Visiting Assistant Professor

Irvin Hall 214
(513) 529-7513
tabussi@miamioh.edu

Office Hours

Mondays and Wednesdays: 3:00pm - 4:00pm 
Tuesdays: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
and by appointment

 

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Education

2016 - Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego (Comparative Literature)

Teaching and Research Interests

• Environmental Humanities 
• Ecocriticism
• Food Studies
• Literature of the Resistance
• Twenty and Twenty-First Italian Literature
• Italian Cinema

Courses Taught at Miami

• ITL 101 - Elementary Italian I
• ITL 102 - Elementary Italian II
• ITL 201 - Intermediate Italian I
• ITL 202 - Intermediate Italian II
• ITL/IES 231 - Italian Food Cultures in Context 
• ITL 301 - Culture, Society, and Politics (Italy: Grand Tour)
• ITL/ENG 401 - Dante’s Divine Comedy

 

Grants and Awards

Fall 2021 - Wilks Leadership Institute for Community Engagement $900

Spring 2020 - Wilks Leadership Institute for Community Engagement $1050

Spring 2019 - Community Engagement Mini-Grant - Office of Community Engagement and Service - Miami University - $ 1,038.00

Selected Publications

Articles

• “An Example of Circular Collaboration. A Conversation with Anna Kauber on the Making of In questo mondo”. The Italianist 2021, Vol. 41, n. 2, 1-10
• “Da Marcovaldo a Genuino Clandestino, dall’Italia all’America. Considerazioni sulle realtà del km zero nelle metropoli americane”. (Paesaggio nel piatto. Quaderni 11, Ed. Istituto Alcide Cervi, 2016)
• “La comunità del cibo e Terra Madre attraverso gli occhi di Ermanno Olmi”. (Territori, Vol. 18 2013) 

Book Chapters

• “Slow Food and Terra Madre: A Conversation with Carlo Petrini on Ecology, Rural Traditions, and New Food Cultures”. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018)
• “The Cervi Family: a Peasant Story”, in Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature. The Denatured Wild, edited by Pasquale Verdicchio (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016)

Volumes

• Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures. Edited by Suzanne McCullagh, Iñaki Luis Pradanos, Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, Cathy Wagner. Lexington Books, (2021).

Membership in Professional Organizations

• ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment)
• AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies)
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• PAMLA (Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association)

Languages

• Italian
• English

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Publications

Works in Progress

Book

• Food Justice and Resistance in Italy: New Organic Intellectuals. Lexington Books (forthcoming 2022).