Dr. John G. Champagne
Penn State Erie, the Behrend College
0139 IRVIN KOCHEL CENTER
(814) 898-6331
Email: JGC4@psu.edu
Education
Ph D, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993.
Major: English
Supporting Areas of Emphasis: Critical and Cultural Studies
MA, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY, 1988.
Major: Cinema Studies
BA, Hunter College, Hunter College, 1986.
Major: Thomas Hunter Honors Program [summa cum laude]
Professional Positions
Visiting Instructor, Intercultural Communication, summer session, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. (July 2009 – August 2012).
Fulbright Fellowship, Mass Media, Composition, and US Ethnic Literature, University of La Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia. (2006 – 2007).
Teaching Fellow, English, English composition, literature, film, creative writing, University of Pittsburgh. (1988 – 1993).
Instructor, advanced media theory, Carnegie Mellon University. (1991).
Instructor, film theory and criticism, Pittsburgh Filmmakers. (September 1989 – January 1990).
Teaching Assistant, film analysis; Research Assistant, Cinema Studies, New York University. (September 1987 – June 1988).
Awards and Honors
Annual Research Award, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. (May 2013).
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship, “Venice, the Jews & Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations,” Venice, Italy. (2008).
Fulbright Scholar, Tunisia. (2006 – 2007).
Alumni Teaching Fellow Award, Penn State University. (2003).
Council of Fellows Excellence in Teaching Award, Penn State Erie. (2000).
Benjamin A. Lane Outstanding Service Award, Penn State Erie. (1998).
Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the East. (1996).
Listed in Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993). (1993).
Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. (1992).
First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, University of Pittsburgh. (1991).
First Prize, Pittsburgh’s Out Fiction Contest. (1991).
Second Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, University of Pittsburgh. (1990).
Helen Gray Cone Fellowship in English, Hunter College. (1986).
Paulette Goddard Scholarship, New York University. (1986).
David and Eliza Guggenheimer Award in Literature, Hunter College. (1985).
Mary M. Fay Award in Poetry, Hunter College. (1985).
Teaching Experience
Penn State
CMLIT 101, Race, Gender, and Identity in World Literature, 4 courses
CMLIT 491, Literary Adaptation: International and Comparative Perspectives, 1 course
COMM 150, The Art of the Cinema, 6 courses
COMM 250, Film History and Theory, 1 course
ELISH 130, Reading Popular Texts, 2 courses
ELISH 482W, Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory, 3 courses
ELISH 494A, Senior Thesis in English, 5 courses
ELISH 495, Internship, 1 course
ELISH 496B, 1 course
ENGL 15, Rhetoric and Composition, 2 courses
ENGL 189U, Modern Drama, 4 courses
ENGL 200, Introduction to Critical Reading, 3 courses
ENGL 30, Honors Freshman Composition, 8 courses
ENGL 4, Basic Writing Skills, 1 course
ENGL 482W, Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory, 4 courses
ENGL 494, Senior Thesis in English, 8 courses
ENGL 50, Introduction to Creative Writing, 2 courses
INART 100W, Seminar in Integrative Arts, 1 course
INART 5, Performing Arts, 1 course
IT 130, Italian Culture and Civilization, 4 courses
IT 296A, Italian Culture and Civilization, 1 course
PHIL 005H, Philosophy, Art, and Film, 1 course
PHIL 14, Philosophy of Love and Sex, 10 courses
PSU 7, First-Year Seminar Behrend, 3 courses
Research
Articles Published in Refereed Journals
Champagne, John G. “Anti-Zionism as Antisemitism: the case of Italy.” boundary 2. (2014). http://boundary2.org/2014/06/10/anti-zionism-as-antisemitism/#authorbio. Web.
Champagne, John G. “Italian masculinity as queer: an immoderate proposal.” g/s/i. (2014). http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com/italian-masculinity-as-queer/. Web.
Champagne, John G. “Floating Call Boys and Agile Homosexuals.” Journal of Homosexuality 61.7 (2014): 923-39. Print, Web.
Champagne, John G. “Fascism and Images of Masculinity in Three Plays by Pirandello.” Pirandello Studies 33. (2013). Print.
Champagne, John G. “Sandro Penna and Anti-Oedipal Impegno.” Modern Italy 18.4 (2013). Print, Web.
Champagne, John G. “The Unknown Woman as a Man: Gender Identity and Come tu mi vuoi.” Pirandello Studies 33. (2013). Print.
Champagne, John G. “A View from the West: Italian Film Studies or Italian Film Studies.” The Italianist 33.2 (2013): 8. Print.
Champagne, John G. “Whither Interdisciplinarity? Fragments from an Intellectual Autobiography.” Iris 1. (2012). http://www.irisjournal.org/journal/issue_1/Whither_interdisciplinarity.pdf. Web.
Champagne, John G. “Teaching in the Corporate University: Assessment as a Labor Issue.” AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom.2 (2011). http://www.academicfreedomjournal.org/index.html.
Champagne, John G. “Qu(e)erying ‘My Man Bovanne.” Women’s Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal 40.6 (2011): 748-761.
Champagne, John G. “Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and Italian ‘Queers.’.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 12.1 (2010).
Champagne, John G. “Editorial Policy and Peer Review.” PMLA 124.2 (2009): 662-3. Print.
Champagne, John G. “Walt Whitman, Our Great Gay Poet?” Journal of Homosexuality 55.4 (2008): 648-664.
Champagne, John G. “‘Job Seekers’ and ‘Enterprise Incubators’: Educational Reform in Tunisia.” Changing English 14.2 (2007): 201-215.
Champagne, John G. “A Feminist Pirandello: Female Agency in ‘As You Desire Me.’.” Forum Italicum 39.1 (2005): 49-72.
Champagne, John G. “Politika identiteta. [Political Identity.].” Gay-Serbia.com. (2002). http://www.gay-serbia.com/teorija/2002/02-05-21-queer-teorija/.
Champagne, John G. “Undoing Oedipus: Feminism and Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher.” Bright Lights Film Journal 36. (2002). http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/36/pianoteacher.
Champagne, John G. “Among Good Christian Peoples: Teaching Etel Adnan’s “Sitt Marie Rose”.” College Literature 27.3 (2000): 47-70. Print.
Champagne, John G. “Transnationally Queer? A Prolegomena.” Socialist Review 27.1/2 (1999): 143-164.
Champagne, John G. “Nietzsche, Autobiography, History: Mourning and Martin and John.” The Journal of Homosexuality 34.3/4 (1998): 177-204.
Champagne, John G. “Dancing Queen? Feminist and Gay Male Spectatorship in Three Recent Films from Australia.” Film Criticism 21.3 (1997): 66-88.
Champagne, John G. “”Stop Reading Films!”: Film Studies, Close Analysis, and Gay Pornography.” Cinema Journal 36.4 (1997): 76-97. Print.
Champagne, John G. “”A Feminist Just like Us?” Teaching Mariama BÂ’s so Long a Letter.” College English 58.1 (1996): 22-42. Print.
Champagne, John G. “”Teaching Theory Queerly: An Introduction.” Focus, Teaching English Language Arts XXI.2 (1995): 63-70. Print.
Champagne, John G. “Psychoanalysis and Cinema Studies: A ‘Queer’ Perspective.” Post Script 14.1 (1994): 32-43.
Champagne, John G. “Seven Speculations on Queers and Class.” The Journal of Homosexuality 26.1 (1993): 159-174.
Champagne, John G. “Review Essay. Interrupted Pleasure: A Foucauldian Reading of Hard Core / A Hard Core (Mis)Reading of Foucault.” boundary 2 18.2 (1991): 181-206. Print.
Champagne, John G. “The Celluloid Contradiction: An Other Look at Parting Glances.” CineAction!19/20 (1990): 43-51.
Books, Nonfiction
Champagne, John G. Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama: Caravaggio, Puccini, Contemporary Film. Palgrave, 2015. Print.
Champagne, John G. Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy. 2012: 221. Print.
Champagne, John G. The Ethics of Marginality, A New Approach to Gay Studies. 1995: 219. Print.
Parts of Books
Champagne, John G. “‘Et Alors/And So?’.” Sensual Travels. Ed. Michael Luongo. Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2013, 55-69. Peer-reviewed/refereed. Print.
Champagne, John G. “On the Uses and Disadvantages of a History of the Other.” The Perils of Pedagogy: the Works of John Greyson. Eds. Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie and Thomas Waugh. Canada: McGill-Queens University Press, 2013, 351-70. Peer-reviewed/refereed. Print.
Champagne, John G. “Last Winter, In Marrakech.” Gay Travels in the Muslim World. Ed. Michael Luongo. Binghamton: NY: Haworth Press, 2007, 161-174. Peer-reviewed/refereed.
Champagne, John G. “‘Gay’ and ‘Gender Identity’.” Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007, 606-610, 614-616. Peer-reviewed/refereed.
Champagne, John G. “Among Good Christian Peoples: Teaching Etel Adnan’s Sitt Marie Rose.” Etel Adnan, Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist. Eds. Lisa Suhair Majaj and Amal Amireh. Jefferson. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2002, 153-175. Peer-reviewed/refereed.
Champagne, John G. “‘Adult Bookstores,’ ‘Class,’ ‘Identity Politics,’ ‘Phone Sex,’ ‘Pornography,’ ‘Sexual Practices,’ ‘Tearooms.’.” Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, 2nd Edition, Volume II: Gay Histories and Cultures. Ed. George E. Haggerty. New York: Garland, 1999, 12-13, 197–99, 463–65, 686, 701–03, 788–91, 866–68. Peer-reviewed/refereed.
Champagne, John G. “‘She’s Right Behind You’: Gossip, Innuendo, and Rumor in the (De)Formation of Gay and Lesbian Studies.” Genders 26, The Gay ‘90s, Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies. New York: NYU Press, 1997. Peer-reviewed/refereed.
Champagne, John G. “Homo Academicus.” Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture. Ed. Paul Smith. Westview Press: Boulder, 1996, 49-79. Peer-reviewed/refereed.
Champagne, John G. “Interrupted Pleasure: A Foucauldian Reading of Hard Core, A Hard Core (Mis)Reading of Foucault.” Michael Foucault: Critical Assessments. Ed. Barry Smart. Vol. 6. London: Routledge, 1995, 214-234. Peer-reviewed/refereed.
Champagne, John G. “Stabat Madonna.” Madonnarama. Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis, 1993, 111-38. Peer-reviewed/refereed. Print.
Champagne, John G. “To my Brother with Love.” A Member of the Family, Gay Men Write About Their Families. Ed. John Preston. New York, NY: Dutton, 1992, 167-80. Peer-reviewed/refereed. Print.
Champagne, John G. “Greenfield, Wisconsin.” Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong. Ed. John Preston. New York, NY: Dutton, 1991, 69-79. Peer-reviewed/refereed. Print.
Book Reviews
Champagne, John G. Rev. of Of Politics, Aesthetics, and Guilty Subjects. SubStance 43.2. 2014: 193-206. Print.
Champagne, John G. Rev. of Michael Shapiro, Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method, edited by Mark Edward. Global Discourse. 2013. Print, Web.
Champagne, John G. Rev. of Modernitalia. Modernism/modernity 20.2. 2013: 407-409.
Champagne, John G. Rev. of Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom. Quarterly Review of Film and Video 20.2. 2003: 6. Print.
Champagne, John G. Rev. of The Easy Way Out. GLQ 8.1-2. 2002: 227-240.
Champagne, John G. Rev. of Out Takes. Quarterly Review of Film and Video 17.4. 2000: 5. Print.
Manuscripts Accepted
Champagne, John G. “Contemporary Italian Film and/as Trans-disciplinary Italian Studies.” Luci e Ombre. Web.
Manuscripts Submitted for Publication
Journal Article, Academic Journal, Refereed
Champagne, John G. “Queer Uhistoricism in a Transdisciplinary Frame: The Case of Luca Signorelli.” Italian Studies. [Submitted March 5, 2015].
Champagne, John G. “Making and Unmaking Primo Levi.” boundary 2. [Submitted October 5, 2014].
Champagne, John G. and Daniel Clasby. “What is an Italian Jew? Italian Jewish Subjectivities and the Jewish Museum of Rome.” Journal of Jewish Identities. Print. [Submitted July 31, 2013].
Liner note essay, CD, Nonrefereed
Champagne, John G. “Whitman, Fascist Ambiguity, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Covert Critique.” Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Whitman Songs and Shakespeare Sonnets. CD ROM.
Other Works
Blog, Refereed
Champagne, John G. “Response to Italian Interdisciplinary Modernisms.” Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2015, Art, Music, Text. Eds. Giuliana Pieri, Clodagh Brook. 2013. http://http://interdisciplinaryitaly.com/2013/03/06/italian-interdisciplinary-modernism-2/. Web.
Fiction, Online Literary Journal, Refereed
Champagne, John G. “Affliction and Penance.” Plenitude 1.2 (2013).
Fiction, Print Literary Journal
Champagne, John G. “Tunis, I Remember.” River Walk Journal. (2006). http://www.riverwalkjournal.org/vol2iss5/champagnetunis.html. Web.
Champagne, John G. “Puerto Rico I Remember.” Pittsburgh’s Out. (1991): 27, 29.
Newspaper, Nonrefereed
Champagne, John G. “Statement on AIDS and Censorship.” Library Journal. 1988: 46.
Non Fiction, Online Literary Journal
Champagne, John G. “My Life is Tied to Yours.” The Square Table. (2007). http://www.thesquaretable.com/fall%202007/my%20life%20is%20tied.htm.
Champagne, John G. “At the Ballet.” The Long Trip Home. (2005). http://www.thelongtriphome.com/articles-tj-champagne.html. Web.
Non Fiction, Print Literary Journal
Champagne, John G. “Homosexuality, Tunisian Style.” The Gay and Lesbian Review 16.3 (2009): 28-30.
Champagne, John G. “Acting Like a Man.” Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly 7.1 (2005): 101-114.
Novel
Champagne, John G. When the Parrot Boy Sings. NY: Meadowland Books, 1990, 205.
Champagne, John G. The Blue Lady’s Hands. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1988, 162.
Poetry, Print Literary Journal
Champagne, John G. “Love Poem.” The Gay and Lesbian Review 13.3 (2006).
Champagne, John G. “At Thirty.” Kenyon Review 14.2 (1992): 36.
Champagne, John G. “Three Married Men.” The Chiron Review 10.3 (1991): 46.
paperback edition, Refereed
Champagne, John G. Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy, paperback edition. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014. Peer-reviewed/refereed. Print.
Midcellaneous Brief Publications
Champagne, John G. “Foucault and Queer (Un)Historicism.” PMLA. Vol. 128. 4. 2013: 1005-1006. Print.
“Author Replies to Geltmaker’s Letter,” Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, 13, no. 4, 8. (August 2006).
Article, “Anachronistic Whitman,” Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, 13, no. 1, 8. (February 2006).
Article, “Local Journal and Feminism,” Erie Morning News and Daily Times Showcase. (November 1997).
Creative Accomplishments
International
Music Performance – Minor Participant, Opera/Musical, “L’Elisir D’Amore,” Oberlin in Arezzo, Arezzo, Italy, Invited, by Invitation, Academic. (2011).
Music Performance – Minor Participant, Opera/Musical, “Don Giovanni,” Oberlin in Arezzo, Arezzo, Italy, by Invitation, Academic. (July 2010).
Music Performance – Minor Participant, Opera/Musical, “La Rondine,” Oberlin in Arezzo, Arezzo, Italy, by Invitation, Academic. (2009).
Local
Musical director and accompanist, “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” Studio Theater, Erie, PA, Invited, by Invitation, Academic. (November 1, 2013 – November 9, 2013).
Musical Director, “The Anatomy of Gray,” Studio Theater, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Academic. (April 2013).
Musical Director and Accompanist, “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, Invited, by Invitation, Academic. (2012).
Theatre – Perform, “Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Audition, Academic. (2011).
Penn State Erie, the Behrend College Jazz Ensemble, piano, “Penn State Erie, the Behrend College Jazz Ensemble,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College Jazz Ensemble, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, Invited, by Invitation, Academic. (2010 – 2011).
Music Performance – Major Participant, Opera/Musical, “Cabaret,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Audition, Academic. (2009).
Music Performance – Accompanist/Church Organist, “Song recital by Salvatore Champagne,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Non-Academic. (2008).
Music Performance – Minor Participant, Opera/Musical, “Grand Hotel,” Erie Playhouse, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Non-Academic. (2006).
Music Performance – Minor Participant, Opera/Musical, “Aida,” Erie Playhouse, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Non-Academic. (2005).
Music Performance – Major Participant, Opera/Musical, “Broadway Songbook,” Erie Playhouse, Erie, PA, by Audition, Non-Academic. (2005).
Music Performance – Accompanist/Church Organist, “Song recital by Salvatore Champagne,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Non-Academic. (2005).
Music Performance – Minor Participant, Opera/Musical, “Sweeney Todd,” Erie Playhouse, Erie, PA, by Audition, Non-Academic. (2005).
Music Performance – Participation, “Penn State Erie, the Behrend College Jazz Ensemble,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College Jazz Ensemble, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Academic. (2004 – 2005).
Vocalist, “Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Studio Singers,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College Studio Singers, by Audition, Academic. (2003 – 2004).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “Celebration,” Director’s Circle Theater, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Non-Academic. (2003).
Music Performance – Major Participant, Opera/Musical, “Pippin,” Academy Theater, Meadville, PA, by Audition, Non-Academic. (2003).
Music Performance – Accompanist/Church Organist, “Something’s Afoot,” Stage Right Theater, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Non-Academic. (2003).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “Little Mary Sunshine,” Academy Theater, Meadville, PA, by Invitation, Non-Academic. (2002).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “Merrily We Roll Along,” Meadville Community Theater, Meadville, PA, by Invitation, Non-Academic. (2001).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “Something’s Afoot,” Director’s Circle Theater, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Non-Academic. (2001).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “Working,” Institute for the American Dream, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Academic. (2001).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “B.R.U.N.O.S,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Academic. (1999).
Music Performance – Major Participant, Opera/Musical, “La Cage Aux Folles,” Erie Playhouse, Erie, PA, by Audition, Non-Academic. (1999).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “Bach Sonata for Violin and Piano, Music 191 class,” Bach Sonata for Violin and Piano, Music 191 class, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Academic. (1998).
Theatre – Perform, “Love! Valour! Compassion!,” Roadhouse Theater, Erie, PA, Erie, PA, by Audition, Non-Academic. (1998).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “Masterclass,” Masterclass, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, Academic. (1998).
Music Performance – Minor Participant, Opera/Musical, “Pirates of Penzance,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Audition, Academic. (1998).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Music 191 class,” Music 191 class, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Invitation, Academic. (1998).
Other
Music Performance – Major Participant, Opera/Musical, “Tommy,” Erie Playhouse, Erie, PA, by Audition, Non-Academic. (2005).
Music Performance – Accompanist, “Working,” Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA, Invited, by Invitation, Academic. (2005).
Music Performance – Major Participant, Opera/Musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,” Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, by Audition, Academic. (2004).
Music Performance – Major Participant, Opera/Musical, “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” Roadhouse Theater, Erie, PA, by Audition, Non-Academic. (1998).
Presentations Given
Champagne, J. G., Research Seminar, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, “Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy,” Seminars, Invited. (November 26, 2014). International.
Champagne, J. G., Michaelmas Speakers Series, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Cambridge, UK, “Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy,” Lectures, Invited. (November 25, 2014). International.
Champagne, J. G., PSU English Faculty Fall Conference, PSU Department of English, University Park, PA, “Teaching queer literature; teaching literature queerly,” Papers and Presentations, peer-reviewed/refereed, Invited. (October 10, 2014). State.
Champagne, J. G., The X Congress, European Association for Jewish Studies, Paris, France, “Explaining Judaism to the Goyim: The Jewish Museum of Rome,” Papers, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. (July 23, 2014). International.
Champagne, J. G., Nuove tendenze del cinema italiano moderno e contemporaneo, Dipartimento di Francese e Italiano dell’ Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, “Contemporary Italian Film and/as Trans-disciplinary Italian Studies,” Papers, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. (April 23, 2014 – April 26, 2014). International.
Champagne, J. G., NeMLA 2014, Northeast Modern Language Association, Harrisburg, PA, ““Just What Exactly is Your Field?”: Framing Interdisciplinary Scholarship to your Potential Colleagues,” Roundtable presenter, peer-reviewed/refereed, Invited. (April 5, 2014). International.
Champagne, J. G., NeMLA 2014, Northeast Modern Language Association, Harrisburg, PA, “CV Clinic,” Workshops, Invited. (April 4, 2014). International.
Champagne, J. G., NeMLA 2014, Northeast Modern Language Association, Harrisburg, PA, “Re-Visiting the Painting of the Ventennio: Male Bodies and the Queer Men who Painted Them,” Papers, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. (April 3, 2014). International.
Champagne, J. G., Comparative Literature Luncheon, Penn State Department of Comparative Literature, University Park, PA, “Sandro Penna, Queer Intelletuale Impegnato,” Lectures, Invited. (February 24, 2014). Local.
Champagne, J. G., Iconic Images in Modern Italy, Association for the Study of Modern Italy, London, “Making and Unmaking Italian Jews: Primo Levi at the Jewish Museum of Rome,” Papers, peer-reviewed/refereed. (November 23, 2013 – November 24, 2013). International.
Champagne, J. G., Media Commons Tailgate, Penn State Media Commons, University Park, PA, “Multimodal Stories in Composition:”The New Language of Images”: Integrating a Digital Essay into the English Composition Class,” Papers, Invited. (October 4, 2013). State.
Champagne, J. G., PSU English Faculty Fall Conference, PSU Department of English, University Park, PA, “Multimodal Stories in Composition:”The New Language of Images”: Integrating a Digital Essay into the English Composition Class,” Papers, peer-reviewed/refereed, Invited. (October 3, 2013). State.
Champagne, J. G., Annual meeting, American Association of Teachers of Italian, Strasbourg, France, “Caravaggio and Melodrama,” Papers, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. (May 30, 2013 – June 3, 2013). International.
Champagne, J. G. (Co-Presenter), Champagne, S. (Oberlin College), Lubin, H. (Oberlin College), 2013 Gender Conference, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, “Resisting Fascism’s New Man — Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s settings for voice of Walt Whitman’s Calamus Poems,” Papers and Presentations, Accepted. (April 5, 2013). Local.
Champagne, J. G., NeMLA 2013 Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, “Male Melodrama and the Son’s Body,” Papers, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. (March 22, 2013). International.
Champagne, J. G. (Participant), Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2015, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, New York University, New York, NY, “Italian Interdisciplinary Modernism,” Seminars, 16 in attendance, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. (February 22, 2013). International.
Champagne, J. G., Selves as Others: Identity in Pirandello, Society for Pirandello Studies, London, UK, ““The Unknown Woman as Man: Gender Identity and Come tu mi vuoi.”,” Readings of Creative Works/Performances, peer-reviewed/refereed, Invited. (November 2012). International.
Champagne, J. G., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ““Queering Mario: Whitman, Fascism, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Calamus Song Cycle.”,” Lectures, Invited. (November 2012). Local.
Champagne, J. G., Champagne, S. K. (Oberlin College), Lubin, H. (Oberlin College), Music Between Nation and Form: Mario Castlenuovo-Tedesco and the Boundaries of Italianità., Brown University, Providence, RI, ““Resisting Fascism’s ‘New Man’: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Setting of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.”,” Papers and Presentations, peer-reviewed/refereed, Invited. (September 2012). International.
Champagne, J. G., Annual Composition Meeting, Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA, “Writing Effective Assignments,” Workshops. (August 22, 2012).
Champagne, J. G., Gendering Impegno in Modern Italian Culture, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, “Sandro Penna and Anti-Oedipal Impegno,” Papers, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. (June 2012). International.
Champagne, J. G., Champagne, S. K. (Oberlin College), Lubin, H. (Oberlin College), XXXII Annual Conference, American Association for Italian Studies, Charleston, SC, “Resisting Fascism’s ‘New Man’: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Setting of Whitman’s ‘Calamus’ Poems.,” Papers and Presentations, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. (May 2012). International.
Champagne, J. G., Annual Meeting, MLA, Seattle, WA, “Sandro Penna and the Performance of Homosexuality,” Papers, peer-reviewed/refereed. (January 2012). International.
Champagne, J. G., Personal Statement Workshop for Pre-tenure Faculty, Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA, Workshops. (October 2011 – November 2011).
Champagne, J. G., Generations, Genders and Genres in Pirandello, Annual Conference of the Society for Pirandello Studies, Society for Pirandello Studies, London, UK, “Pirandello Fascista? Fascism and Images of Masculinity in Three Plays by Pirandello,” Presentations. (October 2011).
Champagne, J. G., Judaism in the Mediterranean Context, IX Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies, European Association for Jewish Studies, Ravenna, Italy, “Homosexuality, Fascism, History: Moravia and Bassani,” Presentations. (July 2010).
Champagne, J. G., Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA, “Write to Learn, Learn to Write: the W Course Demystified,” Seminars. (April 13, 2009 – April 14, 2009).
Champagne, J. G., Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, “Que(e)rying ‘My Man Bovanne.’,” Presentations. (December 2008).
Champagne, J. G., Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, “Teaching to the Job Market: Assessment and the Corporate University,” Presentations. (December 2008).
Champagne, J. G., Venice, the Jews & Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations, Venice, Italy, “The Queer Among Us: Homosexuality in 20th Century Italian Jewish Texts,” Presentations. (July 2008).
Champagne, J. G., American Study Days, ‘Reading America’, Tunis, Tunisia, “The Post-Modern Hollywood Musical,” Presentations. (May 2007).
Champagne, J. G., Conference on Mutual (Mis)understanding, Université Tunis El-Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, “Understanding the University,” Presentations. (February 2007).
Champagne, J. G., Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, “‘Who are You Calling Bourgeois?’ Class and Queer Intellectuals,” Presentations. (December 2003).
Champagne, J. G., The Future of the Fields: CLAGS Conference on the Future of Gay and Lesbian Studies, President’s Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equity, New York, NY, Seminars. (April 20, 2001 – April 22, 2001).
Champagne, J. G., Provost’s Speakers Series, Penn State Behrend, Erie PA, “‘Love Among the Ruins’: Teaching the Humanities in the Post-National University,” Presentations. (March 2001).
Champagne, J. G., Toronto 2000 Musical Intersections, Toronto, ON, “A Glimpse Through an Interstice Caught: Interpreting the Homosocial in Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Setting of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass,” Presentations. (November 2000).
Champagne, J. G., The 1998 Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, “Reading the Post-Colonial Romance, The Postcolonial State and Recent Women’s Fiction from Uganda,” Presentations. (December 1998).
Champagne, J. G., The Eleventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, “Is There a Transnational Queer Rhetoric?,” Presentations. (July 1997).
Champagne, J. G., The Fifth Annual American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics, American University, American University, Washington, DC, “Transnationally Queer? A Prolegomena,” Presentations. (July 1997).
Champagne, J. G., History and Memory: Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II, Allegheny College, Allegheny, PA, “Dancing Queen? Feminist and Gay Male Spectatorship in Three Films from ‘Down Under.’,” Presentations. (April 1997).
Champagne, J. G., History and Memory: Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II, Allegheny College, Allegheny, PA, “Nietzsche, Autobiography, History: Mourning and Martin and John,” Presentations. (April 1997).
Champagne, J. G., The Twenty Fifth Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, “‘Among Good Christian Peoples’: Teaching Etel Adnan’s Sitt Marie Rose,” Presentations. (February 1997).
Champagne, J. G., W.Y.E.P. Radio, W.Y.E.P. Radio, Pittsburgh, PA, “Prosody,” Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1996).
Champagne, J. G., The 1996 Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Dallas, TX, “Gay Male Spectatorship and Feminism in Strictly Ballroom, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and Muriel’s Wedding,” Presentations. (March 1996).
Champagne, J. G., The Seventeenth Annual Ohio University Film Conference, Athens, OH, “Disciplining the (Academic) Body: Film Studies, Close Analysis, and Pornography,” Presentations. (November 1995).
Champagne, J. G., The 1995 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Washington, DC, “Instituting a Basic Writing Program in the 1990s: A Case Study,” Presentations. (March 1995).
Champagne, J. G., The 1995 Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New York, NY, “Pedagogy and Porn Workshop,” Workshops. (March 1995).
Champagne, J. G., Fourth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, State University of New York, Cortland, NY, “‘A Feminist Just Like Us’: Theorizing the Female Subject in Mariama Ba’s So Long A Letter,” Presentations. (October 1994).
Champagne, J. G., Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University Park, PA, “From Class Plan to Classroom Practice: Recursive Strategies for Training First-Year Teachers,” Seminars. (July 13, 1994 – July 16, 1994).
Champagne, J. G., The 1993 Meeting of the Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, “Film and Politics panel,” Panels. (1993).
Champagne, J. G., The 1993 Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, “De-Scribing Race, Class, and Sexuality in Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied,” Presentations. (February 1993).
Champagne, J. G., Borders Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA, Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1992).
Champagne, J. G., The 1992 Meeting of the Marxist Literary Group. Institute on Culture and Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, “Speculations on Queers and Class,” Presentations. (1992).
Champagne, J. G., The 1992 Society for Cinema Studies Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Seminars. (1992).
Champagne, J. G., W.B.A.I. Radio, New York, NY, “The Write Stuff,” Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1992).
Champagne, J. G., Rosebud Café, Pittsburgh, PA, Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1991).
Champagne, J. G., The 1991 Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, “Strange Bedfellows? Psychoanalytic Film Theory and Gay/Lesbian Criticism,” Panels. (1991).
Champagne, J. G., The Artery, Pittsburgh, PA, Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1991).
Champagne, J. G., Annual Symposium sponsored by the Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the Film Studies Program, Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the Film Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, “Cultural Marginality and the Media,” Seminars. (October 1990 – October 1991).
Champagne, J. G., A Different Light Bookstores, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA; New York, NY, Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1990).
Champagne, J. G., The 1990 Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, DC, “Towards a Homosexual Askesis: Foucault and Gay Pornography,” Presentations. (March 1990).
Champagne, J. G., Carson Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1989).
Champagne, J. G., Hemingway’s Café, Pittsburgh, PA, Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1989).
Champagne, J. G., The Writer’s Experience, Pittsburgh, PA, Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1989).
Champagne, J. G., The 1990 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Athens, OH, “Authority and the Student Reader/Writer,” Presentations. (November 1989).
Champagne, J. G., The 1989 Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Iowa City, IA, “The Picture of Health: Mae West and the Comedy of Sex in the 1930s,” Presentations. (May 1989).
Champagne, J. G., The Fourteenth Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, “Self-Hyperbole/Self-Annihilation: Theorizing Gay Pornography and Its Spectators,” Presentations. (January 1989).
Champagne, J. G., Hunter College, New York, NY, Readings of Creative Works/Performances. (1988).
Champagne, J. G., The Thirteenth Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, “‘The Unattainable Text Itself’: Paratext and The Misfits,” Presentations. (January 1988).
Champagne, J. G., Thomas Hunter Honors Program, Hunter College, NY, “German Expressionism and the Irrational: An Interpretation of Fritz Lang’s Kriemhild’s Revenge,” Presentations. (December 1987).
Champagne, J. G., Hunter College English Department, Hunter College, NY, “On Publishing,” Presentations. (October 1987).
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research
Grant
Champagne, J. G. (Core Faculty), Grant, “Caravaggio and Male Melodrama,” Institute for Arts and Humanities, Penn State. Total requested: $2,515.00. (submitted: February 12, 2013, date funding awarded: April 1, 2013, funded: August 31, 2013).
Other
Champagne, J. G., “Global Fund Grant to present at Pirandello Conference,” London, UK. Total awarded: $984.00. (funded: 2011).
Champagne, J. G., “H&SS Endowment Individual Faculty Grant.” Total awarded: $1,000.00. (funded: 2010).
Champagne, J. G., “Global Fund Grant to support study of Italian.” Total awarded: $400.00. (funded: 2009).
Champagne, J. G., “International Programs Faculty Travel Grant.” Total awarded: $1,400.00. (funded: 2006).
Champagne, J. G., “Global Fund Grant to support Integrative Arts 199 Foreign Study.” Total awarded: $700.00. (funded: 2005).
Champagne, J. G., “Global Fund Grant to support visit of video artist Pascal Loubet.” Total awarded: $400.00. (funded: December 2004).
Champagne, J. G., “Pennsylvania Humanities Council Commonwealth Speakers Series Grant.” Total awarded: $400.00. (funded: April 2000).
Champagne, J. G., “Mary Behrend Cultural Fund Grant to support visit of philosopher Dr. Kevin Melchionne.” Total awarded: $400.00. (funded: 1999).
Champagne, J. G., “Mary Behrend Cultural Fund Grant to support visit of soprano Christina Dominski.” Total awarded: $500.00. (funded: 1998).
Champagne, J. G., “Mary Behrend Cultural Fund Grant to support visit of German Studies scholar Andres Nader.” Total awarded: $300.00. (funded: April 1998).
Champagne, J. G., “Mary Behrend Cultural Fund Grant to support screening of film “Butterflies on the Scaffold.” Total awarded: $150.00. (funded: October 1997).
Champagne, J. G., “Penn State Commission on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Equity Special Funding Grant.” Total awarded: $200.00. (funded: October 1997).
Champagne, J. G., “Pittsburgh’s Lambda Foundation Grant to support visit of film director Margaret Gilpin.” Total awarded: $800.00. (funded: October 1997).
Champagne, J. G., “Mary Behrend Cultural Fund Grant to support visit of writer Louise DeSalvo.” Total awarded: $500.00. (funded: April 1996).
Impact in Society of Research Scholarship and Creative Accomplishment
Review, “Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy,” Newspaper, TLS, London, England. (November 28, 2014).
Review, “Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy,” Journal or Magazine, Modern Language Review, 109.4. (October 2014).
Review, “Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy,” Modernism/modernity, 21.3. (September 2014).
Review, “Aesthetic Modernism and masculinity in Fascist Italy,” Journal or Magazine, Mestiere di Storico, Italy. (2013).
Service
Department Service
Five Year Extended Review, Member. (December 2014)
School Promotion and Tenure Committee, Committee Chair. (December 2014)
Peer Review, Dr. Margaret Burke, Peer Review, Peer Reviewer. (December 1, 2014)
Peer Review, Dr. Craig Warren, Peer Review, Peer Reviewer. (December 1, 2014)
Peer Review, Dr. Matt Levy, Peer Review, Peer Reviewer. (December 1, 2014)
SPC, Member. (August 2013 – March 2014)
Annual fall meeting, Digital Humanities and Composition, Presenter. (August 16, 2013)
Peer Review, Kathryn Wolfe, Peer Review, Peer Reviewer. (January 2013 – May 2013)
Search Committee, Art History, Participant. (September 2012 – May 2013)
Peer Reviews: Amy Carney, Terri Caruso, Sara Luttfring, and Janet Neigh, Peer Reviewer. (2012)
Annual Review Committee, Chairperson. (2011 – 2012)
Search Committee, Tenure-track line in 20th Century British Literature and Digital Humanities, Chairperson. (2011 – 2012)
Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member. (2010 – 2012)
Annual fall meeting, Composition Faculty, Discussion Leader. (August 21, 2012)
Led a discussion on how to construct successful writing assignments at this year’s annual Composition faculty meeting.
Annual Review, Chairperson, Elected. (January 2012 – May 2012)
Promotion and Tenure, Committee Member, Elected. (January 2012 – May 2012)
Search Committee, Digital Humanities and British Literature, Chairperson. (January 2012 – May 2012)
Informal peer evaluations, four one-year Composition instructors, Instructor. (August 2011 – May 2012)
Search Committee, one-year appointment in French, Member. (2011)
Search Committee, one-year appointment in Theater, Member. (2011)
Program Chair, English, Program Coordinator. (2002 – 2011)
Fall 2011, Fall 2002-2006, Fall 2007-Spring 2009
Peer Review: Dharma Jairam, Peer Reviewer. (2010)
Search Committee, Tenure-track line in Multiethnic Literature, Member. (2010)
Search Committee, one-year appointment in Music. (2010)
Peer Reviews: Leigh-Ann Bedal and Craig Warren, Peer Reviewer. (2009)
Faculty Mentor for Joe Falocco, Faculty Mentor. (2008 – 2009)
Peer Review: Sharon Dale, Peer Reviewer. (2008)
Search Committee, multi-year Lecturer in Composition, Chairperson. (2008)
Search Committee, multi-year Lecturer in Women’s Studies/English, Chairperson. (2008)
Informal peer evaluations, four one-year Composition instructors, Peer Reviewer. (2007)
H&SS Diversity Workshop, Co-Chairperson. (October 2007)
Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member. (2004 – 2006)
Matt Davies, Peer Reviewer. (2005)
Search Committee for multi-year line in Film and Video Production, Member. (2004 – 2005)
Jazz Night, Jazz Club, accompanist. (September 30, 2005)
Michael Christofferson and Holly Welker, Peer Reviewer. (2004)
Search Committee for tenure-track Business Writing position, Chairperson. (2003 – 2004)
Ad Hoc Committee on Head of School search, Member. (2002 – 2003)
Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Writing Option, Member. (2002 – 2003)
Search Committee for Theater position, Member. (2002 – 2003)
Search Committee for one-year Fiction position, Member. (2002 – 2003)
Search Committee for tenure-track Creative Nonfiction position, Chairperson. (2002 – 2003)
Search Committee for Creative Writing position, Member. (1998 – 2003)
1998-1999, 2002-2003
Tony Elliot, Soledad Traverso, and Greg Fowler, Peer Reviewer. (2001)
H&SS Recruitment Committee, Member. (2000 – 2001)
Roundtable, advisor. (1996 – 1999)
Search Committee for English Composition position, Member. (1993 – 1999)
1993-1995, 1998-1999
Human Relations Programming Council, Gender Forum, Co-Moderator. (1997)
Annual Review Committee, Member. (1995 – 1997)
opening remarks and discussion leader, Feminist Film Series, Bandit Queen. (April 1997)
Program and Policy Committee, Member. (1994 – 1996)
radio show participant, AIDS in the Real World, radio show participant. (1994)
Committee to design MFA, Member. (1993)
Committee to redesign English major, Member. (1993)
College Service
Academic Integrity Committee, Member. (2011 – Present).
Facullty Affairs Committee, Committee Member, Elected. (September 2014 – December 2014).
Adhoc Distinguished Professor Committee, Member. (October 14, 2014).
Faculty Organization, Faculty Affairs, Chairperson. (August 2013 – June 2014).
Institutional Equity and Diversity, Committee Member. (August 2012 – May 2014).
Trigon, Co-Advisor. (August 2010 – March 2013).
Faculty Organization, Faculty Affairs Committee, Member. (2010 – 2012).
Faculty panel, Passions, Fifth Annual Gender Studies, Presenter. (April 2012).
Fulbright Consortium, Member. (August 2010 – May 2011).
Tunisia’s Underground Sex Economies: Male Homosexuality and Sex Work, Faculty Speaker Series in Gender and Sexuality, Lecturer. (February 2010).
Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member. (2008 – 2009).
Student Fulbright Review Committee, Member. (2008).
Theta Phi Alpha Sorority, Advisor. (2004 – 2008).
Faculty Organization, Chairperson, Elected. (August 2007 – May 2008).
Student Fulbright Review Committee, Member. (2007).
Faculty Organization, Vice Chairperson. (August 2005 – May 2006).
SAL Professors in Pajamas, Presenter. (October 4, 2005).
Ad Hoc Committee for Middle States Accreditation Visit, Member. (2004).
Search Committee, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Administration, Member. (2003 – 2004).
Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member. (2002 – 2004).
Selection Committee, Ben Lane Outstanding Service Award, Member. (2000 – 2003).
Jeopardy, SAF and Residence Life, Invited Contestant. (April 2003).
Search Committee, Senior Diversity Planning Analyst, Search Committee, Member. (1999).
Mary Behrend Fund Selection Committee, Member. (1997 – 1999).
Search Committee, Coordinator of Learning Resource Center, Member. (1998).
Scholarships and Awards Committee, Member. (1996 – 1998).
Chancellor’s Committee on Diversity, Committee Member. (August 1995 – May 1997).
CQI Subcommittee on Learning Assistance Center, Member. (1996).
Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity, Advisor. (1994 – 1996).
Library Committee, Consultant. (1995).
Search Committee, Director of Student Activities, Member. (1995).
Speaker Series Planning Committee, Member. (1994).
University Service
LGBTQ@PSU, Sexuality and Gender Studies at Penn State, Planning Committee, Co-Chairperson. (May 2013 – April 2014).
Commission on LGBT Equity, Member. (August 2012 – November 2012).
Commission on LGBT Equity, Member. (August 2011 – May 2012).
Uniform Course Abbreviation Group, Member. (August 2006 – May 2007).
Commission on LGBT Equity, Past Chair, Elected. (August 2000 – May 2001).
Commission on LGBT Equity, Chair, Elected. (August 1999 – May 2000).
Commission on LGBT Equity, Chair of OUTreach Committee. (August 1997 – May 1999).