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Colleen M. Ryan started the topic Colleen Ryan – Candidate for Upcoming Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day agoFellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,
My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee me…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic Statement for candidacy for executive committee, 17th, 18th, and 19th Century in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 week, 3 days agoBuon giorno a tutt*,
Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.
I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic “Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 month ago“Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale
An edited volume
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2020 “The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!” ~ Nietzsche “I have marine feet and Vesuvian…[Read more]
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Clarissa Clò started the topic MLA 2020 Guaranteed Session CFP: Intersectionality and Italian American Studies in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agodeadline for submissions: March 25, 2019
Call for Papers for a guaranteed session sponsored by the LLC Italian American Forum at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention on January 9-12, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.
This panel welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to texts in different media and genres that map and reflect…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Re-Thinking Design, Italian Style Bridging the Italian Curriculum Through ‘MADE in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoRe-Thinking Design, Italian Style
Bridging the Italian Curriculum Through ‘MADE IN ITALY’
A Workshop for Instructors Aimed at Enriching the Italian CurriculumJuly 7-21, 2019 Lead Facilitator:
- Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Arkansas
Co-Collaborators:
- Alessandro Adorno, Director, Babilonia: Itali…
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers AATI 2019 Conference May 30 – June 2, 2019 Marist College in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago(Si trova la versione in inglese sotto)
CALL For Papers AATI Conference 30 maggio – 2 giugno, 2019 Marist College – Poughkeepsie, NY
L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno si terrà a Poughkeepsie, NY, dal 30 maggio al 2 giugno, 2019, presso Marist College. Il tema del convegno è aperto, ma l’A…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week agoVersion (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.
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Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week agoVersion (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 1 year agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Laurence E. Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: Working Group on Italian American/Canadian in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoItalian American and Italian Canadian Is Multi-Ethnic Too
Class, gender, migration, history, diaspora, ethnicity, politics, radicals, working class, cinema, foodways, literature, media, popular culture, cultural studies, theory, 250-word abstract. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville (calabret@uak.edu); Alan Gravano, Rocky…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoMLA 2019 – deadline March 15, 2018
Please consider submitting an abstract for one of two sessions proposed by the Dante Society of America for the next Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Chicago on Jan. 3-6, 2019.
The calls for papers are below. Abstracts and short bios are requested by March 15, 2018. Please
note that all…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Violenza, famiglia e genere. Il romanzo di ambiente poliziesco di Melania G. Mazzucco in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoViolence, Family and Gender: Melania G. Mazzucco’s crime novel.
The novel Un giorno perfetto (A Perfect Day, 2005), which was adapted for the cinema by
Ferzan Özpetek in 2008, is Melania G. Mazzucco’s only novel to date to foray into the
terrain of crime fiction. The frenetic pacing, the penchant for the ordinary and quotidian,
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Note intorno a una traduzione di Bontempelli in catalano in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoThe Author analyses the Catalan translation of “La donna dei miei sogni a altre avventure moderne”, a volume of tales written by Massimo Bontempelli. This essay also includes a study about the Bontempelli’s reception in Catalonia and an interview with the Catalan poet Palau i Fabre, who reviewed the book in 1935 in “La Veu de Catalunya”.
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Allison A. Cooper edited the post Roundtable on the State of Digital Humanities in Italian Studies (MLA Convention 2017) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian: on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoIn January 2017 the MLA’s Forum on 20th- and 21st-Century Italian sponsored a roundtable on digital humanities and Italian studies at the Association’s annual convention. The purpose of the roundtable was twofold: first, to provide interested colleagues with a venue in which they might discuss and receive useful feedback on individual DH projects…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Summer School Enthymema_Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg 28-31/8 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago[English version below]
Care colleghe e cari colleghi,
siamo lieti di segnalarvi l’apertura delle iscrizioni alla prima Summer School Enthymema “Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg nella letteratura e cultura italiana e europea”, che si terrà dal 28 al 31 agosto a Monopoli (BA).
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Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: Summer School Enthymema_Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg nella letteratura e cultura italiana e europea to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
we are glad to announce that registration is now open for the first Summer School Enthymema “Family morphologies: Leone and Natalia Ginzburg in Italian and European literature and culture”, which will take place 28th-31st August 2017, in Monopoli (Puglia), Italy.
The deadline for registration is 30th April 2017.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Italian American Studies Association 2017</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>June 16-18, 2017</p>
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Italian American Studies Association 2017</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>June 16-18, 2017</p>
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has…[Read more]
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Nicoletta Marini-Maio started the topic gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 is available online in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 is now online. It includes outstanding research on the theme of gender and language (Themed Section and Invited Perspectives) and other topics related to gender (Open Contributions). gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 also hosts relevant multimedia files, interviews, and book reviews.…[Read more]
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