Faculty
Giuseppina Mecchia
Associate Professor of French and Italian
Director, Program in Cultural Studies
Office: 1328 B Catherdral of Learning
Tel: 412-624-5222
E-mail: mecchia@pitt.edu
Education
PhD, French, Princeton University
MA, French, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
BA, Università degli Studi di Roma, French and German
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
- Marcel Proust and In Search of Things Past
- Modernity and Postmodernity in 19th-Century France
- The French and Italian Postmodern Novel
- French and Italian Political Thought in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries
- Subjectivity in French Romanticism
- The Thought of Gilles Deleuze
Selected Publications
"The Expression of Biopolitics: Michel Foucault, Antonin Artaud and the Schizoanalytic Realm," in Biopolitics. A reader. Adam Sitze and Tim Campbell, ed., Duke University Press (forthcoming 2011).
"Moro's Body Between Enlightenment and PostModernism: Terror, Murder and Meaning in the Writings of Leonardo Sciascia and Jean Baudrillard", in Remembering Moro, Giancarlo Lombardi and Ruth Glynn, eds. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2010).
"Philosophy and Its Poor: Rancière and The Philosophical Tradition", chapter in Rancière, Key Concepts, Jean-Philippe Deranty, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2010).
The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Berardi, Franco (Bifo). Translated by Francesca Cadel and Giuseppina Mecchia. Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, CA 2009.
"Wu-Ming: Anonymous Hatchet Throwers in the 21st Century Italy", in Bolongaro, Eugenio and Rita Gagliano (eds.) Creative Interventions: The Role of the Intellectual in Contemporary Italy, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Series, 2009, pp. 195-215.
"The classics and Critical Theory in Postmodern France: The case of Jacques Rancière," in Jacque Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics, Duke University Press, 2009, pp.67-82.
Thought, Friendship and Visionary Cartography. Berardi Franco (Bifo) Felix Guattari. Translated and Edited by Giuseppina Mecchia and Charles J. Stivale, with an interview to "Bifo" by Giuseppina Mecchia, London, Palgrave McMillan 2008.
Italian Post-Workerist Thought, special issue of the journal Sub-stance, v.36, issue 112, n.1 (2007), ed. with Max Henninger and Tim Murphy.
"The Children Are Still Watching Us: Cache/Hidden in the Folds of Time," in Studies in French Cinema 7.2 (2007).
"Sujets en cours: sur le fonctionnement de certains concepts dans l’enseignement universitaire," Multitudes 23 (hiver 2006).
"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 3 (Nov. 2005).
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
2002–present: Elected Member of the Senate Bylaws Committee
2002–present: Member of the Center for Western European Studies Steering Committee
