Cindy Stanphill is a Candidate in Philosophy in the Department of Italian at UCLA. She is currently working on her dissertation, The Rise of the Novel in Venice: Carlo Gozzi and Pietro Chiari. She is a Cota-Robles scholar and was awarded the Cecchetti Graduate Student award for outstanding work as a graduate student in 2011-12. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of the departmental journal from 2012-2104 and the worked as the managing editor for the California Italian Studies Journal through UC Berkeley from 2014-2016. Her work focuses on the development of prose narrative beginning in the Cinquecento through the rise of the novel in Ottocento Venice. Her research focuses on gender, prostitution, and the use of the female voice by male and female authors. She has presented in many national and international conferences including at The International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), and at the University of York. Her co-authored article with Professor Donato, "The Translation of the British Novel in Venice: Pietro Chiari and Carlo Gozzi," was published by Cambridge Scholars in Fall 2013. She also has a selection in an Italian sponsored volume focusing on Francesca and Paolo from Dante's fifth canto.

With the help of an NEH grant awarded to CSULB, she helped develop an Italian for Spanish-speakers language program, which seeks to integrate certain inter-language principles from current Intercomprehension methods practiced in many areas in Western Europe, with the American communicative model.

 

Aside from academic work, Cindy also practices mindfulness, wellness, and Yoga regularly. She recently completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher training with Breathe For Change. She teaches Yoga at a local Studio and incorporates mindfulness practices into her college curriculum.