Faculty Experts

Mark Rotella

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Director, Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America, Professor, Creative Writing

Email: Rotellam@montclair.edu
Office: (973) 655-4038
Faculty Profile 

Expert on Italian American culture, Italian Culture, publishing, literature, and pop culture

Area of Expertise

• Italian American Culture (pop, food, music,)
• Italian Culture (pop, food, music, travel)
• Books/Publishing
• Literature
• Pop Culture
• Creative Nonfiction

Media

• How a hand gesture by NFL’s DeVito sparked conversation on American Italian experience (NPR)
• ‘Amore’: Italian-American Singers In The 20th Century (NPR)
• Italian American Song (WNYC)

• The Hand Gesture Heard Round the World (NY Times)

• With His New Novel, Fredrik Backman Pulls Off a Hat Trick (NY Times)

• What Fuels a Fanatical Sports Parent? (NY Times)

• Father Shares, and Looks Up to, Son’s Love of Hockey (NY Times)

• How George Plimpton’s Sports Books Presaged the First-Person Media Age (Vanity Fair)

• Mark Rotella.com

Additional Content

• AMORE: The Story of Italian American Song
• Stolen Figs and Other Adventures in Calabria