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Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College At the turn of the twentieth century, Italian Americans led and participated in some of the period’s most volatile labor strikes.…
Mary Caponegro’s experimental fiction blurs the line between fantasy and reality. In these stories of love and healing gone awry, we visit Rome and a…
In a journey through Southern Italy, Italian American David Marker explores the zampogna, a Southern Italian bagpipe historically considered a shepherd’s instrument. Traditionally made by…
The Avanti Popolo poetry anthology, edited by the Italian-American Political Solidarity Club, focuses on re-interpreting the glorification of Christopher Columbus in mainstream Italian-American culture. Instead…
Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University Mary Jo Bona, author of By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America (SUNY Press,…
Gloucester, Massachusetts, is home to over 6,000 residents of Sicilian origin, many of them from the town of Terrasini, near Palermo. In Altro Mare looks…
On view October 27, 2010—January 7, 2011 Click here for full exhibition catalogue. Lilian Caruana’s photographs depict the forbidding and intimidating style of the punk…
Growing up in Trenton, New Jersey, in the mid-1980s, filmmaker Fred Zara went by the name Fred Fatal, played drums in a punk-rock band called…
How is it that an Italian-American grandmother’s gesture against the evil eye became the internationally recognized symbol for heavy metal music? What does the “Frank…
Acclaimed storyteller Gioia Timpanelli presents her latest book, a novella of danger and survival in late nineteenth-century rural Sicily. After his best friend is killed…
William Issel, San Francisco State University William Issel, author of For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War…
Special Guest Presentation Giorgio Bertellini, University of MichiganThe picturesque, once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe, came to symbolize Southern Europe through comforting views…