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Antonio toscano

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Dottorato, University degli Studi di Messina, Italy
MA, Rutgers University
Ph.D., Rutgers University

Email: antonio.toscano@stonybrook.edu

  • Professional Experience

    Professional Experience

    • Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 2018- present
    Department of European Languages -Lecturer
    • Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY, 2013-2014
    Department of Foreign Languages -Adjunct Associate Professor
    • Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, 1994-2013
    Department of Foreign Languages -Adjunct Professor of Italian
    • Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 1986-1993
    Department of French and Italian - Assistant Professor of Italian ,Coordinator of Graduate Program in Italian and Supervisor of Graduate Students
    • University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1985-1986
    Department of French and Italian - Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Director of Italian Program
    • Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, 1981-1984
    Department of Foreign Languages - Assistant professor of Italian, Director of Italian Program
    • University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1978-1979
    Department of Languages- Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
    • College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1978
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
  • Publications

    Publications

    Books
    • Marsilio da Padova e Niccolò Machiavelli. Ravenna:  Longo Editore, 1981
    •  Interpreting the Italian Renaissance. Literary Perspectives. Ed. A. Toscano. Filibrary 1.  Stony Brook:  Forum Italicum, 1991
    Articles
    • “Dante:  Il Discorso Aristotelico nella Monarchia, in the 1981 Fall-Winter issue of Forum Italicum, vol. 15, nos. 2-3, pp. 139-152.
    •  “Decameron:  Cimone’s Metamorphosis,” in Italian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 111, 1988, pp. 25-35.
    • “Viaggio nella Memoria in Chiare, Fresche e Dolci Acque,” in Interpreting the Italian Renaissance:  Literary Perspectives.  Filibrary 1.  Stony Brook:  Forum Italicum, 1991, pp. 9-14.
    • “The Renaissance Difference,” in Interpreting the Italian Renaissance:  Literary Perspectives.  Filibrary 1.  Stony Brook:  Forum Italicum, 1991, pp. ix-xvi.
    • “Verga:  Una Rilettura di ‘Malpelo,’  in Gradiva, vol. 4, no. 2, 1988, pp. 70-76.
    • “Il Polisenso della Parola nel Burchiello,” in the December 1976 issue of Forum Italicum, vol. X, no. 4, pp. 360-376
    • “Lo Sviluppo Progressivo verso il Mito della Figura  di Castruccio Castracani di Niccolò Machiavelli,” in La Fusta, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 43-70 (Spring 1976).
    Book Reviews
    • Peter S. Donaldson.  Machiavelli and Mystery of State.  Cambridge:  Cambridge UP, 1988, in Italian Quarterly, vol. 32, nos. 123-124 (1995).
    • Georges Barthouil.  Machiavelli Attuale, Machiavel Actuel.  Ravenna:  Longo Editore, 1982, in Italian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 111 (Winter 1988).
    • Silvia Ruffo Fiore.  Niccolò Machiavelli.  Boston:  Twayne, 1982, in Italian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 111 (Winter 1988).
    • G. Boccaccio.  The Decameron. C. Gariano, ed.  Potomac:  Scripta Humanistica, 1986, in Italian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 118 (Fall 1989).
    • Gifford Orwen.  Cecco Angiolieri:  A Study.  North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures, no. 215.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Romance Languages, 1979, in Italian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 86 (Fall 1981).
    • Ruth Domino Tassoni.  Sole di Solitudine.  Reggio Calabria:  La Procellaria, 1976, in La Parola del Popolo, vol. 28, no. 139 (Summer 1977
    Lectures, Talks, and Symposia
    • Conference on “Italy and East Asia:  Exchanges and Parallels,” Chair of session “Current Affairs and Policies,” Stony Brook University, Oct. 11- 13th, 2018.
    • “Re-contextualizing The Prince:  A Machiavellian Reading of the American Practice of Politics,” presented at the international conference “Florence:  A City of Many Appetites,” Florence, Italy, 8-9 November 2013.
    • “The role of a Prince as seen by Aquinas, Marsilio and Machiavelli,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA), Richmond, Virginia April 14-15, 1978, as part of the Comparative Literature Program.
    • “Similarità e Divergenze Machiavelliane nel Defensor Pacis,” presented at the 1981 MLA Convention in New York as part of the Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature Session.
    • “The Sweet New Style and Dante,” presented at the NEH Summer Seminar The Quest for Love in the Divine Comedy and in Faust. Invited by seminar director Franz Schneider, Gonzaga University, July 1983.
    • “Dante’s Political Ideas: L’Universalismo di Dante as seen by the poet in the Divine Comedy and De Monarchia,” presented at the NEH Summer Seminar, Gonzaga University, July 1983 (invited paper).
    • “Verga; Il Conflitto Interiorizzato di Malpelo,” presented at the 1985 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention, Atlanta, GA, October 31-November 2, 1985.
    • “Boccaccio: Decameron:  The First Story of the Fifth Day,” presented at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, February 1986.
    • “Italy: A Contemporary Portrait,” presented at Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, March 23, 1988.
    • “L’Io Sabotatore nel Decameron,” presented at the American Association Teachers of Italian Sixth Annual Conference, Boston, MA, November 17-19, 1989.
    • “Canzone XXVI,” presented at the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS), 10th Annual Conference, Charlottesville, VA, April 19-22, 1990.
    • Chair of session “The Epic Tradition I,” AAIS 10th Annual Conference, Charlottesville, VA, April 19-22, 1990.
    • Conference on “Pirandello: Fifty Years Later,” Chairman of session, SUNY-Stony Brook, October 30-November 1, 1986.
    • Organizer of lecture by Aldo Rossi, University of Siena, Italy, (“Ultime Novità Critiche su Dante”), SUNY-Stony Brook, November 1986.
    • Organizer of lecture by Alfredo Luzi, University of Urbino, Italy, SUNY-Stony Brook, November 1986.
    • Conference on “Dante: Summa Medioevalia,” Chairman of session, SUNY-Stony Brook, March 24-26, 1988.
    • Organizer of the Symposium “America as Metaphor in Modern World Literature,” SUNY-Stony Brook, April 22, 1988.
    • Italian Americana Conference, Chairman of session, SUNY-Stony Brook, November 5, 1988.
    • Organizer of lecture by Aldo Scaglione, New York University (“Dante and Chivalry”), SUNY-Stony Brook, March 15, 1989.
    • Organizer and Chair of session “Machiavelli tra Politica e Letteratura,” as part of the AAIS National Conference at the University of Lowell, Massachusetts, April 13-16, 1989.
    • Chair of session “Renaissance Italian Literature and Culture II: Machiavelli and Guicciardini,” AATI Sixth Annual Conference, Boston, MA, November 17-19, 1989.
    • Organizer of an international conference on “Interpreting the Italian Renaissance,” SUNY-Stony Brook, March 1-3, 1990.
    • Chair of the session on Petrarch with guest speaker Thomas M. Green, at the conference “Interpreting the Italian Renaissance,” SUNY- Stony Brook, March 1-3, 1990.
  • Courses

    Courses Taught at Stony Brook

    • ITL 111.01 Elementary Italian I
    • ITL 111.R01 Elementary Italian I
    • ITL 312.01 Italian Conversation and Composition 2
    • ITL 396.01 Readings in Italian Literature II
    • ITL 395.02 Readings in Italian Literature I
    • ITL 591.04 Language Acquisition I
    • ITL 591.R04 Language Acquisition I
    • ITL 212.01 Intermediate Italian 2
    • ITL 432.S01 Studies in 15th- and 16th-Century Literature
    • ITL 522.S01 Seminar in Italian Humanism and Renaissance Literature