Contributors

WILLIAM BOELHOWER is visiting professor, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, and Robert Thomas and Rita Wetta Adams Professor emeritus, Louisiana State University. He is the author, editor, or translator of many books, including most recently Immigrant Autobiography (Bordighera, 2021); Atlantic Studies: Prospects and Challenges (LSU Press, 2019); editor, Introduction, New Orleans in the Atlantic World. Between Land and Sea (Routledge, 2010). His most recent articles include “Narrating and Archiving Social Movements and Migration,” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (forthcoming, 2022); “Conflict,” in A Cultural History of the Sea, the Nineteenth Century, edited by Margaret Cohen (Bloomsbury, 2019, 105–30); and “Three Early Modern Genres: A Microhistorical Approach to ‘World Literature,’” in “Global Currents” ed. Sorcha Gunne and Neil Lazarus, special issue, Atlantic Studies 16, no. 1 (March 2019): 21–37. He cofounded the scholarly journal Atlantic Studies and coedited it from 2004 to 2014.OLIVIA KATE CERRONE is the author of The Hunger Saint, which won an American Fiction Award and was praised by Kirkus Reviews as “a well-crafted and affecting literary tale.” Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Italian Americana, Christian Science Monitor, Psychology Today, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Publishers Weekly, Rumpus, Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, New South, the Berkeley Fiction Review, MacGuffin, War, Literature and the Arts, JMWW, Word Riot, Paterson Literary Review, and elsewhere. She's won the Crab Orchard Review's Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, the Mason's Road Literary Award, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, and various other honors, including fellowships from the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (Scotland), the Ragdale Foundation, the VCCA, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, where she received a “Distinguished Fellowship” from the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of the MFA program at New York University, she teaches creative writing at GrubStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and in the First-Year Writing Program at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. She is currently at work completing a novel. Contact her at: Olivia.Cerrone@gmail.com.KATHY CURTO teaches at Sarah Lawrence College/The Writing Institute, Montclair State University, and The Writers Circle, as well as several nonprofit organizations and community centers in the metropolitan area. She is the author of Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, on NPR, in the anthology Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now, and in Barrelhouse, Toho Journal, Plants and Poetry Journal, Ovunque Siamo, The Mom Egg Review, HerStry, Drift, Italian Americana, VIA, and Talking Writing, among others. Kathy's column Words on the Street, Revisited is featured biweekly in Write or Die Tribe. Her piece, “Still Cooking Side by Side” considered a “Modern Love in miniature” by the New York Times, was included in The Best of Tiny Love Stories in August 2021. Kathy has been the recipient of the Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship and two fellowships at Montclair State University, both promoting engaged teaching and community writing projects, and she also serves on the faculty of the Joe Papaleo Writers’ Workshop in Cetara, Italy. Kathy lives with her family in the Hudson Valley. Please visit her website: www.kathycurto.com.LISA DETORA is associate professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and the director of STEM Writing at Hofstra University. Her teaching includes scientific writing to undergraduate and graduate students at various levels, health communication, writing studies, the rhetoric of popular culture, the rhetoric of comic books, disability studies, women's studies, and medical humanities. Lisa also serves as a guest faculty member in medical humanities, literature and medicine, and narrative medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Recent publications include Graphic Embodiments (Leuven, 2021), coedited with Jodi Cressman, and contributions from the Graphic Narrative Research Group to the proceedings of the Twenty-First Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (coedited with Angelo Piepoli and Umberto Rossi).FRANCESCA FERRARI holds a master's degree in European, American and postcolonial studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Thanks to the Department of American Studies, her eyes were opened to the doors of multiethnic American literature and ignited her curiosity toward the diasporic movements of people of Italian descent. Her project on Italian Canadian literature entitled “Multiple Consciousness: Rethinking Italian Canadian Women Writers through Susanna Moodie” honed her interest for first- and second-generation writers who have been shattered by their conditions of living in-between two cultures and two worlds. Both her master's studies and bachelor in languages and literatures at the University of Verona have been the pillars of a continuous search into the writings of authors who privilege the coexistence of their conflicting cultural and linguistic identities regardless of mainstream discriminatory trends. Currently, she is teaching English from grades six through eight and is in the process of delving into a research project on plurlingualism in South-Tyrolean schools at the Institute for Applied Linguistics in Bolzano.FRED GARDAPHE is distinguished professor of English and Italian-American Studies at Queens College/CUNY and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. He is past president of MELUS, the Italian American Studies Association and the Working-Class Studies Association. This year he celebrates his forty-sixth year of teaching. He is cofounder and codirector of the Italian Diaspora Studies Seminar in Rome. He is a Fulbright Fellow and founding editor of the journal Voices in Italian Americana and editor of the Series in Italian American Culture at SUNY Press. He has published many articles in journals, newspapers, and edited books. His monographs include Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative; Leaving Little Italy; Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian American Writer; The Art of Reading Italian Americana; From Wiseguys to Wise Men: Masculinities and the Italian American Gangster. He is also a fiction writer and playwright. He is currently working on a memoir, a one-man show, and a study of humor and irony in Italian American culture.ANNE GREEOTT translates poetry and prose from Italian and Spanish. Her work has appeared in The Arkansas International, Gradiva, Poetry Northwest, World Literature Today, Bitter Oleander, Italian Poetry Review, Journal of Italian Translation, and elsewhere. She received a Fulbright grant to research and translate the poetry of Mario Luzi in Florence in 2014, an ALTA Travel Grant in 2015, and holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Arkansas and an MA in Italian from Middlebury College. She currently teaches high school in Springdale, Arkansas.JULIA LISELLA, a scholar and poet, is professor of English at Regis College. She is coeditor of Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement (Lexington Press, 2019), and is the author of three poetry collections: Always (WordTech editions, 2014), Terrain (WordTech editions, 2007), and a chapbook, Love Song, Hiroshima (Finishing Line P, 2004). Her newest collection, Our Lively Kingdom, was a finalist for the Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Bordighera Press in fall 2022. Her scholarship focuses on twentieth-century American women writers. She has contributed essays and chapters to the journal Obsidian: Literature and the Arts in the African Diaspora, and critical anthologies including The 1930s: The Reality and the Promise (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016), Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture: 19th and 20th Century Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism: Politics, Labor, and Culture (Praeger, 2003), and Mama PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, McDowell, Millay and Dorset colonies and received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Mass Humanities. She cocurates the Italian American Writers Literary Series in Boston.ALAN R. PERRY is professor of Italian at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He specializes in the memory of Italy's brutal World War II resistance and civil war. His publication record includes books and articles on how Italians commemorated fallen partisan fighters in World War II in popular biography, folklore related to the war, the extensive literary production of the Italian humorist Giovannino Guareschi, and, most recently, the Italian POW experience in the United States (especially in Pennsylvania) during World War II. His publications include Il santo partigiano martire: La retorica del sacrificio nelle biografie commermorative (Longo Editore, 2001), The Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi: A Humorist Portrays the Sacred (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and he is the coauthor with Flavio G. Conti of Italica Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania: Allies on the Home Front, 1944–1945 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016).LIDIA RADI is associate professor of Italian Studies and French at the University of Richmond. She has a dual doctorate in French and Italian from Rutgers University and in French literature from Université Stendhal in France. Her scholarly work spans two disciplines, French early modern studies and transnational Italian studies. Her two coedited volumes examine the various perspectives related to narrative discourses as they pertain to political ideologies and religious beliefs in the French Renaissance. In the field of transnational studies, Radi analyzes the Italian literary works of female writers of Albanian origin. She is interested in the study of liminal spaces, especially those inhabited by women. Her scholarly works have appeared in venues in Italy, France, and the United States.ANTHONY JULIAN TAMBURRI is dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and distinguished professor of European Languages and Literatures. He is cofounder and codirector of Bordighera Press, past president of the Italian American Studies Association and of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. Concentrating on cinema, literature, and semiotics, he has authored eighteen books in both English and Italian, and more than 120 peer-reviewed essays and book chapters. His books within the last decade include Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (2014); Scrittori Italiano[-]Americani: trattino sì trattino no (2018); Un biculturalismo negato: La scrittura “italiana” negli Stati Uniti (2018); The Columbus Affair: Imperatives for an Italian/American Agenda (2021); Signing Italian/American Cinema: A More Focused Look (2021); and A Politics of [Self-]Omission: The Italian/American Challenge in A Post-George Floyd Age (2022). Edited collections include From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana (Purdue, 1991/2000) and Diversity in Italian Studies (Calandra Institute, 2020). He is executive producer and host of the Calandra Institute's TV program, Italics, in collaboration with CUNY TV. He writes a column for La Voce di New York, “The Italian diaspora.”

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