College of Humanities People

Charles Klopp, Professor of Italian

Department of French and Italian: http://frit.osu.edu/

Office Information
227 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: klopp.2@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-7585
Fax: 614-292-7403

Office Hours:
Tu/Th 8:00-10:15 AND BY APPOINTMENT

General Background:
Professor Klopp has a BA from Princeton University and an MA and PhD from Harvard. He works in all areas of Italian literature and culture with special emphasis on the modern and contemporary periods.

Books:

Bele Antiche Stòrie: Writing, Borders, and the Instability of Identity—Trieste, 1719-2007. Edited and with an Introduction by Charles Klopp. New York: Bordighera, 2008.

Sentences: The Memoirs and Letters of Italian Political Prisoners from Benvenuto Cellini to Aldo Moro. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1999. Italian version, La zebrata veste. Memorie e lettere di detenuti politici italiani. Pisa: Fabrizio Felici, 2011.

Gabriele D’Annunzio. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988.

Ghisola by Federigo Tozzi. Translated with an Afterword by Charles Klopp. Preface by Giose Rimanelli. New York: Garland, 1990.

Selected Articles (since 2000):

“Workshops of Creation, Filthy and Not: Collodi's Pinocchio and Shelley's Frankenstein.” Pinocchio and the Mechanical Body. Ed. Katia Pizzi. London: Routledge, 2012. Pp. 63-73.
“Spazi femminili, spazi maschili, e spazi infantili nel Conservatorio di Santa Teresa di Romano Bilenchi.”Guida, Patrizia and Giovanna Scianatico, eds. Saggi di letteratura italiana. Lecce: PensaMultimedia, 2011. Pp. 253-261.
“"Montale e il paesaggio marino della Liguria: dagli Ossi di seppia alla Bufera e altro."Scrittori liguri verso il terzo millennio. ed. Daniela Rapattoni. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2010. pp.85-93.
“Terrorismo e anni di piombo nella narrativa di Antonio Tabucchi.” Littérature et Temps des révoltes, (Italie, 1867-1980). Université Stendhal, Grenoble, 3, Grenoble,2009. http://colloque-temps-revoltes.ens-lsh.fr/spip.php?article137.
“"Pinocchio," "Federigo Tozzi," "Gesualdo Bufalino." Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark and Janet Todd, www.litencyc.com (2009)
"Le epifanie negative di Gianni Celati." Letteratura come fantasticazione: in conversazione con Gianni Celati. Ed. Marina Spunta and Laura Rorato. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. Pp. 185-196.
"Il senso del religioso nella narrativa di Tabucchi, Celati, e Bufalino." La place de la religion et le sens du religieux dans la littérature narrative italienne contemporaine (1970-2006). Grenoble, Université Stendhal 3, Cahiers d’études italiannes 9 (2009): 245-53.
"L'odeporica euristica e sentimentale di Mario Tobino." Terre di mare: nautica, viaggi e incontri dall'antichità all'epoca moderna, ed. Daniela Rapattoni. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2008. Pp. 51-56.
"Trieszt, a papírváros?" (“Trieste, City of Paper?”) Árgus (Budapest) 2007/4-5: 121-129. In Hungarian.
“Frankenstein and Pinocchio, Nineteenth-Century Humanoids.” Approaches to Teaching Collodi’s Pinocchio and its Adaptations. Ed. Michael Sherberg. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2006. 28-33.
“Alberto Bevilacqua,” "Giovanni Boine," Romano Bilenchi, "Silvio Pellico." Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Ed. Gaetana Marrone and Paolo Puppa. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006.
"Fiction in Italy Since the Years of Lead: A Quarter Century of Top Novels." World Literature Today 79, 3-4 (2005): 35-38.
“La violenza collettiva e il senso del male nella narrativa di Antonio Tabucchi.” Guerre et violence dans la littérature contemporaine italienne. Cahiers d’études italiannes (Université Stendhal, Grenoble) 3 (2005) : 115-123.
“Reconsidering Romano Bilenchi,” Italica 80 (2003): 428-432.
“Testimonianza di una retorica e di una pietà. L’espressionismo lirico di Gesualdo Bufalino.” Mollica, Anthony and Riccardo Campo, eds. L’Italia nella lingua e nel pensiero. Quaderni di Libri e riviste d’Italia, 46. Rome: Istituto poligrafico e zecca dello Stato. 2002. Pp. 253-259.
“The Return of the Spiritual, With a Note on the Fiction of Bufalino, Tabucchi, and Celati.” Annali d’Italianistica, 19 (2001): 93-102.
“Writers from the Margins and the Canon in the Year 2000: New Beginnings or Business as Usual?.” Annali d’italianistica 18 (2000): 133-141.
“Rallying Points: Literary and Cultural Journals, 1945 to the Present.” Robert S. Dombroski, ed. Italy: Fiction, Theater, Poetry, Film Since 1950. Review of National Literatures, New Series, III. New York: Council on National Literatures, 2000. Pp. 53-71.