Faculty
Giuseppina Mecchia
Associate Professor of French and Italian
Undergraduate Advisor in French (Students A-K)
Education
PhD, Princeton University
MA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
BA, Università degli Studi di Roma
Office
1328 B
Catherdral of Learning
412-624-5222
mecchia@pitt.edu
Teaching
Undergraduate courses
(Including 1000 level courses)
- French and Italian Poetry
- May 68 in France
- Autobiography and Politics in 19th Century France
- Literature and Politics in French Romanticism
- Women and War in 20th Century French and Francophone literature
- Written French I
Graduate courses
- French and Italian 20th Century poetry as marginal discourse
- Introduction to the Study of Literature for graduate students in French, Italian, German, and Slavic
- Marcel Proust
- Subjectivity in French Romanticism
- The Thought of Gilles Deleuze
- Political Theory in the 60s and 70s in France
Selected Publications
L’écrivain et la communauté: Maurice Blanchot et la politique de 1932 à 1968. Forthcoming by Rodopì, Amsterdam and New York, 2005.
La casa che Giacomo costrui, romanzo antropologico. Dedalo, Bari, 1992. Translation of the study by Donald S. Pitkin, The House that Giacomo Built, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
«Un coup de pistolet au milieu d’un concert: la Grande Guerre et l’irruption du présent dans le Temps de la Recherche», Marcel Proust aujourd’hui, 2, Nov. 2005 (forthcoming)
«Sujets en cours: sur le fonctionnement de certains concepts dans l’enseignement universitaire», Multitudes, Oct-Nov. 2005 (forthcoming)
Awards and Honors
March 2004: with Donna Gabaccia and Paula Kane, Global Academic Partnership grant, within the University Center for International Studies at Pittsburgh
Professional Service
Affiliated Member of the Cultural Studies Program
2002–present: Elected Member of the Senate Bylaws Committee
2002–present: Member of the Center for Western European Studies Steering Committee