The head of the Inserra Chair, Dr. Teresa Fiore, has published\u00a0two new articles this year, while polishing her upcoming book, under contract with Fordham University Press, and giving lectures at Columbia and SUNY New Paltz on Italian migration.<\/p>\n
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Article \u201cEl \u2018WOP\u2019 de Raiz y las rutas \u2018indocumentadas\u2019 de la naci\u00f3n italiana\u201d published in Spanish in Argentina Article \u201cBuilders, Mermaids and the Bauhaus” published in English in Italy Book \u201cPre-Occupied Spaces” under contract with Fordham University Press as of Fall 2015<\/strong><\/strong> Invited talk at the Columbia Seminar in Italian Studies Invited l<\/strong>ecture at SUNY New Paltz, NY
\n<\/strong>Dr. Fiore’s article \u201cEl \u2018WOP\u2019 de Raiz y las rutas \u2018indocumentadas\u2019 de la naci\u00f3n italiana” appeared in the journal Argentinian El hilo de la fabula <\/em><\/strong>15. The article uses the song ‘El WOP’ by Raiz to reflect on the notion of undocumentedness in connection to both the contemporary flows of foreign immigration towards Italy and those of Italian emigration abroad: http:\/\/bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar\/publicaciones\/index.php\/HilodelaFabula\/article\/view\/5031\/7674<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Dr. Fiore’s article \u201cBuilders, Mermaids and the Bauhaus: New Visions of the Migrant Return in Andrea Camilleri\u2019s Maruzza Musumeci\u201d appears in the 2015 Special issue of: Scrittori tra Due Mondi\/Writers Between Two Worlds<\/em> of Studi Italiani, <\/em>Florence. Enriched by original illustrations, this article reads Camilleri’s novella by combining art theory (the notion of ekprhasis<\/em>) and the history of Italian migration.<\/p>\n
\nDr. Fiore’s book \u201cPre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy\u2019s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies\u201d is under contract with Fordham University Press, with a prospected publication in the Fall of 2016. \u201cPre-Occupied Spaces” is an interdisciplinary work on cultural spaces, in which the analysis of stories about outbound and inbound migrations as well as colonialism-related relocations sheds light on the history of Italian national formation and identity.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/strong>On February 5, 2016, Dr. Fiore delivered the talk \u201cClandestini<\/em> in the Mediterranean and in New York: The Ins and Outs of Italy\u2019s Undocumented Migrations\u201d at the Columbia Seminar in Italian Studies, held at the Italian Academy of Columbia University. The talk focused on Teatro delle Albe’s play\u00a0Noise in the Waters<\/em> and Emanuele Crialese’s film\u00a0Once We Were Strangers<\/em> to address the notion of undocumentedness among foreign immigrants in Italy and Italians in the U.S. today.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>On April 20, 2016, Dr. Fiore gave a lecture entitled \u201cPre-Occupied Liquid Spaces: The Journeys of Italian Emigrants Abroad and Foreign Immigrants Towards Italy\u201d at SUNY New Paltz. In expanding on the work developed for her forthcoming book, Dr. Fiore interwove the analysis of several texts to investigate the forms of overlapping of contemporary immigration to Italy and Italian emigration abroad.<\/p>\n