Paolo Matteucci

• ITLN 1080 - Introductory Italian
• ITLN 2090 - Intermediate Italian
• FSIE 2300 - Topics in Italian Culture

A native of Italy, Paolo Matteucci has taught Italian language, literature, cinema and culture at the university level both in Canada and in the United States. He has a strong interest in methodologies of Action-research in teaching Italian as a foreign language, and he has published articles and reports on teaching, a book on the porosity of the Franco-Italian border in 19th and 20th century Italian, French and English literature, and several essays on autopoiesis, literature, and Italian neorealism. He also authored several translations from French and English into Italian, including an interview to Abenaki Canadian-American film-maker Olanis Obomsawin.

• PhD (Comparative Literature), University of Southern California
• MA (Comparative Literature), University of Southern Califrnia
• Laurea (Lettere e Filosofia), Università di Torino

Research interests

• Modern Italian cultural studies
• Modern and early modern Italian literary, visual and material culture
• Theories and practices of foreign language teaching
   

• "Le Alpi Maritime nella letteratura dell’Ottocento e del Novecento. Da Ugo Foscolo a Melania Mazzucco." Cuneo: Nerosubianco, 2014. ISBN 9788898007288.
• "Le Alpi Marittime: itinerario descrittivo e storico (1864) di Elisée Reclus." Prefazione e traduzione di Paolo Matteucci. Borgo San Dalmazzo: Quaderni di Marittime, 2022.
• Matteucci, Paolo. “La didattica dell’italiano a distanza. Bilancio e risultati di un semestre online in un’università canadese.” Revista Italiano—Universitade do Estato do Rio de Janeiro. Vol.12, No.1, 2021.
• Matteucci, Paolo. “Ghost in Translation. Espace et mobilité dans Ladri di biciclette (1948) de Vittorio de Sica et The Confirmation (2016) de Bob Nelson.” In: Rencontre des imaginaires, imaginaires transculturels au Canada et dans les Amériques. Adina Balint et alii, Ed. Winnipeg: Presses Universitaires de Saint-Boniface, 2018, p. 89-101.
• Matteucci, Paolo. “Questo romanzo non comincia. Indeterminabilità incipitaria ed explicitaria in Petrolio di Pier Paolo Pasolini.” Synergies Pays Riverains de la Baltique n.11, 2017.