictatorship: The Legacy of World War II in France, Germany, and Italy; Paris and Caen, France, July 1999.
  • "The Crystalline Science of Gaetano Ciocca," presented at "Blendung/ Verblendung/ Ausblendung: Der Faschismus im Spiegel von Kunst und Kultur" conference, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; and at "Representations: Philosophy, Art, and Science," Associazione per la Storia della Scienza, Florence, March 1999.
  • "Crash I, II, III," Walker-Ames Lectures, University of Washington, Seattle, Feb. 1999.
  • Chair, "Letter Sensations and Embodied Life," MLA convention, San Francisco, Dec. 1998.
  • "Avant-Hilde-garde," Constructing Hildegard: Reception and Identity 1098-1998, Neil J. O'Brien Symposium in Medieval Studies, Rice University, Nov. 1998.
  • "Crash [Speed as Engine of Individuation]," Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 1998; Center for Literary Studies, Texas A & M, Nov. 1998.
  • "O teatro de massa," Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, August 1998.
  • "Literatura comparada / Estudos culturais," plenary session address, ABRALIC annual congress, Santa Catarina, Brazil, August 1998.
  • "Speeding," Faster, faster panel discussion, Dromologies: Ecstasies of Speed exposition, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, June 1998.
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  • "Lo zucchero di Suckert, la mala leche di Malaparte," La rivolta del santo maledetto: Curzio Malaparte.  Il narratore, il politologo, il cittadino di Prato.  Convegno internazionale nel centenario della nascita di Curzio Malaparte,"  Prato, June 1998.
  • "La storia della storiografia tra le due guerre mondiali," Museo Storico di Trento, Trento, April 1998.
  • "Pourquoi on ne peut pas transporter partout avec soi le cadavre de son père," Villa Spellman Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Florence, March 1998.
  • "Touch and Transport in the Middle Ages," keynote address, The Five Senses in Early Modernity conference, Einstein Foundation, Berlin, March 1998; U. of Washington, Seattle, Feb. 1999.
  • "Congiurato da Eritòn cruda: Una lettura incrociata di Dante, Virgilio e Lucano," Scuola Normale di Pisa, Pisa, Feb. 1998.
  • "Gaetano Ciocca e l'immaginario tecnico del Ventennio," Dipartimento di Storia dell'Arte, Università di Cagliari, March 1998.
  • "Art/Lit Combines (or When a Pipe is only a Pipe)," The Presidential Forum, MLA Convention, Toronto, Dec. 1997.
  • "A modernidade das alternativas," keynote address, 10th anniversary celebration of the foundation of the Programa de história social da cultura, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 1997.
  • "Uma antropologia da velocidade," Seminário Permanente de Literatura Comparada, Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Literatura, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 1997.
  • "Ideologias e a encenação do teatro de massa,"  Faculdade da Cidade, Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 1997.
  • "A doce carga de Virgilio," Pos-graduação em Letras, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 1997.
  • "Commodities," Movements of the Avant-Garde conference, Stanford University, May 1997.
  • Respondent, "Modernism in Italy," College Art Association, New York, Feb. 1997.
  • "Crash@NGA.GOV," Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Jan. 1997.
  • Discussant, "Adolph Menzel: A Symposium," National Gallery of Art, Dec. 1996.

››EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS   

  • Modernism/modernity, member of advisory board (1994-), editor (2002-).
  • Vectors: Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, member of editorial board (2004-), electronic journal published by the USC Annenberg School of Communications.
  • Stanford U Press, member of editorial board (2003-2007)
  • Literary Conjugations, member of editorial board, University of Washington Press (2003-)
  • Common Ground (Sydney/Victoria/New York), member of international advisory board (2003-).
  • Palavra (Rio de Janeiro), member of editorial board (2003-)
  • PMLA—member of advisory board (1997-2000).
  • L'Alighieri, member of editorial board (2001-).
  • Letteratura Italiana Antica, member of advisory board (1999-).
  • Stanford Italian Review, associate editor (1985-93); editor in chief (1993-94).
  • Stanford Literature Review, member of editorial board (1985-89).
  • Dialoghi.  Rivista di Studi Italiani, member of advisory board (1997-).
  • Stanford Humanities Review, member of advisory board (1993-2002) .
  • Figurae: New Studies in Medieval Culture series, Stanford UP, consulting editor (1989-2002).
  • Stanford French and Italian Monograph Series, member of editorial board (1985-1994).
  • European Horizons: Politics, Ideology, Critique series, U of Nebraska P, series co-editor with Richard J. Golsan, Christopher Flood and Richard Wolin (1997-2003).
  • South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association, member of advisory board (1993-).
  • Tabloid: A Review of Mass Culture & Everyday Life, member of editorial collective (1978-81).
  • Reader and consultant for Art Issues, Speculum, Traditio, Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of Architecture Education, PMLA, Viator, Modern Philology, Polity Press, U of California, Chicago, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, MIT, U of Michigan, New England, Stanford U, U of Pennsylvania, Penn State, and Yale U Presses., in the fields of art, architecture, design, literature, and cultural history.

››FOUNDATION BOARDS, RESEARCH CENTER BOARDS, CONSULTING WORK   

  • Member, Study Center Consultative Committee, Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montréal, Canada, 2008-2011.
  • Consultant, mondoBIOTECH, Lugano, Basel & Lucerne, Switzerland, 2008-
  • Member, Comitato scientifico, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Design and Architecture, Milan, Italy, 2005-2007.
  • Expert witness in international patent dispute for University of California, Fenwick & West, 2004-2007
  • Member, Leadership core, Humanities, Arts, Science, Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC), 2003-2007
  • Member, Comitato scientifico, Centro Studi Giuseppe Terragni, Como, Italy, 2003-2007
  • Consultant, NEA/NEH panel charged with study of reinstallation of permanent collection, The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, Spring/Fall 2006.
  • Member, Comitato operativo, Fondazione Piero Portaluppi, Milan, Italy, 2002-2005
  • Member, Advisory Board, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, Stanford University, 2002-
  • Member, Board of Guarantors, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, NYC, 2001-2007 (2 terms)
  • Member of planning group, Bahia Balandra development project, Sci_Arc and Eric Owen Moss Architects
  • Expert presenter, planning exercise on The Future of Higher Education, Herman Miller Corporation, Zeeland, Michigan, April 2005.
  • Consultant, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, Feb. 1987.

››CONFERENCES ORGANIZED (selected)   

  • "Speed and its Limits," Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.
  • Metaverse U," (with Henrik Bennetsen, Matteo Bittanti, Dena DeBry, Henry Lowood et al.), Stanford University, Feb. 2008.
  • ""Poéticas do inventário -- Coleções, Listas, Séries e Arquivos na cultura contemporânea," co-convenor (with Flora Süssekind [FCRB/UNIRIO], Maria Esther Maciel [UFMG], and Tânia Dias [FCRB]), Centro de Pesquisa, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2006.
  • "After Crowds" seminar, in conjunction with the exhibition Revolutionary Tides, Stanford U, Nov. 2005
  • "Special Effects 2000," Stanford Presidential Symposium, co-organizer (with Scott Bukatman, Helen Tartar, David Hannah, Terry Winograd, Pamela Lee), Stanford U, May 2000.
  • "The Athlete's Body," co-organizer (with H. U. Gumbrecht, Rick Schavone, and Ted Leland), Dept. of Comparative Literature and Dept. of Athletics, Stanford U, May 1995.
  • "Disciplining Literature: Past, Present, and Future Institutions of Literary Study," organizer, Stanford U, May 1994.
  • "Fascinating Fascism," organizer, Stanford U and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Oct. 1993.
  • "Nietzsche in Italy," co-organizer (with Robert Harrison), Stanford U, April 1986.
  • "The Ends of Rhetoric," co-organizer (with David Wellbery, John Bender, Thomas Heller), Program in Comparative Literature, Stanford U, Feb. 1987.

 

  • ››OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES   

  • Member of Jury, Premio Impresa e Cultura tenth edition, winter-spring 2007
  • Member of CELJ Phoenix award jury, 2004
  • Reader of Fellowship Applications, Bourses Chateaubriand, 1999, 2000.
  • Reader of Fellowship Applications, Getty Research Center, 1997, 1998, 2006-.
  • Final Selection Committee, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Feb. 1996.
  • Director, Research Workshop on "The Letter of the Law," Stanford Humanities Center, 1995-96.
  • Site Evaluator of Newberry Library, Chicago; Program for Academic Institutes and Research Centers, National Endowment for the Humanities, Feb. 1995.
  • Nominating Committee, Dante Society of America, 1994-97.
  • Member of Evaluating Panel for Translation Projects, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, Sept. 1994.
  • Fellows final selection committee, Stanford Humanities Center, 1993.
  • Reader of fellowship applications, Stanford Humanities Center, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997-.
  • Reader of fellowship applications, National Humanities Center, 1991, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000-.
  • Member of Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Stanford University, March 1992.
  • Discussant, "Überbau/Neubau/Abbau: Nietzsche and an Architecture of our Minds," Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, Nov. 1989.
  • Co-director, The Stanford Dante Institute, Stanford U Humanities Center, Summer 1988.  NEH-sponsored Summer Institute for University Faculty.
  • Discussant, "Italian Fascist Architecture in the Colonies: A Symposium."  Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, DC, Nov. 1987.
  • Member of Evaluating Panel for University Research Fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, Aug. 1987, July 1993.
  • Co-director, The Dartmouth Dante Institute, Dartmouth Coll., Summer 1985 and Summer 1986.
  • Database Director and Editorial Supervisor 1984-85 and Editor 1985-89, The Dartmouth Dante Project.  NEH-sponsored pilot database project now up and running on the www.
  • Also: service as an outside referee in tenure reviews and promotions for, among others, NYU, Duke, Emory, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, Boston U, Columbia U, U of Rochester, Arizona State, Harvard, Yale, Skidmore College, Northwestern, U of Southern California, U of Washington, U of Texas Austin, Trinity College, UCLA, Princeton University, U of British Columbia, U of Utah, Georgia Tech, SUNY Binghamton, Texas A & M, U of Vermont, U of Virginia, Washington U, CUNY Graduate Center, U C San Diego, U C Santa Cruz, Barnard College, Rice U, and Florida State.

››ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE/ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES AT STANFORD   

  • Member of Coordinating Committee of the Stanford Humanities Center: 1986-88
  • Member of Steering Committee, Institute for Interdisciplinary Study of Literature: 1986-90
  • Member of Steering Committee, Comparative Literature Program: 1985-86
  • Member of Humanities Honors Committee: 1985-87
  • Member of Mediterranean Panel, Overseas Studies: 1985-86, 1989-91
  • Faculty Advisor to the Casa Italiana: 1985-87, 1989-95, 1998-
  • Member of Provostial Task Force on Italian Exchange and Research Programs: 1987-90
  • Member of English Dept. Search Committee for Senior Medievalist Position: 1989
  • Member of Decanal Advisory Committee on the Curriculum: 1989-90
  • Member of French Dept. Search Committee: 1990-91
  • Member of German Dept. Advisory Committee: 1990-91
  • Member of Comparative Literature Advisory Committee: 1990-92
  • Member of Steering Committee, Center for European Studies: 1990-1995
  • Member of H & S Advisory Committee on Budget: 1991-92
  • Member of University Committee on Graduate Studies: 1992-95
  • Director of Graduate Admissions, Comparative Literature, 1992
  • Secretary, Fund for Joint Initiatives Between Literature Depts. 1993-96
  • Member of Steering Committee of Overseas Studies (OSAC), 1994-96
  • Member, Executive Committee, Division of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures: 1994-96, 1998-2002
  • Member of Art History Search Committee for Renaissance/Baroque Position: 1995
  • Member of Search Committee for DLCL Administrative Services Manager: 1995-96
  • Affiliated faculty member, Program in Modern Thought and Literature: 1996-
  • Member of Search Committee in Slavic Studies: 1997
  • Member of Committee for Selection of Presidential Endowed Chairs: 1998
  • Member of Junior Search Committee in Comparative Literature: 1998
  • Chair of Search Committees in French (Senior and Junior): 1998
  • Member of selection committee for Tanner Lectures, 1999-
  • Member of Dean's Committee on the Curriculum, 2000-2002
  • Member of University Committee on International Studies, 2000-2001
  • Member of the Senior Search Committee in the DLCL: 2000-2002
  • Member of Provost's Advisory Committee on the Hoover Collection: 2001
  • Member of Search Committee for Dean of H & S: 2001
  • Member of Stanford Council on Innovation and Deployment of IT (SCIDIT): 2005
  • Member of Medieval Studies search committee, Dept. of English: 2007-2008

››PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS   

  • Modernist Studies Association
  • College Art Association
  • American Association of Italian Studies
  • American Comparative Literature Association
  • Associazione Internazionale di Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana
  • Dante Society of America
  • Medieval Academy of America
  • Modern Language Association
  • Renaissance Society of America

››LANGUAGES   

Italian, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek

 

 

 

 

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