WORK IN PROGRESS
“Commedia dell’Arte’s Transnational Legacy of “Living Theatre” Mediated in the Scenarios and Script of Flaminio Scala, 1-18.” Invited by curator Pasquale Sabbatino to Studi in onore di Konrad Eisenbichler. Forthcoming.
RECENT CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES:
“Commedia dell’Arte’s Transnational Legacy of “Living Theatre.” Renaissance Society of America. Virtual Conference. December 2022.
“A #MeToo Movement on the 17th Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage.” Conference Legacies of the Commedia dell’Arte. UCLA Riverside, California. November, 2019. Invited by Erith-Jaffe Berg.
“Circulating Endless Desire: The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage.” Lecture for MA in Fashion students. Ryerson University, Toronto, October 2019. Invited by Dr. Alison Matthews David.
“Master and Servants On and Off Stage in the Commedia dell’Arte.” An International Conference at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Sept 2019.
“Who was Flaminio Scala’s Target Audience for The Fake Husband in 1618/19?”
Canadian Association of Italian Studies. Orvieto, Italy, June 2019.
“The Commedia dell’Arte from Marketplace to Court,” RSA, Toronto, 2019.
“A Legendary Battle between the Counter-Reformation Church and the Italian Professional Theatre: Cardinal Borromeo Yields to the Gelosi Troupe in Milan 1583,”
Global Reformations Conference. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, U of Toronto, Sept. 27-30, 2017.
“At the Intersections of the Sacred and Profane: The Redemption of the Actress and the Theatre in Early Modern Italy 1560-1660), Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, Ryerson U, Toronto, Congress, 2017.
“Transvestism in the Commedia dell’Arte as a Theatrical Trope with Transnational Effects,” RSA, Chicago, 2017.
“The Commedia dell’Arte; Sound-in-Performance.” Festival of Original Theatre, Centre for Drama Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto, Feb 2. 2017.
“From Justus Lipsius to Erycius Puteanus to Isabella Andreini: Creating the Ideal citizen in Post-Reformation Italian Theatre”, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, 21-22 October 2016.
“Comic Rage and Transvestite Revenge in Il finto marito (1618),” CSIS Conference. Toronto. May 13-15, 2016.
“The Commedia dell’Arte Actresses as Artists.” RSA Conference. Boston. March-April 2016.
“Isabella Andreini and the Making of Celebrity Culture.” NEMLA Conference. Toronto. 29 April, 2015.
“Circulating Endless Desire: The Rise of the Italian Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia del’Arte Stage.” Keynote. American Association of Italian Studies Annual Assembly. Eugene, Oregon. April 2013.
“The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage.” Visiting Speaker Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies and TRRC Series. St. Michael’s College. University of Toronto. February 2014.
“Isabella Andreini as the First Great International Diva: It’s all About the Hair.” Canadian Society for Italian Studies Annual Meeting, Congress, Waterloo, Ontario, May 2012.
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