Giulia Tellini
Italian School Faculty
Email: gtellini@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.5727
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Ha conseguito laurea e dottorato di ricerca in Storia del Teatro all’Università di Firenze. Insegna Storia del Teatro presso il Centro di Cultura per Stranieri dell’Università di Firenze. Ha pubblicato saggi e recensioni su varie riviste, fra cui «Il castello di Elsinore», «Ariel» e «Italica». Collabora con la rivista web Drammaturgia.it. Nel 2012, sono usciti i suoi libri Storie di Medea (Firenze, Le Lettere) e Lezioni di Stilistica per stranieri (Firenze, Società Editrice Fiorentina).
Courses
Courses offered in the past four years.
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ITAL 3253 - Intro to Contemporary Italy
An Introduction to Contemporary Italy
Intended for students at the intermediate level, this course will afford the opportunity to expand conversation, writing, and reading skills while consolidating knowledge of the more difficult points of grammar. The contextual focus of the course is modern Italian culture including history, politics, and literature among other things. Italian films, short stories and essays, will enhance and complete the learning experience.
*Students are also encouraged to participate in all the workshops offered in the evening.*
Required Texts:
Daniela Bartalesi Graf, L’Italia dal fascismo ad oggi, Guerra, 2005
Susanna Nocchi, Grammatica pratica della lingua italiana, Firenze: Alma edizioni, 2007
Lia Levi, Una bambina e basta, Roma, E/O, 1994
Dizionario di Italiano: www.garzantilinguistica.it
Film:
Gli studenti devono obbligatoriamente guardare i seguenti film in programma:
C’eravamo tanto amati
/La meglio gioventù/
Caterina va in città
/Pummarò/
I cento passi
Additional reading materials will be provided by the instructors.
Summer 2010
ITAL 3301 - Grammar and Composition
This course aims at strengthening and developing the intricate linguistic competence that students must possess in order to decipher and produce various verbal codes. Special emphasis will be given to oral and written expression through a systematic review of complex linguistic structures. The mastery of grammar will be acquired through an intensive practice of a variety of exercises. Readings and discussions of special topics will culminate in the writing of short pieces of descriptive narrative and argumentative prose.
Required Texts: Una grammatica italiana per tutti. Edilingua 2. Livello Intermedio New Haven and London.
Additional material for the course will be provided by the Instructor
Summer 2011
ITAL 3304 - Italy Trends Lead Figures&Cult
Important Trends, Leading Figures and Cultural Moments in Italy
The aim of the course is to analyze and discuss cultural moments in Italian civilization through a series of discussions and debates based on important trends, leading figures and controversial and classical topics. The students will have the opportunity to improve the conversational skills needed to express their personal views and to expose the materials read.
Required Texts: PDF and additional material for the course will be provided by the Instructor.
*Students are also encouraged to participate in all the workshops offered in the evening*
Summer 2011
ITAL 3407 - Adv Grammar Comp &Oral Express ▹
Advanced Grammar, Composition and Oral Expression
This course enables students to construct progressively a repertoire of textual forms (narrative, descriptive, expressive, and argumentative) in order to communicate flexibly and fluently in writing. Concurrently, students will review fundamental grammatical structures and principles through numerous and varied exercises. Oral expression in all its aspects will be practiced in this course presenting, debating and persuading.
Required Text: 1) Giulia Tellini, Lezioni di Stilistica per stranieri, Firenze, Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2012. ISBN: 978-88-6032-221-0
2) PDF and additional material for the course will be provided by the Instructor.
All assignments submitted by students and corrected by the professor will be included in the mandatory portfolio
Summer 2012
ITAL 6601 - Stylistics
Stylistics: Techniques of Composition and Interpretation
The aim of this course is to help the students to find their own Italian voice while speaking and writing in Italian. This endeavour requires daily practice and a particular attention to problems of stylistics. Through the analysis of different language sectors (i.e. journalism, business, sports, contemporary jargon) in class, the students will gain better understanding of the Italian language in its various uses. Assignments will include translations, linguistic exercises, descriptions, narrations, summaries, essay writing, book reviews and oral presentations. (1 Unit)
All assignments submitted by students and corrected by the professor will be included in the mandatory portfolio
Required Text: L. Craici, Parlare e Scrivere Vallardi 2007, M. Sassu Frescura, Interferenze lessicali italiano-inglese. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1984). Recommended Texts: N. Zingarelli, Vocabolario della lingua italiana. Bologna: Zanichelli (latest edition); HarperCollins Sansoni Italian Dictionary. Inglese-Italiano, Italiano-Inglese. Firenze: Sansoni (latest edition).
Additional reading materials will be provided by the instructor
Language & StylisticsSummer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011
