MLA Commons | LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:30:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 952afe8057c263865a68a49978fe97e0 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-2/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:48:01 -0500 Please see the attached position and share widely.

 

]]> 0 9c886f0108ce73fd05556964fc4a0b75 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:31:13 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 4eefe464e65fee6c5839be2742476097 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP: Literature, Spiritualities and the Politics of Meaning in Liberal Italy in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/cfp-literature-spiritualities-and-the-politics-of-meaning-in-liberal-italy/ Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:07:16 -0400 Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to share the CFP for a special issue of Romance Studies, titled “Literature, Spiritualities and the Politics of Meaning in Liberal Italy (1861–1915)”.

Scholars interested in contributing are invited to submit an abstract by 31 August 2025.

Further details can be found in the attached document.

Best regar…[Read more]

]]> 0 c694f9b6566ca18fb3d5310e6922fad3 Letizia Modena started the topic Narrating Renewal: Literary, Visual, and Physical Cultures of Urban Regeneration in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/narrating-renewal-literary-visual-and-physical-cultures-of-urban-regeneration/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:36:44 -0400 Call for Papers – Roundtable Proposal; 2026 NeMLA Convention, March 5-8, Pittsburgh, PA .

Narrating Renewal: Literary, Visual, and Physical Cultures of Urban Regeneration

This roundtable explores how urban regeneration is represented, shaped, and critiqued through literature, film, photography, and physical practice. It invites i…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f53d6747f302b4078fecd6ab4de2d51 Michael Subialka started the topic CFP "Who Do We Resemble? Selfhood, Perception, and Modernist Multiplicity" in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/cfp-who-do-we-resemble-selfhood-perception-and-modernist-multiplicity/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:14:49 -0500 <div data-olk-copy-source=”MailCompose”>Luigi Pirandello’s <i>One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand</i> (1926) presents a radical meditation on the fragmentation of identity, the impossibility of “true” self-perception, and the crisis of being seen differently by others. Published exactly a century ago, the novel interrogates the ways in which i…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebfb3b3f884751204ef8f97c30d7abd4 Michael Subialka started the topic Call for Submissions, PSA Vol 36 (2024) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/call-for-submissions-psa-vol-36-2024/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 21:50:31 -0500 Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the next volume (36) of PSA, the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Pirandello Society of America (https://www.pirandellosociety.org/). This is an open topic issue – any work on or relating to Luigi Pirandello is invited. The volume will be published in 2024…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6efb9913de8e509c08b25c0b787f175 Maria Truglio uploaded the file: CFP ChLA International Committee Focus Panel to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854829/ Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:49:05 -0400 The International Committee of the Children’s Literature Association has chosen the theme “Memories” for its focus panel at the 2024 conference and invites paper proposals. Please see attachment for details

]]> 0 828f0fb6cc5fd76398dd3c471e6356ee Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826715/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:48:44 -0500 Gian Paolo Callegari’s prize-winning 1948 play, Cristo ha ucciso, marks an overlooked milestone in Italy’s response to the Holocaust. Among the earliest Italian creative works to confront the genocide of the European Jews, Callegari’s play challenged the legacies of anti-Semitism in European culture. Yet it also concealed the troubling histo…[Read more]

]]> 0 7629378d933412548444b925a989abae Letizia Modena started the topic Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/pandemics-academics-gendered-and-disciplinary-impacts/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:49:11 -0500 Cfp MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee “Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic”

How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted scholarly pursuits in and around Italian Studies, especially across gender positions and discipl…[Read more]

]]> 0 d03c8cf28263ef171f69e7f052972693 Letizia Modena started the topic Italo Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/italo-calvino100-an-unfolding-legacy/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:43:11 -0500 CFP per MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy

A century after his birth, Italo Calvino still enjoys an international following that includes novelists, artists, literary scholars, architects, even mathematicians and en…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ada1ecece949c5cb2ca0c5fc1554c68 Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1773635/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:28:04 -0500 Call for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.

]]> 0 7d283c9a70337bbfbe18d600ebb49bfa Carol Chiodo deposited De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771186/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:34:27 -0500 Taking a page from eighteenth century philosopher Gianbattista Vico, this is a brief reflection on how Italian Studies scholars might view their work differently in light of the digital turn.

]]> 0 478a4d168812585c1aa3c89ac2f20497 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1764611/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 03:48:48 -0500 In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fc3e30c4075f411d9e48b32f3953668 Francesco Ardolino deposited Gestí, Joaquim (ed.) (2004). «Dino Buzzati Seixanta contes» in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734300/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:56:43 -0400 Review of Catalan translation of Dino Buzzati

]]> 0 4887d9aa75c33a3b8a0687678529cca6 Francesco Ardolino deposited Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734298/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:54:16 -0400 Reveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”

]]> 0 eb722280ff741b264345e95024eeee80 Francesco Ardolino deposited Alcuni appunti sul condizionale in italiano in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734297/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:53:38 -0400 The aim of this article is that of clarifying those issues of the analysis of the conditional structures in Italian which are more difficult to pin down. Once their «double nature»
(temporal and modal) is established, attention is switched to the most conflicting aspects shown by the conditional structures («mixed» hypothetical periods, rep…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddd7c046b4001b0eb08c432335d11d16 Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734295/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:51:12 -0400 Review of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana

]]> 0 19f4e02124d027bd0778566b24bcf9f3 Francesco Ardolino deposited Helga Schneider: la ferita aperta della scrittura in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734294/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:50:32 -0400 In this interview, granted by Helga Schneider in November 2002, the ideas that predominante in all her novels are present, from the impossibility of forgiveness to the refusal of
hatred. Schneider shows the horrors of Nazism from within and interprets Evil from the viewpoint of its trivial daily expressions, illuminating the shady areas hidden by…[Read more]

]]> 0 7cf297ed820f9bfd737bb5059a2ff739 Francesco Ardolino deposited Alemany, Josep (ed.) (2013). Luigi Pirandello «L’humorisme» in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734291/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:48:43 -0400 Review of the Catalan translation of “L’umorismo”

]]> 0 bf40644ba622a14e011ecc6127a68eae Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1705073/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 03:51:33 -0400 A paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.

]]> 0 cfaf4cc121151df8d4800dc57fcfad5f Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Primo Levi e Elio Vittorini in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1691027/ Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:25:22 -0400 From the volume’s introduction: “Il primo capitolo di Charles L. Leavitt IV introduce la sezione ricostruendo il contesto culturale del ‘neo-umanesimo’ esistenzialista che si diffuse nell’immediato dopoguerra e che influì profondamente sul modo di raccontare e comprendere lo sterminio nazista. Vedendo in Elio Vittorini un autore che si inserì nel…[Read more]

]]> 0 65c3c39878debe08fe78c358210587c3 Natalie Berkman deposited Italo Calvino's Oulipian Clinamen in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1687755/ Tue, 19 May 2020 03:49:00 -0400 The Oulipo has claimed that foreign member, Italo Calvino, was a key proponent of the clinamen, a purposeful deviation from the strict constraints in which the group specializes. However, upon closer inspection, Calvino’s Oulipian production during his Paris period does not seem to advance a formalized definition of this tool of constrained w…[Read more]

]]> 0 11d6da3b5f4eacd515c988983a97cbc8 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1687555/ Sat, 16 May 2020 16:30:51 -0400 This article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]

]]> 0 5de7d47e71095747cde7b64a5a3c2ebc Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685879/ Fri, 01 May 2020 03:48:47 -0400 Largely ignored by scholarship and increasingly occluded in historical memory, Tombolo was once so central to Italian culture and politics that even allusive references to the term could conjure the doubt, anxiety, and indignation of a society working to recover after the war. A pine grove located between Pisa and Livorno, Tombolo housed a large…[Read more]

]]> 0 860f190637e2f4ad92794ecd124275c1 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia's The Woman of Rome in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685482/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:48:44 -0400 In composing The Woman of Rome (La Romana, 1948), I argue in this chapter, Moravia was attempting to redress the twinned traumas of national history and personal memory. The novel’s protagonist, a Roman prostitute, serves as the symbolic incarnation of-as well as the developing resistance to-bourgeois corruption and Fascist coercion. An intricate…[Read more]

]]> 0 fcba106f642345e4405cb8ec56b9423e Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Notes on the End of Rome, Open City in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685373/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:18:48 -0400 Among the most iconic images in world cinema, the final shot of Rossellini’s Rome Open City has inspired an effusion of critical commentary but little critical consensus, instead giving rise to opposing interpretations. I argue that the shot, in which the camera pans to follow a band of children as they march on a hillside overlooking the city of…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4e7778b229cca88f6c8f1411cf35bad Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685368/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:11:43 -0400 This essay examines the cultural practices and prejudices that shaped the Italian reception of German Neue Sachlichkeit in the 1920s and explores their role in the development of Italian Neorealism in the 1940s. I argue that, precisely because Italian critics approached the German critical category – and indeed all critical categorisation – wit…[Read more]

]]> 0 20ebe4eed6f90cda537aaee980eadba4 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685366/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:04:32 -0400 The search for a methodology for reading world literature largely entails the development of new critical paradigms, but it has also occasioned a re-examination and rehabilitation of world literature’s historical formulations. This essay reclaims a forgotten milestone, the 1946 essay “La ‘letteratura mondiale'” by the eminent Italian philologist…[Read more]

]]> 0 7de8c019598ec62217ee24fa37041446 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited An Entirely New Land? Italy's Post-War Culture and its Fascist Past in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685365/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:03:51 -0400 Scholarship has for decades emphasized the significant continuities in Italian culture and society after Fascism, calling into question the rhetoric of post-war renewal. This article proposes a reassessment of that rhetoric through the analysis of five key metaphors with which Italian intellectuals represented national recovery after 1945:…[Read more]

]]> 0 09b09f8cacc47fb9e3f21f2caf613b50 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685362/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:56:03 -0400 In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more]

]]> 0 81144c48b435a56ff1d6f3ce9ad4c8d3 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685360/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:48:43 -0400 In this essay, I argue that the post-war critical re-interpretation of Boccaccio’s oeuvre was central to the theory and practice of Italian Neorealism. What is more, I maintain that Neorealism significantly influenced Boccaccio studies, shaping critical approaches to Boccaccio for decades after 1945. Reading scholarly and critical studies of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba1c91fd4458e5901c5c705263adb0ab Francesco Ardolino deposited Miravitlles, Francesc (ed.) (1997) Primo Levi «La treva» in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1683043/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 03:50:26 -0400 Primo Levi, ‘La treva’

]]> 0 a311ad37f7e8e6f595f4b4f5d9cc70f9 Francesco Ardolino deposited Miravitlles, Francesc (ed.) (1996). «Primo LEVI, Si això és un home» in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1683041/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 03:49:19 -0400 Review of Primo Levi, ‘Si això és un home’

]]> 0 05411a82107dd0b24d1d329fa3b8aa2a Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/llc-20th-and-21st-century-italian/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:07:02 -0400 Please consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.

1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c39e24dd0051cdb918c40645041c87ac Lina N. Insana started the topic 5-7 November 2020 | IASA in Pittsburgh, PA | Call for Papers and Sessions in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/5-7-november-2020-iasa-in-pittsburgh-pa-call-for-papers-and-sessions-2/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 19:06:30 -0500 The 53rd Annual IASA Pittsburgh Conference November 5-7, 2020
Mining the Diaspora: Italian-American Materialities, Archaeologies, and Intersections
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020
The Italian American Studies Association (IASA formerly the American Italian Historical Association AIHA) celebrates its fifty-third year of academic…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fcc521e9ecbe6cc8d5f8903b4d1baa2 Silvia Guslandi started the topic Silvia Guslandi - candidate for upcoming forum delegate election ItalianAmerican in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/silvia-guslandi-candidate-for-upcoming-forum-delegate-election-2/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:11 -0400 My name is Silvia Guslandi. I hold a Ph.D. in Euro-American Comparative Literature and I am currently a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago (working on Emanuel Carnevali, among other things). Thank you for the honor of considering me as a candidate for the LLC Italian American seat at the Delegate Assembly. As my…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6b4a6b9654918af23580df576deb117 Colleen M. Ryan started the topic Colleen Ryan - Candidate for Upcoming Executive Committee Elections in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/colleen-ryan-candidate-for-upcoming-executive-committee-elections-2/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:21:27 -0400 Fellow 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]

]]> 0 5232b8e56e1f6915683c3afed04b41f9 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/statement-for-candidacy-for-executive-committee-17th-18th-and-19th-century-2/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:58:26 -0400 Buon 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]

]]> 0 45e0d94a127e9ed69ceeacb5578e01d8 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/marine-feet-and-vesuvian-eyes-the-volcanic-aesthetics-of-maria-orsini-natale/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:08:48 -0400 “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]

]]> 0 9358cdde4f4f8be2a46a8c0cb193ed39 Clarissa Clò started the topic MLA 2020 Guaranteed Session CFP: Intersectionality and Italian American Studies in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/mla-2020-guaranteed-session-cfp-intersectionality-and-italian-american-studies-2/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 23:20:03 -0500 deadline 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]

]]> 0 595d2d12552d4925f04bc9d0ba59a185 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/re-thinking-design-italian-style-bridging-the-italian-curriculum-through-made/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:57:06 -0500 Re-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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]]> 0 a9dbe6b642211323b42709618e1bb468 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/call-for-papers-aati-2019-conference-may-30-june-2-2019-marist-college-15/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:53:20 -0500 (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]

]]> 0 d5b2d0c47da83d57d6e9e14addf81606 Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623792/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 04:01:49 -0500 Version (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.

]]> 0 46166bd3d5eac497b01c97aa15dc1c92 Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623787/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 03:52:12 -0500 Version (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.

]]> 0 75394214307e41cedd0cce7f0e01fbd9 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Twentieth-Century Italian Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-15/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:31:20 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 07dcaf0440d7787dd185260cbee87205 Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604658/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:05:54 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 eeffa4b84daf498a47766668da8ea5af Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: Working Group on Italian American/Canadian in the discussion Twentieth-Century Italian Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/cfp-working-group-on-italian-american-canadian/ Thu, 08 Mar 2018 05:39:52 -0500 Italian 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]

]]> 0 69c5df1ac6455dc5348ecb3b2bae04aa Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion Twentieth-Century Italian Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-italian/forum/topic/calls-for-papers-4/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:21:25 -0500 MLA 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]

]]> 0 485d62375ccf1f4e0c6b47d767406d5b 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593748/ Fri, 29 Dec 2017 05:36:35 -0500 Violence, 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,
and the feti…[Read more]

]]> 0 123a9d7e7e6c035c9d7512ccbda2717a Francesco Ardolino deposited Note intorno a una traduzione di Bontempelli in catalano in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591068/ Sun, 03 Dec 2017 05:36:30 -0500 The 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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