Current Tenure: Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Department : Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Italian)
Present Rank: Assistant Professor as of fall 2006
EDUCATION :
Baccalaureate : University of Windsor, Sunset Ave., Windsor , Ont.
Bachelor of Arts , Italian Literature [Minor: Italian Language] 1988.
Università degli Studi di Napoli : Naples , Italy Law , Degree not completed
Graduate : Wayne State University Detroit , Michigan - Master of Arts, Italian Literature [Minor: Italian Language] 1990
University of Toronto Toronto , Ontario - Philosophy Doctor , Italian Literature Minor: Italian . .. Language 1996
STUDY ABROAD - SUMMER PROGRAM IN ITALY : Wayne in Abruzzo - Four-Week Educational Program in Gagliano Aterno: Founder and Director - 2003-present PUBLICATIONS
Books:
De Benedictis, Raffaele. Ordine e struttura musicale nella Divina commedia. Firenze : European Academic Publishing, 2000.
Authored: Pier Paolo Pasolini, L'usignolo della chiesa cattolica,Concordanza. Windsor : Wheeler, 1990.
Articles published in refereed academic journals:
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “That History Which is Not in Umberto Eco's Baudolino ”. Forum Italicum (Spring 2002, vol. 36.1)
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “The Mafia, a Cultural Legacy”. International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts 14.1 (2001): 32-53.
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “Comedy, Tragedy, Humour in Life is Beautiful ”, Soleil , April, 2001.
Articles submitted for publication in refereed academic journals:
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “The Piazza: Identity of Space and Theatre of Life.” Forum Italicum , June, 2007
De Benedictis, Raffale. “Again on Inferno 3.58-60, Attempting to Untangle the Philological Knot of vidi e conobbi l'ombra di colui che fece per viltade il gran rifiuto .” Forum Italicum , November, 2007
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “ Italy , The Crossroads Between Religious Fundamentalism and Economic Despotism.” Italica , March, 2007 (accepted)
Translations:
Mion A., Slvano. Le memorie di un emigrante alpino . Trans. Raffaele De Benedictis. Windsor : Verba, 2000.
Eco, Umberto. “How to Shipwreck With Success. The Story of a Titanic Success.” From “Minerva's Matchbook”, trans. R. De Benedictis. April 16, 1998.
Eco, Umberto. “Can I Kill in Order to Draw Organs? What Does this Have to Do With the Death Penalty?”. From “Minerva's Matchbook”, trans. R. De Benedictis. February 7, 1998.
Articles Published in non-refereed Magazines : # 9
Articles published in daily Italian newspaper(s) # 26
REVIEWS:
Eco, Umberto. Apocalypse Postponed:Essays by Umberto Eco.
Ed. Robert Lomley. Bloomington : Indiana UP, 1994. Pp. 227. Italica (Spring 1997) 123-24.
Eco, Umberto. Baudolino. Milano: Bompiani, 2000 . Pp. 526. Forum Italicum (Spring, 2001).
Kubrick, Stanley. “Eyes Wide Shut.” Corriere Canadese (Spring, 2000).
M.A. THESES DIRECTED:
Irma Lacuku, “Funzionalità quale parametro universale di bellezza.” Department Romance Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University, 2006
Lanfranco De Gasperis, “Introduzione e traduzione di Morte di Galeazzo Ciani .” Enzo Siciliano Department of English and Romance Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University, 2004
Stefania Silvestri, “Intertestualità trasformativa nei romanzi di Eco.” Department of Romance Languages nd Literatures, Wayne State University, 1996
PhD THESIS COMMITTEE: Maria Basirico-Brasile, “Disenchantment of Modernity in the Works of Gustavo Martin Garzo.” Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University, 2006 VIDEO PROMOS WAYNE IN ABRUZZO , FALL 2005, SPRING 2007
TV BOOK REVIEWS: # 16
TV SHOWS PRODUCED : # 988 Trillium Cable TV, Shaw Cable TV, Cogeco Cable TV 1984-2004, Canada
RADIO SHOWS PRODUCED : #195 at CHYR Radio Canada , 96.7 f.m.
CREATIVE PERFORMANCES : #1 PLAY in Mirandese Dialect. De Benedictis, Raffaele. Na sacca dj njucj. Isernia: Sigma Pubblicitaria, 1984.
TEXTBOOKS : Laboratory Dialogues for Insieme Textbook, 1993.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “ Toward a Semiotization of Discursive Survival in Dante's Inferno .” Semiotic Association of America , New Orleans , Lousiana, Fall 2007
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “Summer Educational Program in Gagliano Aterno , Italy .” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages , Nashville , TN , Fall 2006
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “ Italy , The Crossroads Between Religious Fundamentalism and Economic Despotism.” Third Annual International Robert Dombroski Italian Conference , University of Connecticut , Fall 2006
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “Il dubbio filologico di Inferno 3.58-60.” Centro Internazionale di Studi Celestiniani , L'Aquila , Italy , July, 2005
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