Fulvia Serra

708 S Delhi Street Philadelphia, PA 19147 (267) 242-3709

fulvia@sas.upenn.edu fserra@sju.edu fuserra@gmail.com EDUCATION Universita degli Studi di Siena (Italy) Laurea Specialistica (Master Degree) in Philosophy Degree in Philosophy (110/110 cum laude) July 1999 With a Master Thesis in political philosophy: The Biblical tradition analyzed as a political factor in the construction of the mythical ontology of women, with Prof. Mario Tronti http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Tronti e Prof. Maria Luisa Boccia http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Luisa_Boccia

University of Pennsylvania Graduate School, Philadelphia Fall 2009 Spanish 630. Studies in Spanish Middle Age: The Literature of Love in the Age of Pestilence, with Professor Michael Solomon University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Graduate School, Philadelphia Fall 2008 Romance Languages 690 with Professor Kathryn McMahon Fall 2008 FLTA: Applied Linguistic and Language teaching training Universita per Stranieri di Siena (Italy) Course Ditals -A post-graduate preparation course for the teaching and the didactic of Italian as a Second Language Spring 2004 Participation in the course for teaching of Italian to foreigners

Unicef, Siena (Italy) Socio-Psychology-Pedagogical course September 2000 September 2001 Training concerning preventing and assessing personality troubles during adolescence and early youth Unicef / Universita degli Studi di Siena (Italy) VII Multidisciplinary course in developmental education January 2000 September 2000 Childhood in contemporary society; Meaning and implications of the process of Globalization; Differences and Identities Unicef / Universita degli Studi di Siena (Italy) VI Multidisciplinary course in developmental education January 1999 - September 1999 The complexity of the present world: Globalization, Growing Economy, Contaminations Liceo Classico Luigi Pirandello- San Giovanni in Fiore (CS) (Italy)- Diploma di Maturit History and Literature (60/60) June 1993 The Liceo Classico is a high school focused on the study of the classics (Latin and Greek language and literature) and the humanities (Philosophy, History, Literature). The Esame di Maturit is a final examination that requires the presentation of two disciplines of election. SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (Scotland) Academic year 1995 Erasmus project in the Faculty of Arts University of Pennsylvania, Penn Language Center Technology grant, 2009/2010, course design for introduction to Italian Literature using digital media.

University of Pennsylvania, Penn Language Center Technology grant, 2009/2010- Pilot project for creating cultural contexts in 2 nd Life for language learning

AWARDS Yale University, New Haven (USA) October 2009 NERALLT/NEALLT CONFERENCE Best presentation in the Panel on Second Life University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA) May 2008 Excellence in teaching PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (References available) In the USA Richard Stockton College of NJ (USA), from fall 2011 to present

Philosophy Adjunct Instructor, and Italian Adjunct Instructor Richard Stockton College of NJ (USA), Classical Humanities society, 11/19/2012, Fall Lecture Series, Diotima, Socrates and the Arts of Maieutics: Origins of the Teacher-Pupil Relationships. Saint Joseph University, Philadelphia (USA), from Fall 2010 to present

Lecturer for Italian 101, 102, 201, 202, 306 Saint Joseph University, Philadelphia (USA), summer 2011, Summer Program in Rome Saint Joseph University and Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia, March 26th 2011, CEU course, Teaching Italian Today: Language, Culture and Technology, lecture on teaching a communicative class using uncommunicative tools 3

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA), from Fall 2007 to Fall 2010 Lecturer for Italian at different levels, from beginning 110 to advanced 202 and 205 Stockton College Classical Humanities Society of South Jersey March 20, 2010 Lecture on The Secret of Good Love: Perception of Gender and the Art of Good Taste in Plato's Time (full lecture can be found @: http://intraweb.stockton.edu/eyos/arhu/content/docs/CHS %20Summaries/CHSSJMARCHREF.mov)

America-Italy Society, Philadelphia (USA), January 2005 - September 2007, Teaching of Italian to students of all ages and levels both in classes and in individual tutoring

In Italy Dante Alighieri, school for the teaching of Italian to foreigners, Siena (Italy), April 2002 November 2004 Teaching of Italian both in classes and in individual tutoring Municipality of Siena (Italy), coop. Sogno Telematico January 2001 March 2002 Responsible for the project Confabulando managing two disabled girls in the ideation and construction of a CD Rom containing newly illustrated traditional fairytales Unicef, Siena (Italy), September 2000/June 2002 Cooperation in the management of the course Educazione alla differenza - Ideation and management of a training program for students from kindergarten through high school: deconstruction of the classroom context; self expression and the ability to talk about oneself; creative expression of judgment and prejudice in the relationship between the self and the others Il Cittadino, Newspaper, Siena (Italy) September/November 2001 Journalist and editing assistant. Donna Chiama Donna: association against violence to women, Siena (Italy), January/September 2000 Ideation of a project for a 4 year program against sexual violence, inside the European Community Program Daphne

SNA, Siena (Italy), September/June 1999 Professional training teacher

PUBLICATIONS The Politics of Radical Relationships, publication linked to the collective SheRevolts, September 2012 essay And Love Flew Out the Window The Defenestrator, Philadelphia based community newspaper with a cultural and political profile, December 2012 essay Gyno-anarchy and the Strategy of the Fool The Defenestrator, Philadelphia based community newspaper with a cultural and political profile, December 2012 essay The Most Normal Kind of Otherness Reflections on Rape Il Manifesto, Italian national newspaper with a cultural and political profile, 08/14/2002 short story Attraverso il suo sguardo DWF: Per nuovi campi, Italian philosophical journal with a focus on womens studies, January June 2002 Essay Ascolto e Parola, DWF, Di relazione in relazione, April September 2001 Literary Review: Sul magnificat by Rosetta Stella Bailamme: rivista di spiritualita e politica, n. XXVI/4, Philosophical Journal, June - December 2000, Marietti, Genova, Italy, pp. 117-146 Essay: Linfluenza della religione Vetero Testamentaria sullordine simbolico femminile TRANSLATIONS Silvia Federici, Femminism and the Politics of the Commons, Translated from English into Italian for DWF, Saper Fare comune, 2012, n. 1 (93) Giulio C. Argan, A proposito di spazio interno, translated from Italian into English for the department of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania Lina Bo Bardi, Architettura e Natura, la casa nel paesaggio, translated from Italian into English for the department of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania and to be

published in the architectural journal, JAE CULTURAL ACTIVITIES Hay Festival, Zacatecas, Mexico, July 2010, Conference on Literature and Digital Media, analyzing the evolution of the concept of Aura, first introduced by Walter Benjamin, in the digital environment, where the artwork is not only infinitely reproducible but also interactive and where the distinction between copy and original disappears (In Spanish). Hay Festival, Zacatecas, Mexico, July 2010, Conference on Science fiction writing, the literary trope of monster as it evolved from the era of the Titans to our contemporary mythology. (In Spanish) Yale University, NEALLT/NERALLT Fall 2009, Joint Conference on Distance and blended learning environments, November 30th 2009 Presenter - Social Networks: non didactical tools for didactical purposes. University of Pennsylvania, LRC Tech Workshops, April 17th 2009 PresenterFacebook for language practice Lafayette College, NEALLT Conference, April 3rd 2009 - Presenter - Social Networking: Language Learning for a new Age of Learners University of Pennsylvania, Tech Workshop Weigle Information Commons, March 27th 2009 Presenter - Second Life Drexel University, e-Learning Conference, March 24th 2009 Presenter From Threaded Discussions to Encounters in Secon Life: An Italian Journey Universita di Roma Tre (Italy), September 2001 September 2002 MATRI _X group for studies: Ideation and realization of the Conference Listituzione Insignificante on the presence of women in male directed institutions

Universita degli Studi di Siena (Italy), department of political Philosophy, January September 2000 KOAN, group for studies: analysis and elaboration of the philosophical topics concerning the thought on difference; management of seminar on the issue of power inside the course of political philosophy

LANGUAGES Italian, native speaker English, fluent Spanish, fluent French, proficient

COMPUTER SKILL Microsoft Windows: Ms Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Photoshop, Quark Ex Press, InDesign. All the applications on Mac Os X. All the applications in Linux Internet, Facebook, Twitter, Second Life, Blackboard (Wikis, Wimba podcaster, blogs), Illuminate, Wordpress.