Contributors

SALVATORE BANCHERI is a full professor and interim chair at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He was the chair and Emilio Goggio Chair of the Department of Italian Studies, the University of Toronto (2011–2019); director of the Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies (2005–2019); editor of Italian Canadiana (2004–2019); and he was the president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI, 2014–2017). His research interests and publications are primarily in the area of textual criticism, religious theatre, eighteenth-century literature, Sicilian literature, second-language teaching and learning, theatre theory and performance, Italian Canadian studies, second-language acquisition, and media technology dedicated to the teaching of Italian. In 2007, his course ITA 312/313Y Italian Theatre: Text and Performance was nominated for inclusion in the College Board AP World Languages Best Practices Study in Italian Language and Culture. Bancheri has received many awards, including: the AATI Distinguished Service, the Joan E. Foley Quality of Student Experience Award; the “Ordine al Merito” by the Ontario Confederation of Sicily (2007); and a certificate of merit for the promotion of the Italian language and culture by the Accademia della Crusca (the highest Italian language institution). In June 2018, he was conferred by the president of the Italian Republic the title of Ufficiale dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia.DENNIS BARONE is professor emeritus of English at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of Beyond Memory: Italian Protestants in Italy and America and editor of numerous poetry anthologies including New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry (Star Cloud Press) and Garnet Poems: An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776 (Wesleyan UP). His newest mixed genre work is After Math.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); “Three Early Modern Genres: A Microhistorical Approach to ‘World Literature,’” in “Global Currents,” edited by Sorcha Gunne and Neil Lazarus, special issue, Atlantic Studies. Global Currents 16, no. 1 (March 2019): 21–37. He cofounded the scholarly journal Atlantic Studies and coedited it from 2004 to 2014.SIMONE CASINI is associate Professor of Italian studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He has authored many scholarly works, including the books Language Creativity: A Semiotic Perspective (Lexington Books, 2020); Lingue e linguaggi d'Italia in Canada. Riflessioni di linguistica educative su Quannu nun era matrimoniu ‘ppiprocura di Lina Riccobene (Legas, 2021), with Salvatore Bancheri; and Che cosa è la linguistica educativa (Carocci, 2016), with Massimo Vedovelli. Casini published over fifty publications in the most important international journals, including Forum Italicum, Italian Canadiana, Italica, Le forme e la storia. Rivista di filologia moderna, Mosaic, Semiotica, Studi canadesi, and Studi italiani di linguistica teorica e applicata. Professor Casini's areas of research include educational linguistics, Italian linguistics, semiotics, language policies, language teaching and learning, Italian Canadian studies, and second-language acquisition. It should be noted that the present study encompasses all seven of these domains of expertise. Casini is currently the co-investigator for the SSHRC project (Social Sciences and Humanities) Italiese and its new developments: from endangered to a global language (2022–2025) and is the supervisor of the linguistic and sociolinguistic framework and of the methodology and data collection. His latest book is titled What Is the Language of Power? Theoretical Reflection on Italian, Italiese and Other Languages (Legas, 2022).JONATHAN J. CAVALLERO is an associate professor and chair of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies at Bates College and the founding director of the Bates Film Festival. His research focuses on representations of race and ethnicity in film and television. He is the author of Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino (University of Illinois Press, 2011) and the coeditor (with Laura E. Ruberto) of Italian American Review's special issue on “Italian Americans and Television.” His essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Cinema Journal (now the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies), the Journal of Film and Video, the Journal of Popular Culture, and the Journal of Popular Film and Television, as well as edited collections like Mafia Movies (edited by Dana Regna), A Companion to Martin Scorsese (edited by Aaron Baker), and Italian Americans On Screen (edited by Alan J. Gravano and Ryan Calabretta-Sajder). He maintains Oxford University Press's annotated bibliography on “Italian Americans in Cinema and Media” and is a member of the Italian American Studies Association's Executive Council. Cavallero sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Film and Video and Diasporic Italy and has sat on juries at several film festivals. His latest book focuses on television directors and is currently under contract with Routledge's Advances in Television Studies series.FRED GARDAPHÉ 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-seventh 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.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.”COLLEEN RYAN is the author of Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini (University of Toronto Press, 2007) and coeditor of two volumes dedicated to the teaching of foreign languages through theater arts: Set the Stage! Italian Language, Literature, and Culture through Theater (Yale University Press, 2009) and Dramatic Interactions: Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures through Theater (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). She is co-author of Caleidoscopio (Pearson) a second-year Italian program, with strong literary, cinematic, and theatrical components that is now an open educational resource. In 2015, she published Integrating the Arts: Creative Thinking about Foreign Language Curricula and Program Development and in 2022 she coedited a special issue of Annali d'Italianistica: Pasolini e la libertà espressiva. Linga, stile, potere (Designs, Luglio, Minardi, Ryan). Ryan's shorter publications include articles and chapters on gender, race, and sexuality in Italian and Italian American literature and film, Italian pedagogy and professional development, and teaching languages and intercultural competence through the arts. She has most recently written on the films of Sofia Coppola and Italian American women playwrights. Ryan's current projects include a critical anthology of Italian American theater and a monograph on female directors of Italian descent working in and out of Hollywood. She is associate editor of Italica, serves on the editorial board of Studi Pasoliniani, and is co-book and film review editor for gender/sexuality/italy.VANESSA VILLAREAL has been a student of Italian translation at California State University, Long Beach. Fluent in Albanian, Italian, and Spanish, she has conducted research on the language, culture, and literature of the Arbëresh and Albanian communities in Italy.

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