Juliann Vitullo
Associate Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of International Letters and Cultures
Arizona State University
PO Box 870202
Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
Titles
- Senior Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- Associate Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biography
Juliann Vitullo served as Associate Director (2010-2016) and is an Associate Professor of Italian Studies in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. Prof. Vitullo’s publications include the co-edited volumes At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2007) and Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2010). Her current research continues to focus on aspects of material culture and identity including a monograph on discussions of fatherhood during the development of the mercantile economy in Italy, and a study of the historical and cultural factors that support local food networks and sustainability movements in small and mid-size Italian cities
Education
- PhD, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1991
- MA, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1987
- BA (cum laude), University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, 1982
Expertise
Journal Articles
2021
Kitch, S., J. McGregor, G. M. Mejia, S. El-Sayed, C. Spackman and J. Vitullo. 2021. Gendered and racial injustices in American food systems and cultures. Humanities 10(2):88. DOI: 10.3390/h10020066. (link )
2014
Vitullo, J. M. 2014. Otium and Negotium in Alberti's I libri della famiglia. Annali d'Italianistica 32:3-19. (link )
2010
Vitullo, J. 2010. Taste and temptation in Early Modern Italy. The Senses and Society 5(1):106-118. DOI: 10.2752/174589310X12549020528293. (link )
2008
Vitullo, J. 2008. Femininity in the marketplace: The ideal woman in fourtheenth-century Florence. Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(Fall):211-216. (link )
1998
Vitullo, J. 1998. The conflicting "family values" of the Marciano XIII manuscript. Italian Culture 16(2):1-14. DOI: 10.1179/itc.1998.16.2.1. (link )
1996
Vitullo, J. 1996. Masculinity, sexuality, and orientalism in the Medieval Italian epic. Olifant 21(1-2):71-97. (link )
Vitullo, J. M. 1996. Orality, literacy and collective identity: The Carolingian Epic in Italy. Olifant 20:13-32.
Vitullo, J. and A. Baker. 1996. Mysticism and the household saints of everyday life. Voices in Italian Americana 17(2):55-68.
1994
Vitullo, J. 1994. Contained conflict: Wild men and warrior women in the early Italian epic. Annali d'Italianistica 12:39-59. (link )
1993
Vitullo, J. M. 1993. Orality, literacy, and the prose epic: The case of Andrea da Barberino's Ugo d'Alvernia. The Italianist 13(1):29-46. DOI: 10.1179/ita.1993.13.1.29. (link )
Books
2010
Vitullo, J. and D. Wolfthal eds. 2010. Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN: 13: 978-0754664970.
2007
Tomasik, T. J. and J. M. Vitullo eds. 2007. At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Brepols Publishers. DOI: 10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.6.09070802050003050203090809. ISBN: 978-2-503-52398-9.
2000
Vitullo, J. M. 2000. The Chivalric Epic in Medieval Italy. University of Florida Press. Gainesville, FL. ISBN: 13: 978-0-8130-1815-7.
Book Chapters
2010
Vitullo, J. and D. Wolfthal. 2010. Trading values: Negotiating masculinity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Pp. 155-196 In: Vitullo, J. and D. Wolfthal eds., Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN: 13: 978-0754664970.
2009
Vitullo, J. M. 2009. In bed with the infidel. In: Giordano, P., M. Letteri and J. D. Calandra eds., Delectando Discitur: Essays in Honor of Edoardo A. Lébano. Bordighera Press. New York, NY.
2005
Vitullo, J. 2005. Fashioning fatherhood: Leon Battista Alberti's arf of parenting. Pp. 341-354 Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. Berlin. ISBN: 978-3110184211.
Vitullo, J. 2005. Fatherhood, citizenship, and children's games in fifteenth-century Florence. Pp. 181-192 In: Voaden, R. and D. Wolfthal eds., Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. ISBN: 978-0866982979.
2001
Baker, A. and J. Vitullo. 2001. Screening the Italian-American male. Pp. 213-226 In: Lehman, P. ed., Masculinity: Bodies, Moview, Culture. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0415923231.