In Search of My Italian American Father: Onorio Ruotolo
Lucio Ruotolo, Stanford University Dr. Ruotolo, professor emeritus at Stanford University, is a distinguished scholar of English literature, and is currently writing a biography of…
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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Ralph Fasanella’s America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Paul D’Ambrosio Paul D’Ambrosio is chief curator of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, NY. He is engaged in a major research project…
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‘I Wanted to Do Something Big and I Did’: The Folk Art Environments of Six Italian Americans
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Holly Metz, New School Holly Metz is an instructor in humanities at the New School for Social Research and a writer on cultural and social…
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Portrait of a Country in Song: The Italian Recordings of Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella, 1953-54
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Anna Lomax Chairetakis, Hunter College Dr. Chairetakis, an anthropologist and daughter of Alan Lomax, is president of the Association for Cultural Equity at Hunter College/CUNY,…
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Politics and Culture in the Italian American Community: The Experience of Il Fuoco and La Follia
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Marcella Bencivenni, CUNY Graduate Center Marcella Bencivenni, who is writing her dissertation in the PhD program in History at the CUNY Graduate School, examines the…
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Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian American Sculptor
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Carol Kushner, SUNY Dutchess Community College Carol Kushner is a writer and English professor at Dutchess Community College/SUNY. As a student she studied sculpture for…
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‘Sempre la Questione di Razza’: Ideas of Race in the Italian American Press, 1890-1915
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Peter Vellon, CUNY Graduate Center Peter Vellon, who is writing his dissertation in the PhD Program in History at the CUNY Graduate School, explores how…
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The Aesthetics of Economic Performance: Music-Making and the Neapolitan Neomelodici
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jason Pine, University of Texas at Austin Jason Pine is a Ph.D candidate in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. His interest lies…
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Negotiating Identity in Boston’s North End through Religious Symbols and Pageantry
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Augusto Ferraiuolo, Università di Cassino From early June to mid-September, Boston’s North End is transformed into a living theater of religious spectacle. Professor of Cultural…
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The Allurement of Influence: Italian American Women’s Maternal Literary Ancestry
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Mary Jo Bona, SUNY Stony Brook Mary Jo Bona, Associate Professor of Italian American Studies at SUNY Stony Brook, will examine second-wave Italian American feminism…
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Minerva e lo scimmione?: German Cultural Influence in Italy from Unification to War I, 1861-1915
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036David De Gregorio, CUNY Graduate Center David De Gregorio, Esq., a student in CUNY Graduate’s history program, explores German cultural influence in Italy in the…
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‘They are just like us!’: Alterity and Politics in the National Press in Post-Unification Italy
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Peter Carravetta, Queens College Prof. Peter Carravetta of Italian and Comparative Literature at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center looks at the perception and…
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