Department of English
The Mailer Review
Phillip Sipiora
Phillip Sipiora
Professor
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Phone: 813/974-9465
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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