CLORINDA DONATO

Tel: (562) 985-4316     Fax: (562) 985-2406    e-mail: cdonato@csulb.edu

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

• 1988 –Present California State University, Long Beach:
  1993-Present Professor of French and Italian
  1992-1998 Chair, Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures
  1991-1993 Associate Professor, French and Italian
  1989-1991 Assistant  Professor, French and Italian
  1988-1989 Lecturer, Italian and French
• 1986-1988       Adjunct Lecturer, French and Italian, Santa Clara University

ACADEMIC GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS:

• 2005 California State University, Long Beach, Undergraduate Research Award for “The Global  Enlightenment”
• 2005 California State University, Long Beach, Mini-Grant
• 2004 ProHelvetia Foundation Seminar on the teaching of Swiss French Literature
• Sept 20-Oct 1, 2004.
• 2003-2004 California State University, Long Beach, Summer Stipend.
• 2001-2002 Sabbatical Leave.
• October 2000 Prix Fondation de Felice.  This literary prize of 5,000 Swiss Francs was awarded at the Dies Academicus of the University of Lausanne.
• 1999-2001 $97,000 Mellon Foundation Grant to establish an online book review service for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• 1998-99 Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award
• 1998-99 California State University, Long Beach, Summer Stipend
• 1998 Faculty Teaching/Faculty Learning Travel Award “Cultural Studies in General Education at CSULB”
• 1996 from Chancellors Academic Opportunity Fund for Technology for “German On-Line” (with Jutta Birmele)
• 1995 Callifornia State Univeristy, Long Beach, Summer Stipend
• 1994-1996 NEH - MLA Teacher Education in Foreign Languages Grant for the Department
• 1993-1994 Sabbatical Leave
• 1993-1995 Department of Education grant for "Project Headlines Interactive.”
• 1993-94 NEH Summer Institute Grant "The Enlightenment Revisited:  Sources and Interpretation" (co-director with William Weber and Donald Schwartz, Department of History).
• 1993-94 IREX grant for two weeks of research at the Jagliellonska Library, Krakow, Poland.
• 1993-94 California State University, Long Beach, Summer Stipend.
• 1993 Phi Beta Delta award "Internationalizer of the Year" for work done with Federico Sanchez on the university project "Consequences of the Encounter" for the 1992 Columbian Quincentenary.
• 1992-93 CSULB Mini-Grant
• 1991-92 CSULB Internationalizing the Curriculum Grant for the course "Consequences of the Encounter" with Federico Sanchez, Chicano and Latino Studies.
• 1991-1992 NEH Translation Grant for The Synoptic Version of the Columbus Log
• 1991-92 NEH Summer Institute Grant "The Enlightenment Revisited: Sources and Interpretation" (co-director with Bill Weber and Don Schwartz, Department of History).
• 1991 - 1992 DAAD (German-American Exchange Program) Two-month stipend (August 1991, January 1992) to work in the Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey Archive, Berlin.
• 1990-91 NEH Masterwork Grant "Italian Culture 1800-Present" (co-director with Irene Jones).
• 1991 CSULB Mini-Grant for "The Encyclopédie and the Iberian Peninsula"
• 1989-1990 NEH Libraries and Museums Grant "The Encyclopédie and the Revolution"
• 1989-1990 Participant in four-week NEH college seminar "The Worlds of Christopher Columbus"

PUBLICATIONS: Books, Written and Edited, Catalogues, CD-ROM, and Web:

• Une Encyclopédie à vocation européene:  le Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines de  F.-B. De Felice (1770 – 1780),  Jean-Daniel Candaux, Alain Cernuschi, Clorinda Donato, and Jens Haesler, editors, Slatkine. 2005.
• Inventory of De Felice's 'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon':  A Comparative Study with Diderot's 'Encyclopédie.' http://net.c18.net/ey/, Centre international pour l’étude du dix-huitième siècle. 2004.
• The Encyclopédie and the Age of Revolution, edited with Robert M. Maniquis, (Clorinda Donato, catalogue author,) G.K. Hall, 1992.

FORTHCOMING ARTICLES/Book Chapters:

• “The Physiognomy: Postmodern Lavater at the Cusp of the Twenty-first Century,” in Lavater in European Profile, eds., Melissa Percival and Graeme Tytler, University of Delaware Press, 2005.
• “La Enciclopedia Metódica:  Transfer and Transformation of Knowledge about Spain and the New World  in the Spanish Translation of the Encyclopédie Méthodique, in Das Europa der Aufklärung und die außereuropäische colonial Welt, ed. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Studien zum 18. Jahrhundert, 2005.
• “Censorship, Nationalism, and the Call for Reform: the Enciclopedia Metódica, the
• Spanish Translation of the Encyclopédie méthodique,” in All you need to know:  Encyclopaedias and the idea of general knowledge, ed., Madeleine Herren, Kronos Verlag, 2005.
• “To Have, to Hold, and to Share:  Compiling Scientific Knowledge in the Information Age of Enlightenment” essay review of Encyclopedic Visions. Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture. Richard Yeo. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Annals of Science 62/3 July 2005.

Accepted:

• “L’Abbé Bergier et le Journal helvétique:  dix-sept articles contre Voltaire et le Dictionnaire philosophique” Critique, critiques, ed. Malcolm Cook. Peter Lang.
• “Etre dix-huitièmiste, être encyclopédiste” Etre dix-huitièiste aujourd’hui II, ed. Carol Blum. Centre d’Etude du 18ème siècle (Ferney).

Published:

• “Religion et lumières en Italie, 1745-1775: le choix protestant de Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice,” Une Encyclopédie à vocation européene:  le Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines de F.-B. De Felice (1770 – 1780) eds. Jean-Daniel Candaux,  Alain Cernuschi, Clorinda Donato, et Jens Hesler, Slatkine, 2005.
• “Le Nouveau monde et l’apologie du catholicisme dans le Dictionnaire de théologie de l’Abbé Bergier (1789-1790)», Tangences, 2003
• “Charles Bonnet,” The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors, Oxford University Press 2003.
• “The Hidden Population Debate in the Swiss Encyclopédie d’Yverdon,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, ed., Carol Blum, 2003:01, 243-257.
• “Benjamin Constant and the Italian Enlightenment in the Commentaire sur l'ouvrage de Filangieri: Notes for an Intercultural Reading.” Historical Reflections, 2003.
• “Heresy in the Encyclopédie d’Yverdon.” Heresy in the Eighteenth Century, ed. John Christian Laursen, Palgrave  2002 p. 239-262.
• “Sur les traces de Charles Bonnet:  une Comparaison Electronique de ses Notices Raisonnées de l’Encyclopédie et de l’Encyclopédie d’Yverdon” in Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’Encyclopédie Actes du Colloque: 1751-2000. L’Encyclopédie en ses nouveaux atours électroniques: vices et vertus du virtuel, 31-32, 2002: p. 234-250
• «Rewriting Heresy in the Encyclopédie d'Yverdon 1770-1780», Cromohs, 7,  2002: p. 1-26
• “Charles Bonnet et L’Encyclopédie” in Sciences, musiques, Lumières. Mélanges offerts à Anne-Marie Chouillet. Centre International d’étude du XVIIIe siècle. 2002. p. 421-432. 
• “Reading the Face: Lavater in the 21st Century,” Lumen: Journal of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, XX, 2001: p. 83-100.
• “La Géographie républicaine:  Republicanism and Representation in Bernard Vincenz  von Tscharner’s Dictionnaire géographique, historique, et politique de la Suisse 1775” in Republican Virtue:  The Conception of a National Consciousness and the Education of a New Citizen, Slatkine, 2000.
• “Creating Teaching Communities:  A Model for Reform and On-going Renewal in Foreign Language Teacher Preparation at California State University, Long Beach,”
• Clorinda Donato and Claire Martin, Preparing a Nation’s Teachers:  Models for English and Foreign Language Programs, The Modern Language Association of America, 1999. 
• "A commercial, personal and philosophical foe:  F. B. De Felice, disseminator of anti-Voltairian sentiment from Florence to Berlin" in Voltaire et ses combats, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford 1997.
• "Zurich dans l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon" in Alte Löcher - neue Blicke:  Zurich im 18. Jahrhundert, Chronos Verlag 1997.
• "Ubersetzung und Wandlung des enzyklopädischen Genres:  Johann Georg Krünitz' Oeconomische Encyclopädie (1771-1858) und ihre französischsprachigen Vorläufer" in Kulturtransfer im Epochenumbruch Frankreich - Deutschland 1770 bis 1815, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1997.
• “An Unwritten Chapter in the Encyclopedia Wars: J.H.S. Formey, Pierre Rousseau, and the Encyclopédie d’Yverdon.” Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 346-348, Voltaire Foundation, (1996) 707-712.
• «Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice e l'edizione d'Yverdon de l'Encyclopédie." Studi settecenteschi 16, L’enciclopedismo in Italia nel XVIII secolo (1996): 373 - 396.
• “Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey’s Contribution to the Encyclopédie d’Yverdon.” Schweizer im Berlin des 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, (1996). 87 - 98.
• "Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice e l'edizione d'Yverdon de l'Encyclopédie." Studi settecenteschi 16, L’enciclopedismo in Italia nel XVIII secolo (1996): 373 - 396.
• “Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey’s Contribution to the Encyclopédie d’Yverdon.” Schweizer im Berlin des 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, (1996). 87 - 98.
• "Beyond the Ivory Tower: Foreign Language Programs and the Community," ADFL Bulletin Winter, 1995.
• "From Switzerland to Europe through Leipzig:  The Swiss Book Trade and the Leipziger Messe 1765-1785."  Leipziger Jahrbuch 1994.
• "L'Image de l'Italie dans les Encyclopédies du dix-huitième siècle." Recherches Germaniques, 1994.
• "L'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon et L'Encyclopédie de Diderot et D'Alembert:  éléments pour une comparaison", Annales Benjamin Constant, 1993.
• "Réfutation ou réconciliation?  Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice critique les Préjugés légitimes contre l'Encyclopédie et le livre De l'Esprit"  in Les Ennemis de Diderot, Klincksieck, 1993.
• "The Letters of Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice to Pietro Verri", Modern Language Notes, Italian Issue, 1992.
• "La Enciclopedia Metódica: la traduction espagnole de l'Encyclopédie méthodique",   Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, v. 12, 1992.
• "Notices sur les auteurs de l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon" (with Katherine Doig), Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, v. 11, 1992.
• "Charles-Joseph Panckoucke's Translations of Ariosto and Tasso and His Treatise on Translation," in Forma e parola Studi di italianistica in memoria di Fredi Chiappelli, Bulzoni, 1992.
• "Eighteenth-century Encyclopedias and National Identity," Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Pergamon Press, 1992.
• "An Intellectual Exile in Eighteenth Century:  Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice in Switzerland", Romance Languages Annual, 1992.
• "La Otra Cara del Enciclopedismo:  F. B. De Felice y la Encyclopédie d'Yverdon," Trienio: Ilustración y Liberalismo Numero 18, November 1991.
• "Fredi Chiappelli:  In Memory," Vol. 8 Annali d'italianistica, 1990.  Also appeared in Italian Culture, VIII, 1990.
• "The Yverdon Encyclopedia Database Index," in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Western Educational Computing Conference, 1987.
• “The Rhetorical Tapestry:  A Model for Perspective Reality in Orlando Furioso and Don Quijote".  Comitatus, 17, 1986.
• "Leonora and Camila:  Female Characterization and Narrative Formula in the Cervantine Novela" Mester, Vol. XVI, Fall 1986, No. 2.
• “L’Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta e la possibilità di una triplice analisi psicoanalitica: autore, personaggio, pubblico.” Carte italiane, 2 (1981)

REVIEWS:

• Biologia e religione nel Settecento europeo: la corrispondenza tra Alfonso Bonfioli Malvezzi e Charles Bonnet 1773-1788. Sandro Cardinali (Ferrara: Corbo Editore, 1998). Pp. 132. XVIII. New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, 2004.
• Gender and Imperialiam, Clare Midgley, ed. Manchester University Press, 1998. Journal of Caribbean Studies 2001.
• Connaissance et Rêve(rie) dan le discours des Lumières, by Vesna C. Petrovich New York. Peter Lang, 1996. Diderot Studies 2000.
• Giambattista Vasco. Opere, Edited by Maria Luisa Perna.  Torino:  Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Vol. I, 1989. Vol. II, 1992. Eighteenth-Century Studies. (Winter 1994-95)
• Dobson's 'Encyclopaedia':  The Publisher, Text, and Publication of America's First 'Britannica,' 1789-1803, by Robert D. Arner.  London:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Eighteenth-Century Studies (Spring 1995)
• Litterature delle riforme:  Da Beccaria a Manzoni, by Gianmarco Gaspari. Palermo:  Sellerio, 1990 in Eighteenth-Century Studies (Spring 1993)
• Denis Diderot. Paradoxe sur le comédien.  Edited by Stéphane Lojkine.  Preface by Georges Benrekassa. Paris:  Armand Colin, 1992. The Eighteenth Century:  A Current Bibliography. 1993.

NEWSLETTER ARTICLES:

“The Five-Minute Mentor:  Students, Faculty, and Experience at CSULB,”  Showcase: An Academic Affairs Digest, Spring 2000.

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. 1987 Romance Linguistics and Literature, UCLA, (French, Italian, Spanish)
• M.A. 1980 Italian, UCLA
• B.A. 1974 Italian, UC Berkeley

DISSERTATION:

Inventory of De Felice's 'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon':  A Comparative Study with Diderot's 'Encyclopédie'

EDITORSHIPS:

• 1998-2004: Book Review Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies
• 1998-2004: Book Review Editor, ABRO (ASCECS Book Reviews Online)
• 2004-present: Book Review Editor for The Eighteenth Century:  A Current Bibliography
• 2004-present: Book Review Editor, EBRO (Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online)

PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

• NEH Panelist for Summer Institutes and Seminars
• 2004-2005 Dept. RTP Committee
• 2004-2005 Dept Search Committee for two positions
• 2002-2003 Department Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee
• 2002 Session Moderator, ADFL Conference, Long Beach
• 2002 Fond National Swiss, Outside Reviewer
• 2001 NEH Fellowships Panelist for Romance Language Proposals
• 2001 Outside Reviewer, Romance Languages Department, Bowling Green State University
• 2000 NEH Fellowships Panelist for Romance Language Proposals
• 199-2001 College of Liberal Arts Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee
• 1998-2000: Chair, Educational Resources Committee
• 1999 Outside Reviewer, Modern Language Department, CSU Dominguez Hills
• 1999: Wrote Departmental Self-Study
• 1998: Outside Reviewer, Italian Program, Scripps College
• 1996 Nominating Committee for American Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
• 1995: ADFL (Association Departments of Foreign Languages) Conference  Discussion Leader for BA and MA granting institutions
• 1993: Wrote Departmental Self-Study
• 1991-1994: Member, MLA Delegate Assembly

FUNDRAISING:

• 2001 Assisted fundraising for Chinese Program ($225,000)
• 1992-1998:  Led fundraising campaign that resulted in the establishment of the GEORGE L. GRAZIADIO CHAIR OF ITALIAN STUDIES ($500,000)
• 1993-present:  Raised $60,000 for courses, speakers, and multimedia language programs

CONFERENCES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS (Last six years and forthcoming)

• «La Science de la législation (1780-1791) de Gaetano Filangieri et sa naturalisation européenne»  Contacts littéraires et naturalisation, Paris 4-Sorbonne  12-14 May 2005.
• “Ninguno habla las lenguas mejor que ellos”:  Converting Shamans in Filippo Salvatore Gilij’s Saggio di Storia Americana 1780-1784,  Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas:  Textualities, Intellectual Disputes, Intercultural Transfers, UCLA Clark Library, April 8-9, 2005.
• “Censoring Encyclopedias in Eighteenth-Century Spain: La Enciclopedia metódica” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 2005.
• “Masonic Dreams, Masonic Delusions:  The Prince of San Severo and the Struggle for Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Naples” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, April 2005
• “Availability, Consumption, and Application of Knowledge: Freemasons and Encyclopedic Vision in the Early Enlightenment,” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, CSULB, February 2005 
• “Les Designants pertinants aux questions de métaphysique et théologie dans l’Encyclopédie d’Yverdon,” Les branches du savoir dans l’Encyclopédie» Université Paris X Nanterre, novembre 2004.
• “Of Synthetic Marble and Anatomical Machines:  the inventions of Raimondo di Sangro, Principe de San Severo,”  Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fall, 2004.
• “Maraini and Moravia in Third-Year Italian,” American Association Teachers of Italian, Tempe, AZ 2004.
• «L’Abbé Bergier et le Journal helvétique:  dix-sept articles contre Voltaire et le Dictionnaire philosophique,» Critique, Critiques,  French Studies Conference, Exeter, England, Fall, 2004.
• “Public and Private Notions of Gender in 18th-Century Italy:  The Case of Catterina Vizzani” Queer People 2, Cambridge University, July 2004.
• “Cagliostro, franc-maçon,” Conseil International d'Études Francophones, Liège, Belgium,  June 18-15, 2004.
• “Ce jeune homme, notre maître à tous”: The European Naturalisation of Gaetano Filangieri and his Scienza della legislazione (1780),” Naturalized texts/Textes naturalisés, Translations, Adaptations, Influences, UCLA Clark Library, June 4-5, 2004.
• “Masonic Exotica and the Dislocation/Relocation of Ancient Symbolic Codes in Naples 1740-2004,” Annual Conference of California Italianisti, Berkeley, May 7-8, 2004.
• “The Polycentrism of the Italian Enlightenment:  The Center at the Periphery,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, 2004
• “Visualizing Language:  Zilia’s Quipus in Eighteenth-Century Naples,” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Francisco, 2004
• “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:  Model of Shame in John Cleland’s translation Brief Story of the Life of Catterina Vizzani,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, 2003.
• “Censorship, Nationalism, and the Call for Reform: the Enciclopedia Metódica, the Spanish Translation of the Encyclopédie méthodique,”  at the conference “All you need to know: Encyclopaedias and the idea of general knowledge,” Prangins, Switzerland, September 2003.
• «Filangieri’s  La Scienza della legislazione (1780) in Europe”  International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, August 2003.
• “Comparing Academies from Paris to Belgium at the End of the Eighteenth-Century,” a commentary to the panel “Academies and Collections:  Museums in the Age of the Enlightenment,”  International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, August 2003.
• “Alessandro Verri’s Sappho in European Context,” American Association of Italian Studies, Washington D.C., March 2003.
• «Francine du Plessix Gray’s Sade:  Up Close and Personal with the Marquis De Sade,” First International Marquis de Sade Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 2003.
• “Le Nouveau Monde et l’apologie du catholicisme dans le Dictionnaire Théologique de l’Abbé Bergier 1789-1790,» Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Quebec City, October 2002.
• “Technologies of Titillation in Eighteenth-Century Italy:  Giovanni Bianchi’s Account of Catterina Vizzani’s Autopsy,” The Body in Early-Modern Italy, Johns Hopkins University, October 2002. (Also presented at the CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, November 14, 2002. 
• «Les Pérégrinations de deux péruviennes:  Les traversées transatlantiques de Zilia et de Flora tan»,  Mme de Graffigny Conference, Trinity College, Oxford University September 2002.
• “Germaine de Stael, ‘Lectrice Manquée’ of Ugo Foscolo’s Le Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis»  Colorado Springs, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 2002.
• “La Enciclopedia Metódica: transfer and transformation of knowledge about Spain and the New World in the Spanish Translation of the Encyclopédie Méthodique,”
• Invited lecture. German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Saarbrücken, Germany October 2001.
• “L’Encyclopédie d’Yverdon et l’Encyclopédie Méthodique: Une étude comparative des catégories Réligion, Géographie moderne, et Histoire littéraire,” for the international conference “Auf dem Weg zur europaische Enzyklopaedie/Une Encyclopédie à vocation européene:  le Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines de  F.-B. De Felice (1770 – 1780) Potsdam, 6-8 September 2001.
• “Reversals of Fortune: Anthropology and Physiognomy Trade Places,” for the conference “Lavater in the Social Sciences,” University of Exeter, July, 2001.
• “Rousseau in the Encyclopédie d’Yverdon,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, April 2001.
• “Sur les traces de Charles Bonnet:  une comparaison électronique de ses Tables Raisonnées de l’Encyclopédie et de l’Encyclopédie d’Yverdon,” at the international conference “L’Encyclopédieet ses nouveaux atours électroniques: vices et certus du virtuel” November 17-18, 2000.
• “The Peregrinations of Two Peruviennes: The Transatlantic Crossings of Zilia and Flora Tristan.” Featured speaker at the “Women in the 18th-Century” conference, Texas Tech, January 27-29, 2000.
• “Reading the Face: Lavater in the 21st Century,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Canada, October 1999.
• “Heresy in the Encyclopédie d’Yverdon.” February 11-12, 2000  UCLA Clark Library Symposium, “Heresy in the 18th Century”
• “Lumières et réligion en Italie 1745-1775: le choix protestant de Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice,” Journée d’études de la Fondation de Félice, 8 April 2000 Centre Culturel Luthérien de Paris.
• “Il Resto di niente: The Image of 18th-Century Spain and Portugal in Naples in the 20th-century Italian Historical Novel” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April  12-16, 2000, Philadelphia.
• “Reading the Face:  Lavater in the 21st Century” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Canada, October 1999.
• “The Hidden Population Debate in the Swiss Encyclopédie d’Yverdon” 10th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dublin, Ireland, July 1999.
• “Eighteenth-Century Studies in the 21st Century” in roundtable session Electronic Resources and Computer-Based Research Techniques, 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaulkee, March 1999
• “Encyclopedic Luxury:  Comparative Views of Finery in French, Italian and Spanish Encyclopedias” (same conference as above)
• Session Organizer:  Anticlericalism in Iberoamerica, Italy and Beyond (same conference as above)
• “Translating for an Existence:  Literary Women in the Eighteenth Century” Whittier College, March 1999 (invited lecture for Women’s History Month).
• “Traduccion y imagen nacional en los articulos geograficos de la Enciclopedia metodica,” La Traduccion en Espana, 1750-1830: Lengua, Literature, Cultura, an international colloquium, University of Barcelona, October 1998.
• "El romance familiar de Flora Tristan:  legitimidad politica y personal en Perigrinaciones de una paria" at the XXXII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana in Santiago, Chile, June 1998.
• “La géographie républicaine: Republicanism and Representation in Bernard Vincenz von Tscharner’s Dictionnaire géographique, historique, et politique de la Suisse 1775” in Ascona Switzerland at the conference “Republican Virtue:  The Conception of a National Consciousness and the Education of a New Citizen”  September 1998.
• "The Production of Encyclopedic Knowledge from Halle to Berlin:  Zedler, Formey, Krünitz, and the Cultural Goals of German Encyclopedism."  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Notre Dame, April 1998.
• "Women in/on Translation in the Eighteenth Century” (session organizer, above-mentioned conference).
• “The Representation of Spain in 18th Century Encyclopedias”, Nashville, April 1997.
• “National Expression in the Plates of the Encylopédie d’Yverdon,” at the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Berkeley, Feb 1997.
• Guest lecturer at the NEH summer seminar “Women in the Eighteenth Century” at SUNY Stonybrook directed by Carol Blum and Madelyn Gutwirth.  Lecture topic “Women in Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias.”
• Montecatini Terme, “Creare uno spazio per I’italiano nelle università dello Stato della California” at the conference “Convegno sulle iniziative per I’insegnamento e la diffusione della lingua e cultura italiana all’estero nel quadro della promozione culturale e della cooperazione internazionale.” (Sent by the Committee for Italian Schools Abroad), March 1996.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

• “Jesuite Accounts of the Americas:  Textualities, Intellectual Disputes, Intercultural Transfers, UCLA Clark Library, April 8-9, 2005. with Marc André Bernier, Université de Quebec, Trois Rivières and Hans Juergen Luesebrink, Universitaet des Saarlands
• “Casanova and the Enlightenment”  Organized by Massimo Ciavolella, (UCLA); Clorinda Donato, CSULB; and Peter Reill, (UCLA).  UCLA Clark Library, April 1999.
• “The Swiss Connection:  Reconceptualizing Nature, Science, and Aesthetics”  Organized by Peter Reill, UCLA;   Patrick Coleman, UCLA; Clorinda Donato, CSULB; and Michael Böhler, University of Zurich.  UCLA Clark Library, March 1997.
• “Discourses of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Eighteenth Century”  Organized by Hans Erich Bödeker, Max- Plank Institute; Clorinda Donato, CSULB, and Peter Reill, UCLA.  UCLA Clark Library, May 1996.
• “Friedrich Dürrenmatt:  A Retrospective” Organized by Clorinda Donato, Jutta Birmele, and Howard Burman,  CSULB.  University Theater, April 1996.
• “The Encyclopédie and the Age of Revolution” Organized by Clorinda Donato, CSULB and Robert Maniquis, UCLA. UCLA Humanities Conference Room, November, 1990.