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Terri Frongia |
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665 2nd floor of Richard W. Call Building, Petaluma campus
Petaluma office phone: (707) 778-3968 |
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Benvenuti a tutti! Welcome to my faculty webpage, and, I hope, to the wonderful world of Italian language and culture! Italy has been a part of my life for many years, and I look forward to sharing with you its rich history, beauties, and challenges, both ancient and contemporary. Please bookmark this website, as new information and linked resources will be added regularly. Also, feel free to email me with suggestions for improving this site. And remember-- whatever your learning goals, SRJC is where you want to be! Schedule
4:00 - 5:00 Office Hour 665 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 5:00 - 7:00 ITAL 1 696 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 7:00 - 7:30 Office Hour 665 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 8:30 - 10:30 ITAL 1 696 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 10:30 - 11:00 Office Hour 665 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 12:00 - 2:00 ITAL 1 2703 Maggini Hall, Santa Rosa campus 2:00 - 2:30 Office Hour Emeritus Language Lab, SR campus 4:00 - 5:00 Office Hour Emeritus Language Lab, SR campus 5:00 - 7:00 ITAL 2 1588 Emeritus Hall, Santa Rosa 4:00 - 5:00 Office Hour 665 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 5:00 - 7:00 ITAL 1 696 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 7:00 - 7:30 Office Hour 665 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 8:30 - 10:30 ITAL 1 696 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 10:30 - 11:00 Office Hour 665 Call Hall, Petaluma campus 12:00 - 2:00 ITAL 1 2703 Maggini Hall, Santa Rosa campus 2:00 - 2:30 Office Hour Emeritus Language Lab, SR campus 4:00 - 5:00 Office Hour Emeritus Language Lab, SR campus 5:00 - 7:00 ITAL 2 1588 Emeritus Hall, Santa Rosa
Classes
Section 5011 of ITAL 2: Elementary Italian-Part 2 -- Spring 2013 Section 6473 of ITAL 1: Elementary Italian-Part 1 -- Spring 2013 Section 7738 of ITAL 1: Elementary Italian-Part 1 -- Spring 2013 |
Biography
Along with my husband and three children, I travel to Italy frequently, particularly to visit my husband's family on the island of Sardinia. I have also traveled in Mexico, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Singapore, and Bali. My teaching experience includes Italian, art history, humanities, mythology, classics/ pagan culture, and comparative literature. Hobbies I most enjoy include traveling, painting, reading historical mysteries, watching our backyard chickens, and collecting antique/ vintage items. Non vedo l'ora di fare la tua conoscenza! (I can't wait to meet YOU!)
Education
PhD in Comparative Literature/Interdisciplinary (English, Italian, French, Spanish/ Art History and Aesthetics), from the University of California, Riverside. MA in Comparative Literature, with Visual Art emphasis, from the University of California, Riverside. BA in Art History from the University of California, Riverside. AA in Liberal Arts from Santa Ana College. INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: Independent research and travel to Bali; France; Greece; Italy; Singapore; United Kingdom. Centro Studi "Dante Alghieri"-- Urbania, Italy. Istituto Linguistico "Fiorenza"-- Florence, Italy. Universita` per Stranieri Perugia, Italy. Emphases: Italian Language, History, Culture; Etruscan and Medieval Art. University of California Education Abroad Program "Centro Studi, Padua"; Universita` di Padova; Universita` di Venezia. Emphases: Italian Literature; Modern Art. Loyola University Year Abroad, Rome Center Rome, Italy. Emphases: Classical, Renaissance and Baroque Art; Mythology.
Academic Experience
College of Marin-- Dean, Humanities and Instructional Technologies. University of California, Riverside-- Interim Director, Media Resources; Manager, Distance Learning and Instructional Development; Director, Teaching Assistant Development Program (TADP). University of Redlands, Alfred North Whitehead College-- Adjunct Faculty. Riverside Community College-- Adjunct Professor. California State University, Long Beach-- Lecturer. University of California, Riverside-- Research Fellow, Teaching Fellow, Instructor, Associate In Italian, Teaching Assistant.
Work and Consulting Experience
** A semester abroad teaching experience which took me to Florence! Spring 2010 was spent in the most beautiful Renaissance city in the world, with almost 100 students and three faculty colleagues from different Northern California community colleges. Check out www.santarosa.edu/sa for information about how YOU can participate in SRJC's Florence Study Abroad! ** Selection by the Department of Italian Studies at New York University and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo` as a juror in the eighth edition of the Zerilli-Marimo`/City of Rome Prize for Italian Narrative. This is an international award enabling contemporary writers in Italian to be translated into English so that their works may enjoyed by a broader world audience. ** Ongoing participation as a guest reviewer and/or editor for various Italian language textbooks and online materials by the publishers of Ciao!, Avanti! and Percorsi. ** Faculty contributor to the "Customized Guided Tours" project, designed to electronically enhance student learning by users of Stokstad and Cothren's Art History textbook (Pearson Publishing). ** Frongia Freelancing, Translator, Interpreter, Writer, Tutor. Clients included Toro Irrigation International (product catalogs); Hunter Engineering (management correspondence with corporate headquarters in Italy); Riverside County Courts; private individuals. ** Univeristy of California Education Abroad Program/ Padua Center- Bilingual office assistant and coordinator of the reciprocity program (an exchange program for Italian faculty and university students).
Professional Involvement and Community Service
North Bay Italian Cultural Foundation (NBICF) American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) PARTICIPANT: Invited Presenter: Foreign Language Association of Northern California; California Community Colleges Academic Senate Summer Curriculum Institute; Lilly Conference on College Teaching, West; Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC); Directors of Educational Technology/California Higher Education (DET/CHE),Technology in Education (TechEd). Attendee: National Annual Conferences, League for Innovation in the Community Colleges; Community College League of California, California Community Colleges, Consortium for Staff Development (4C/SD), National Council on Staff, Professional, and Organizational Development (NCSPOD). Past Member: Board, Public Television KRCB (Rohnert Park); Steering Committee, Technology in Education Conference (TechED); Executive Council, Consortium for Open Learning; UCR Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committee; Congressman Brown Technology, Industry, & Education Roundtable; Inland Empire Educational Summit; Steering Committee, All-University Conference on Technology, UC System.
Presentations and Publications
BOOKS Piazza Nostra: The Italian Learning Experience. Kendall-Hunt. (In press.) The Grad Student's Guide to Getting Published, with Alida Allison. ARCO (Prentice Hall), 1992 (2nd printing, 1993). ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS Tales of Old Prague: Of Ghettos, Passover, and the Blood Libel, in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 7: 2&3 (Spring 1996): 146-162. Pedagogy, Aesthetics, and Humanism, the Three Muses of Italian Children’s Literature Theory, in The Lion and the Unicorn, 19:1 (June 1995): 50-70. Merlin's Fathers: The Sacred and the Profane. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 18:3 (Fall 1993): 120-125. Archetypes, Stereotypes, and the Female Hero: Transformations in Contemporary Perspectives. Mythlore, 18:1 (Autumn 1991). ARTICLES IN BOOKS Cosmifantasies: Humanistic Visions of Immortality in Italian Science Fiction, in Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, George Slusser, Gary Westfahl & Eric Rabkin editors. University of Georgia Press, 1996. Active Mentorship in Scholarly Publishing: Why, What, Who, How, in The Politics and Processes of Scholarship, Joseph M. Moxley and Lagretta T. Lenker, editors. Greenwood Press, 1995. Good Wizard/Bad Wizard: Merlin and Faust Archetypes in Contemporary Children’s Literature. Merlin Versus Faust: Contending Archetypes in Western Culture, edited by Charlotte Spivack. Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. We're on the Eve of 2000: Writers and Critics Speak Out on HyperCard, Cyberpunk, and the (New?) Nature of Narrative, with Alida Allison. Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. University of Georgia Press, 1992. From Othello to Otello: Ira Over Gelosia, with Jean-Pierre Barricelli. Melopoiesis. New York University Press, 1988. ARTICLES IN REFERENCE WORKS Yarbro's Historical Novel for Young Adults: Locadios Apprentice; Diana Wynne Jones Comic Fantasy, Howl's Moving Castle; and Break of Dark: Robert Westall's Eerie Short Stories for Youth in Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Vol. 6. Beacham Publishing, 1994. Italo Calvino. Magill’s Survey of World Literature. Cavendish Publishers, 1992. Italo Calvino. Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Revised Edition. Salem Press, 1993. A Conversation with Leonardo, by John Ciardi, A Magus, by John Ciardi, Provisional Conclusions, by Eugenio Montale, and The Wall, by Eugenio Montale. Masterplots II: Poetry. Salem Press, 1992. Dino Buzzati, O. Henry, Tommaso Landolfi, and Alberto Moravia: Revised, updated, and expanded articles in Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Revised Edition. Salem Press, 1993. OTHER Various Santa Rosa Junior College electronic and traditional publications (e.g., College Catalog, websites, the "Quick Curriculum Guide," etc. 2000-2006. Videoteleconferencing Partnerships for Community Redevelopment. The International Association of Science & Technology for Development CATE’2000 Conference Proceedings, 2000. Electrifying Education@UCR. Distance Learning Newsletter, UC Riverside, 1996. Case Studies of Distance Learning at UCR. Distance Learning, Media Resources UC Riverside, 1996. The Distance Learning Handbook for Media Interns. Distance Learning, Media Resources UC Riverside, 1995. A Student's Guide to Taking Courses Via Videoteleconferencing. Distance Learning, Media Resources UC Riverside, 1994. Teaching Excellence: A Resource Book for the UCR Classroom, revised edition; co-editor/co-author. TA Development Program, Graduate Division, UC Riverside, 1989. Whose Text is This Anyway? and Word or Image: Necessary Opposition? and What does it mean to be human?: Stephen R. Donaldson at UCR. The J. Lloyd Eaton Collection Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 2 (1989). RECENT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS California Language Teachers' Association (CLTA) Conference, 2012 (Los Angeles) California Community College Foreign Languages (CCCFLC) Conference, 2012, 2011 (Santa Rosa; San Francisco) Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Conference, 2012, 2011, 2009 (San Francisco; Berkeley) SRJC PDA Days, 2012-2001 (Santa Rosa)
Honors and Awards
Management Team Outstanding Colleague Award, Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC). SRJC Instructional Improvement Grant of $45,000 for initiatives in developmental education. College of Marin (CoM) Partnership for Excellence Grant of $265,000 for non-credit and credit ESL program and faculty development. California Community Colleges Economic Development Grant for one of five statewide Centers for Information Technology. $178,000 (awarded but not funded due to state budget reductions) for creation of Marin International Information Technologies Institute. CoM Partnership for Excellence Grants of $220,000 for multiple technology-based and student success educational initiatives. Children’s Literature Association Research Fellowship of $500 for research on children’s literature and its criticism in Italy. University of California (UC)Riverside Graduate Council Pre-doctoral Humanities Fellowship of $12,000 for research on 16th-17th century aesthetics. UC Riverside Humanities Division Independent Research Assistantship of $1,000 for research on historical interrelationships of concepts of the marvelous and the sublime in 16th-17th century art and literature. UC Riverside Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant of $1,500 for dissertation research in Italy. UC Riverside Graduate Student Council Fellowship of $9,000. Advanced Course for Foreign Docents at Perugia University (1 of 150 worldwide) from the Italian Ministry of Public Education. Ph.D. Qualifying Exams passed with Distinction. MA Exams passed with Letter of Superior Pass. Teaching Assistant of the Year Award for Italian, University of California, Riverside.
Links
Piazza Nostra: The Italian Learning Experience Publisher's website summary of Beginning Italian textbook |
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