About SBU

Troncelliti, Latifah

Name:
Dr. Latifah Troncelliti
Latifah Troncelliti, Ph.D.

Academic School:
School of Arts and Sciences

Academic Department:
Modern Languages

Titles/Responsibilities:
Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
Phone: (716) 375-2050
E-mail: ltroncel@sbu.edu 

Office Location/Hours:
Plassmann 206-G8

Academic Degrees:
  • Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures (Italian, French), with distinction, University of Oregon.
  • M.A., Romance Languages and Literatures (Italian, French), University of Oregon.
  • M.A., Franciscan Studies: Church History. Thesis: “The Unbearable Lightness of Francis’ Forma Vitae.” Dir.: Michael Cusato (Summer 2011).
  • B.F.A., Painting, University of Oregon.
  • B.A., Italian, University of Oregon.
     

Accomplishments:

Publications 

  • The Two Parallel Realities of Alberti and Cennini: The Power of Writing and the Visual Arts in the Italian Quattrocento.  Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 
  • “The Monastery of Santa Lucia in Foligno and the Legenda of Santa Chiara. From beguinage to scriptorium.” The Cord, Volume 60 No 2 ( St.Bonaventure: New York, April – June 2010): 118-137.
  • “All’ombra della  Controriforma. Dal Discorso di Paleotti alla Ricotta di Pasolini” Italica, Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, 84 (2007): 548-555.
  • “The Libro dell'Arte in Translation: A Historical Anamorphosis.” Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies, 6 (2003):113-134.
  • “The Making of Cennino Cennini.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 30.2 (Winter 2004): 291-325.

Scholarly Presentations 

  • September, 2009:  “Ozpetek’s Cuore sacro and Pasolini’s Teorema. The eternal conflict” RMMLA Conference, Snowbird, Utah.
  • October, 2007:  “Technology in the classroom” Cultura Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
  • October, 2005:  “Telecollaborative Web Project for the Teaching of Italian.”AATI Conference, Washington D.C.  
  • April, 2005:  “All’ombra della Controriforma: dai Discorsi di  Paleotti a La Ricotta di Pasolini.”  AAIS Conference, Chapel Hill, N.C.
  • January, 2004:  “Yukio Yashiro and the Primavera’s Unsolved Mystery.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu.
  • May, 2003:  Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, Dickinson College. “Renaissance, a Modern Phenomenon: Mastro Botticello.”
  • November, 2000:  “The Hegemony of Narrative and the Visual Arts.”  American 
    Association Teachers of Italian, Toronto, Canada.
  • April, 2002:  “The Libro dell'Arte in Translation.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
  • February, 2002: Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, Dickinson College.  “The
    Progressive Separation of Art Theory and Art Practice.”
  • November, 2001:  Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, Dickinson College. “The Libro dell'Arte in Translation: A Historical Anamorphosis.”
  • October, 2000:  “Jacob Burckhardt’s Dream: Renaissance Man.”  Romance Languages Graduate Student Conference, Internal Voices/External Echoes. University of Oregon.
  • October, 2000:  “Art Theory and Art Practice in the Italian Quattrocento: Cennino 
    Cennini and Leon Battista Alberti.”  Image and Imagery. International Conference on Literature and the Arts. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
  • April, 2000:  “La teoria e la pratica  nell’arte pittorica del Quattrocento.”  American Association of  Italian Studies. New York.
  • April, 1999:  “Equilibri spaziali in Dario Bellezza e Vittorio Tondelli.” American 
    Association of  Italian Studies. Eugene, Oregon.

Current Research Interests/Projects:
  • Language acquisition
  • Pedagogy of Italian language and culture
  • Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature
  • Modern Italian literature
  • Italian cinema
  • Religious studies