Department:

Modern Languages

Education:

• PhD in Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton (April 2019).
• Master of Arts, Italian Literary and Cultural Studies Program, Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, University of Connecticut, Storrs (May 2015).
• Combined BA and Master of Arts in Modern Italian Literature, University of Federico II, Naples (February 2003).

Other Diplomas & Certificates:

• Graduate Certificate in Film and Culture - Florida Atlantic University D. F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters (May 2017)

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae:

Vincenza holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University.
In 2018 she was a fellow at the Istanbul Studies Center (Kadir Has University-Istanbul). In 2020, in collaboration with the Department of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University Vincenza produced a documentary based on interviews and life testimonies of elderly Deaf people ("We were there ... we are here" ) as part of the Sigh-Hub Project which was funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020).
Vincenza has taught Italian as a foreign language and Italian Cinema undergraduate face-to-face and online courses in the United States (University of Connecticut and Florida Atlantic University).
Her research interests focus on teaching language through an interdisciplinary approach, using film and masterpieces as tools to develop students’ productive and receptive skills. She is also interested in documentary and ethnography. Currently, she is developing a project on the Italian community in South Florida.

Research Interests:

Language Vitality (Neapolitan Language); Digital Humanities; Documentary filmmaking.

Research Projects:

Documentary (producer)

• 'We were there ... We are here', a documentary movie based on interviews and life testimonies of elderly Deaf people. The interviews were conducted and filmed by Deaf teams (http://www.sign-hub.eu/). SIGN-HUB Project, funded by the European Commission, Horizon 2020.

Digital Humanities: In collaboration with I. Serra, V. Pezzullo & F. Tiberini

• Digital History Project: “Italian-American Oral History Collection.” Sponsored by Florida Atlantic University and Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau:oralhistories

Selected Awards & Fellowships

• September 2018. Doctoral Residency Fellow – Istanbul Studies Center – Kadir Has University (Istanbul).
• Spring 2018: “Orality & Microhistory: Italian-Americans in South Florida.” Graduate Engaged Research Award, Office of Community Engagement, Florida Atlantic University.
• Summer 2017: Exam Fellowship, Florida Atlantic University.
• Spring 2017: South Florida Cultures Council: Project “Orality & Microhistory: Italian-Americans in South Florida.” Archive of Oral History of Italian Americans in South Florida.
• Spring 2015: Graduate Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Connecticut.

Publications :

Iadevaia, V. (2021). Industry, Migration and Transnationalism: Three New Dissertations About Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, (9)2, 295-301. doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00070_7

Iadevaia, C. (2019). Punctuated Identities in Contemporary Italian Cinema. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

Iadevaia, V. (2019). Il melograno e la memoria. Il cinema di Fariborz Kamkari. Identità punteggiate del cinema Italiano contemporaneo. Luci e Ombre - Trimestrale di informazione cinematografica e culturale, (7)4, 8-15.

Book Reviews

Iadevaia, V. (2015). Roberto Rossellini Documentarista. [Review of the book Roberto Rossellini Documentarista: una Cultura della Realtà, by L. Caminati]. Italian Culture, xxxiii, 62-64.

Iadevaia, V. (2015). Cinema e Risorgimento. [Review of the book Cinema e Risorgimento: Visioni e Re-visioni, by F. Orsitto]. Italian Culture, xxxiii, 64-67.

Talks / Presentations:

Turkish Language and Culture Program: “A Conversation with Serra Yılmaz” – Boğaziçi University, July 16, 2021.

“When Sign Languages meet a film project: The making of We were there …We are here” – Online Conference - FEAST 2020, Paris, 23-25 June 2020.

“The Play of Chronotopes in Ferzan Özpetek’s Harem Suare” (1999). ISC Fellows’ Symposium - Istanbul Studies Center – Kadir Has University, 2019.

“Italian American Oral History Archive.” A Project by V. Iadevaia, V. Pezzullo and F. Tiberini. Guest Presentation at Biblioteca Nazionale – Sezione Venezuelana, Naples, Dec. 18, 2018.

“L'Impero Ottomano e Venezia tra Cinema e Potere.” Panel Presentation at The Comparative Studies Student Association Conference. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, October 20-21, 2017.

A Turkish-Italian Sultana? Panel Presentation -Symposium in Modern Italian Cinema. Indiana University – Bloomington, April 19-23, 2017.