CURRICULUM VITAE
TERESA PROTO
Citizenship: Italian
Date of birth: 27 August 1977
E-mail: [email protected]
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
1. Education and Degrees
2010
French Qualification for lecturing in Language Sciences
2004-2007
PhD in Germanic Linguistics and Philology, University of Siena, Italy. Dissertation
title: The German flagellant songs of 1349. Edition, translation and analysis.
1996-2003
BA and MA in Foreign Languages, University of Naples ‘Orientale’, Italy.
2. Professional Experience
2013–2014
Junior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and
Social Sciences (NIAS). Research project: Music-language interaction in vocal
music.
2011–2012
Junior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies – Collegium de Lyon. Research
project: Patterns of stability and variation in oral-tradition songs.
2008–2010
Postdoctoral position at the UMR 7023 “Structures Formelles du Langage”,
Université Paris 8/CNRS, Saint-Denis, France. Supervisor: Jean-Louis Aroui.
Research project on Musical and metrical text-setting in songs.
3. Teaching, mentoring, advising
May 2010
Seminar on ‘Text-to-tune alignment: Middle English and Middle French
compared’, taught in the framework of the MA Seminar Diachronic Phonology of
Romance Languages. Paris, École Normale Supérieure.
May 2009
Seminar on ‘The Beowulf alliterative metre’, taught in the framework of the MA
Seminar Universaux et typologie métrique, Métrique comparative. Paris, Ecole
Normale Supérieure.
4. Organizational Activity
2012
Organization of the conference Metrics, Music and Mind - Linguistic, Metrical and
Cognitive Implications in Sung Verse, Rome, 23-25 February (together with Paolo
Canettieri and Gianluca Valenti from Università Sapienza, Rome)
2011
Organization of the workshop General Metrics: Music and Prosody, Paris, CNRS,
27-28 June (together with Tomas Riad, Jean-Louis Aroui and other members of the
UMR 7023 “Structures Formelles du Langage”).
5. Referee and Review Work
Referee for Lingua (since 2012)
External expert for the EURIAS Fellowship Programme (since 2013)
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6. Other relevant information
Language skills
Italian (native)
German, English and French (excellent reading, writing and verbal skills)
Dutch, Spanish (good reading, basic verbal skills)
Computer Skills
Office Applications on Windows, MacOS and Linux platforms
Software for phonetic analysis: Praat
Software for music notation: MuseScore, Lilypond
Typesetting software : (La)TeX
Membership
since 2012
Member of the Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce (Italian Association of
Voice Sciences)
since 2004
Member of the Italian Society for Germanic Philology (Associazione Italiana di
Filologia Germanica)
Awards
June 2014
Winner of the prize entitled to Piergiuseppe Scardigli for the best publication in
Germanic Linguistics and Phililogy
RESEARCH RESULTS
1. Conference and Seminar Talks (selected)
2014
“Music-Language Interaction in Vocal Music”. Presented at the annual meeting of
the Eurias Fellows. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 25 April.
2012
“Singing in a tone language: Fe'fe' bamileke”. Presented at 33rd TABU Dag,
University of Groningen, 19 June.
2012
“Patterns of stability and variation in oral-tradition songs”. Research Seminar.
Collegium de Lyon, 22 May.
“Word and phrasal stress in Middle English. Evidence from sung verse”. Biennial
Conference on the Diachrony of English, Tours, 15–16 June.
2011
“Metrical structure and improvisation in the Italian ottava rima”. Workshop Young
Researchers in Metrics. Paris 8/UMR 7023, 21 June.
2010
“Textsetting and prosodic structure in Middle English sung verse. A corpus study”.
International conference Metrical Studies Today: Topics, Tools and Theories,
promoted by the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies (NordMetrik), Østfold
University College, Halden (Norvegia), 16–18 June.
2009
“Some Remarks on the Structure of the Nibelungen Stanza”. 2nd International
Conference on Meter and Rhythm – Rhythm and Meter, Vechta, Germany, 21–23
July.
2008
“What methods of analysis for German medieval folk songs?” Research Seminar of
the UMR 7023 “Structures Formelles du Language ” (Paris 8/UMR 7023, 3
November).
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2. Invited Presentations
2014
“Alignement entre accent lexical et positions métriques dans la chanson
traditionnelle: langues en comparaison et typologie”. Research seminar at the UMR
7023 “Structures Formelles du Langage”, Université Paris 8/CNRS, Saint-Denis, 26
May.
2013
“Singing in German: text-setting rules and language rhythm”. Round table Speaking
Voice, Singing Voice, and Performance, within the framework of the Annual Meeting
of the AISV (Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce). Università di Venezia, 23
January.
2012
“Text-to-tune alignment in the German Volkslied: a diachronic and synchronic
outline”. Presented (in French) at the MoDyCo Doctoral Seminar, Université Paris X,
10 April.
2012
“Preliminary study of the tone-to-tune alignment in fe'fe' bamileke, a Bantu language
of Cameroon”. Presented (in French) at the linguistics laboratory Dynamique Du
Langage, Université Lyon 2, 16 March.
2011
“Discrepancies between linguistic stress and musical rhythm in Italian songs: a first
exploration” (together with François Dell). Workshop General Metrics: Music and
Prosody, Paris, CNRS, 27–28 June.
2009
“The contrafactum in the Middle Ages. Linguistic and metrical strategies in songs”.
Presented at the annual workshop of the Crisco project. Paris 8/UMR 7023, 20
November.
3. Publications (selected)
Proto, T. (2014). Studio ecdotico, linguistico e musicologico dei Geisslerlieder. Sulle tracce di una
tradizione orale. Göppingen: Kümmerle (Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik).
Proto, T. / Dell, F. (2013) “The structure of metrical patterns in tunes and in literary verse. Evidence
from discrepancies between musical and linguistic rhythm in Italian songs”. Probus – An
International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics 25, pp. 1-34.
Proto, T. “Metrica orale e tradizione scritta. L’esempio dei wechsell neidhartiani”. Filologia
Germanica - Germanic Philology 3 (2011) (“Poetry of the German Middle Ages”).
Proto, T. (2011). “Against an isochronous interpretation of the Nibelungen meter”. In Ch. Küper
(ed.), Current Trends in Metrical Analysis. Frankfurt a. M./Berlin/Bern/Bruxelles/New
York/Oxford/Wien: Peter Lang, pp. 291-305.
Proto, T. (2007). “Proposte per un’edizione dei Geißlerlieder del 1349”. In Enrico De Angelis (ed.),
La giovane germanistica italiana. Secondo convegno di Pisa, 17-18 settembre 2007 (Jacques e i
suoi quaderni 48), pp. 261-273.
4. Invited Publications
Proto, T. (2013). “Prominence matching in English songs: a historical perspective”. Signa. Revista
de la Asociación Española de Semiótica 22 (special issue on sung verse), pp. 81-104.
Proto, T. / van Oostendorp, M. (forthcoming). “Rhythm in language and music”. International
Journal of Literary Linguistics (IJLL): ‘The Challenge of Cognition’ (online journal).
5. Publications (forthcoming)
Proto, T. with Canettieri P. & Valenti, G. Proceedings of the conference “Linguistic, metrical and
cognitive implications in sung verse”. Peter Lang.
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