{"id":207936,"date":"2020-08-05T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=207936"},"modified":"2020-08-05T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T20:35:15","slug":"coccia-institute-welcomes-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2020\/08\/05\/coccia-institute-welcomes-new-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Coccia Institute Welcomes New Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences, along with the Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America<\/a>, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Rotella as its new director.<\/p>\n

Rotella joins the Coccia Institute from Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/em>, where he has been Senior Editor since 2006.\u00a0 Rotella is an internationally recognized writer on the Italian American Experience, including his books Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria<\/em>, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux \/ North Point Press, 2003) and Amore: The Story of Italian American Song<\/em> (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) as well as the\u00a0introduction to the reissue of Carlo Levi\u2019s classic memoir\u00a0Christ Stopped at Eboli<\/em> (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006). \u00a0He has published nearly four dozen articles in a wide array of outlets including The New York Times, New York Times Book Review, The L.A. Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Vanity Fair, Saveur Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>and NPR.org<\/em> and has appeared on National Public Radio outlets across the USA (on flagship shows such as All Things Considered and the Leonard Lopate Show), CBS\u2019s The Insider<\/em>, Entertainment Tonight<\/em>, and ABC News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled to be leading the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America, working closely with Dean Peter Kingstone and the wonderful Coccia family,\u201d says Rotella. \u201cThe Coccia Institute has been highly recognized throughout New Jersey, New York, and the country. I am excited to build on the excellent work done by Dr. Mary Ann Re to continue extending the scope of the Institute on a national and international scale. I look forward to working with old and new colleagues in the Montclair State community to continue advancing the growing interest in Italian and Italian American fields of study.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rotella\u2019s appointment comes on the back of his cultural credentials as an observer and writer of the Italian American experience and a strong and inclusive vision for continuing and building on the Coccia Institute\u2019s regional reputation as a center of engagement and learning about the Italian American experience.<\/p>\n

Rotella is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program<\/a> at Montclair State.\u00a0 In addition, he has taught Creative Writing at Goucher and Lehman Colleges as well as in the MFA Program at Columbia University. Rotella\u2019s own experience as a first-generation college student has helped him connect with students at Montclair State and informs his own passion for contributing to their education.\u00a0 He will continue to offer his expertise to the students of Montclair State as part of his new role at the Institute.<\/p>\n

Rotella joins the University with the enthusiastic support of President Susan A. Cole, Provost Willard Gingerich, the outgoing Director, Mary Ann Re, and Elisa and Elda Coccia.\u00a0We are excited about Mark\u2019s appointment and look forward to a successful tenure at the helm.<\/p>\n

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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences, along with the Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Rotella as its new director. Rotella joins the Coccia Institute from Publisher\u2019s Weekly, where he has been Senior Editor since 2006.\u00a0 Rotella is an internationally recognized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":207941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-56_coccia-institute","category-7_homepage-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207943,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207936\/revisions\/207943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}