Name: CLORINDA DONATO
Rank: Professor
Education:
Ph.D. in Romance Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, UCLA 1986
MA in Italian, UCLA 1980
BA in Italian, UC Berkeley 1974
Contact Information:
Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA. 90840
Tel. 562-985-4316 Fax 562-985-2406 email: donato@csulb.edu
Teaching Areas:
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Women in French Literature
Travel Narrative
The Literary Tradition of Francophone Switzerland
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature
Surveys of French and Italian Literature
French and Italian Cinema
Research Interests:
The long eighteenth-century (1660-1830)
Encyclopedism, especially Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie, F.B.
De Felice's
Encyclopédie d'Yverdon, and Panckoucke's Encyclopédie méthodique
The Enciclopedia metódica, the Spanish translation of the Encyclopédie
méthodique
The Italian enlightenment
The Swiss enlightenment
Physiognomy and the reception of Lavater
Selected Publications: (for a full listing of publications, go to cv
PUBLICATIONS: Books, Written and Edited, Catalogues, CD-ROM and Web
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.
The Encyclopédie and the Age of Revolution, edited with Robert M. Maniquis,
(Clorinda Donato, catalogue author,) G.K. Hall, 1992.
ARTICLES/Book Chapters
Forthcoming
"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, 2004.
"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, 2004.
"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) ed., Alain Cernuschi, Slatkine, 2004.
Accepted for Publication
"Science and Sensation in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Giovanni Bianchi's
Account of Catterina Vizzani's Autopsy," in Modern Language Notes, Johns
Hopkins University.
"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.
Published
"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, Palgave 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.
Awards and Honors:
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.
Conference Presentations: (Last five years)
"La Representation des disciplines dans l'arbre des connaissances du graveur
Roth," Les désignants et les disciplines des encyclopédies,"
Paris, Fall, 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.
L'Abbé Bergier et le Journal helvétique : dix-sept articles contre
Voltaire et le Dictionnaire philosophique, Exeter, Fall, 2004.
"Cagliostro, franc-maçon," Conseil International d'Études Francophones, Liège, Belgium, June 18-15, 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.
" 'Ce jeune homme, notre maître à tous' : The European Naturalization of Gaetano Filangieri and his Scienza della legislazione 1780 - 1840, " International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 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.
"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.
"Reading the Face: Lavater in the 21st Century," Canadian Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Canada, October 1999.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
"Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas-Textualities, Intellectual
Disputes, Intercultural Transfers" Organizers: Marc-André Bernier,
(Trois-Rivières, Quebec)
Clorinda Donato (California State University, Long Beach), Hans-Jürgen
Lüsebrink (Universität Saarbrücken, Germany): Part One: UCLA
Clark Library, Spring 2005, (April)
Part Two: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières,
Fall 2005, (October)
"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.
Courses Taught:
RGR 346I, RGR 450I
FREN 335, 336, 456, 462, 474/574, 475/575e, 479/579,
ITAL 310, 312a, 312b, 335, 336, 411, 414, 454, 473, 482