Stefano Asperti

Personal Particulars

Name: Stefano Asperti.
Born in: Bergamo – Date of birth: February 22, 1975.
Nationality: Italian.
Address: Via Bartolomeo Colleoni n° 6 – 24040 Levate (BG) - ITALY
Phone: +39 035 594482
Mobile: +39 348 3520331
Fax 1: +39 035 98731159; Fax 2: +1 484 205 6577
E-mail 1: stefano.asperti@thetranslator.it
E-mail 2: steaspe@gmail.com
MSN: steaspe@hotmail.com / Skype: steaspe

Education

2005 - Present day, University of Bergamo, Bergamo (Italy)
PhD student in Euro-American Literatures at the Graduate School of Literary Sciences

2004, University of Bergamo, Bergamo (Italy)
Laurea (MA), Summa Cum Laude, in Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Dissertation's topic: "Technological and Hypertextual Aspects in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum"
- Artistic curriculum.
- Academic studies focused on:
o 16th, 17th, and 20th Century literature
o Theoretical aspects of literature
o The effects of the media and science on literary language
o 20th Century critical streams, especially those of the last 30-40 years (structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, cultural studies, gender studies, etc.)

1994-1998, Polytechnic of Milan, Milan (Italy)
First to fourth year of Chemical Engineering

1989-1994, Liceo Scientifico "F.Lussana", Bergamo (Italy)
Diploma of "maturità scientifica" (scientific school certificate)
58/60 grades
Languages: English, German, Latin.

October 1998 – June 2000    Gruppo Teatro Fragile (Treviolo, BG, ITALY)
2-Year Acting School

Languages

Italian: native speaker
English: proficient (both written and spoken)
German: good (written and spoken)

Software

Windows XP Sp2, Microsoft Office 2000 (Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint), Microsoft Publisher 2000, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional, ABBYY FineReader 7.0,  Trados 6.5 FL with Multiterm IX, Wordfast, OmegaT, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8, Skype, MSN Messenger.

Hardware

Desktop computer: CPU AMD Athlon 2600+, 512MB RAM, 60GB HD, scanner CANON D646U, printer EPSON Stylus Photo R300 (color inkjet), modem fax, DVD±RW, DVD drive.
Laptop Acer TM4001LCi: American keyboard, CPU Intel Pentium M 710 (Centrino) 1.4GHz, 512 MB RAM, 40GB HD, DVD/CD-RW Combo, 802.11 b/g wireless LAN, modem fax.

DSL connection

Work Experience

Translations

Languages: EN>IT, DE>IT.

Specializations
Sports, politics, religion, marketing, chemistry, biology, sciences (geology, astronomy, etc.), physics, consumer electronics (dvd players, mobile phones, etc.), information technology, advertising, art, cinema, theatre, culinary, tourism, literary translations, literature...

Collaborations with agencies and translators
•    The Matrix Productions (New Delhi, India)
•    Spaziotraduzioni (Parma)
•    Jesús Maroto (Barcelona, Spain)
•    ad hoc Dolmetscher & Übersetzungen – Interpreters & Translations GmbH (Vienna, Austria)
•    Paola Sorrentino Translations (Milan, Italy)
•    Emanuela Galdelli (Rome, Italy)
•    Idiomas snc (Bagnocavallo (RA), Italy)
•    Bartsch Consult GbR (Königswinter, Germany)
•    ILSA di Francesca Ferrando (Cinisello Balsamo (MI), Italy)
•    Angioletta Garbarino (Alessandria, Italy)
•    Villa Traduzioni (Gazzaniga (BG), Italy)
•    CPR-Translation (Ehingen, Germany, http://cpr-translation.de/)
•    Global Propaganda (Spain)
•    Professional Translating Services (Miami, FL)
•    etc.

Clients
•    GAMeC (Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art – Bergamo, Italy)
•    Vision Italia Srl (Cologno Monzese (MI), Italy)
•    Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello Foundation (Perugia, Italy)
•    Editrice Compositori (Bologna, Italy)
•    Arcigay (Italian national gay association - Bologna, Italy)
•    The Lightship Group (Rhode Island, USA, http://www.lightshipgroup.com/)
•    Yamaha Motor Europe
•    Toshiba
•    BSN medical
•    DHL
•    Atlas
•    Sky TV: TV series “Blow Out” (seasons 1-3), “I Want to Be a Hilton”, “Fifth Wheel” and “Final Justice”, and the specials about Madonna's music videos "Hung Up" and "Sorry" (EN>IT)
•    Indian Council for Leather Exports
•    Messe Düsseldorf
•    Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten (Loipersdorf, Austria)
•    Scuole Civiche di Milano – Scuola d’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi (“Paolo Grassi” School of Drama, Milan, Italy)
•    Delta Airlines
•    Holiday Inn
•    Adobe
•    Intel (Intel Channel Conference)
•    MotionPoint
•    etc.

Publications (Translations)

•    Lilli Hollein (ed.), "Il volto nuovo di Vienna", Ottagono, n. 189, April 2006, pp. 180-228 (translated from German).
•    Martin Josephy, Sibylle Hahner (eds.), "Basilea, città in evoluzione", Ottagono, n. 194, October 2006, pp. 171-212 (translated from German).
•    Upcoming: Roger Absalom, A Strange Alliance, translated by Stefano Asperti, Una strana Alleanza, Firenze: Olschki, 2009.


Other Work Experiences

November 2005 - Present day: Teaching Assistant
Course: American Literature I 1 A (5 credits).
University of Bergamo (Italy)

July 2005: Lecturer
Course: Italian Heritage (ITAL-1900, 3 credits). Semester: Summer 2005.
Community College of Rhode Island - "Summer Travel/Study Program" in Orvieto (TR, Italy)

July 2004: Italian Language Assistant
Community College of Rhode Island - "Summer Travel/Study Program" in Orvieto (TR, Italy)

December 2003-December 2004: Cultural attaché and substitute librarian for employees on leave

March 2002-May 2006: Freelance journalist
Crime news, entertainment, economy ("Il Nuovo Giornale di Bergamo")

2000-2001: English teacher
Revised English Curriculum for students starting high school

1994-2000: Domiciliary assistant for a disabled child.

Accomplishments and Interests

Cultural. From 1997 to 2002 I was a member of the Commission for Culture and Education of the municipality of Levate. I was editor of the town periodical “Levate Insieme,” and I was managing editor from 1999 to 2001. In 2004 I was elected town councilor in Levate and I was appointed by the Mayor “Consigliere delegato per i Beni e le Attività Culturali” (delegate advisor for cultural assets and activities).

Theater. After attending a two-year acting school with “Gruppo Teatro Fragile” in Treviolo (Bergamo), I became a member of the group in 2000. Teatro Fragile became an affiliate of FITA (Italian Federation of Amateur Theatres) in 2003, and I am now their promoter and advisor. I performed in several plays, some for children and some for adults.

Cinema. I am keenly interested in cinematographic techniques, the language of film, and the use of cinema as an educational tool. In 2001, I conducted a course on the language of cinema, entitled “Cinema: language, discourse, analysis”. In 2002, I co-founded “Metropolis”, an association headquartered in Bergamo that deals with promoting the culture of cinema. In May 2003, in Calcinate (Bergamo), I led an analytical discussion of the film “Jimmy Grimble,” as part of a convention on “Sports, why? Elements for an inquiry into the motivation to play sports.”


Levate, April 30, 2008     

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop
• PowerPoint
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• Windows XP Sp2, Microsoft Office 2000 (Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint), Microsoft Publisher 2000, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional, ABBYY FineReader 7.0, Trados 6.5 FL with Multiterm IX, Wordfast, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8, Skype, MSN Messenger.