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Writers between Two Worlds

Thur. Oct. 2, 2014 – 10:30am-5:45pm
, University Hall 7^th���ڱ��Ǵǰ�

Presentations will be either in Italian or in English
(the title indicates the language of delivery – no translation available)

[Very limited seating available: RSVP strictly required by Sept. 29th ]

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‌10:30-10:45am: Breakfast and Introductory remarks

Introductory remarks by Linda Gould Levine,
Teresa Fiore and Andrea Dini (��Ʒ���˸������� University)
10:45am-12:30pm: Session I

• Gino Tellini (Università di Firenze): “Aspetti del mito americano, tra euforia e disincanto”
• Simone Magherini (Università di Firenze): “Si sbarca a New York di F.M. Martini”
• Irene Gambacorti (Università di Firenze): “’Terra di libertà, o d’esiglio doloroso’: Pietro Borsieri in America”
• Marino Biondi (Università di Firenze): “Mario Soldati: America e altri amori. Scritti di viaggio”
• Chair and moderator: Enza Antenos-Conforti (��Ʒ���˸������� University)
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch

1:30-3:15pm: Session II

• Andrea Dini (��Ʒ���˸������� University): “Calvino e Hemingway”
• Teresa Fiore (��Ʒ���˸������� University): “Sciascia tra la Sicilia, il New Jersey e ‘Brucchilin’”
• Marisa Trubiano(��Ʒ���˸������� University): “Dobbiamo imparare a vivere come gli emigranti”: Flaiano, gli USA e il nostro “vero paese” di destinazione
• David Del Principe (��Ʒ���˸������� University): “L’Ecogotico transatlantico”
• Chair and moderator: Rhiannon Noel Welch (Rutgers University)
3:15-3:30pm: Coffee break

3:30-5:30pm: Session III

• Paolo Valesio (Columbia University): “La poesia di Antonio Barolini tra radicamento ed espatrio”
• Marcello Neri (University of Flensburg): “Writing Between Collapsed Worlds – Heinrich Böll”
• Alberto Bertoni (Alma Mater Studiorum��–��Università di Bologna, Italy): “I mondi di Vittorio Sereni”
• Salvino Raco (Theatre director, Paris): “Poetica e politica del teatro contemporaneo nella realtà di oggi”
• Chair and moderator: Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

5:30-5:45pm: Concluding remarks

Observations and Indications for future directions by Gino Tellini, Paolo Valesio, and Alberto Bertoni

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PRESENTERS’ BIOS

Gino Tellini is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Florence where he serves as both Director of “The Aldo Palazzeschi Research Center” and Chair of the M.A. Program in Modern Philology. Tellini has also introduced the International Ph.D. Program in Italian Literature at the University of Florence. Some of his recent books include: Rifare il verso. La parodia nella letteratura italiana��(2008);��Metodi e protagonisti della critica letteraria��(2010);��Letteratura italiana. Un metodo di studio (2011, 2014); Alle origini della modernità letteraria. La poesia a Firenze tra Ottocento e Novecento��(2013);��Svevo��(2013);��Il “figlio del sole.” Vino e letteratura in Toscana (2014). Se����.

Simone Magherini is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Florence. His research interests are in 18th- and 19th-century poetry, specifically the historical avant-gardes (Lucini, Palazzeschi, Papini, Prezzolini, Soffici, Marinetti.) He has also worked on projects in the digital humanities (Carte d’autore online, 2014). He is the author and curator of several publications including: Tradizione e Modernità. Archivi digitali e strumenti di ricerca��(2009);��Carteggio Aldo Palazzeschi-Ardengo Soffici��(2011);��Avanguardie storiche a Firenze e altri studi tra Otto e Novecento��(2012);��La biblioteca di Aldo Palazzeschi (2004, 2013). Se����.

Irene Gambacorti is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Florence. Focused on 18th- and 19th-century fiction and on the relationships between literature and the visual arts, photography, and film, her essays and books include: Verga a Firenze. Nel laboratorio della “Storia di una capinera”(1994);��Luciano Bianciardi. Bibliografia��(2001);��Storie di cinema e di letteratura. Verga, Gozzano, D’Annunzio��(2003);��Palazzeschi italofrancese(2013). Se����.

Marino Biondi is Associate Professor of Italian literature at the University of Florence. A scholar of 19th- and 20th-century literature and historiography, he has focused on Risorgimento literature in three volumes in particular: La tradizione della patria I, Letteratura e Risorgimento da Vittorio Alfieri a Ferdinando Martini; II,��Carduccianesimo e storia d’Italia (2009-2010); ���Ի���Il discorso letterario sulla Nazione. Letteratura e Storia d’Italia (2012). His latest books include: Cronache. Da Dante ai contemporanei ����Nuove cronache. Antichi e moderni ���Ի���Boccaccio e Machiavelli. Occasioni di lettura (2014). He is a member of the jury for the literary prize Premio Viareggio-Repaci. Se����.

Andrea Dini is Associate Professor of Italian at ��Ʒ���˸������� University. His research focuses on Italo Calvino’s early years (1941-1949), Resistance literature, modern re-writings of Dante (in Pasolini, Luzi, Sanguineti) and Second Language Acquisition. Dr. Dini is the author of the book Il Premio Nazionale ‘Riccione’ 1947 e Italo Calvino (2007) and the co-author of the introductory textbook Prego! (McGraw-Hill). He is also the co-editor of and contributor to the volume Approaches to Petrarch’s Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition (MLA, 2014). His articles on Calvino, Pavese, and Pasolini have appeared in Paragone-Letteratura, Quaderni del ‘900 and edited collections. Se����.

Teresa Fiore is Associate Professor and Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at ��Ʒ���˸������� University. She is the editor of the 2006 issue of Quaderni del ‘900 on John Fante. Her articles on 20th-century Italian literature and cinema, Italian American culture, and immigration in Italy have appeared in journals (Annali d’Italianistica,��Diaspora,��Bollettino d’italianistica) and edited books: Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (2010),��The Cultures of Italian Migration (2011) ���Ի���Postcolonial Italy (2012). Se����.

Marisa S. Trubiano is Associate Professor of Italian at ��Ʒ���˸������� University. Her recent publications include articles on the screenwriter Ennio Flaiano and Italian cinema, and oral history within the context of Italian American cultural studies. Her book Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards of a Changing World was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2010. Current projects include the translation of Flaiano’s theater into English.
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David Del Principe is Associate Professor of Italian at ��Ʒ���˸������� University. He is the author of the book Rebellion, Death, and Aesthetics in Italy: The Demons of Scapigliatura (1996) and various articles on 19th- and 20th-century Italian and European, Gothic literature and culture. His current research interests lie in a new field of study, the EcoGothic, that embraces Ecofeminist and Vegan Theory and Praxis, Critical Animal Studies, and Post-Humanism. He recently served as Guest Editor of a special issue of the British journal Gothic Studies (The EcoGothic in the Long Nineteenth Century, Manchester University Press, 2014). Se����.

Paolo Valesio is Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor Emeritus in Italian Literature at Columbia University. He is editor in chief of th����Italian Poetry Review (IPR) and president of the “Centro Studi Sara Valesio” in Bologna. His research includes modern and contemporary Italian literature, rhetoric and spirituality, as well as the theory and practice of creative writing. Beside numerous critical essays and articles, Valesio has published, curated and co-curated several works of criticism (including the edition of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,��Venezianella eStudentaccio) as well as novels and collections of short stories. Valesio is also the author of seventeen volumes of poetry (the latest being La mezzanotte di Spoleto).

Marcello Neri is Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Flensburg (Germany) and Co-Director (with Prof. Markus Pohlmeyer) of the Workgroup and Project “Literature and Theology” at the Department of Catholic Theology of the University of Flensburg. His latest book Esodi del divino (Il Mulino, Bologna) will be released in Fall 2014.

Alberto Bertoni is Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature and 20^th-century Prose and Literary Genres at the University of Bologna. He is the editor of poetry series (Book Editore), research board member for “PoesiaFestival,” and jury member for various literary prizes. His main publications include: Taccuini 1915-1921 di F.T. Marinetti (1987),��Dai simbolisti al Novecento (1995),��La poesia come si legge e come si scrive (2006), il “Meridiano” dei Romanzi di Alberto Bevilacqua, ���Ի���La poesia contemporanea (2012). He is also the author of several volumes of poetry including: �ղ���ì (1999),��Le cose dopo��(2003), Ricordi di Alzheimer (2008), ���Ի���Traversate (2014), among others. Some of his books have been translated into English, French, and Russian. Se����.

Salvino Raco is an independent theatre director. He received his MFA in Theatre Studies at the Sorbonne University Paris III. He has participated in performances and workshops by Pier’Alli, Bob Wilson and Tadeusz Kantor. His works have been presented at the Triennale of Milano, Fabbrica Europa in Firenze, Festival Contemporaneo in Prato, Biennale of Venezia, and Spazio Ansaldo in Milano. See Full profile (Currently unavailable).

MODERATORS’ BIOS

Enza Antenos-Conforti is Assistant Professor in Italian at ��Ʒ���˸������� University, and the current Deputy Chair of the Italian Program. Her publications are in the field of second language acquisition and, in particular, the role of emerging technologies in foreign language education (Foreign Language Annals, Calico Journal). Her research and teaching interests also focus on Italian language in the U.S. Se����.

Rhiannon Noel Welch is Assistant Professor in Italian at Rutgers University. Her research interests focus on 19th-21st-century Italian literature, film, and cultural studies and in particular on issues of (post-) colonialism, biopolitics, race, nationalism, migration, and labor. Her essays have appeared in journals (Italica) and edited volumes (National Belongings, L’Italia postcoloniale). She is the translator of Roberto Esposito’s Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity and Biopolitics (2013). Her book manuscript Vital Subjects: Race, (Re)productivity, and Italian Modernity is currently under revision. Se����.

Jo Ann Cavallo is Professor of Italian at Columbia University and current Chair of the Italian Department.  Her most recent book,��The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto (2013), received the 2011 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award. She is also the author of The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasur����(2004), and co-editor of Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America(1998). Her articles focus on early Christian and Gnostic literature, Italian authors from the medieval to the modern period, and folk traditions that stage epic narratives. She is currently co-editing (with Carlo Lottieri) the volume “Speaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy” for Annali d’Italianistica (2016). Se����.