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Oct. 2, 2014 – 10:30am-5:45pm<\/strong> Presentations will be either in Italian or in English [Very limited seating available: RSVP strictly required by Sept. 29th\u00a0here<\/a>]<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n \u200c10:30-10:45am: Breakfast and Introductory remarks Introductory remarks by Linda Gould Levine, \u2022\u00a0Gino Tellini<\/a>\u00a0(Universit\u00e0 di Firenze): \u201cAspetti del mito americano, tra euforia e disincanto\u201d 1:30-3:15pm: Session II<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Andrea Dini<\/a>\u00a0(Montclair State University): \u201cCalvino e Hemingway\u201d 3:30-5:30pm: Session III<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Paolo Valesio<\/a>\u00a0(Columbia University): \u201cLa poesia di Antonio Barolini tra radicamento ed espatrio\u201d 5:30-5:45pm: Concluding remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n Observations and Indications for future directions by Gino Tellini, Paolo Valesio, and Alberto Bertoni<\/p>\n A\u00a0book presentation of Italian writings abroad<\/a>\u00a0will follow<\/strong><\/p>\n PRESENTERS’ BIOS<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>Gino Tellini<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Florence where he serves as both Director of “The Aldo Palazzeschi Research Center\u201d and Chair of the M.A. Program in Modern Philology. Tellini has also introduced the International Ph.D. Program in Italian Literature at the University of Florence. Some of his recent books include:\u00a0Rifare il verso. La parodia nella letteratura italiana<\/em>\u00a0(2008);\u00a0Metodi e protagonisti della critica letteraria<\/em>\u00a0(2010);\u00a0Letteratura italiana. Un metodo di studio<\/em>\u00a0(2011, 2014);\u00a0Alle origini della modernit\u00e0 letteraria. La poesia a Firenze tra Ottocento e Novecento<\/em>\u00a0(2013);\u00a0Svevo<\/em>\u00a0(2013);\u00a0Il “figlio del sole.” Vino e letteratura in Toscana<\/em>\u00a0(2014). See\u00a0Full profile Gino Tellini<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Simone Magherini<\/strong>\u00a0is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Florence. His research interests are in 18th- and 19th-century poetry, specifically the historical avant-gardes (Lucini, Palazzeschi, Papini, Prezzolini, Soffici, Marinetti.) He has also worked on projects in the digital humanities (Carte d\u2019autore online<\/em>, 2014). He is the author and curator of several publications including:\u00a0Tradizione e Modernit\u00e0. Archivi digitali e strumenti di ricerca<\/em>\u00a0(2009);\u00a0Carteggio Aldo Palazzeschi-Ardengo Soffici<\/em>\u00a0(2011);\u00a0Avanguardie storiche a Firenze e altri studi tra Otto e Novecento<\/em>\u00a0(2012);\u00a0La biblioteca di Aldo Palazzeschi<\/em>\u00a0(2004, 2013). See\u00a0Full profile Simone Magherini<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Irene Gambacorti<\/strong>\u00a0is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Florence. Focused on 18th- and 19th-century fiction and on the relationships between literature and the visual arts, photography, and film, her essays and books include:\u00a0Verga a Firenze. Nel laboratorio della “Storia di una capinera”<\/em>(1994);\u00a0Luciano Bianciardi. Bibliografia<\/em>\u00a0(2001);\u00a0Storie di cinema e di letteratura. Verga, Gozzano, D’Annunzio<\/em>\u00a0(2003);\u00a0Palazzeschi italofrancese<\/em>(2013). See\u00a0Full profile Irene Gambacorti<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Marino Biondi<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor of Italian literature at the University of Florence. A scholar of 19th- and 20th-century literature and historiography, he has focused on Risorgimento literature in three volumes in particular:\u00a0La tradizione della patria\u00a0<\/em>I,\u00a0Letteratura e Risorgimento da Vittorio Alfieri a Ferdinando Martini<\/em>; II,\u00a0Carduccianesimo e storia d\u2019Italia<\/em>\u00a0(2009-2010); and\u00a0Il discorso letterario sulla Nazione. Letteratura e Storia d\u2019Italia<\/em>\u00a0(2012). His latest books include:\u00a0Cronache. Da Dante ai contemporanei\u00a0<\/em>e\u00a0Nuove cronache. Antichi e moderni\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Boccaccio e Machiavelli. Occasioni di lettura\u00a0<\/em>(2014). He is a member of the jury for the literary prize Premio Viareggio-Repaci. See\u00a0Full profile Marino Biondi<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Andrea Dini<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor of Italian at Montclair State University. His research focuses on Italo Calvino\u2019s early years (1941-1949), Resistance literature, modern re-writings of Dante (in Pasolini, Luzi, Sanguineti) and Second Language Acquisition. Dr. Dini is the author of the book Il Premio Nazionale \u2018Riccione\u2019 1947 e Italo Calvino (2007) and the co-author of the introductory textbook Prego! (McGraw-Hill). He is also the co-editor of and contributor to the volume Approaches to Petrarch\u2019s Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition (MLA, 2014). His articles on Calvino, Pavese, and Pasolini have appeared in Paragone-Letteratura, Quaderni del \u2018900 and edited collections. See\u00a0Full profile Andrea Dini<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Teresa Fiore<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor and Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University. She is the editor of the 2006 issue of\u00a0Quaderni del \u2018900<\/em>\u00a0on John Fante. Her articles on 20th-century Italian literature and cinema, Italian American culture, and immigration in Italy have appeared in journals (Annali d\u2019Italianistica<\/em>,\u00a0Diaspora<\/em>,\u00a0Bollettino d\u2019italianistica<\/em>) and edited books:\u00a0Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture<\/em>\u00a0(2010),\u00a0The Cultures of Italian Migration<\/em>\u00a0(2011) and\u00a0Postcolonial Italy<\/em>\u00a0(2012). See\u00a0Full profile Teresa Fiore<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Marisa S. Trubiano<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor of Italian at Montclair State University. Her recent publications include articles on the screenwriter Ennio Flaiano and Italian cinema, and oral history within the context of Italian American cultural studies. Her book\u00a0Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards of a Changing World<\/em>\u00a0was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2010. Current projects include the translation of Flaiano\u2019s theater into English. <\/a>David Del Principe<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor of Italian at Montclair State University. He is the author of the book\u00a0Rebellion, Death, and Aesthetics in Italy: The Demons of Scapigliatura<\/em>\u00a0(1996) and various articles on 19th- and 20th-century Italian and European, Gothic literature and culture. His current research interests lie in a new field of study, the EcoGothic, that embraces Ecofeminist and Vegan Theory and Praxis, Critical Animal Studies, and Post-Humanism. He recently served as Guest Editor of a special issue of the British journal Gothic Studies (The EcoGothic in the Long Nineteenth Century<\/em>, Manchester University Press, 2014). See\u00a0Full profile David Del Principe<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Paolo Valesio<\/strong>\u00a0is Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor Emeritus in Italian Literature at Columbia University. He is editor in chief of the\u00a0Italian Poetry Review (IPR)\u00a0<\/em>and president of the \u201cCentro Studi Sara Valesio\u201d in Bologna. His research includes modern and contemporary Italian literature, rhetoric and spirituality, as well as the theory and practice of creative writing. Beside numerous critical essays and articles, Valesio has published, curated and co-curated several works of criticism (including the edition of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,\u00a0Venezianella e<\/em>Studentaccio<\/em>) as well as novels and collections of short stories. Valesio is also the author of seventeen volumes of poetry (the latest being\u00a0La mezzanotte di Spoleto<\/em>).<\/p>\n <\/a>Marcello Neri<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Flensburg (Germany) and Co-Director (with Prof. Markus Pohlmeyer) of the Workgroup and Project \u201cLiterature and Theology\u201d at the Department of Catholic Theology of the University of Flensburg. His latest book\u00a0Esodi del divino\u00a0<\/em>(Il Mulino, Bologna) will be released in Fall 2014.<\/p>\n <\/a>Alberto Bertoni<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature and 20th<\/sup>-century Prose and Literary Genres at the University of Bologna. He is the editor of poetry series (Book Editore), research board member for \u201cPoesiaFestival,\u201d and jury member for various literary prizes. His main publications include:\u00a0Taccuini 1915-1921\u00a0<\/em>di F.T. Marinetti (1987),\u00a0Dai simbolisti al Novecento\u00a0<\/em>(1995),\u00a0La poesia come si legge e come si scrive<\/em>\u00a0(2006), il \u201cMeridiano\u201d dei\u00a0Romanzi<\/em>\u00a0di Alberto Bevilacqua, and\u00a0La poesia contemporanea<\/em>\u00a0(2012). He is also the author of several volumes of poetry including:\u00a0Tat\u00ec<\/em>\u00a0(1999),\u00a0Le cose dopo<\/em>\u00a0(2003),\u00a0Ricordi di Alzheimer<\/em>\u00a0(2008), and\u00a0Traversate<\/em>\u00a0(2014), among others. Some of his books have been translated into English, French, and Russian. See\u00a0Full profile Alberto Bertoni<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Salvino Raco<\/strong>\u00a0is an independent theatre director. He received his MFA in Theatre Studies at the Sorbonne University Paris III. He has participated in performances and workshops by Pier\u2019Alli, Bob Wilson and Tadeusz Kantor. His works have been presented at the Triennale of Milano, Fabbrica Europa in Firenze, Festival Contemporaneo in Prato, Biennale of Venezia, and Spazio Ansaldo in Milano. See Full profile (Currently unavailable). MODERATORS\u2019 BIOS<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>Enza Antenos-Conforti\u00a0<\/strong>is Assistant Professor in Italian at Montclair State University, and the current Deputy Chair of the Italian Program. Her publications are in the field of second language acquisition and, in particular, the role of emerging technologies in foreign language education (Foreign Language Annals, Calico Journal). Her research and teaching interests also focus on Italian language in the U.S. See\u00a0Full profile Enza Antenos-Conforti<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Rhiannon Noel Welch<\/strong>\u00a0is Assistant Professor in Italian at Rutgers University. Her research interests focus on 19th-21st-century Italian literature, film, and cultural studies and in particular on issues of (post-) colonialism, biopolitics, race, nationalism, migration, and labor. Her essays have appeared in journals (Italica) and edited volumes (National Belongings, L\u2019Italia postcoloniale). She is the translator of Roberto Esposito\u2019s Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity and Biopolitics (2013). Her book manuscript Vital Subjects: Race, (Re)productivity, and Italian Modernity is currently under revision. See\u00a0Full profile Rhiannon Noel Welch<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Jo Ann Cavallo<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Italian at Columbia University and current Chair of the Italian Department. \u00a0Her most recent book,\u00a0The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto<\/em>\u00a0(2013), received the 2011 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award.\u00a0She is also the author of\u00a0The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure\u00a0<\/em>(2004), and co-editor of\u00a0Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America<\/em>(1998).\u00a0Her articles focus on early Christian and Gnostic literature, Italian authors from the medieval to the modern period, and folk traditions that stage epic narratives. She is currently co-editing (with Carlo Lottieri) the volume \u201cSpeaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy\u201d for\u00a0Annali d’Italianistica<\/em>\u00a0(2016). 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\nPresident\u2019s Dining Room<\/a>, University Hall 7th<\/sup>\u00a0floor
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\n(the title indicates the language of delivery – no translation available)<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nTeresa Fiore and Andrea Dini (Montclair State University)
\n10:45am-12:30pm: Session I<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0Simone Magherini<\/a>\u00a0(Universit\u00e0 di Firenze): \u201cSi sbarca a New York<\/em>\u00a0di F.M. Martini\u201d
\n\u2022\u00a0Irene Gambacorti<\/a>\u00a0(Universit\u00e0 di Firenze): \u201c’Terra di libert\u00e0, o d’esiglio doloroso’: Pietro Borsieri in America\u201d
\n\u2022\u00a0Marino Biondi\u00a0<\/a>(Universit\u00e0 di Firenze): \u201cMario Soldati: America e altri amori. Scritti di viaggio\u201d
\n\u2022 Chair and moderator:\u00a0Enza Antenos-Conforti<\/a>\u00a0(Montclair State University)
\n12:30-1:30p<\/strong>m: Lunch<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0Teresa Fiore<\/a>\u00a0(Montclair State University): \u201cSciascia tra la Sicilia, il New Jersey e \u2018Brucchilin\u2019\u201d
\n\u2022\u00a0Marisa Trubiano<\/a>(Montclair State University): \u201cDobbiamo imparare a vivere come gli emigranti\u201d: Flaiano, gli USA e il nostro “vero paese” di destinazione
\n\u2022\u00a0David Del Principe<\/a>\u00a0(Montclair State University): \u201cL’Ecogotico transatlantico\u201d
\n\u2022 Chair and moderator:\u00a0Rhiannon Noel Welch<\/a>\u00a0(Rutgers University)
\n3:15-3:30pm: Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0Marcello Neri<\/a>\u00a0(University of Flensburg): \u201cWriting Between Collapsed Worlds – Heinrich B\u00f6ll\u201d
\n\u2022\u00a0Alberto Bertoni<\/a>\u00a0(Alma Mater Studiorum\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong>Universit\u00e0 di Bologna, Italy): \u201cI mondi di Vittorio Sereni\u201d
\n\u2022\u00a0Salvino Raco<\/a>\u00a0(Theatre director, Paris): \u201cPoetica e politica del teatro contemporaneo nella realt\u00e0 di oggi\u201d
\n\u2022 Chair and moderator:\u00a0Jo Ann Cavallo<\/a>\u00a0(Columbia University)<\/p>\n
\nSee\u00a0Full profile Marisa Trubiano<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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