BAVARO VINCENZO

VINCENZO BAVARO, Ph.D.

EDUCATION

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 2009-2011

Fulbright Fellow, M.A. in Cultural Studies
Thesis: MANUFACTURING ZORA. Performance and Cultural Capital in the Life and Works of Zora Neale Hurston

University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’Rome, Italy, 2005-2009

Ph.D., English
Dissertation: Racial Capital: Cultural Politics and the Performance of Authenticity

University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Naples, Italy 2000-2005

B.A., Comparative Studies (American Studies, Chinese Studies)
Dissertation: Attempts on Men: Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Theater (110/110 magna cum laude)

Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China, Fall 2002; Spring 2005

College of Intensive Chinese Language Studies



CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Associate Professor, U.S. Literature University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Dept. Of Literary, Linguistics, and Comparative Studies
2021-present

Graduate School Faculty Member. Dottorato di ricerca in studi letterari, linguistici e comparati, University of Naples, “L’Orientale” 2017-present

Ácoma. Rivista Internazionale di studi del Nord America, editorial board member. 2016-present

A.I.S.N.A (Associazione Italiana Studi del Nord America), membro del comitato direttivo.2022-present

I.A.S.A. (International Association of American Studies), executive board member. 2018-present

Organizing Committee, OASIS American Studies International School, University of Naples, “L’Orientale”, 2014- present



ACADEMIC HONORS

Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA. Research project: “Representing Louisiana on Stage: Contemporary African American Drama and the Uses of the Past” 2019-2020

FIRB Funds, Ministero della Ricerca e dell’Istruzione 2018
Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Fulbright Commission US-Italy 2009-2011
Dartmouth College, Honorable Mention, M.A. Thesis 2011
Dartmouth College, M.A.L.S. Scholarship 2009-2011
I.I.E. (Institute for International Education) Michael Vinciguerra Fund. 2010
University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Full doctoral scholarship Nov 2005—Oct 2008
Dartmouth Institute on the Futures of American Studies, full grant June 2007
John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Graduate research grant.Nov-Dec 2006
A.I.S.N.A. (Italian Association of North American Studies) Caterina Gullì Award for most innovative dissertation in American Studies. 2005


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Assistant Professor in American Literature (Naples, Italy
December 2013--present)
● From 2022, taught U.S. literature courses at the M.A. level graduate students (Laurea Magistrale).
● Taught U.S. Literature to I, II, and III year students.
● Designed syllabi and assessment criteria.
● Lead workshops on “Academic and Critical Writing” to undergraduate students.
● From 2017, Held Doctoral lectures for the Ph.D. program in Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati, on:
- Identity Politics and Queer Theory (Dec 2, 2022),
- Contemporary African American Drama (14 Oct 2022),
- Argumentative and Academic Writing (yearly, 2017-21).

NTK Academic Group, Coordinator of the IBDP Department (English Literature)
(Hong Kong, September 2011—December 2013)
● World Literature and Communication Studies instructor, designed syllabi and held courses.
● IBDP specialist (English, Language and Literature). Taught classes for international curricula: IB, IGCSE (Literature), A+ levels, and AP.

Dartmouth College, Teaching Assistant, Composition and Research (Hanover, NH, USA September 2010- March 2011)

Engaged in individual revision, tutoring, brainstorming on student’s research projects and papers for 1 hr/week per each first year student. Held classes and small group discussions.

Dartmouth College, Teaching Assistant of Prof. Donald Pease, (Hanover, NH, USA January- March 2010)
ENGL 042, American Fiction to 1900. Class of 170 students. Coordinated and monitored weekly assignment.




PARTICIPATION TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

“Global Port Cities”, International research network, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA, Università di Napoli L’Orientale”, Tangiers University, Morocco (Principal investigators: Brian Edwards, Tulane University, USA, and Driss Ksikes, Hem, Rabat, Morocco). (2021—Present)
“Famille sans frontières, famille émancipée”, Réseau Scientifique International, University of Tours, France, and MSH (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme),Val de Loire, France (Principal investigator: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko). (2019-2022)
“Civil Religion and Civil Sentimentalism: Cultural and Political Imaginaries of Order and Belonging”, Villa Vigoni, Centro Italo-Tedesco per l'Eccellenza Europea/ Deutsch-Italienisches Zentrum für Europäische Exzellenz, Como, Italy. (2018-19)


PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

La Città contesa. Sessualità e appropriazione dello spazio urbano a New York negli anni Settanta. Napoli, La Scuola di Pitagora, 2017. (ISBN-10: 1-4438-7318-7).
“Una storia etnica?” Capitale culturale e performance etnica nella letteratura degli Stati Uniti, Napoli: La Scuola di Pitagora, 2013. (ISBN: 978-8865422946)


EDITED VOLUMES AND JOURNALS

Il teatro statunitense contemporaneo, co-edited with Cinzia Schiavini, Ácoma: rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani, V. 20, Spring 2021.
La Famiglia Queer, co-edited with Fiorenzo Iuliano, Ácoma: rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani, V. 16, Spring 2019.
“Making Sense of Mess: Marginal Lives, Impossible Spaces, and Global Capital.” Anglistica AION, co-edited with Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, 2017.
Harbors, Flows, and Migrations: The USA in/and the World, edited by Vincenzo Bavaro, Gianna Fusco, Serena Fusco, and Donatella Izzo, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Oltre il libro. Nuove forme di narratività sugli/dagli USA, introduction and co-editor with Donatella Izzo, Ácoma, New Series, 9, Fall/Winter 2015.
Il graphic novel negli Stati Uniti, Introduction and co-editor with Donatella Izzo, Ácoma 38, June 2009.

ESSAYS IN BOOKS

“Memoria, pulsione di morte, e blues in Fences (1983) di August Wilson” in Guerre, conflitti e crisi. Confinamenti e contaminazioni al fronte delle culture globali a cura di Gigliola Nocera, Lugano-Sarzana, Agorà, 2020, pp. 81-96. ISBN: 978-88-89526-61-3
“Coming Home: Rethinking Migration and Queerness in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt”, in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 438, San Francisco, Gale, 2018, pp. 223-233. ISBN: 978-1-4103-7812-5
“‘Come and Get Your Love’: Starsky and Hutch, Disidentification, and U.S. Masculinities in the 1970s.” Queering Masculinities. Edited by Giuseppe Balirano and Paul Baker, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018 (pp.65-85). ISBN: 9781349953264
“Cruising the Gay Bathhouse.” Democracy and Difference: The US in Multisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives. Ed. Giovanna Covi and Lisa Marchi. Trento: University of Trento, 2012.
“The Dance and the Railroad by D. H. Hwang: Chinese American Masculinities on a Railroad.” American Solitudes: Individual, National, Transnational. Ed. D. Izzo, G. Mariani, P. Zaccaria. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2007. 405-411.
“The Dance and the Railroad: Striking Nerds.” Querying the Genealogy: Comparative and Transnational Studies in Chinese American Literature (Wen puxi: zhongmei wenhua shiyexia de meihua wenxue yanjiu). Ed. Jennie Wang (Lin Jian). Shanghai, China: Shanghai Yiwen Press; Shanghai: Yiwen Chubanshe, 2007. 475- 485.
“Politiche di gender e soggettivazione nazionale nell’America asiatica.” Suzie Wong non abita più qui: la letteratura delle minoranze asiatiche negli Stati Uniti. Ed. Donatella Izzo. Milano: Shake Edizioni, 2006. 60-93.
“Lo sciopero in scena: story-telling e mascolinità in The Dance and the Railroad di David H. Hwang.” Suzie Wong non abita più qui: la letteratura delle minoranze asiatiche negli Stati Uniti. Ed. Donatella Izzo. Milano: Shake Edizioni, 2006. 193-216.
“‘Les enfants du paradis’: sopravvivenza e performance in Rolling the R’s di R. Zamora Linmark.” 259-284, Suzie Wong non abita più qui: la letteratura delle minoranze asiatiche negli Stati Uniti. Ed. Donatella Izzo. Milano: Shake Edizioni, 2006.

ESSAYS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

“Counternarratives of Maunakea. Crossing Digital Spaces, Claiming Ancestral Knowledge in Hawai’i”, Anglistica AION, Vol 25.1 (2022), Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age, pp. 87-98.
“Postbellum: la drammaturgia afroamericana gay e l’incubo della storia” in Ácoma: rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani, V.20, Spring 2021, p.77-96.
“Making Up the Words Ourselves.” Building a Home after Identity Politics in Satellites by Diana Son.” Letterature d’America, V 181, 2020, pp. 111-134, ISSN: 1125-1743.
“We paid very good attention to ourselves”: famiglie queer e costellazioni affettive tra passato e futuro”, in La Famiglia Queer, in Ácoma: rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani, V. 16, Spring 2019, pp. 5-15.
“Making Sense of Mess: Marginal Lives, Impossible Spaces”, Anglistica AION, V. 20.1, 2017, pp.1-7.
“A Whole Lot of Sunlight”: Urban Segregation and the Pursuit of Utopia in Lorrraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park”, Letterature d’America, v. 153, 2016, pp. 43-74.
“‘Senza esorcismi’: Cruising (1980) di William Friedkin, tra contestazioni infuriate e attrazioni fatali,” Ácoma, New Series, 9, Fall/Winter 2015, 41-54.
“Chinese Affection: Tennessee Williams’s Eccentricities of a Nightingale in Hong Kong”, RSA Journal, V. 25, 2015, 105-126.
“Young Lords Party: attivisti del Barrio tra isolamento e contaminazione urbana,” Ácoma, Rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani, V. 7, 2015. 55-67.
“Satisfied with the Stones: Notes on Masculinity, Land, and Family in Alani Apio’s Kāmau,” Anglistica - Issue 14 2 (2010), Ed. Cristina Bacchilega, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, Donatella Izzo. 67-77.
“L’uomo afroamericano negli anni Sessanta: Amiri Baraka e Dutchman,” Allegoria, XXII, 61, 2010. 37-57.
“Qualche domanda (sul) queer in Italia.” Ed. Marco Pustianaz, Italian Studies, 65: 2, 2010. 263-277

● Selected Invited Lectures

“When Speech Hurts: La libertà di parola negli U.S.A. e i suoi confini”, lecture in the lecture series of the Research Group (Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo) on The Age of Anger and Hate Speech, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 26 January 2023.
“California: Dreams, Nightmares, and the Imagination of Disaster”, Guest Lecture for the Ph.D. program of Dottorato in Studi Linguistici e Letterari, Università di Udine e Trieste, 25 November 2022.
“New Orleans. Note sulla città insondabile”, guest lecture, for a lecture series on Harbor Cities, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, 7 October, 2021.
“Circulating Americas: Transnationalism, Americanization, and the Hawaiian Case”, Centro Studi Americani, Rome, Italy, 3-5 May 2021.
“The Harlem Renaissance”, guest plenary lecture, undergraduate class on “Survey Course in U.S. Literature”, led by Prof. Emerita Shirley Geok-lin Lim, University of California Santa Barbara, USA, 19 November, 2019.
“Finding a Queer Space in Starsky and Hutch,” guest lecture for the Cultural Studies course (led by Prof. Donald Pease) in the M.A.L.S. program, Dartmouth College, NH, USA, August 9, 2016.

● Selected Conferences

“Why We Still Need to Talk About Matthew. Revealing America in The Laramie Project (2000)”. Altre alterità/Other Otherness. An International Conference, Università di Catania, 22-23 Settembre 2022.
“Boom and Loss in California: Exploring Didion’s Prisons, Cemeteries, and Asylum”, Joan Didion: Life and/with/through Words. An international Online Conference, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg/ Università degli Studi di Milano, 29-30 April, 2022.
“Contact and Friction on L.A. Public Transport. Reading the Porous City in Hisaye Yamamoto’s and Brando Skyhorse’s short stories”, in Connecting the Los Angeles Archipelago, University of Hull, United Kingdom, BAAS (British Association of American Studies), 21-23 April 2022.
“A Wasteland in Paradise: Joshua Dysart’s Goodnight Paradise (2018) and the Homeless Crisis in Venice Beach”, in Wastelands. International Conference, EAAS (European Association of American Studies), UNED, Madrid, Spain, 6-8 April, 2022.
“Joshua Dysart’s Goodnight Paradise (2018): Gentrification and the Homeless Crisis in Venice Beach” in Claiming the Global City: Transformation and Racial Conflict in the 20th and 21st centuries, AISNA 26th Biennial Conference, University of L’Aquila, 23-25 September 2021.
“Pacificismo: Cartografia, cultura indigena e potere alle Hawaii”, La cartografia tra realtà e immaginario, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 24 May 2021.
“Family, Genealogy, and Queer Parables in Disney/Pixar’s Moana and Coco”, panel on Disney Studies, at P.A.M.L.A. (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association), San Diego, California, USA, 14-17 November 2019.
“‘A Delayed Shutter-Camera’: Making Up Memories in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men”, presentation and chair (with S. Fusco) of the panel on “Photography and American Culture Within and Beyond Walls”, A.I.S.N.A. conference (Associazione Italiani Studi del Nord America), Ragusa, 26-28 September 2019.
“Justin Simien’s Dear White People: Cultural Appropriation and the Power of Narrative”: I.A.S.A. (International Association of American Studies), Alcala de Henares, Madrid, 8-10 July 2019.
“A Porous City: Reading a Queer New York in the 1970s in Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls (1994) and Edmund White’s City Boy (2009),” 32nd Conference of the British Association of America Studies (BAAS) and European Association of American Studies (EAAS), London, UK, 4-7 Aprile 2018.
“Death Drive, Blues, and the Lazarus Complex in August Wilson’s Fences (1983),” VIII World Conference IASA (International American Studies Association) “Marginalia: The Border of the Border” Laredo, Texas, USA, 19-21 Luglio 2017.
“‘Sepolto nell’occhio di questo blog’. Memoria, e ricerca di giustizia in Zahra’s Paradise (2011) di Amir e Khalil”, Graphic Novel: il racconto e le immagini della realtà, Dipartmento di Studi Umanistici, Università di Trieste, Italy, 22 November 2016.
“Wonderfully Sleazy: The controversy around William Friedkin’s Cruising and its Late Re-appropriation,” I.A.S.A. (International American Studies Association) Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, August 17-19, 2015.
“Dai samurai alla luna: Dan Kwong e le performance multimediali asiaticoamericane,” L’ibridazione delle forme e dei generi nella storia letteraria, Università di Napoli L’Orientale, 1 Aprile 2015.
“Nam Le, Monique Truong, and the Asian American Story.” Paper presented at PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, November 13-14, 2010.
“D.H.Hwang’s The Dance and the Railroad: Striking Nerds.” Paper presented at the International Conference Querying the Genealogy: Chinese American Literature and Literature in Chinese in the United States, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. June 1-4, 2005.

SELECTED PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT EVENTS

“Il Crogiuolo di Arthur Miller”, a discussion with the theater cast and director Filippo Dini of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and the audience. Teatro di Napoli, Mercadante, 22 November 2022.
“La scienza narrata con David Leavitt”, a talk with award-winning author David Leavitt, (with Prof. Mario di Bernardo, and Prof. Nicola Fusco and the U.S. Mission to Italy), 36th edition Futuro Remoto, Città della Scienza, Napoli, 22 November 2022. [online]
“Anything You Want. A Conversation with Afua Richardson and Carol Tyler”, in Women in Comics, in collaboration with Comicon, Arf and the U.S. Mission to Italy, 30 September, 2021, FOQUS (Fondazione Quartieri Spagnoli).
“Where We Stand: LGBTQI+ Rights. A Conversation with Chai Feldblum”, Transatlantic Thursdays, U.S. Mission to Italy, 20 May, 2021 [online].


MEMBERSHIPS

E.A.A.S. (European Association of American Studies) 2016—present
B.A.A.S. (British Association of American Studies) 2016—present
P.A.M.L.A. (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) 2010—present
A.I.S.N.A. (Associazione Italiana di Studi del Nord America) 2005—present
I.A.S.A. (International Association of American Studies) 2005—present
M.E.S.E.A. (Multi Ethnic Societies Europe and the Americas) 2005—2011