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Fiona M. Stewart

Associate Professor of Italian Studies
International Studies and Languages Division, Seaver College
TCC 134

Biography

Fiona M. Stewart is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and serves as Associate Dean of International Programs. Prior to joining the Pepperdine faculty in 2013, she taught at the University of Glasgow, the University of Kentucky and the Pennsylvania State University. In her research Dr. Stewart combines literary, historical and cinematic sources to analyze how and why Italians of the twentieth century recount and interpret individual and national experiences as they do. Her more recent scholarly endeavors have taken a theological interest in Italian conceptions of human dignity and flourishing, particularly among the generazione del littorio

Education

  • PhD Italian, University of Glasgow, 2007
  • MA (Hons.) Italian & Latin, University of Glasgow, 2000

 

  • Stewart, Fiona M. “Contadini in divisa: Conscription’s Making and Unmaking of Italians from Rural Piedmont,” Italy and the Military: Cultural Perspectives from Unification to Contemporary Italy, edited by Mattia Roveri (NYU), Palgrave MacMillan, January 2021, 205-221.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. “‘Ogni pacco di lettere è un uomo:’ l’impegno e i testi di Revelli nell’ambito letterario e storico del ventesimo secolo,” Il Presente e la Storia, 96, April 2020, 65-74.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. "Myth-making on the Margins: Nuto Revelli's Record of Italian Experience on the Russian Front." Italian Quarterly, vol. 52, September 2018. [Forthcoming]
  • Stewart, Fiona M. "Guerra civile: Experience, Memory and Contrasting Histories of the Resistance in Italy." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, 2018, 293-312.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. "'We will build a better world together': Female Partisans' Memories of their Resistance to Fascism (1943-1945)." Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms From the Unification to the Twentieth Century, edited by Susan Amatangelo, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, August 2016, 111-130.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. "Libera nos a malo: Violence and Hope, Image and Word in Rossellini's Roma città aperta." California Italian Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, January 2016.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. "The Interaction of Methodology with an 'impegno del dopo' in Nuto Revelli's Collections of Oral Testimonies." Modern Italy, vol. 13, no. 1, February 2008, 51-68.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. “From Conversation to Conference: The Cultural Value of Oral History.” eSharp, vol. 10, 2007: Orality and Literacy

Review Articles:

  • Stewart, Fiona M. Review of Le Guerre di Mario Rigoni Stern. Trauma, Racconto, Guarigione by Gianluca Cinelli, Perugia, Morlacchi Editore, 2022, Modern Italy, vol. 29, no. 1, 2024, 118-120, doi:10.1017/mit.2023.23
  • Stewart, Fiona M. Review of Voci dal lager: Diari e lettere di deportati politici 1943–1945, by Marco Avagliano and Marco Palmieri. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 19, no. 4, 2014, 491-492.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. Review of Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans, edited by Luisa Del Giudice. Modern Italy, vol. 17, no. 2, 2012, 279-280.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. Review of The Italian Resistance: Fascists, Guerrillas and the Allies, by Tom Behan. Modern Italy, vol. 16, no. 1, 2011, 96-98.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. Review of Arduous Tasks. Primo Levi, Translation, and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony, by Lina N. Insana. Forum Italicum, vol. 44 no. 2, Fall 2010, 583-585.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. “Dove va l’umanità? The Way, the Wayfarer and the ‘Anthropological Revolution’ in Pasolini’s Creative Output”, PAMLA, Palm Springs, CA, 7-10 November 2024.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. “Pasolini: Christ, alter Christus, and the ‘rivoluzione antropologica’ of the 1960s and 70s,” Association for the Study of Modern Italy, London, 2-3 December 2022.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. “Traces of imago Dei in Pasolini.” American Association of Italian Studies, Bologna, 29 May - 1 June 2022.
  • Roundtable participant: “Italian-English Inflections and Prospections,” American Literary Translators Association, Online Conference, 16 & 17 October 2021.
  • Stewart, Fiona M. “Nuto Revelli: A Model for Bridge Building in a Fractured Society?” Association for the Study of Modern Italy, London, 29-30 November 2019.
  • "Contadini in divisa: The Impact of Conscription on Rural Piedmont's contadini, In Their Own Words," American Association for Italian Studies Conference, Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento, 14-17 June 2018.
  • "All'incrocio fra i contadini, la coscrizione, la tecnologia e la Public History," Associazione italiana di Public History, Pisa, 11-15 June 2018.
  • "Myth-making? Nuto Revelli's Record of Italian Experience on the Russian Front," NYU Workshop: The Military, Culture, and Power, NYU, 28-29 April 2017.
  • "Guerra civile: A Civil Disagreement in which Both Revelli and Pavone are Vindicated?", American Association for Italian Studies Conference, The Ohio State University, 20-22 April 2017.
  • "Global Competence and High-Impact Practices in the World Language Classroom," American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages Convention, San Diego, 20-22 November 2015.
  • "Libera nos a malo: Violence and Hope in Italian Representations of World War II," American Association for Italian Studies Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, 26-29 March 2015.
  • "Practice Makes Perfect: Encouraging Learning through Online Production of Italian," North East Modern Language Association Convention, Harrisburg, PA, 3-6 April 2014.
  • '"Think!" Encouraging 'Deep' Learning through Blogging', American Association for Italian Studies Conference, University of Pittsburgh, 7-10 April 2011
  • 'Io ricordo con infinita nostalgia la mia esperienza partigiana. In banda non ero una donna ma una sorella': Rose-tinted specs? American Association for Italian Studies Conference, St John's University, NYC, 7-10 May 2009
  • 'Il terremoto dell'industrializzazione: the economic boom and the rural communities of Piedmont', Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, 16-18 April 2009
  • 'Italiani brava gente? Nuto Revelli's portrayal of Italian behaviour during WWII', Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, 17– 19 April 2008
  • 'Innovative Historian or scrittore impegnato: Nuto Revelli's Approach to the Collection and Publication of Oral Testimonies', American Association for Italian Studies Conference, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 14– 17 April 2005

Topics

  • Twentieth Century Italian experience: its representation and interpretation
  • The Generazione del littorio and subsequent conceptions of human dignity and flourishing
  • Works and methodology of Nuto Revelli
  • Italian cinema

Courses

General Education/Seaver Core:
  • Foundations of Reasoning
  • Christianity & Culture: Encounters with Christianity in the British Isles
  • Christianity & Culture: Traces of imago Dei in Italian Cinema
Italian Studies:
  • Elementary Italian I & II
  • Second Year Italian I & II
  • Advanced Italian Grammar and Composition
  • Italian in Communication: The Language of Media
  • Italian Literature through Film: From the Novel to the Screen
  • Italian Civilization
  • Masterpieces of Italian Literature
  • Contemporary Italian Literature
  • Topics in Italian Culture: Primo Levi – Writer and/or Witness?
  • German Nazis, Italian Fascists, and European Jews
  • Italian Cinema from Neorealism to the Present