George Andrew Trone
503 South Saginaw Street,
Suite 1200
Flint, Michigan 48502
Phone: 810-766-1774 Fax: 810-766-1753
Email: gtrone@mott.org
EDUCATION Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut
Ph.D., Italian Language and Literature, 1998
M.Phil., Italian Language and Literature, 1995
M.A., Italian Language and Literature, 1994
Stanford University,
Stanford, California
A.B., with distinction, Italian
Studies, 1992
GRANTS,
Paul C. Gignilliat Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University,
1996-1997
FELLOWSHIPS,
Charles Hall Grandgent Prize, Dante Society of America, 1996
AND HONORS Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Travel and
Study Grant (Italy), 1995 Seminar
Fellowship, Folger Institute, Washington, D.C., 1994
Thomas
G. Bergin Fellowship, Yale University, 1992-94
Phi
Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 1992
EXPERIENCE Charles Stewart Mott
Foundation, Flint, Michigan
Oversee
foundation grantmaking for exploratory and special projects.
Streamline
foundation grantmaking and operational procedures.
Coordinate
departmental use of foundation-wide grants database.
Investigate
web-based system to interact with grantee organizations.
Assist
in preparation and running quarterly board meetings.
Compose
and edit presidential speeches and correspondence.
Yale University,
Information and Technology Services
Manager, ITS Education
Program, 1998–2000
Managed computer training
program for the Yale-New Haven community.
Designed dynamic, database-linked
websites enabling online registration for classes, electronic class
evaluations, and automatic email notification.
Programmed in Visual Basic,
SQL, and ASP using MS Visual Studio 6.0.
Implemented campus-wide
computer-based training (CBT) initiative offering 270 desktop and technical
titles from SmartForce, Inc.
Connecticut College,
New London, Connecticut
Department of French
and Italian
Visiting Assistant
Professor of Italian, 1998–1999
Adopted innovative approaches
in the classroom with multimedia technology including the internet,
laser discs, films, and music.
Increased enrollment in
Italian classes by designing courses with interesting topics and generating
publicity among the students.
Enhanced the profile of
the Italian program on campus by cultivating personal contacts with
the provost, deans, department chairs, and faculty.
Implemented a class list-serv
to foster discussion in a lecture class of 35 students.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Department of Italian Language and Literature
Summer Language Institute
Teaching Assistant
and Instructor, 1994–98
Taught beginning, intermediate,
and intensive Italian language classes.
Coordinated college lecture
courses with 300 students over three years.
Collaborated with co-instructors
in designing and teaching intensive language classes.
PUBLICATIONS Critical Articles
“‘You lie like a doctor!’ Petrarch’s Attack on Medicine,” The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
70, 2 (1997): 183–90.
“The Cry
of Dereliction in Purgatorio
XXIII,” Dante Studies 113 (1995): 111–29.
Encyclopedia
Articles
“Bede,” “St. Peter Damian,” “Euclid,” “Exile,”
“Fall of Man,” “Judas Iscariot,” “Julius Caesar,” and “Richard of St.
Victor,” in The Dante Encyclopedia,
ed. Richard Lansing (New York and London:
Garland Publishing, 2000).
Review Articles
Ronnie H. Terpening, Lodovico Dolce: Renaissance Man of Letters
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), in Forum Italicum. 32, 2 (1998): 579.
Prue Shaw, ed. and trans., Dante: Monarchia (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995), in Envoi
6, 2 (1997): 221–25.
Paul Colilli,
La poetica dell’aletheia nell’«Africa»
del Petrarca (Rovito: Marra, 1993), in Quaderni d’italianistica 14, 1–2 (1994): 261–64.
Translations
Andrea
Battistini, “Ariadne and the Minotaur: The Cultural Role of a Philosophy
of Rhetoric,” to appear in Festschrift for Donald Phillip Verene.
Andrea Battistini, review of Gustavo
Costa, Vico e l’Europa (Naples:
Guerini e Associati, 1996), New
Vico Studies 16 (1998): 71-77.
Andrea Battistini, “The Idea of
Totality in Vico,” New Vico Studies
15 (1997): 36–46.
INVITED LECTURES
“Conspiracy and Tragedy in
Machiavelli’s Mandragola,”
delivered at the Committee for Interdepartmental Studies, Gettysburg
College, May 6, 1999.
“Dante e gli Ebrei: La
distruzione di Gerusalemme e la violenza profetica,” delivered at the
Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, January 19, 1999.
“The Italian Influence
on our Founding Fathers,” delivered at the National Italian American
Foundation Youth Retreat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 25, 1998.
“Sacrificial
Rhetoric in the Ugolino Episode of Dante’s Inferno,”
delivered at the Department of Italian, Rutgers University, February
17, 1998.
“The
Destruction of Jerusalem and the Violence of Allegory in Dante’s Paradiso,” delivered at the Department
of French and Italian, Emory University, February 6, 1998.
“‘You lie like a doctor!’
Petrarch’s Attack on Medicine,” delivered at The Program for Humanities
in Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, February 20, 1997.
CONFERENCES Papers
“The Politics of Child Sacrifice
in the Ugolino Episode of Dante’s Inferno,”
delivered at the MLA conference, Toronto, Canada, December 28, 1997.
“A Man of Principle: The Prince
of Machiavelli and Vico,” delivered at the NEMLA conference, Montreal,
Canada, April 20, 1996.
“Poetry as Therapy for the Soul
in Petrarch’s Invective contra
medicum,” delivered at the conference of the Southeastern Medieval
Association, Charleston, South Carolina, October 7, 1995.
“The Cry of Dereliction in Purgatorio XXIII,” delivered at the NEMLA
conference, Boston, April 1, 1995.
Panel
Chair
“The
Age of Dante,” NEMLA conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 4,
1997.
“Giambattista Vico and the Principle
of Humanity,” Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy and Social Thought Conference, Institute of Global Cultural
Studies of Binghamton University, SUNY, October 26, 1996.
Symposium
Co-Organizer
“Vico and the Map of Modernity,”
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 12–13, 1996.
ACTIVITIES
Managing Editor,
Yale Journal for Humanities and Medicine (http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/hummed/yjhm/index.html)
Webmaster, Rotary
Club of Greater Flint Sunrise (http://www.flintsunrise.org)
Member, Finance Council, St. Matthew’s
Church, Flint, Michigan
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