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Such a Pretty Girl charts Nadina LaSpina’s life from her childhood in Sicily to her adolescence and youth in the United States to her activism…
Richard Moss Harrisburg Area Community College This work analyzes the “New Ethnicity” of the 1970s as a way of understanding the United States’ political turn…
Borders can be concrete parameters, and they can also be metaphorical markers. Either way, the border as a political, economic, cultural, and personal site, one…
Maddalena Marinari Gustavus Adolphus College In the late nineteenth century, millions of Italians and Eastern European Jews left their countries to take advantage of the…
“My Italian village in America was in Waterbury, Connecticut.” With this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises this book’s central question: To what extent can a…
This year’s conference will be entirely virtual. Each weekday from April 5 to April 21, 2021, one presentation or panel will take place at 2pm…
An Intellectual Between Two Worlds: Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello (1906–1969) The exhibition will be accompanied by a Zoom roundtable conversation hosted by Prof. Anthony Tamburri,…
Monday, October 18 1:00 pm to 3:00pm Live on Microsoft Teams; link below Italian immigrants have left a lasting impression on this country, contributing to everything from literature,…
This second special edition of Italics features Fabio Finotti, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, as well as Cav. Joseph Sciame, president…
“Teaching Dante” Teaching and meeting the skills of undergraduate curriculum: Dante as a vehicle for good undergraduate readership. Prof. Russo explains how basic skills in…
“A Conversation: Dante Today” Alessandro Barbero in conversation with Anthony Julian Tamburri The author of numerous books and essays, Alessandro Barbero is both a novelist…
RESCHEDULED FROM 10/20 “’The Joy You Have but Tasted’: Savoring the Commedia with Dante” For the septicentennial of Dante’s Commedia, this talk celebrates Dante’s relationship with…