urriculum Vitae Chiara Caputi
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Phone number(s): +1 9294714645
Current employment:
- Associate Editor – Quaderni d’Italianistica (2023 – )
- Teaching Assistant Popular Culture & Mass Society (American Studies) – College of Staten Island (CUNY)
- Adjunct Lecturer Italian Language – Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY)
- Adjunct Lecturer Italian Language – The New School
Education:
August2020 –
Ph.D. Student in Comparative Literature (Italian Specialization) at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Degree Awarded:Medieval Studies Certificate Program
1) ENGL 82100: Queering the Renaissance – Prof. Mario DiGangi
2) MSCP 70100: Introduction to Medieval Studies: Medieval Culture – Prof. Nicole Lopez-Jantzen.
3) MSCP 80500: Dante’s Purgatorio – Prof. Paola Ureni
4) CL 80900- Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature – Prof. Gerry Milligan
5) CL 88000: Italy’s Dialect Through Time, Space and Society – Prof. Hermann Haller
October 4th – November 8th 2021
Research Assistant of the Second Language Acquisition Lab (SLAL) – The Graduate Center, CUNY
Create a total of 170 Italian sentences (critical and filler sentences) for the Principal Investigator (Pamela Franciotti) research study.
November 2016- March 2019
Master Degree (Laurea Magistrale) in Italian Studies, European Literary Culture, Linguistics – Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Final grade: 110 cum Laude/110
Final year dissertation: “Analisi di una riscrittura dantesca: La Mortaccia (frammenti) di Pier Paolo Pasolini”directed by Professor Giuseppe Ledda (Università di Bologna), supervised by Professor Marco Antonio Bazzocchi (Università di Bologna) and Professor Andrea Dini (Montclair State University)
Sept. 2013- November 2016 Bachelor Degree (Laurea Triennale) in Arts – Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna Final grade: 110 cum Laude/100
Final year dissertation: “L’eresia nell’Inferno: problemi e prospettive critiche.”
supervised by Dr. Giuseppe Ledda
Languages:
Italian: mother tongue
English: fluent [IELTS (Academic) Date: April 28th 2019, Overall Band Score: 7.0 (Listening: 7.0 Reading: 8.0 Writing: 5.5 Speaking: 7.0, level C1)
Spanish: elementary knowledge [DELE (Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera), level A2]
French: elementary knowledge
Latin: read with dictionary
Summer and Winter Schools:
June 29th – July 23 2024
Institute for World Literature – Harvard University, University of Cyprus
21st – 24th June 2021
“Nel ciel che più de la sua luce prende”: Dante’s Paradiso. Dublin Dante Summer School 2021
Online
23rd – 24th January 2020 – “Riconoscere, descrivere e valorizzare i beni fotografici” – AIB (Associazione Italiana delle Biblioteche), Biblioteca centrale “G.Marconi” del CNR, Rome, Italy.
11st–14th September 2019
“Pier Paolo Pasolini. La poesia: temi, forme e lingua”, Centro Studi Pasoliniani, Casarsa della Delizia (Pn).
25th –31st August 2019
Scuola estiva internazionale di Studi danteschi, Ravenna-Verona, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milano), Centro Dantesco dei Frati Minori Conventuali di Ravenna, Università degli Studi di Verona.
Funding and Awards:
- Olga Ragusa Foundation Fellow 2025
- Jacqueline Schiller Fund Scholarship 2024
- DGSC Grant 2024
- Fed ARPA Student Grant (Spring semester 2022)
- Fed ARPA Student Grant (Fall semester 2021)
Publications
Edited volumes:
Caputi, C., Cutolo. B. On a Transnational Dante: Reception, Rewriting and Translation. Beyond the Western World (forthcoming, Brill).
Academic articles:
- Caputi, C. (2021). “La Mortaccia (frammenti): analisi della prima riscrittura dantesca di Pier Paolo Pasolini” Annali d’Italianistica 40 (2022), pp. 77-91.
- Caputi C. (2023). “Lu Santo Jullare Francesco: Dario Fo tra giullari, dialetto e tradizione popolare” Il 996 – Rivista del Centro Studi Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli [September 2023]
- Caputi, C. (2026). “Queer Interpretation, Reception, and, Rewritings of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Monique Wittig’s rewriting of Dante: Across the Acheron ” Dante Studies Forum, forthcoming.
Reviews:
- Caputi, C. (2022) “Michela Mastrodonato. Pirandello e l’ossessione dantesca. Uno, nessuno e centomila, riscrittura allegorica della Commedia. Roma: Carocci, 2021. Pp. 242.” Annali d’Italianistica 40 (2022), pp. 428-30.
- Caputi, C. (2023) “Arcangela Tarabotti. Convent Paradise. Edited and translated by Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater.Iter Press 2020.” Italica 100, pp. 106-108.
- Caputi, C. (2023) “Ernesto Livorni. T. S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale e la modernità dantesca”, Quaderni d’Italianistica 44, 2, pp. 218-220.
Translations:
- Marimò, Carolina (1867-1931), Modern Beatrices Archive – University of Warwick https://modernbeatricesarchive.warwick.ac.uk/s/dante-s-female-public/item/5594
Blogposts and Media Articles:
- “Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Mortaccia (1959)”, Dante Today, https://dantetoday.krieger.jhu.edu/2022/11/25/pier-paolo-pasolini-la-mortaccia-1959/
- “Monique Wittig, Across the Acheron”, Dante Today, https://dantetoday.krieger.jhu.edu/?s=across+the+acheron
Teaching
August 2025 – December 2025
Adjunct Instructor – Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts (The New School)
Department of
NITL 1101 – Italian Intro 1 [18 students – as a module leader]
NITL 1101 – Italian Intro 1 [18 students – as a module leader]
August 2025 – December 2025
Teaching Assistant – College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Department of American Studies
AMS 241 – American Pop Culture [60 students – as a recitation instructor]
January 2025 – May 2025
Adjunct Instructor – Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY)
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
IT 111 – Elementary Italian [28 students – as a module leader]
January 2025 – May 2025
Teaching Assistant – College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
ITL 139 – Made in Italy [60 students – as a discussion instructor]
August 2024 – December 2024
Adjunct Lecturer – College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Department of World Languages and Literatures
ITL 213 – Advanced Italian [27 students – as a module leader]
ITL 341 – Renaissance Women Rewrite the Italian Tradition [15 students – as a module leader]
August 2024 – December 2024
Teaching Assistant – College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Department of American Studies
AMS 241 – American Pop Culture [ 60 students – as a discussion instrucor]
May 2024 – July 2024
Adjunct Lecturer – Hunter College (CUNY)
Department of Romance Languages
Elementary Italian 2
4th – 31st July 2023
ESL Teacher – Trinity International Education (TIE)
January 2023 – May 2023
Graduate Teaching Fellow – College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Department of World Languages and Literatures
ITL 112 D005 – Basic Italian 1 [27 students – as a module leader]
August 2023 – December 2023
Adjunct Lecturer – College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Department of World Languages and Literatures
ITL 112 – Basic Italian 1 [28 students – as a module leader]
August 2023 – December 2023
Adjunct Lecturer – City College of New York (CUNY)
Early College Program
Basic Italian [27 students – as a module leader]
Adjunct Lecturer – baruch college (CUNY)
Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
ITL 1002 MSA – Elementary Italian 2 [22 students – as a module leader]
August 2022 – December 2022
Adjunct Lecturer – College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Department of World Languages and Literatures
ITL 112 D002 – Basic Italian [27 students – as a module leader]
Graduate Teaching Fellow – College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Department of World Languages and Literatures
ITL 112 D007 – Basic Italian [18 students – as a module leader]
January – May 2022
Adjunct Lecturer – Hunter College (CUNY)
Department of Romance Languages
ITAL 101-007 (64762): Elementary Italian 1 [28 students- as a module leader]
Academic Activities
Conference Papers:
October 28th, 2022: Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, Maryland.
Mutamenti, Metamorphosis from the Human to the Posthuman – Graduate Symposium Johns Hopkins – Yale
Paper: Queer(ing) Dante: Across the Acheron by Monique Wittig between literature and activism
October 21st, 2022: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Campus.
100 Years of Pier Paolo Pasolini – One Day Symposium
Panel: 2
Paper: La Mortaccia: Pasolini’s First Rewriting of Dante’s Commedia
June 2nd – June 5th 2022: Sant’Anna Institute, Sorrento.
Canadian Association of Italian Studies Annual Conference
Paper: Queering Dante: Across the Acheron by Monique Wittig between literature and activism
Panel: “Versi d’amore e prose di romanzi / soverchiò tutti”. Forme, strategie e implicazioni della scrittura dantesca
13th – 17th December 2021: Barcelona, Campus Poblenou. Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Congrés Internacional Traduccions I Receptió de Dante en les Llengües Romàniques
Paper:“La Mortaccia (frammenti)”: analisi della prima riscrittura dantesca di Pier Paolo Pasolini
15th – 18th September 2021: Palazzo Corradini, Ravenna. Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Congresso Internazionale Dantesco Alma Dante 2019.
Paper: Le origini e lo sviluppo dell’autoesegesi dantesca: dalla «Vita Nova» al «De Vulgari Eloquentia»
Panel: Sessione 2.6 Gesti e parole nell’opera di Dante
11th – 14th March 2021Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania.
52nd North Eastern Modern Language Association (NemLa) Annual Convention
Paper: La Mortaccia: Pasolini’s first rewriting of Dante’s Commedia
Panel: Dantean Echoes in Contemporary Italian Culture
29th May–1st June 2019: Palazzo Corradini, Ravenna. Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Congresso Internazionale Dantesco Alma Dante 2019
Paper: “La Mortaccia (frammenti)”: prima riscrittura dantesca di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Panel:Sessione 9.3 Dante nel Novecento: letture e riscritture / 4
Event Organization
Talks:
February 14th 2025: Translating Women Authors – A Conversation with Jane Tylus (Yale University)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Room 4116
Conferences and panels:
November 17th 2023: The Graduate Center, CUNY.Form and Transformation
Graduate Conference of the Comparative Literature Doctoral Program
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Room 4116
October 26th – October 29th 2023: Hilton Downtown Portland. Portland, Oregon.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference 2023
Panel: 7.01 Track 7 “Considerate la vostra semenza”: Dante’s influences on Second-Generation
May 4th – May 7th, 2023: Campus MIL – Université de Montréal. Montréal, Quebec.
Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS) Annual Conference 2023.
Session: 26
Panel: Dante’s Trasumanar and Monsters
March 16th – 19th 2023. Hilton Downtown Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting 2023
Panel: Dante Beyond Western Culture: Translation, Transcultural Heritage and th Reception of the “Commedia”
Archival Research Experience:
26th – 29th November 2018: Archivio Contemporaneo “Alessandro Bonsanti” – Gabinetto “G.P. Vieusseux”, Florence.
Dicember 2018-February 2019: Centro Studi- Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bologna.
Admin Roles
- Curriculum and Exam Committee Member (2023-2024)
Professional Memberships
- Member of the Canadian Association for Italian Studies (2022 – )
- Member of the American Comparative Literature Association (2022 -)
- Member of the American Association for Italian Studies (2022 -)
