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Clorinda Donato

Clorinda Donato’s research addresses three distinct fields: eighteenth-century studies, the Intercomprehension of the Romance languages, and translation studies. In eighteenth-century studies she researches knowledge transfer through translation and genre adaptation in encyclopedic compilations and the prose narrative in the global eighteenth century. She also works on gender in medical and literary accounts, the Catholic and Protestant Enlightenments in Italy and Europe, Freemasonry, and book history.

Her work in Romance languages focuses on multilingual competencies across the Romance language family known as Intercomprehension. Translation plays a significant role in her cultural studies and language pedagogy research. The textbook, Juntos: Italian for Speakers of English and Spanish, produced with co-authors Cedric Joseph Oliva, Daniela Zappador-Guerra, and Manuel Romero, was published with Hackett Publishing Company in 2020.

She has published over 100 articles and book chapters on these topics. She has co-edited four collections, of which her most re

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The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani:

Sexual identity, science and sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England

By Clorinda Donato

Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2020:10

ISBN: 9781789622218, 405 pages, £65.00

A transcultural examination of gender fluidity and transgendered lifestyles informs the narration and analysis of Catterina Vizzani’s story featured in this volume. Early modern anatomist Giovanni Bianchi’s 1744 medical novella about Vizzani, published here in Italian with a modern English translation, is juxtaposed with John Cleland’s sensationalized 1751 translation. A scintillating reflection on transcultural sexualities and trans historicities that significantly revises our view of enlightenment sexualities.

  • The science of sex in eighteenth-century Italy and England and the ongoing transhistorical debate over gender identity, fluidity and performativity are the stuff of this timely volume. 
  • The question of transgender performativity and queer lifestyles in Giovanni Bianchi’s story of Catterina Vizzani and John Cleland’s embelli
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    Clorinda Donato, Regional Representative (California State)

    2020-2022

    Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages & Literatures
    California State University, Long Beach
    Tel: (562) 985-4621
    E-mail: Clorinda.Donato@csulb.edu

    Biography:

    Clorinda Donato is the George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach and Professor of French and Italian. Her published research spans eighteenth-century cultural studies in the areas of knowledge transfer through translation and genre adaptation in encyclopedic compilations across six languages; she also works on gender in medical and literary accounts, the Catholic and Protestant Enlightenments in Italy and Europe, and book history.Multilingual and intercultural teaching and research form a second core of scholarly and pedagogical pursuits over the past ten years.She has published seven authored, co-authored, or co-edited books and over 75 articles in the aforementioned fields.These include the co-edited volume, Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas—Textualities, Intellectual Disputes,

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