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Giulia Pellizzato is a literature and education scholar.

She conducted research at Harvard from 2020 to 2024, where she worked as a Post-doc, TA, and Pedagogy Fellow.

She is obtaining her second PhD in Value Creating Education for Global Citizenship at DePaul University, Chicago, with a project on dialogic engagement with literature and nature in Daisaku Ikeda's pedagogy. She is expanding this inquiry through her second PhD, in

During the year 2021 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the inter-university PRIN project "Transatlantic Transfers: The Italian Presence in Post-War America", with Università del Piemonte Orientale.

Before Harvard, Pellizzato was a Research Fellow in the Italian Department at Brown University, thanks to a postdoctoral grant funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project: "An Adventure Overseas, Almost a 'Renaissance'. Italian fiction in the United States after World War Two". She obtained her first PhD in Italian Studies at Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland, in 2018.

Pellizzato's research interests include 21st, 20th and 19th-century Italian and transnational literature, the transatlantic circulation of literary works and ideas, translation studies, value-creating education for global citizenship, environmental education, collaborative and creative writing, and pedagogy of literature.
Her published research focuses on women in publishing, transatlantic literature, translation practices, collaborative writing, reception studies, archives of the twentieth century, and authors including Goffredo Parise, Jolanda Insana, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Leonardo Sciascia, Ippolito Nievo.

Her first book, "Prezzolini e Parise: un'amicizia transoceanica", was published by Leo S. Olschki in 2021.

Activities

Employment (5)

Harvard University: Cambridge, US

2020-09-01 to 2023-06-30 | Research Associate, TA, Pedagogy Fellow (Romance Languages and Literatures)
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Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro: Vercelli, Piemonte, IT

2021-02-01 to 2022-01-31 | Postoctoral Fellow (PRIN "Transatlantic Transfers: The Italian Presence in Post-War America 1949-1972")
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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Bern, BE, CH

2019-03-01 to 2020-10-31 | Principal Investigator (Early Postdoc.Mobility Grant)
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Università della Svizzera Italiana Accademia di Architettura: Mendrisio, TI, CH

2018-01-01 to 2018-07-31 | Assistant (Istituto di storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura)
Employment
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Università della Svizzera Italiana Istituto di studi italiani: Lugano, TI, CH

2013-06-15 to 2017-08-31 | PhD and assistant
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Education and qualifications (4)

DePaul University: Chicago, Illinois, US

Ph.D. in Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship (Department of Leadership, Language and Curriculum - College of Education)
Education
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Università della Svizzera Italiana Istituto di studi italiani: Lugano, TI, CH

2013-06-15 to 2018-12-14 | PhD in Lingua, Letteratura e Civiltà Italiana
Education
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Università Ca' Foscari Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici: Venezia, Veneto, IT

2009-09-28 to 2012-02-16 | Laurea Magistrale in Filologia e Letteratura Italiana
Education
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Università degli Studi di Siena: Siena, Toscana, IT

2006-10-02 to 2009-09-20 | Laurea in Lettere (curriculum moderno)
Education
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Professional activities (8)

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

2020-09-01 to present | Associate Researcher (Romance Languages and Literatures)
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Harvard University: Cambridge, US

2023 | Solomon Lincoln Fund Teaching Prize, awarded for Excellence in Teaching and Service (Romance Languages and Literatures)
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Giulia Pellizzato

Harvard University: Cambridge, US

2023 | Solomon Lincoln Fund Teaching Prize (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Distinction
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Harvard University: Cambridge, US

2022-05-31 | Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard College)
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Harvard University: Cambridge, US

2020-09-01 to 2022-05-31 | Founding member of RLL Environmental Group (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Service
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Brown University: Providence, Rhode Island, US

2019-03-01 to 2020-08-31 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Italian Studies)
Invited position
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Università della Svizzera italiana: Lugano, CH

2017-04-01 to 2018-11-30 | PhD senator on the Academic Senate
Service
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Università della Svizzera italiana: Lugano, CH

2017-09-01 to 2018-09-01 | PhD Representative on the Faculty Council (Communication Science)
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Funding (4)

Course Innovation Lincoln Fund

2022-08 to 2022-12 | Grant
Harvard University (Cambridge, US)
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An adventure overseas, almost a "Renaissance". Italian fiction in the United States after World War Two

2019-03 to 2020-10 | Grant
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Bern, CH)
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Giulia Pellizzato

Blanche Wolf Knopf's Transnational Networks

Grant
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin (TX, TX, US)
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Novecento literary archives in Rome

Grant
Equal Opportunities Service (USI) (Lugano, CH)
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