Changes [May 09, 2008]
Jeff Aldrich1998-present: Rosina Pierotti Chair in Italian Literature, Stanford University. 1993-present: Full Professor of French & Italian; Full Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University. 1985-1993: Associate Professor of French & Italian, and Comparative Literature, Stanford University. 1983-1985: Assistant Professor of French and Italian Literature, Dartmouth College.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1983), Comparative Literature, Stanford University; B.A. (1975), Vassar College.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS (selected)
Summer 2007—Mellon Senior Fellow, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal 2006-2007-- NEH Senior Fellowship Spring 2005-- Getty Research Institute senior fellow Sept. 2004-- The Wolfsonian-FIU research fellowship 1996-- Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, National Gallery of Art 1991-- National Humanities Center Fellowship 1991-- Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES (selected)
Founder and director, Stanford Humanities Lab: 2000- Chairman, Department of French and Italian Studies: 1998-2001 Chairman, Department of Comparative Literature: 1993-96
PUBLICATIONS: Books (selected)
The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's Paradise. Princeton U P, 1986. David Humphrey. David McKee Gallery, 1988. The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante's Commedia. Ed. with Rachel Jacoff. Stanford U P, 1991. Staging Fascism: 18 BL and The Theater of Masses for Masses. Stanford U P, 1996. A Primer of Italian Fascism. Ed. with commentary, chronology, & introduction. European Horizons series. U of Nebraska Press, 2000. Gaetano Ciocca. Costruttore, inventore, agricoltore, scrittore. Preface by Giorgio Ciucci. Quaderni di Architettura 3. Museo di Arte Moderna, Trento-Rovereto. Skira, 2000. Vedette fiumane Ed. with introduction, notes, and iconographic apparatus. Marsilio Editore, 2000. Hugo Ball/Jonathan Hammer, Ball and Hammer (Tenderenda the Fantast). Ed. and introduction. Yale U P, 2002. Anno X. La Mostra della Rivoluzione fascista del 1932: genesi - sviluppo - contesto culturale-storico - ricezione. Piste 4. IEPI, 2003. Building Fascism, Communism, Democracy: Gaetano Ciocca--Builder, Inventor, Farmer, Writer, Engineer. Stanford U P, 2003. In cima-- Giuseppe Terragni per Margherita Sarfatti. Ed. and introduced. Centro Internazionale Andrea Palladio. Marsilio Editore, 2004. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Teatro. Ed., intro., and notes. 2 vols. Oscar Mondadori, 2004. Revolutionary Tides. Authored, ed., and curated. Skira - Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, 2005. Crowds. Co-edited and introduced with Matthew Tiews. Stanford U P, 2006. Neoantiqua - Nove ensaios sobre literatura, linguagem e pensamento na Idade Média e no Renascimiento. Introduction by Luiz Costa-Lima. Editora da Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro, 2008. Italiamerica, Le radici culturali dell’americanismo nel XX secolo. Ed. and introduced with Emanuela Scarpellini. Il Saggiatore, 2008.
PUBLICATIONS: Essays (two hundred plus essays in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German)
PUBLICATIONS: Databases, Websites, Electronic Publications, Digital Projects (selected)
collaborator 1983-1984; associate director 1984-1985, Dartmouth Dante Project (http://dante.dartmouth.edu/) director Robert Hollander, database project involving 700 years of commentary tradition on Dante's Commedia. director, http://crowds.stanford.edu, website launched Sept. 2005, designed by Animated Design, Oakland, CA. Published in the Spring 2006 special Ephemera issue of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, USC Annenberg School. director, http://revolutionarytides.stanford.edu, website launched Sept. 2005. Supported by the Seaver Institute, the Cantor Arts Center, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Hoover Institution. Winner of Silver Addy award from the Bay Area Ad Council. oversight, consulting, and troubleshooting on over sixteen digital projects developed within SHL (2000-2007); plus involvement in over ten “Big Humanities” digital projects on both sides of the Atlantic.