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Phillip  Sipiora

Phillip Sipiora

Phillip Sipiora
Professor

Contact

Office: CPR 358D
Phone: 813/974-9465
Cell Phone: 813/494-8877
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Bio

Phillip Sipiora has taught at USF since receiving his doctorate in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in twentieth-century American literature and film. He has also taught literature and film in Italy in the summer since the 1990s. Beginning in 2004, he has served as the Director of the USF Florence Summer Program, which enrolls well over 100 students each summer. He has twice been invited to lecture at the University of Rome, La Sapienza College. Prof. Sipiora has received three major undergraduate teaching awards. He actively participates in the USF English graduate program, having directed a number of M.A. theses and approximately three dozen dissertations to completion.

Prof. Sipiora is the author or editor of three books, more than two dozen scholarly articles, and has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film. Recent articles include: “The Phenomenological Quest of Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut” in Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy. Ed. Gary Rhodes. Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2007) and “Living in a Darker World: Hemingway’s Figural, Phenomenal Florida Fiction,” Florida English 5 (2007). In 2002, SUNY UP published his translation of Augusto Rostagni’s 1922 monograph, "Un Nuovo capitolo nella storia della retorica e della sofistica." Prof. Sipiora is currently working on a full-length study of Hemingway’s major novels and selected short stories. He is the founding editor of The Mailer Review, co-sponsored by the University of South Florida and The Norman Mailer Society.

Prof. Sipiora’s teaching and research focuses on the exploration of literary and cinematic grammar and rhetoric, as well as the interactions between them that shape interpretation. He also has an interest in Phenomenology and its relationship to the interpretation of film and literature. His essay, “All Wrong Turns: Tracking Subjectivity in Detour,” will appear in a forthcoming book (2008) on Edgar G. Ulmer’s cinema, published by McFarland Press.

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Specialty Area

American literature, Film Studies, Rhetoric

Current Courses

RefCourseSecCourse TitleCRDayTimeLocation
90330SPN 2270400Overseas Study
1-6M7:00am-8:00amOFFI SP
80396LIT 3301001Cultural Studies & Pop Arts
Juniors, Seniors, Post Bacc Standing Cross-listed with ENG 4674-001 88675
3T
T
3:05pm-5:50pm
5:15pm-5:50pm
CWY 107
CPR 207
82961LIT 3301002Cultural Studies & Pop Arts
Juniors, Seniors, Post Bacc Standing Cross-listed with ENG 4674.002 88676
3T
T
3:05pm-5:50pm
5:15pm-5:50pm
CWY 107
CPR 347
82962LIT 3301003Cultural Studies & Pop Arts
Junior, Senior, Post Bacc Standing Cross-listed with ENG 4674-003 88677
3T
T
5:15pm-5:50pm
3:05pm-5:50pm
CPR 349
CWY 107
84767LIT 3301521Cultural Studies & Pop Arts
Location: SELBY AUDITORIUM
3T9:00am-11:50amSMC D103
90331SPN 4470400Advanced Overseas Study
1-6S7:00am-8:00amOFFI SP
88675ENG 4674001Film and Culture
3T3:05pm-5:50pmCWY 107
88676ENG 4674002Film and Culture
Junior, Senior, Post-Bacc Standing Cross-listed with LIT 3301-002 82961
3T
T
5:15pm-5:50pm
3:05pm-5:50pm
CPR 203
CWY 107
88677ENG 4674003Film and Culture
Junior, Senior, Post-Bacc Standing Cross-listed with LIT 3301.003 82962
3T
T
3:05pm-5:50pm
5:15pm-5:50pm
CWY 107
CPR 252
86126LIT 6934002Italian Cinema
3R3:05pm-5:50pmCPR 202
89332LAE 7390003Prob Adv Eng Instr/Sch Res
3   
80367ENG 7916003Directed Research
Inst/Grad Director Approval S-U Only
1-19  TBA TBA
90116ENG 7916013Directed Research
1-19   
87316ENG 7939004Doctoral Seminar
1   
82039ENG 7980004Dissertation: Doctoral
Adm to Candidacy Req'd S/U Only
2-19  TBA TBA