Yuri Sangalli

sangalliAssistant Professor, Italian

Ph.D. Toronto
Office: UC 4313
Extension: 83790
Email: ysangall@uwo.ca

Areas of Interest and Research

  • Italian, European and American Cinema
  • Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
  • Film Theory and Criticism
  • Literary Theory and Criticism
  • Italian Language and Culture 

Publications, Presentations, and Awards

PUBLICATIONS

"Carlo Testa. Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures". Rivista di Studi Italiani XX, 1 (2002): 538-541. Book Review.

"Gli ambienti interiorizzati nella Tetralogia di Michelangelo Antonioni". Bollettino '900 - Electronic Newsletter of '900 Italian Literature 2 (2001). Universit? di Bologna: 2001. 
http://www.unibo.it/boll900/numeri/2001-ii/W-bol/Sangalli/sangalli_frame.html (temporary)
http://www.unibo.it/boll900/numeri/2001-ii/sangalli_frame.html
ISSN 1124-1578.

"Space and Time in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Roman Trilogy". Nemla Italian Studies 23-24 (2000): 61-84.

"Interiorized Settings in Antonioni's Tetralogia". Bollettino '900 - Electronic Newsletter of '900 Italian Literature 2 (2000), Universit? di Bologna: 2000.
http://www.unibo.it/boll900/numeri/2000-ii/sangalli_frame.html
http://www3.unibo.it/boll900/numeri/2000-ii/sangallitesto.html

"Trapani e la sua provincia". Salvatore Bancheri, ed. The Trapanese Community of Toronto. Welland: Edition Soleil Publishing Inc., 1996.


GUEST CONTRIBUTOR

"Italian Cinema: From the Silent Era to Neorealism". Parmegiani, S., Polizies, E., eds. Basic Italian. Boston: Thomson Heinle, (forthcoming 2008).

"Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present". Parmegiani, S., Polizies, E., eds. Basic Italian. Boston: Thomson Heinle, (forthcoming 2008).


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005: Conle, Carola. Encounters of Ethos: Students' Experiences of Media Narratives and the Empirical Power of the Imagination. A four year project to be completed and published in 2008. Advised on theoretical approach, revised manuscript.

1997: Reference Aids to Italian Language and Literature. Third edition (Reference series No. 23). Revised and Upgraded database for the University of Toronto Library. 


PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW

BOOKS

Cultures of Modernization: Italian Literature and Film. 1954-1964 (Working title).

Crossing the Boundaries in 20th Century Italian Literature and Film (Working Title). John Mastrogianakos and Yuri Michele Sangalli, eds. 

ARTICLES

"Rural Heroes, from the Peplum Film to the Spaghetti Western" (Working title).. 


CONFERENCE PAPERS

"Vigilante Heroes and the 1970s Revenge Film"
Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Italian Studies, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Universit? di Trieste.
Trieste (Italy), June 29, 2007.

"Rural Heroes, from the Peplum Film to the Spaghetti Western".
Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Italian Studies, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University.
Toronto, May 27, 2006.

"Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo, the Commedia all'italiana and the Contemporary City".
Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Italian Studies, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario.
London (ON), May 29, 2005.

"Cityscapes in Italian Cinema During the Economic Miracle".
Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies.
Washington DC, March 13, 2003.

"A Culture of Protest: Italian Cinema after 1968".
Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention.
Hartford (Conn), March 31, 2001.

"Space and Time in Antonioni's Tetralogy". 
Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies.
New York, April 15, 2000.

"Rome in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini. 1961-1963". 
Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention.
Buffalo (NY), April 8, 2000.

"The Experience of Place: Landscapes of the Miracolo Economico in Antonioni". Comparative Directions Conference, University of Toronto. 
Toronto, April 10, 1999.

"Dehumanized settings and Inner Lives: the Interiorization of the Contemporary Landscape in Antonioni's Tetralogia". 
Space in Literature and Film, VII Annual Conference on Cross-currents in Literature and Film, School of Language and Literature, University College Cork.
Cork (Ireland), April 25, 1998.

"Cos? ? (se vi pare): la novella e il dramma".
Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Italian Studies, Learned Societies Congress, Brock University. 
St. Catharines (ON), May 25, 1996. 


GUEST LECTURER

"Divorce Italian Style: the South as the Ideal Terrain for a Political Allegory".
London (ON), February 22, 2006.

"Pier Paolo Pasolini's Sal?". 
An Eye for Scandal: 7th Graduate Conference Film Series, University of Western Ontario.
London (ON), March 22, 2005.

"Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets". 
Italian American Life in Film (Film Series), Nazareth College.
Rochester (NY), November 25, 2001.