Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Education: 2004, Ph.D., University of Florida

Research & Teaching Interests: The long eighteenth-century (1660-1830) French and Italian literature (emphasis on Sicilian writers); religious and philosophical movements; European and Mediterranean history/civilization; material culture. Dr. Summerfield is also a published poet and short-story writer. Her favorite theme is Sicily, her motherland.

Department Appointments:
Undergraduate Advisor, Italian Studies
Director, Languages Across the Curriculum Program (visit the Languages Across the Curriculum website)
Coordinator, Italian Proficiency Exam
Faculty Advisor, AU Club italiano

Awards:

• CLA Engaged Scholar, 2009-2012
• PETL (Early Teaching Career) Award, Auburn University, Mar 2007

• Vendetta: Essays on Honor and Revenge. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
• Remembering Sicily. (Co-authored) Mineola, NY: Legas Publishing, 2009.
• New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman (co-authored). London, UK: Continuum, 2009.
• Credere aude: Mystifying Enlightenment. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008.
• "Fratelli e fratellanze del '68" Carte italiane. Volume 4 (Italy 1968: Representations in Italian Culture) (2008). Los Angeles, CA: University of California Los Angeles. 235-248.
• Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
• "Gli Arancini di Montalbano: More Than A Sicilian Culinary Note" Metamorphoses 14.1-2 (2006). Northampton, MA: Smith College. 286-291.
• No Tomorrow (translation of Dominique Vivant Denon's Point de lendemain, 1777). Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
• "Contes de fées by Women of the Seventeenth-Century: New Discourses of Sexuality and Gender." Les femmes au Grand Siècle. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002 (reprinted in Literature Criticism From 1400-1800, Vol. 153 by Gale, Oct 2008).

• FLIT 3030, Italian Conversation
• FLIT 3050, Italian Cinema
• FLIT 3110, Special Topics in Italian
• FLIT 3200, Languages Across the Curriculum/Music - Canta che ti passa
• FLIT 3200, Languages Across the Curriculum/Art - Italian Baroque
• FLFR 3200, Languages Across the Curriculum/History - Private Lives, Public Spaces in Early Modern France
• FLIT 3200, Languages Across the Curriculum/Italian Culture - Viaggiando per l'Italia
• FLIT 3510, Introduction to Italian Culture - The Italian Lover through Film and Literature
• FLIT 3510, Introduction to Italian Culture - La donna e' mobile: The Passions of Italian Women
• FLIT 3510, Introduction to Italian Culture - MAFIA: Machismo, Membership, Money
• FLIT 3510, Introduction to Italian Culture - A Journey through Italy