
Email: | Scott.Ortolano@fsw.edu |
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Phone: | (239) 489-9472 |
Extension: | 11472 |
Location: | LEE L122B |
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Biography
<p><strong>Scott Ortolano</strong> is Professor of English at Florida SouthWestern State College. His scholarship focuses on the cognitive and existential repercussions of consumerism—both during the modernist period and in the contemporary world. He has recently published work related to this topic in <em>The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review</em>, <em>South Atlantic Review</em>, <em>The Explicator</em>, and <em>Women’s Studies</em>, and he has a forthcoming chapter in <em>Terror in Global Narrative: The Aesthetics and Representation of 9/11 in the Age of Late-Late Capitalism</em> (Palgrave Macmillan). Dr. Ortolano is also interested in developing effective pedagogical strategies and the future of the humanities. He has recently published on this issue in the <em>South Atlantic Review</em> as well as co-edited a special issue of the journal that focuses on sustaining English programs in the twenty-first century. Among other work on this subject, he co-edited <em>Perspectives on the Short Story</em>, an anthology of short fiction published by Pearson. He is currently at work on an edited collection titled <em>Popular Modernism and Its Legacies: From Pop Literature to Video Games </em>(under contract, Bloomsbury).</p>
Website
www.ScottOrtolano.comEducation (Degrees and Certifications)
- PhD, Literature
- MA, English
- BA, History
Research (Publications, Presentations, and Other Projects)
- 鈥淚n Plain Sight: Strictly Dynamite, Modern Comedy, and the Hidden Legacy of Henri Bergson.鈥 The Explicator, vol. 73, no. 4, 2015, pp. 320-4.
- with Maria J. Cahill, 鈥淲alking the Line: Expanding Horizons and Creating Opportunity at Florida SouthWestern State College.鈥 Sustaining English Programs in the Twenty-First Century, special issue of South Atlantic Review, vol. 78, no. 1-2, 2015, pp. 152-71.
- 鈥淐hanging Buttons: Mainstream Culture in F. Scott Fitzgerald鈥檚 鈥楾he Curious Case of Benjamin Button鈥 and the 2008 Film Adaptation.鈥 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, vol. 10, no. 1, 2012, pp. 130-52
- co-editor, Co-editor, with Caitlin Newcomer. Perspectives on the Short Story. Pearson. 2012. Revised and Expanded Edition. August 2014.
- 鈥淟iberation, Degeneration, and Transcendence(?): The Promise and Paradox of the 鈥楴ew Woman鈥 in Edna Ferber鈥檚 Dawn O鈥橦ara, The Girl Who Laughed and..." Women鈥檚 Studies, vol. 45, no. 3, 2016, pp. 230-50.