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Carol Lazzaro-Weis

Carol Marie Lazzaro-Weis (December 11, 1949 – February 26, 2022) was an American scholar of Romance languages. She was a professor of French and Italian at Southern University from 1984 to 2003, and at the University of Missouri from 2003 to 2017. From 2009 to 2015, she was president of the American Association for Italian Studies.

Carol Lazzaro-Weis
A smiling young white woman with dark hair and eyes
Carol M. Lazzaro (later Lazzaro-Weis), from the 1967 yearbook of the Philadelphia High School for Girls
BornDecember 11, 1949
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DiedFebruary 26, 2022 (age 72)
Columbia, Missouri
Occupation(s)College professor, scholar of Romance languages

Early life and education edit

Carol Marie Lazzaro was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Domenic J. Lazzaro and Marie Caruso Lazzaro.[1] She graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1967, earned a bachelor's degree in French from the Pennsylvania State University, and completed a master's degree in French from Villanova University. She earned a second master's degree in Romance languages from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed doctoral studies in Romance languages in 1978, at the University of Pennsylvania.[2]

Career edit

Lazzaro held teaching posts at Louisiana State University, University of Maryland, and Southern University (from 1984 to 2003), before becoming a professor of French and Italian and chair of the Romance Languages department at the University of Missouri in 2003. From 2011 to 2014, she held a named chair, as Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor. She retired with emeritus status in 2017.[3][4]

Lazzaro-Weis was president of the American Association for Italian Studies from 2009 to 2015. She ran Missouri's study abroad program in Lyon, and directed the Honors College at Southern University.[2]

Publications edit

Lazzaro-Weis translated literary and historical works from French and Italian into English,[3] and published her research in academic journals including Neophilologus,[5] Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture,[6] Italica,[7][8] NWSA Journal,[9] Connotations,[10] and Annali d'Italianistica.[11] Her book From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writing (1969-1992) (1993) was praised as "an engaging and extensive analysis"[12] and "a comprehensive, theoretically sophisticated, and valuable study of the intersection of feminist theory and contemporary Italian women's writing."[13]

  • "Prévost's comic romance: The Doyen de Killerine" (1983)[5]
  • "Feminism, Parody, and Characterization in Prévost: The Example of the Doyen de Killerine"[6]
  • "Gender and Genre in Italian Feminist Literature in the Seventies" (1988)[14]
  • "The Subject's Seduction: The Experience of Don Juan in Italian Feminist Fictions" (1989)[11]
  • "The Female 'Bildungsroman': Calling It into Question" (1990)[9]
  • Confused Epiphanies: L’Abbé Prévost and the Romance Tradition (1991)[15]
  • From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writings (1969-1992) (1993)[16]
  • "Comparing the Trickster in a Postmodern Post-Colonial Critical World" (1996/1997)[10]
  • "20th-Century Italian Women Writers: The Feminine Experience" (1999, with Alba Amoia)[17]
  • "Oriana Fallaci: The Woman and the Myth" (2000, with Santo Arico)[7]
  • "The Signorina" and Other Stories (2001, by Anna Banti, translated by Martha King and Carol Lazzaro-Weis)[18]
  • "Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness" (2002, with Roberta S. Kremer)[19]
  • "Writing beyond Fascism: Cultural Resistance in the Life and Works of Alba de Cespedes" (2002, with Ellen Nerenberg and Carol C. Gallucci)[8]
  • Voyage aux prairies osages: Louisiane et Missouri, 1839-1840 (2012, by Victor Tixier, edited by Lazzaro-Weis; in French)[20]

Personal life edit

Lazzaro-Weis died from cancer on February 26, 2022, at the age of 72. She was survived by her son, Peter.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ "Domenic Lazzaro Obit". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2005-06-01. pp. B06. Retrieved 2022-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c "Carol Lazzaro-Weis Obituary". Millard Family Chapels. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  3. ^ a b Giorgio, Adalgisa (2022). "Carol Lazzaro-Weis (1949-2022)". Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  4. ^ "Carol Lazzaro-Weis Obituary". The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Legacy.com. May 29, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  5. ^ a b Lazzaro-Weis, Carol (October 1983). "Prévost's comic romance: TheDoyen de Killerine". Neophilologus. 67 (4): 517–524. doi:10.1007/BF02352410. ISSN 0028-2677. S2CID 163823003.
  6. ^ a b Lazzaro-Weis, Carol (1984). "Feminism, Parody, and Characterization in Prévost: The Example of the Doyen de Killerine". Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 13 (1): 143–154. doi:10.1353/sec.1984.0010. ISSN 1938-6133. S2CID 258004393.
  7. ^ a b Lazzaro-Weis, Carol; Arico, Santo (October 2000). "Oriana Fallaci: The Woman and the Myth". Italica. 76 (2): 258. doi:10.2307/479762. JSTOR 479762.
  8. ^ a b Lazzaro-Weis, Carol; Gallucci, Carole C.; Nerenberg, Ellen (November 2002). "Writing beyond Fascism: Cultural Resistance in the Life and Works of Alba de Cespedes". Italica. 78 (3): 428. doi:10.2307/3656034. JSTOR 3656034.
  9. ^ a b Lazzaro-Weis, Carol (1990). "The Female "Bildungsroman": Calling It into Question". NWSA Journal. 2 (1): 16–34. ISSN 1040-0656. JSTOR 4315991.
  10. ^ a b Lazzaro-Weis, Carol (1996). "Comparing the Trickster in a Postmodern Post-Colonial Critical World" (PDF). Connotations 6.1. pp. 130–134. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  11. ^ a b Lazzaro-Weis, Carol (1989). "The Subject's Seduction: The Experience of Don Juan in Italian Feminist Fictions". Annali d'Italianistica. 7: 382–393. ISSN 0741-7527. JSTOR 24003877.
  12. ^ Arias, Jeannine (1996). "Review of From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Womens Writing, 1968-1990". South Atlantic Review. 61 (2): 131–133. doi:10.2307/3201413. ISSN 0277-335X. JSTOR 3201413.
  13. ^ Cannon, JoAnn (1994). "Review of From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writing, 1968-1990". Annali d'Italianistica. 12: 376–378. ISSN 0741-7527. JSTOR 24006438.
  14. ^ Lazzaro-Weis, Carol (Winter 1988). "Gender and Genre in Italian Feminist Literature in the Seventies". Italica. 65 (4): 293–307. doi:10.2307/479008. ISSN 0021-3020. JSTOR 479008.
  15. ^ Lazzaro-Weis, Carol M. (1991). Confused Epiphanies : l'abbé Prévost and the Romance tradition. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 0-8204-1459-X. OCLC 22860394.
  16. ^ Lazzaro-Weis, Carol M. (1993). From margins to mainstream : feminism and fictional modes in Italian women's writing, 1968-1990. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-585-12040-4. OCLC 44965768.
  17. ^ Lazzaro-Weis, Carol; Amoia, Alba (October 1999). "20th-Century Italian Women Writers: The Feminine Experience". Italica. 75 (2): 268. doi:10.2307/480142. JSTOR 480142.
  18. ^ Banti, Anna (2001). The signorina and other stories. Martha King, Carol M. Lazzaro-Weis. New York: Modern Language Association of America. ISBN 0-87352-792-5. OCLC 47126859.
  19. ^ Lazzaro-Weis, Carol; Kremer, Roberta S. (January 2002). "Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness". Italica. 79 (3): 431. doi:10.2307/3656115. JSTOR 3656115.
  20. ^ Tixier, Victor (2012). Voyage aux prairies osages, Louisiane et Missouri, 1839-40. Shreveport. ISBN 978-0-9820558-7-8. OCLC 842993717.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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