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About Costanza Gislon Dopfel

Upcoming publications:
-Maternal Materialities. Objects, Rituals and Material Evidence of Early Modern Childbirth. Edited by Costanza Gislon Dopfel. Publisher: Brepols Academic Publishing.
-Blessed Fertility. Art, Politics and Women in the Italian Renaissance. Publisher: Routledge Publishing.

Positions

2017 - 2022 Chair, Art and Art History, Saint Mary's College of California
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2005 - 2009 Chair, World Languages and Cultures, Saint Mary's College of California
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2004 - 2005 Director, International Area Studies, Saint Mary's College of California
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2002 Teaching Fellow, Stanford University ‐ Introduction to the Humanities
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Member, Core Curriculum Committee Global Perspectives and American Diversity, Saint Mary's College of California
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Member, International Programs Curriculum Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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Member, Model Implementation Committee, Core Curriculum, Saint Mary's College of California
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Member, Museum Task Force, Saint Mary's College of California
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Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2023 - Present NEH Humanities Connections
National Endowment for the Humanities
Role: Director
2023 - Present Pedagogy Innovation Grant
Provost Award
2022 - 2023 Folger Institute Academic Research Fellowship
Folger Shakespeare Library
2022 Venetian Research Program
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
2021 NEH Faculty Research Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities
2020 NEH Summer Research Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities
2017 - 2018 Provost Research Grant
Saint Mary's College of California
2003 Alumni -Faculty Grant
Saint Mary's College of California
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Honors and Awards

  • Honorable Mention, Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association and Routledge, 2021
  • Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Winter/Spring 2017
  • Visiting Scholar, Universita' di Bologna, Fall 2017

Courses

  • January Term: Barbarians!
  • January Term: Living the Middle Ages
  • January Term :To Be A Knight
  • January Term: Good Girls and Bad Girls of the Middle Ages
  • AH002 :Non-Western Art
  • AH001: Western Art
  • AH 145: Baroque Art
  • AH 145: Renaissance Art
  • AH 145: Medieval Art
  • ML183: Fascism. A multi-disciplinary approach
  • ML182: Romanticism through Literature and Art
  • ML180: Women in Medieval Literature. Cross listed with Women’s Studies
  • ML 181 Renaissance Women Writers. Cross listed with Women’s Studies
  • ML183: Boccaccio’s Women. Crosslisted with Women’s Studies
  • ML 186: Italian Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
  • ML 186: Italian Culture from Prehistory to the Renaissance
  • ML126: Italian Film

Education

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Ph. D. Italian and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
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M.A. Italian and German, Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
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B.A. German and English, Comparative Literature, Istituto di Lingue e Letterature Moderne
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Links

Contact Information

Office 
Brother Cornelius Art Center - 2B

Mail: P.O. Box 4730

Office Hours - Fall 2022
TuTh 3:00-4:00 p.m.

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Honors, Awards, & Grants (13)

Publications (21)