Education

PhD, Johns Hopkins University , 2002

Italian Studies

MA, The Catholic University of America, 1993

Italian Literature

MA, The Catholic University of America, 1993

Spanish and Latin American Literature

BA, University of Maryland, 1990

Romance Languages

Scheduled Courses

Fall 2015:

• ITA 301: Advanced Italian Conversation
• ITA 154: Modern Italian Culture & Film

Research Interests

Medieval and Early Modern Italian Literature and Cultural Studies, Intersections Between Literature and Medicine, History of Medicine

Awards and Honors

• National Endowment for the Humanities, 2014 - National Endowment for the Humanities Translations and Scholarly Editions Grant
• Pace University, 2013 - Dyson College of Arts and Sciences ePortfolio Assessment Grant
• National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009 - Summer Seminar: "Disease in the Middle Ages"
• New York University, 2008 - Visiting Scholar
• Pace University, 2007 - Presidential Grant

Contract, Grants, and Sponsored Research

• Marafioti, M. (2012, July). . National Endowment for the Humanities Translations and Scholarly Editions Grant , Federal . Funded,National Endowment for the Humanities Translations and Scholarly Editions Grant. I am one of a team of scholars working with editor Dr. Albert Rabil awarded an NEH grant for the translation and scholarly edition of nine Modern English Editions to be published in the “Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” series. 2012-2014.

Publications

• Marafioti, M. (2016, January (1st Quarter/Winter)). A Gynecological-Pediatric Treatise in the Vernacular Tongue Addressed to Ferrarese Women, translated by Martin Marafioti, Introduction by Gabriella Zuccolin. http://www.othervoiceineme.com/othervoice-toronto.html
• Marafioti, M. (2015, July (3rd Quarter/Summer)). Boccaccio Reinvented: Francesco Argelati’s eighteenth-century Decamerone.
• Marafioti, M. (2015, July (3rd Quarter/Summer)). The “mirabile effetto” of Narration: Boccaccian imitatio and Holistic Storytelling in Celio Malespini’s Duecento Novelle . Italica. Vol 92 (Issue 2)
• Marafioti, M. (2015, April (2nd Quarter/Spring)). Review of Roberta Ricci’s Scrittura, riscrittura, autoesegesi: Voci autoriali intorno all'epica in volgare: Boccaccio, Tasso . Vol Spring (Issue Vol 69, Issue 1)
• Marafioti, M. (2013). “Narrative Prescriptions After Boccaccio’s Decameron: Celio Malespini’s Duecento Novelle” . Levia Gravia: Quaderno annuale di letteratura italiana. (Issue XV-XVI) , pages 169-178.

PRESENTATIONS

• Marafioti, M. (2013, December). Raccontare, Consolare, Curare Nella Narrativa Europea, dal Boccaccio al Seicento. Narrative Prescriptions After Boccaccio’s Decameron. University of Turin, Turin
• Marafioti, M. (2013, October). “Nella Moltitudine delle Cose… / In the Multitude of Things…”, International Conference on Giovanni Boccaccio, on the 700th anniversary of his birth. Boccaccio Reinvented: Francesco Argelati’s eighteenth-century Decamerone. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
• Marafioti, M. (2011, April). Northeast Modern Language Association. A Conversation with Medical ‘Auctores’ in Savonarola’s De Regimine Pregnantium. New Brunswick, NJ

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

• Film and Screen Studies Advisory Board [Committee Member]
  
• Departmental Representative for Modern Languages and Cultures at Pace Preview [Departmental Representative]
  
• Search Committee for position in Queer Studies in Women’s and Gender Studies Department [Committee Member]
  

COLLEGE SERVICE

• Dyson One World House [Other]
  
• Dyson Sabbatical Committee [Committee Chair]
  
• Dyson Sabbatical Committee [Committee Member]
  

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• CDFPT Appeals Committee [Alternate Member]
  

PROFESSIONAL Service

• Northeast Modern Language Association/ NEMLA Italian Studies [Editorial Review Board Member]
  Desc: Editorial Board Member for NEMLA Italian Studies Volume XXXVIII (2016), Special Issue: The Renaissance Dialogue
  Committee's Key Accomplishments: Volume XXXVIII of NIS is an interdisciplinary issue that aims at discussing the intersections and cultural interactions of a range of fields including philosophy, religion, history, art, architecture, literature, astronomy, politics, medicine, archeology, and music, during the early modern period in Italy.
• Comparative Literature [Reviewer, Journal Article]