{"id":42,"date":"2017-08-16T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2024-05-13T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T17:44:45","slug":"book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/endowed-chair-research\/book\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Occupied Spaces: Prizes, Reviews and Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\"><em>\u200c<\/em><em>\u200c<\/em><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fordhampress.com\/9780823274321\/pre-occupied-spaces\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies<\/em><\/a> is the title of a 2017 book by Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University), published by Fordham University Press in the Critical Studies in Italian America series. It was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/aais.wildapricot.org\/book_prize\">2017 AAIS Book Prize<\/a>, received an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mla.org\/Resources\/Career\/MLA-Grants-and-Awards\/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes\/Biennial-Prize-and-Award-Winners\/Howard-R.-Marraro-Prize-Winners\">Honorable Mention at the 2018 MLA Marraro Prize<\/a>, was voted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/06\/Edinburgh-Gadda-Prize-EGP-2019-Full-Lists-and-Final-Results.pdf\">Runner Up Winner for the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize\u00a0<\/a>and was nominated for the 2018 Bridge Book Award.\n<p>The book was published in Italian by Le Monnier\/Mondadori Educational in 2021. For information about the Italian edition and presentations in Italy, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/endowed-chair-research\/italian-translation-of-teresa-fiores-book-pre-occupied-spaces\/\">dedicated webpage in Italian <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/endowed-chair-research\/italian-translation-of-teresa-fiores-book-pre-occupied-spaces\">in English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By linking Italy&#8217;s long history of emigration to all continents in the world, contemporary transnational migrations directed toward it, as well as the country&#8217;s colonial legacies, Fiore&#8217;s book poses Italy as a unique laboratory to rethink national belonging at large in our era of massive demographic mobility as well as to re-design the discipline of Italian Studies within a mobility-based and translingual vision. Through an interdisciplinary cultural approach, the book finds traces of globalization in a past that may hold interesting lessons about inclusiveness for the present.<\/p>\n<p>Fiore rethinks Italy&#8217;s formation and development on a transnational map including Egypt, Argentina, France, Ethiopia and the U.S. through the cultural analysis of travel, living, and workspaces as depicted in literary, filmic, and musical texts (Crialese&#8217;s <em>Golden Door<\/em>, Lakhous&#8217; <em>Clash of Civilization Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio<\/em>, Cavanna&#8217;s <em>Les Ritals<\/em>, Ghermandi&#8217;s \u201cThe Story of Woizero Bekelech and Signor Antonio,\u201d and Rodari&#8217;s short stories, among others). By demonstrating how immigration in Italy today is preoccupied by its past emigration and colonialism, the book stresses commonalities and dispels preoccupations.\u00a0 \u00a0<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/03\/Contents-Fiore-Book.pdf\">Table of Contents<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/11\/Fiore-book-cover.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/11\/Fiore-book-cover.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-Occupied Spaces book cover\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/p><\/div><strong>Awards, Honorable Mentions and Nominations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/06\/Edinburgh-Gadda-Prize-EGP-2019-Full-Lists-and-Final-Results.pdf\">Runner Up for the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize &#8211; Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category<\/a> (prize was presented by Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri at a ceremony held on June 26 at the Scottish Parliament)<\/li>\n<li>Nomination to &#8220;The Bridge&#8221; Book Award &#8211; Fourth Edition in 2018 &#8211; promoted and sponsored by Casa delle Letterature of the Rome Municipality, the American Initiative for Italian Culture (AIFIC), and the Embassy of the United States in Rome, and endorsed by the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC, the American Academy in Rome, and other Institutions in both countries such as Center of Italian Modern Art (CIMA) and the Center For Fiction in NY.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mla.org\/Resources\/Career\/MLA-Grants-and-Awards\/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes\/Biennial-Prize-and-Award-Winners\/Howard-R.-Marraro-Prize-Winners\">Honorable Mention in the 2018 MLA (Modern Language Association) competition for the Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian Literature<\/a> (for books published in 2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.mla.org\/HRM-Press-Release.pdf\">Press release<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JusNq7uY76Y\">video<\/a> (5&#8217;10&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aais.wildapricot.org\/book_prize\">2017 AAIS\/American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize<\/a> &#8211; Winner in the 20th-21st centuries category (assigned in June 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Journal reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/intellect\/cjmc\/2019\/00000010\/00000001\/art00013;jsessionid=4p82rn730nitf.x-ic-live-02\">Review<\/a> by Loredana Polezzi in <em>Crossings: Journal of Migration &amp; Culture <\/em>10:1 (April 2019): 153-5.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\/showpdf.php?id=53760&amp;fbclid=IwAR1dFdnyb7hbVdRcS3BXJkmK6h8Zh5apQff_AvAxoZXcNFh2Wd4Asa0ALf4\">Review<\/a> by Joseph Viscomi (&#8220;Spaces and Migrations&#8221;) in <em>H-net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences<\/em> (Feb. 2019): 1-3.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1354571X.2019.1550882\">Review<\/a> by David Aliano in <em>Journal of Modern Italian Studies<\/em> 24:1 (Feb. 2019): 198-200.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/05\/Fiore_Italian-American-Review_REV.pdf\">Review <\/a>by Caterina Romeo in <em>Italian American Review <\/em>(Winter 2019): 143-146.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/03\/Mattei-Review-Fiore-PS-Book-Oblio.pdf\">Review<\/a> by Alessandra Mattei in <em>Oblio: Osservatorio bibliografico della letteratura italiana otto-novecentesca <\/em>VIII. 32 (Winter 2018): 287-8.<\/li>\n<li>Review by Loredana Polezzi in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectbooks.com\/crossings-journal-of-migration-culture\">Crossings: Journal of Migration &amp; Culture<\/a> <\/em>10:1 (April 2019): 153-5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/11\/Review-Annali-di-Italianistica-PS-book-Fiore.pdf\">Review<\/a> by Melissa Coburn in <em>Annali di Italianistica <\/em>36 (2018): 465-7.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gendersexualityitaly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/21.BellesiaGiovanna.Pre-occupied-Spaces.pdf\">Review<\/a> by Giovanna Bellesia in <em>gender\/sexuality\/italy <\/em>5 (2018): 281-3.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/01\/Lombardi-Diop-Review-Preoccupied-Spaces-book-Forum-Italicum.pdf\">Review<\/a> by Cristina Lombardi-Diop in <em>Forum Italicum <\/em>51:3 (Fall 2017): 863-66.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altreitalie.it\/pubblicazioni\/rivista\/n--55\/rassegna\/libri\/teresa-fiore-pre-occupied-spaces--remapping-italys-transnational-migrations-and-colonial-legacies.kl\">Review<\/a>\u00a0 by Cristina Lombardi-Diop in <em>Altreitalie 55<\/em> (July-Dec. 2017): 147-50 &#8211; (Italian translation of the\u00a0<em>Forum Italicum<\/em> review)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Magazine reviews and blog entries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qds.it\/teresa-fiore-la-ricerca-non-e-solo-scienza-piu-fondi-per-progetti-interdisciplinari\/?refresh_ce\">Interview about Sicily and migration in contemporary Italy<\/a> by <em>Quotidiano di Sicilia<\/em> (June 1, 2019)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavocedinewyork.com\/en\/news\/2019\/05\/12\/italy-is-pre-occupied-and-so-are-we\/\">La Voce di New York article<\/a> by Yulia Lapina (May 12, 2019) on the occasion of the presentation at the <a href=\"https:\/\/calandrainstitute.org\/events\/pre-occupied-spaces-remapping-italys-transnational-migrations-and-colonial-legacies\/\">Calandra Institute<\/a> (May 9, 2019) two years after the book&#8217;s presentation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wetheitalians.com\/single_post\/new-italian-emigration-us-meet-teresa-fiore\">Interview about the new Italian emigration to the US<\/a> by <em>We the Italians<\/em> (May 6, 2019)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iatis.org\/index.php\/blog-home\/item\/1654-what-are-you-reading-loredana-polezzi\">Brief review<\/a> by Loredana Polezzi on the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies blog <em>What are You Reading? <\/em>(Feb. 14, 2018)<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lavocedinewyork.com\/arts\/libri\/2018\/01\/17\/teresa-fiore-credere-in-unitalia-come-laboratorio-dimmagi-nazione\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Teresa Fiore: &#8216;Credere in un\u2019Italia come laboratorio d\u2019immagi-nazione\u201d&#8217;<\/a> in the online magazine <em>La voce di New York <\/em>(Jan. 17, 2018) by Sara Fruner<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Excerpts from Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Being truly pre-occupied with space, Fiore organizes the volume according to a carefully constructed structure that takes the question of migratory space extremely seriously&#8230;. The book\u2019s innovative and highly creative architecture waves together an impressive proliferation of well-researched texts, critical references, and disciplinary perspectives. What holds the whole structure together is Fiore\u2019s sophisticated and brilliant work of theoretical scaffolding, one that never loses sight of the perils of its iconoclastic undertakings&#8230; <\/em>Pre-occupied Spaces<em> also redraws the cartography of Italian Studies within the Humanities &#8230; [and] has the merit of breaking disciplinary and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways.&#8221; <\/em>Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Loyola University Chicago (from<em> Forum Italicum <\/em>review)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFiore invites her readers to re-read Italy\u2019s history (and its present) of emigration and its present (and its history) of immigration in light of ongoing debates about citizenship and nationality. As the 2018 elections revealed, this is more necessary than ever. I leave wondering about the book\u2019s audience: when will an Italian translation appear?\u201d<\/em> Joseph Viscomi (H-Net in the Humanities and Social Sciences)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;For its methodological approach as well as its ethical and political impetus, <\/em>Pre-Occupied Spaces <em>is an important book. <\/em><em>In placing mobility at the centre of her canvas, Teresa Fiore makes the stories <\/em><em>she tells about Italy crucial for our understanding of the contemporary world, <\/em><em>its tensions, its fears and its aspirations. <\/em><em>That is why this is a book which deserves to be read <\/em><em>well beyond the confines of Italian Studies \u2013 and also a book which reaffirms <\/em><em>the role Italian Studies can occupy in the broader field of the Humanities. We <\/em><em>need stories like these, voiced this clearly and convincingly, if the Humanities<\/em><br \/>\n<em>are to maintain their heuristic power and their centrality.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Loredana Polezzi, Cardiff University (<em>Crossings: Journal of Migration &amp; Culture<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Fiore provides a much broader sense of the vast history behind the narratives [she analyzes] by uncovering a vast array of sources and, in turn, sources for those sources. She thus makes her argument carefully, <\/em><em>attentive to scholarly precedents. When theorizing, she self-consciously invites the reader <\/em><em>to continued inquiry of valid current questions. In brief, Pre-Occupied Spaces <\/em><em>successfully unifies this diverse set of cultural texts into a worthy overview of questions <\/em><em>of vital contemporary interest.&#8221; <\/em>Melissa Coburn, Virginia Tech (<em>Annali di Italianistica<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The uniqueness of <\/em>Pre-Occupied Spaces<em> stems from its structure, from the author\u2019s decision to approach migration from many different angles, across multiple disciplines and genres. [&#8230;] <\/em>Pre-Occupied Spaces<em> is a unique and important contribution to what is becoming the crowded field of migration studies.&#8221; <\/em>Giovanna Bellesia, Smith College (from <em>gender\/sexuality\/italy<\/em> review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Presentations (from upcoming to past):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ideaboston.com\/the-space-between-analyzing-modern-and-past-italian-immigration-emigration\/\">&#8220;The Space Between: Analyzing Modern and Past Italian Immigration\/Emigration.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Nov. 2, 2019\u00a0 \u00a0A panel presentation at <a href=\"https:\/\/ideaboston.com\/\">IDEA Festival<\/a> in Boston in connection to <a href=\"https:\/\/iambooksboston.com\/about\/\">I AM BOOKS<\/a>\u00a0)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/events.wfu.edu\/event\/pre-occupied_spaces_remapping_italys_transnational_migrations_and_colonial_legacies#.YCyZkxNKijg\">&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Oct. 21, 2019\u00a0 6pm <strong>Wake Forest University<\/strong>, Winston-Salem, NC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adultschool.org\/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&amp;int_class_id=45664&amp;int_category_id=22&amp;int_sub_category_id=109&amp;int_catalog_id=0\">&#8220;A Nation in Motion: Rethinking Italy through its Migration&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; May 13, 2019 7pm <a href=\"http:\/\/adultschool.org\/\">Montclair Public Library Adult School<\/a> Lecture<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/calandrainstitute.org\/events\/pre-occupied-spaces-remapping-italys-transnational-migrations-and-colonial-legacies\/\">&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Thur. May 9, 2019 6pm <strong>Calandra Italian American Institute<\/strong>, NY.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu\/event\/pre-occupied-spaces-remapping-italys-transnational-migrations-and-colonial-legacies\">&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; April 25-26, 2019 <strong>Miami University, OH<\/strong> &#8211; the visit includes a public presentation (April 25 4:30pm) as part of the\u00a0Irvin Lectures Series and an in-class talk about &#8220;Contemporary Migration from Italy to the U.S.,&#8221; sponsored by the Department of French and Italian\/College of Arts and Sciences.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/01\/FIORE-poster-OSU-scholar-in-residence.pdf\">&#8220;Italy in the Transnational Space of Migration and Colonial Routes&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Feb. 13-16, 2019 <strong>Ohio State University<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Scholar-in-Residence visit includes public lecture, in-class talks, meetings with graduate students, presentation to the community as part the Migration, Mobility, and Immobility project of the Global Arts &amp; Humanities Discovery Theme (GAHDT): see <a href=\"https:\/\/frit.osu.edu\/events\/scholar-residence-teresa-fiore\">full program<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/12\/Fiore-PS-book-presentation-Uni-Palermo.pdf\">&#8220;Spazi pre-occupati: Una rimapattura dell&#8217;Italia tra migrazioni transnazionali ed esperienze coloniali&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Thur. Jan. 10, 2019 <strong>Universit\u00e0 di Palermo<\/strong>, Italy (Edificio 12, Aula Seminari, Polo Universitario viale delle Scienze). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/01\/Photo-book-PS-presentation-Uni-Palermo-Jan.-2019.jpg\">Photo<\/a> with University of Palermo faculty.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221; &#8211; Tue Nov. 13, 2018 6pm\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Columbia University<\/strong> (<span id=\"location1\" class=\"\">Hamilton Hall Room 407<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/10\/f2018-Teresa-Fiore-Pre-Occupied-Spaces.pdf\">&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Wed. Oct. 24, 2018\u00a0 2:30pm <strong>Fordham University<\/strong> (568 Faber Hall, Rose Hill campus, The Bronx)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.edu\/events\/cas\/detail.php?_focus=68695\">&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy\u2019s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Mon. Oct. 22, 2018\u00a0 7-9pm <strong>University of San Diego <\/strong>(Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, Warren Auditorium)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/10\/Fiore-flyer-USC-book-2018.pdf\">&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy\u2019s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Thur. Oct. 18, 2018\u00a0 5pm <strong>University of Southern California <\/strong>(VKC 260) Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igs.duke.edu\/events\/intransit-speaker-series-teresa-fiore\">&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Mon. Sept. 24, 2018 6pm\u00a0 <strong>Duke University<\/strong> (Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153) (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/09\/Flyer-Duke-Fiore-2018-.pdf\">flyer<\/a>)- included in the broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intransitduke.org\/\">InTransit initiative<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies: A Conversation and Reading&#8221; &#8211; Thur. May 24, 2018\u00a0 6pm &#8211; <strong>NYU <\/strong>Casa Italian Zerilli-Marim\u00f2. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z-nkFjYqLh0\">video 5\/24<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scu.edu\/events\/#!view\/event\/event_id\/63759\">&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Tue. April 10, 2018 5pm &#8211; <strong>Santa Clara University, CA<\/strong> (sponsored by the Italian Studies Program in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Dr. Victor and Julia Botto Vari Italian Studies Initiative) See <a href=\"https:\/\/santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=07135475-d121-4747-9785-a8c0011949b0\">video 4\/10<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies&#8221; &#8211; Thur. April 5, 2018 12noon &#8211; <strong>University of California Santa Barbara<\/strong> (sponsored by the Department of Black Studies).<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/george-l-graziadio-center-italian-studies\/event\/%E2%80%9Cinhabiting-pre-occupied-spaces-remapping-italy%E2%80%99s\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Inhabiting Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations in the Mediterranean and the Americas&#8221;<\/a> <em>&#8211; <\/em>Wed. April 4, 2018 2pm &#8211; <strong>California State University Long Beach <\/strong>(sponsored by the Graziadio Center for Italian Studies as part of the Comparative Migrations Lecture Series).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/italian.sdsu.edu\/events\/index.html\">&#8220;Pre-occupied Spaces: Remapping Italian Transnational Migrations and Culture in Europe, Africa and the Americas&#8221;<\/a>&#8211; Mon. April 2, 2018 4pm &#8211; <strong>San Diego State University, CA<\/strong> (sponsored by the Italian Program in the European Studies Dept. as part of the European Studies Lecture Series). See <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5Np3vbp90d8\">video 4\/2<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fandm.edu\/international-studies\/calendar-of-international-studies-events\/my-event69-1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Pre-occupied Spaces: Remapping Italian Transnational Migrations in the Mediterranean and the Americas&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Tue. January 30, 2018, 4:45pm &#8211; <strong>Franklin &amp; Marshall College, Lancaster, PA<\/strong> (sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies and the programs in International Studies and Africana Studies and the Miller Humanities Fund).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/events\/2017-18-events\/book-presentation-pre-occupied-spaces\/\">&#8220;<em>Pre-Occupied Spaces. Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies<\/em>&#8221; by Teresa Fiore (Fordham UP 2017)<\/a><br \/>\nPanel with the author and Montclair State colleagues Nancy Carnevale (History), Stephen Ruszczyk (Sociology) and\u00a0\u00a0Tony Spanakos (Political Science and Law) &#8211; Mon. Dec. 11, 2017 6:30pm <strong>Montclair State University, NJ<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>RELATED MATERIALS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/media\/3916\/user\/fiorebookcover.jpg\"><em>Pre-Occupied<\/em> <em>Spaces<\/em> Book cover<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/11\/Fiore-Nov.-2019.jpg\">Teresa Fiore&#8217;s photo 1 <\/a>(by Mike Peters)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/montclairstateuniversity.smugmug.com\/2015-JulyDecember\/111215-InserraUNESCO\/i-zQTDmL3\/A\">Teresa Fiore&#8217;s photo 2\u00a0<\/a>(by Gennadi Novash)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/11\/Fiore-portrait-scarf.png\">Teresa Fiore&#8217;s photo 3\u00a0<\/a>(by Mike Peters)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/montclairstateuniversity.smugmug.com\/2017\/101617-INSERRA-What-Italian-Language-Does-Italian-Film-Speak\/n-mCwW8k\/i-WNsctFf\/A\">Teresa Fiore&#8217;s photo 4\u00a0<\/a>(by Gennadi Novash)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/montclairstateuniversity.smugmug.com\/2017\/032117-Inserra-NJ-NY-Italian-Companies\/n-Pjtfwb\/i-K9zCvHW\/A\">Teresa Fiore&#8217;s photo 5<\/a> (by Gennadi Novash)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teresa Fiore&#8217;s current bio (Sept. 2018)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Teresa Fiore is the Theresa and Lawrence R. Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University. The recipient of several fellowships (De Bosis, Rockefeller, and Fulbright), she was Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University, NYU, and Rutgers University. She is the author of <em>Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies <\/em>(Fordham UP 2017), which received the <a href=\"https:\/\/aais.wildapricot.org\/book_prize\">2017 AAIS\/American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize<\/a> in the 20th-21st centuries category and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mla.org\/Resources\/Career\/MLA-Grants-and-Awards\/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes\/Biennial-Prize-and-Award-Winners\/Howard-R.-Marraro-Prize-Winners\">Honorable Mention at the 2018 MLA Marraro Prize in Comparative Literature involving Italian<\/a>, was also nominated for the 2018 Bridge Book Award and voted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaddaprize.ed.ac.uk\/gaddus.php\">Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize &#8211; Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category<\/a>. She is also the editor of the 2006 issue of <em>Quaderni del \u2018900<\/em>, devoted to John Fante, and the co-editor of a special section of the <em>Journal of Modern Italian Studies<\/em>\u2019 Fall 2018 issue about the migration \u201ccrisis\u201d in the Mediterranean Sea. Her numerous articles on migration to\/from Italy linked to 20th- and 21<sup>st<\/sup>-century Italian literature and cinema have been published in Italian, English and Spanish in both journals (<em>Bollettino d\u2019italianistica; Annali d\u2019Italianistica; Studi italiani<\/em>;<em> El hilo de la fabula; Diaspora<\/em>; <em>Zibaldone<\/em>; <em>Journal of Italian Media and Cinema Studies<\/em>) and edited collections (<em>Postcolonial Italy; <\/em>the MLA volume <em>Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture; The Cultures of Italian Migration<\/em>; <em>The Routledge History of Italian Americans;<\/em> and <em>New Italian Migrations to the United States, Vol. 2<\/em>). Fiore\u2019s current project focuses on food and hunger in Sicily at the time of the Allied Landing in 1943. She has also published in the field of Translation (<em>Donne in Traduzione<\/em>), and on the topic of innovation in Italian Studies (<em>TILCA<\/em>) with a special focus on the concept of Critical Made in Italy. On campus, she coordinates a regular program of cultural events and educational initiatives (internships, summer courses for high school students, special class projects) that focus on the circulation of people, ideas, languages, products from\/to Italy: <a href=\"http:\/\/montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\">montclair.edu\/inserra-chair<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards, Honorable Mentions and Nominations: Runner Up for the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize &#8211; Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category (prize was presented by Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri at a ceremony held on June 26 at the Scottish Parliament) Nomination to &#8220;The Bridge&#8221; Book Award &#8211; Fourth Edition in 2018 &#8211; promoted and sponsored by Casa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":593,"parent":40,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215711,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/215711"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}