Faculty Profile for Dr. Moira M DiMauro-Jackson

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Dr. Moira M DiMauro-Jackson
Senior Lecturer — Dept of World Languages & Literatures
CENT 214
phone: (512) 245-1352
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 I am a native Italian from Rome, Italy. I completed my PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in Italian, French and English Comparative Literature. My field of study revolves around French, Italian, and English Narrative and Drama of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, as well as Computer Assisted Language Learning Technologies. I speak 5 languages fluently, for now, and hope to learn more.

Since 1987, I have been teaching French and later Italian (since 2005) at Texas State University, from where I received a Master of Arts.

Teaching Interests

 My greatest joy is to teach Foreign languages & their cultures while in a fun and facilitated environment, while maintaining the quality of the immersion courses taught!

Research Interests

 My field of interest is metatextuality, that is, the tension between art and life, art and artifice, and the use of masks and masquerade in modern works. My major focus lies in the French decadent period, those works following D’Annunzio’s time in Italian Literature as well as various Irish writers of the turn of the century such as Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Yeats. Francophone Literatures and Post-Colonial works.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • DiMauro-Jackson, M. M. (2022). The importance of Globalization to engender a greater awareness and understanding of different attitudes, behaviors and perspectives of countries, economies, cultures and people from around the world. Journal of Universality of Global Education, 9(2). Retrieved from https://ugei-ojs-shsu.tdl.org/ugei/issue/current
  • DiMauro-Jackson, M. M. (2022). Migration and Trauma: Rethinking Italian Art Film of Today. In Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media (Vol. Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media, p. Chapter Four (pages 66-90)). New Castle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars  Publishings. https://doi.org/978-1-5275-8096-1
  • DiMauro-Jackson, M. M. (2020, November). Book Review for CALICO. CALICO JOURNAL. Sheffield (UK), Europe, United Kigdom, EU: Equinox. Retrieved from https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/CALICO/issue/current
  • DiMauro-Jackson, M. M. (n.d.). Book Review for CALICO. CALICO JOURNAL. Sheffield (UK), Europe, United Kigdom, EU: Equinox. Retrieved from https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/CALICO/issue/current
  • DiMauro-Jackson, M. M. (2018). “D’Annunzio’s Il piacere: A Generational Gaze on New Values.” Forum Italicum : A Journal of Italian Studies, 51(2). https://doi.org/2159­5321

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Liberal Arts Golden Apple Award, Texas State University. August 2023 - 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award in Service, Texas State University. February 28, 2023 - August 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty/Staff Advisor of the Year (Registered Student Organization), Texas State University. May 2022 - May 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty/Staff Advisor of the Year (Registered Student Organization), Texas State University. May 2021 - 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Liberal Arts Golden Apple Award, Texas State University. August 2020 - 2020

Selected Grants

  • Davio, Rebecca Lynn (Principal), Dennison, Andrea B, DiMauro-Jackson, Moira M. Michael & Susan Dell Community Collaborative for Child Health Caring Communities Create Capable Children: Mini-Grant Opportunity, Michael & Susan Dell Community Collaborative for Child Health, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $200. (Submitted: December 2017, Funded: January 2018 - May 2018). Grant.
  • DiMauro-Jackson, Moira M (Other). Migration phenomenon of Italians to the USA, Comitato degli Italiani all’Estero (COMITES) of Washington D.C. and Houston (Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas), Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (MAECI). (Submitted: October 2016, Funded: January 2017 - March 2017). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Secretary
Italian Studies II - Literature panel at the South Central MLA Conference
2018-2018
Chair & organizer of a discussion panel at the International Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference
The Department of Geography at Texas State University and the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin ninth edition of the Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference in Austin, Texas,
October 2018-2018
Organizing Committee Member (organizer)
XIII Conference of Italian Researchers in the World-Committee for Italian Residents Abroad (ComItEs)
January 2018-December 2018
University Mentor
Service Learning Excellence Faculty Fellow
December 2023-Present
Member
Italian Aerospace Mission
November 2023-Present