Dr. Paolo Matteucci

Title:Contract Instructor of Italian Studies
Email:p.matteucci@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Paolo Matteucci hails originally from Southern Piedmont, in Northern Italy. He holds aLaureainLettere(BA) and aSpecializzazionein Foreign Language Teaching from the Università di Torino, as well as a MA and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California. He has written essays on a variety of topics including: Italian language teaching, Italian material culture, the works of Gramsci, Agamben, Vittorio De Sica, Lalla Romano, Amy Oakley, L.M. Alcott, F. Maspero, PierPaolo Pasolini, and others; the ecology of Sicily and the geography of Rome. He authored a book on the literary depictions of Western Alps in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian, French and English literature (Le Alpi Marittime nella letteratura dell’Ottocento e del Novecento. Da Ugo Foscolo a Melania Mazzucco. Cuneo: Nerosubianco, 2014). His interests include modern Italian literature, contemporary Italian culture, Italian and French cinema of the 1960s, and theories and practices of teaching-learning. Since his arrival in Canada, he also started developing a growing interest in Indigenous cinema.

Teaching Areas:

Italian language and culture.

Courses:

• Introductory Italian (ITAL-1001)
• Italian Food and Culture (ITAL-2001)