Maria Letizia Bellocchio

Interests

Teaching

19th-20th-21st century Italian Literature and Theatre, Film Studies, Intermediality, Italian culture and Law, the representation of Family in literature, film, theatre, TV.

Research

19th-20th-21st century Italian Literature and Theatre, Film Studies, Intermediality, Italian culture and Law.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Bellocchio, M. L., Cavatorta, B., Gaspar, B., Fabbri, F., Monzingo, J., & Meli, M. R. (2020). 'Italian in Wonderland. An Online Textbook for Intermediate Italian'.
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  Together with Beppe Cavatorta, Borbala Gaspar, Federico Fabbri, Maria Rita Meli, Jacob Monzingo, I worked on a new online textbook project for Intermediate Italian, entitled 'Italian Language in Wonderland.' This online textbook will cover several cultural topics related to environment, food, fashion, work and immigration, and will offer interactive reading, listening and writing exercises to engage students to create connections between Italian language and culture and their own language and culture. In Fall 2019 Borbala Gaspar and I completed the first draft for the chapter on Italian Fashion.During Spring, Summer and Fall 2020 we completed the online textbook Italian in Wonderland and it is the official textbook for ITAL 202 in Spring 2021.

Chapters

• Bellocchio, M. L. (2017). Francesca Comencini’ Single Moms and Family Law”. In Motherhood on Screen. Palgrave Macmillan.
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  Essay on Motherhood in Italian contemporary films by Francesca Comencini

Journals/Publications

• Bellocchio, M. L. (2022). ‘Knowing everything. Interview with Maura Delpero.’. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, JICMS 10:2, 2022, 367-78.
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  Interview with the Italian filmmaker Maura Delpero. Zoom interview conducted by Maria Letizia Bellocchio on May 20, 2020. See attachment, pages 367-78.
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2022). “Is there no place like home? Women’s quest for their place in Maura Delpero’s cinema.”. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, JICMS 10:2, 2022, 203-14.
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  Article on the Italian Filmmaker Maura Delpero. See attachment pages 203-214.
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2017). Gli imprenditori italiani in Visconti, Moretti, Rosi, Francesca Comencini e Molaioli. Italian Quarterly.
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2017). Special issue of the journal Italian Quarterly. Italian Business. Money and Culture in Post-War Italy. Italian Quarterly.
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  Maria Letizia Bellocchio and Francesca Cadel editors. Special Issue of the Italian Quarterly on Italian Business. Money and Culture in Post-War Italy. Essays on Italian Literature, Film, and Economy

Presentations

• Bellocchio, M. L. (2024, Spring).

  “Italian in Wonderland: An Open Education Digital Platform for Teaching and Learning Italian Language and Culture.”

  . Online Language OER Conference organized by the University of Kansas. Onlnie: Univeristy of Kansas.
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2024, Spring). Italian in Wonderland: An Open Education Digital Platform to Teach and Learn Italian. Invited Talk at Baylor University Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. Zoom: Baylor University.
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  Italian in Wonderland: An Open Education Digital Platform to Teach and Learn ItalianMaria Letizia Bellocchio, University of ArizonaBorbala Gaspar, University of ArizonaBeppe Cavatorta, University of ArizonaItalian in Wonderland is a digital platform funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities that aims to revolutionize the traditional textbook for beginning and intermediate Italian courses while bridging the gap between lower and advanced levels. It adopts a holistic teaching and learning approach, seamlessly integrating Italian language and culture and providing up-to-date materials centered around diverse cultural topics. This session will focus on how the curriculum addresses language proficiency and cultural understanding not only to prepare learners for upper-division courses, but also to instill a desire in them to continue their learning and to develop the skills essential for their future career paths.
• Gaspar, B., Bellocchio, M. L., & Cavatorta, G. (2024, May 3).

  Italian in Wonderland: An Open Educational Digital Platform to Teach and Learn Italian. IMLC/Fullbright Heys Title VI Grand OER Workshop. Baylor University, Waco, Texas (zoom online), May 3, 2024.

  . IMLC/Fullbright Heys Title VI Grand OER Workshop. Baylor University, Waco, Texas (zoom online).
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2023, Fall).

  Title of the Session: “Italian in Wonderland. An Open Education Digital Platform for Italian courses” Delivered paper: “The Italian in Wonderland Platform.”

  . ACTFL Conference (Chicago, November 18-21, 2023). Chicago: ACTFL.
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  At the ACTFL Convention 2023 (Chicago, November 18-21, 2023), Borbala Gaspar and Beppe Cavatorta, I presented the panel “Italian in Wonderland. An Open Education Digital Platform for Italian courses,” and I presented the paper “The Italian in Wonderland Platform.”
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2022, June). Paper: "A casa mia? La ricerca della propria casa per le protagoniste di Maura Delpero". Italian cinema and media: Past and present, continuity and change, expectations for the future. Third Edition of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies International Conference.. Rome: JICMS - The American University of Rome.
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  I will present the paper "A casa mia? La ricerca della propria casa per le protagoniste di Maura Delpero" at the Third Edition of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies International Conference: "Italian cinema and media: Past and present, continuity and change, expectations for the future."
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2022, May). Panel: “Italian in Wonderland. An Open Education Digital Platform.” Paper: “Exploring Italian in Wonderland Design.”. American Association of Teachers of Italian Convention 2022 - AATI 2022. Lucca: AATI.
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  I organized the panel “Italian in Wonderland. An Open Education Digital Platform.” I will present the paper: “Exploring Italian in Wonderland Design.”
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2022, November). Panel "Italian in Wonderland. An Open Education Digital Platform for Italian 102." Paper: “The Challenges and Benefits of Creating and Using an Open-Educational Digital Platform for Basic Language Courses.”. ACTFL 2022. Boston: ACTFL.
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  I organized the panel "Italian in Wonderland. An Open Education Digital Platform for Italian 102," and I will present the paper: “The Challenges and Benefits of Creating and Using an Open-Educational Digital Platform for Basic Language Courses.”
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2021, May28-June6, 2021). Roundtable 'CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS IN ITALIAN LITERATURE, CINEMA, AND PERFORMING ARTS'. AAIS 2021. Virtual: AAIS.
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  Rountable on Cultural Adaption - AAIS 2021 Virtual Conference
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2021, November 19-21, 2021). Panel 'Italian in Wonderland. An Open Education Resource Textbook for Italian'. ACTFL 2021. San Diego: ACTFL.
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  Panel 'Italian in Wonderland. An Open Education Resource Textbook for Italian' - ACTFL Conference 2021 (San Diego November 19-21, 2021).
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2019, May). Visconti's Theatre Lost in Time. Intersezioni/Intersections 2019. Florence, Italy: School of Humanities and Social Sciences - The College of New Jersey.
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  Conference Program
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2019, November). Macbeth Obsession. American Literary Translators Association 42 Sight and Sound. Rochester, NY.
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  Conference Program
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2018, June). PANEL: LAW AND ITALIAN CULTURE. AAIS CONFERENCE 14-17 June 2018 | Sant’Anna Institute Sorrento, Italy. Sorrento, Italy: AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies).
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2018, June). PAPER: L’asincronia tra le famiglie e il diritto di famiglia nel cinema italiano. AAIS CONFERENCE 14-17 June 2018 | Sant’Anna Institute Sorrento, Italy. Sorrento, Italy: AAIS American Association for Italian Studies.
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2017, June). "Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Ghosts of the Urban Space and the Peasants of Lucania". Urban Space and the Body (University College Cork, Ireland). Cork, Ireland: University College Cork, Ireland.

Poster Presentations

• Bellocchio, M. L. (2024, January). "Italian in Wonderland: Open Education Platform" in the MLA 2024 Language and Literature Program Innovation Room.. Modern Language Association 2024. MLA Philadelphia January 4-7, 2024: Modern Language Association.
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  Poster Presentation of the Italian in Wonderland platform.
• Bellocchio, M. L. (2023, January). "Developing Foreign Culture Courses for the Professions" in the MLA 2023 Language and Literature Program Innovation Room.. Modern Language Association 2023. MLA San Francisco January 5-8, 2023.
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  Drs. Carine Bourget, Barbara Kosta, Barbara Citera and I will present posters for the NEH funded project "Developing Foreign Culture Courses for the Professions" in the MLA 2023 Language and Literature Program Innovation Room.My poster focus on the Italian Business course I created for the NEH project.

Reviews

• Bellocchio, M. L. (2017. “Il cinema di Marco Tullio Giordana: interventi critici”.

Other Teaching Materials

• Cavatorta, G., Bellocchio, M. L., & Gaspar, B. (2020.

  Italian in Wonderland (Modules 13-14-15-16) (with Letizia Bellocchio & Borbala Gaspar) An Open Source Online Textbook and Workbook for Italian 202.

  . University of Arizona.