Workshop: Flipping the Camera: Filming in the Classroom
Piero Garofalo is associate professor at the University of New Hampshire where he established and is coordinator of the Italian Studies, Cinema Studies programs, and director of the UNH-in-Italy Program in Ascoli Piceno. He received his doctorate in Italian Studies from the University of California-Berkeley and has taught at the Università degli Studi di Firenze, the Università degli Studi di Camerino, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Trinity College, and Wesleyan University. He has also taught Italian in adult education programs in California and New Hampshire as well as implementing and coordinating Italian instruction in K-12 school districts in New Hampshire. Recipient of the University of New Hampshire’s Teaching Excellence Award, his publications include Ciak… si parla italiano. Cinema for Italian Conversation (Focus, 2005), co-authored with Daniela Selisca, Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943 (Indiana UP, 2002), co-edited with Jacqueline Reich, and the forthcoming A Long Holiday: Internal Exile in Fascist Italy (Manchester UP, 2014). While Piero teaches a wide array of courses (including language at all levels, Italian literature from its origins to the present, historical linguistics, film and culture), he is currently experimenting with teaching hybrid language and filmmaking courses. Through UNH-in-Italy, he has developed content-specific programs to attract students from different disciplines (e.g., Painting, Music, Nutrition, Eco-Gastronomy, Anthropology, and Classics) to Italian. In addition to his work in Italian, Piero has worked closely with the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages and has directed several K-12 STARTALK Programs as well as the UNH-Confucius Institute.