Prof. Elisa Marani graduated from the Carlo Bo University in Urbino with a laurea in Lettere (specialized in Dutch and Flemish art history). She received her professional teaching qualification as a teacher of Italian (DITALS II) from The University for Foreigners in Siena and has been teaching Italian as a foreign language since 2007.
Marani has taught in the United States and in many Institutions in Rome. She has also worked for several years for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MIBAC) as a Museum Assistant Curator and for the Ministry of Public Education (MIUR). She has got a M.A. in Italian Studies from Middlebury College (USA) with a focus on Italian cinema and Didactics of Italian as a foreign language.
Degrees
M.A. in Didactics of Italian as a Foreign Language, Italian Cinema and Literature, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA
B.A. in Humanities (Italian Literature and Art History), 110/110 Summa cum Laude, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
DITALS II, European Certification for Teaching Italian As a Second Language, The University for Foreigners, Siena, italy
Year abroad, Sweet Briar College, Vermont, USA
TEFL Certificate (Teaching English as a Foreign language)
TEFL Certificate in Teaching BUSINESS English
Courses Taught
ITAL 1001 - Italian Language I
ITAL 2002 - Intermediate Italian Language II
ITAL 3020 - Italian Through Art History
ARTH 2000 - Topics in Art History: Women Artists in Italy and Northern EU
Publications
“Il resto di niente (o forse no): dal romanzo al film all’ Italia contemporanea” (http://www.lusosofia.net/; http://www.lusosofia.net/textos/20161117- debora_ricci_fabio_mario_da_silva_feminino_plura.pdf: Novembre 2016, pp. 319-328)
Napoli 1799-Napoli 1943: perché una rivoluzione fallisce e un ‘gioco da scugnizzi’ riesce, Rivista Luci e Ombre, Anno IV Numero 1, Primavera 2016, pp. 90-117 (http://rivistalucieombre.com/napoli-1799-napoli-1943-perche-una-rivoluzi... gioco-da-scugnizzi-riesce-di-elisa-marani/).
Considerazioni su Antonio Gramsci, Revista Italiano UERJ Vol. 5 nº 5 – 2014, pp. 81-98.
Carlo Bernari e Antonio Gramsci: chi non piace a Togliatti… è fuori dal Partito! Abstract Online: http://www.enricobernard.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/il-Neorealista- numero- 16.pdf (ongoing publication expected: Spring 2015 on «Rivista di Studi Italiani» directed by Anthony Verna).
Short Stories
"Le gazze ladre" in INCONTRARSI, Racconti di donne migranti e native, 2012, Ediesse, Roma '
‘Belle si nasce’ in AA.VV., Antologia , 2012, "Grafica Elettronica" srl, Napoli
Reviews
Olga Zorzi Pugliese, La scrittura dell’arte nel « Libro del Cortegiano», «Letteratura e arte», 3, 2005, pp. 23-33 in Rassegna della Letteratura italiana, 2010
Articles
Per un’ antologia delle donne artiste nel Nord Europa dal XV al XVII secolo, Notizie daPalazzo Albani, XXXVIII, 2008, pp. 15-35
Short Stories
L’eremita, in Tarocchi: l’immagine, 2006, Spartaco, Civitavecchia
Awards
First National Literary Prize: Caffè Letterario Casa Internazionale delle Donne (Rm) under the patronage of Provincia di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali, Rome, Italy – Short Story “Le gazze ladre”, 2012
First National Literary Prize X ed: A.I.D.A. (Associazione Interculturale Donne Assieme) – Short Story, “Come stai”?, 2011
Second National Literary Prize for Women‟s writing IV ed.: ‘Donne..Ieri..oggi…domani’ promoted by Circolo Neoilluminista Donna Olimpia Short story ‘Belle si nasce”, 2011