Faculty
Giuseppina Mecchia
Associate Professor of French and Italian
Director, Program in Cultural Studies Undergraduate Advisor in French (Students with last names beginning with A-K)
Office: 1328 B Catherdral of Learning
Tel: 412-624-5222
E-mail: mecchia@pitt.edu
Education
PhD, Princeton University
MA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
BA, Università degli Studi di Roma
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
The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Berardi, Franco (Bifo). Translated by Francesca Cadel and Giuseppina Mecchia. Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, CA 2009.
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.
L’écrivain et la communauté: Maurice Blanchot et la politique de 1932 à 1968. Amsterdam, NY: Rodopì, forthcoming.
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.
La casa che Giacomo costrui, romanzo antropologico. Dedalo, Bari, 1992. Translation of The House that Giacomo Built, Donald S. Pitkin, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
"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
