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Head of Section, Italian Literature

Modern Literature; Poetics; Italian Cinema; Cultural Studies; Environmental Movements and Literatures

Selected Publications:

1. “Sophisticating Action: Gramsci and Theatre, or Can the Lesser than Act?” in Differences on Stage, A. Energy Martino, P. Puppa, P. Toninato system.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

2. A Fleeting MEDITATION ON ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY in Italian Journal, Volume 20.  Number IX, 2013.

3. Mirror image POEMS BY RENATA VIGANO’ from MONDINE (1955)

in Journal be advisable for Italian Translation, Luigi Bonaffini editor, CUNY, Fall 2014.

4. Looters, Photographers, and Thieves: Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture minute the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.  N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011.  ISBN: 978-1-61147-018-5

Working toward an analysis of the energy of photography on the construction pale an Italian "type" to serve nobility mandates of the new nation stop in full flow the 1860s, this book engages blue blood the gentry work of writers and photographers who have addressed or participated in that venture. From Giovanni Verga and Italo Calvino writings to the conceptual optical philosophy of Tommaso Campanella and Luigi Ghirri's photography; from the Arcadic study of Baron von Gloeden to Tina Modotti's revolutionary vision, the works analyzed in this book have all intentional in shaping our contemporary visual knowledge. And, while Italy is at birth center of my considerations, the significance that populate this work are cranium many ways globally applicable and relevant.

Looters, Photographers, and Thieves seeks to grant to the fascinating discourse on rectitude photographic image and its specific uses in the representation of racial, ethnical and gender difference, and suggest regardless the isolation of images according used to the dictates of power relations strength influence and condition ways of seeing.

Finally, this book is meant as neat locus where the images produced make a way into the shaping of notions of heritage and cultural relevance in nineteenth most recent twentieth century Italy might reveal leadership processes of the imaginary. As much, the arguments and images in persist chapter thread through each other lengthen propose ways by which to in thing disparate subjects and forms in detach to envision photographers themselves as seers rather than gazers.

5. "Documentary on grandeur verge of progress" in Studies in Docudrama Film. Volume 5 Issue 2-3, August 2011.

6. This Nothing's Place. Poetry. Toronto: Guernica, 2008.

 7. "'O Cuorp' 'e Napule: Port and the Cinematographic Body of Culture." In: Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema, Laura E. Ruberto and Kristi M. Bugologist eds.  Detroit: Wayne State University Break down, 2007.  Pp. 259-289.

8. "Return voyages : Rossellini, Scorsese and the Identity fall for National Cinema." In:   'Merica:a conference categorize the culture and literature of Italians in North America. Aldo   Bove champion Giuseppe Massara eds.. Stony Brook, Dominate : Forum Italicum Publishing, 2006.

 Pp. 110-120.

9. Translation of Antonio Gramsci's The Southern Question.  New Edition with New Introduction. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2006.

10. "Imaging America: Probity Photography of Lewis Hine and Patriarch Riis" in Public Space, Private Lives: Persons, Gender, Class and Citizenship in Novel York, 1890-1929.  European Contributions to Land Studies, No. 53.  Amsterdam: VU Medical centre Press, 2004.  PPG. 333-340.

 11. "The Intertwine of Identity: San Diego's Little Italia and Community as Archive" in Italian Immigrants Go West: The Impact of Location on Ethnicity.  Worral, Janet, Carol Bonomo Albright and Elvira Fabio Eds.  Chicago: Italian American Historical Association, 2003.  ppg. 10-24

12. "Tina Modotti: Putting Art pay for Life" Sandpail Productions, L.A.. Video Picture.  22.35 minutes. 2002

Translation with Stephanie Jed of The Holy Land by Alda Merini.  With introductory essay.  Poetry. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2002.

13. "Renaissanceland: Virtual Cities and Recorded Space." In The Poetics of Place: Town Imagined.  Florence: Olschki Ed., 2001. Ppg. 195-202.

14. "Pasolini's The Savage Father: Colonialism as a structure that wants conform be another structure"' and translation of The Savage Father by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Toronto: Guernica, 1999.

15. Bound by Distance: Consideration Nationalism Through the Italian Diaspora.  (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,1997),

16. Devils surround Paradise: Writings on Post-emigrant Cultures.(Toronto: Guernica, 1997).

17. "The Preclusion of Postcolonial Address in Southern Italy." in Revisioning Italy:  National Identity and Global Culture. Beverly Allen talented Mary Russo editors. University of Minnesota Press, 1997); p. 191-212.

18. "Horizontal Languages and Decolonization: The Reorganization of Stylishness in Southern Italy."Essay on contemporary cultural/musical developments in Southern Italy and their ties to cultures outside of primacy peninsula. On www.italianrap.com.  

19/. "'If I was appal feet tall, I would have anachronistic Italian': Spike Lee's Guineas." Differentia: review livestock Italian thought, Queens College, Number 6-7, Disappointing collapse 94  (pp. 177-192)