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Scott S. Millspaugh, Ph.D.
5 South Park St. Apt. 2S
Hanover, NH 03755
svonmelsbach@gmail.com
(510) 684-3441
EXPERIENCE
September 2012 – present: Dartmouth College. Visiting Lecturer, Department of French and Italian.
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Taught Italian language and literature courses using a wide range of digital tools – including
VoiceThread, Twitter, Eyejot, and Social Book – to promote student collaboration and
experiential learning and to achieve and reinforce learning objectives.
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Participated in all stages of the creation of Dante Lab – a new iteration of the Dartmouth Dante
Project that provides a digital workspace for scholars and students of the Divine Comedy – from
grant-writing, exploration, and design to classroom testing and promotion at symposia and
conferences.
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Assisted instructional designers on the implementation of the Department of French and
Italian’s iPad Trial by designing spreadsheets that facilitate communication between master
teachers and drill instructors, consulting with faculty and students on the use of Google Drive
and Evernote, and preparing new iPads for classroom use.
August 2004 – September 2012: University of California, Berkeley. Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) /
Graduate Researcher, Department of Italian Studies.
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Consulted with faculty in Italian Studies and offered training seminars for new GSIs on the use of
UC Berkeley’s LMS (bSpace) and curated electronic resources for the instruction of Italian
language and freshman writing courses.
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Guided exploration for a new Italian Studies website.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Platorms: Windows, Mac OSX
Software: Microsoft Office Suite, Google Docs, Dreamweaver, Gimp 2.0, VoiceThread, Evernote, Lecture
Tools, iMovie
LMS: bSpace (UC Berkeley), Blackboard, Canvas
Web Development: HTML, CSS, PHP
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Italian and Medieval Studies. University of California, Berkeley, December 2013.
Dissertation: ‘Sermo absentium’: Rhetoric, Epistolarity and the Emergence of Italian Literary
Culture. Advisor: Steven Botterill (Italian Studies).
M.A. Medieval and Renaissance European Studies. University of Manchester, December 2003.
B.A. Literature. University of North Carolina at Asheville, June 1999.
PRESENTATIONS
2014: ‘Dante Lab as an Alternative Spatial Model for the Digital Humanities’. American Association for
Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference, University of Zurich, May 23-25. Proposal accepted.
2014:
‘Teaching the Divine Comedy with Dante Lab: Social Media and the Commentary Tradition’.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, Susquehanna University, April 36.
2013: Presentation of Dante Lab (with Jennifer Mirsky). Digital French and Italian Symposium,
Dartmouth College, October 31.
2013: ‘Not Just a Spreadsheet: Providing a More Efficient Learning Experience with Spreadsheets and
Google Drive in the Foreign Language Classroom’. The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement
of Learning (DCAL), Dartmouth College, September 23.
2013: ‘Teaching Vocabulary with Picture Dictations’. Dartmouth College Language Share Fair,
Dartmouth College, April 16.
AWARDS
2011-2012: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation-Writing Fellowship.
University of California, Berkeley.
2008-2009: Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley.
2004-2007: Pre-doctoral Humanities Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley.
2002-2003: Faculty Bursary Award. University of Manchester.