AATI

Conference

October 13-15

Location:

Hilton Washington & Towers
Connecticut at Columbia Road, NW,
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 483-3000

Program

THURSDAY

1:00 – 2:15

Caucus

Session: Film in the Italian Language Classroom
Organizer and Chair:  Helen McFie-Simone, University of Pennsylvania

Presenters:

• Helen McFie-Simone, University of Pennsylvania, – "Film as text in the elementary Italian classroom"
• Daniela Viale, University of Pennsylvania, – "Film as text in the intermediate and advanced language classroom"

Dupont

Session:   Bridging the Divide - Teaching Strategies for the Second Year  (Roundtable)
Organizer and Chair: Veena Carlson, Dominican University

Participants:

• Janice Aski, Ohio State University;  Andrea Dini, Montclair State University; Roberta Tabanelli, Christopher Newport University; Robin Worth, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kalorama

Session: The Art of Teaching Italian Through Art" A report of the National Summer Institute Grant by NEH, July 2004
Chair and Organizer: Maria Wilmeth, Italian Cultural Society of Washington

Presenters:

• Roberto Severino, Georgetown University; Maria Wilmeth, Italian Cultural Society of Washington; Paolo Corneo, Lycée International Rochambeau, Bethesda, MD.

State

Session: Pirandello
Organizers: The Pirandello Society

Chair:  Giusepe Faustini, Skidmore College

Presenters:

• David Castronovo, Skidmore College– "The Prayer Motif in the Poetry of Pirandello."
• Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander, Nazareth College – "Il Fu Mattia Pascal: dalla solitudine alla disgregazione sofistica."       

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2:30 – 3:45

Caucus

Session: Meet the Authors I
Chair: Patricia Di Silvio, Tufts University

Presenters:

• Paolo Fasoli, Hunter College and Andrea Fedi, SUNY-Stony Brook  – "Mercurio, an intermediate to advanced reader in Italian language and culture" (Yale University Press, 2005)
• Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Tufts University and Patricia Di Silvio, Tufts University –  L'Italia dal fascismo ad oggi: percorsi paralleli nella storia, nella letteratura e nel cinema, an Advanced Intermediate Textbook in Italian Language and Culture. (Guerra Edizioni, forthcoming, 2005)

Dupont

AATI Executive Council Meeting

Kalorama

Session: Pasolini's Bequests: Aesthetics? Politics? Neither? Both?
Organizer & Chair: Ben Lawton: Purdue University

Presenters:

• Mary Ann Carolan, Fairfield University: "Pasolini's Influence on Contemporary Filmmakers: Caro Diario."
• Claudio Mazzola, University of Washington : "Ma fu vero cinema?"
• Sam Rohdie, University of Central Florida –  "Reality and Language in the Cinema of Pasolini"
• David Ward, Wellesley College –  "The Politics of Pier Paolo Pasolini."

 

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4:00 – 5:15

Caucus

Session: Learning Italian in Different Settings
Chair: Susan Mancini, Ohio Wesleyan University

Presenters:

• Anna Moro, Mc Master University – "Teaching and Learning Italian in a Canadian University"
• Rossana Fenu Barbera, The Center for Italian Studies, Baltimore – "Come nasce una scuola di studi italiani negli Stati Uniti.
• Carmela Pesca, Central Connecticut State University – "The AP Italian as a Common Ground for High School and University Advanced Courses."

Dupont

Session: The Italian Literary Seicento: Current Perspectives and New Readings I
Organizer: Albert N. Mancini, Ohio State University
Chair: Paul Colilli, Laurentian University

• Nancy D'Antuono, Saint Mary's College – "Privato/Privado: The Trials and Tribulations of a Prince’s Best Friend. Giacinto Andrea Cicognini’s I due prodigi ammirati."
• Edoardo Lebano, Indiana University – "Giulio Cesare Cortese (1575?-1625?) e la questione del dialetto napoletano."
• Olimpia Pelosi, SUNY Albany – " Domitilla Galluzzi (1595-1671) e il quietismo lombardo"

Kalorama

Session:  Women Writing, Women's Writing
Organizer and Chair: Meredith Ray, University of Delaware.

Presenters:

• Gabriella Finizio, University of Delaware – "Autobiografia come specchio di identità"
• Laura Salsini, University of Delaware –  "Letter Novels and Female Identity."

State

Session : Dante
Chair: Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin

Presenters:

• Guido Pugliese, University of Toronto Mississaugua – "Il buon cittadino e la politica: Analisi dell’episodio dei barattieri.
• Fabian Alfie, University of Arizona – "Lapo Gianni’s Improperium: Intertexualities with Dante’s De Vulgari Eloquentia."

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5:30 – 6:45

Caucus

Session: Task Based Learning

Chair: Pier Raimondo Baldini, Arizona State University

Presenters:

• Tom Means, Rutgers University – "Towards Task Based Instruction in Italian as a Foreign Language."
• Adriana Benvenuto, Granada Hills Charter High School – "Se non mi diverto non imparo: Learning Through Drama and Role Playing."
• Latifah Troncelliti, Mount Holyoke College –  "Telecollaborative Web Project for the Teaching of Italian."

Kalorama

Session: La frontiera tra lingua e letteratura: dal moderno al post-moderno I
Chair: Andrea Ciccarelli, Indiana University

Presenters:

• Stefano Gulizia, Indiana University – "Fra antico e moderno: l'idea di frontiera tra lingua, letteratura e genere"
• Beatrice Arduini, Indiana University – "La frontiera linguistica nella Vita di Vittorio Alfieri"
• Ioana Larco, Indiana University –  "Fra terra e cielo: osservazioni sul tema della memoria nella poesia di Ungaretti"

State

Title of Session: Francesca e I suoi lettori
Chair and Organizer: Michelangelo Picone, University of Zurich

Presenters:      

• Domenico Cofano,  Università di Foggia -- "Il canto V dell'Inferno e l'intertestualità dantesca"
• Michelangelo Picone, University of Zurich -- "Petrarca e Boccaccio lettori di Francesca".
• Sebastiano Valerio, Università di Foggia –  "Riflessioni sul peccato di Francesca"

Dupont

Session: Metamorphosis and Disguise in Boccaccio's Decameron
Chair and Organizer: Susanna Barsella, Fordham University

Presenters:

• Susanna Barsella, Fordham University –  "Travestimento e cognizione nella novella di Tedaldo degli Elisei (Decameron III, 7)".
• Pier Massimo Forni, The Johns Hopkins University –  "Ovidio, Boccaccio e la metamorfosi del testo"
• Tobias Foster Gittes, Concordia University –  "Tale of a Non-Transformation: Donno Gianni, Comar Gemmata and the Horse that Wasn't (Decameron IX, 10)"
• Martin Marafioti, Pace University: "Transforming Lineage through ingegno: The Case of Giletta di Nerbona (Decameron III, 9)"

FRIDAY

8:30 - 9:45

Caucus

Session: Meet the Authors II
Organizer and Chair:    Anthony Mollica, Brock University

Speakers:

• Clara Abatecola, Ministero per gli Affari Regionali, Roma – Italia,  terre, culture (Roma: Ministero per gli Affari regionali, 2004)
• Ernesto Virgulti, Brock University –  Un'edizione scolastica di Pirandello (se vi pare) (Welland, ON: Soleil Publishing inc, 2005)
• Anthony Mollica, Brock University – Sfogliando I giornali  (Welland, ON: Soleil Publishing inc, 2005)

Dupont

Session: Italian Culture: Stereotypes and Multiculturalism
Chair: Anthony Tamburri, Florida Atlantic U.

Presenters:

• Elvira Di Fabio, Harvard University – From Iphigenia to Civil War Anti-Hero: Italian-American Playwright Joseph Rocchietti (1842-1875).
• Mark Pietralunga, Florida State University – "Overcoming Stereotypical Notions of the Italian American Emigrant: Italian American Studies in Italy."
• Anthony Tamburri, Florida Atlantic University – "Appunti sulla cultura diasporica degli italiani d’America."

Kalorama

Session: Italian Medieval Poetry and Prose
Chair: Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin

Presenters:

• Francesco Ciabattoni, Johns Hopkins University – "Il mito di Enea nel Secretum: Naufragio sull’umanesimo."
• Deborah Contrada, University Of Iowa – "Tenzone poetica/tenzone fittizia: Women’s Voices in Poetic Correspondence."

State

Session: Linguistics
Chair: Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander, Nazareth College

Presenters:

• Gloria Italiano Anzilotti, Università of Florence – "Holy and not so Holy Italian Contributions to English Verbs"
• Suzanne Branciforte, Università of Genova – "Switch-Hitting: Problems in Literary Translation"
• Graziana Lazzarino, University of Colorado – "La focaccia non è una foca di facili costumi: I suffissi in italiano."

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10:00 - 11:15

Caucus

Session: Making Form-Meaning Connections in the Italian Classroom
Organizer and Chair:  Diane Musumeci, University of Illinois-Urbana

Presenters:

• Janice Aski,  Ohio State University  – "Form-Meaning Connections and Grammar Practice Activities in First-Year Italian Textbooks"
• Diane Musumeci, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  –  "Cultural Content and the Acquisition of Morphosyntax in the First Year Curriculum: Something to Think About"
• Daryl Rodgers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  – "Connecting Content and Grammar: Two possible approaches"

Dupont

Session: The World is a Spectacle and Many other Things: Contemporary Italian Literature
Session Organizer and Chair:  Stefania Lucamante, The Catholic University of America

Presenters:

• Rita Gagliano, Temple University –  "Where Have All the Heroes Gone?" - Commitment and Indifference: The Case of Group 63 and the Cannibali Writers"
• Cristina Della Coletta, University of Virginia – "Where Sandokan met Garibaldi:  The Great Expositions in Italy and Their Narratives"
• Grazia Menechella, University of Wisconsin-Madison --"Madrigale di Tiziano Scarpa"

Kalorama

Session: Film Studies
Chair: Ugo Skubikowski, Middlebury College

Presenters:

• Tullio Pagano, Dickinson College – "When a Strike Hits the Comedy Italian Style: Reading Mario Monicelli’s I compagni through Emile Zola’s Germinal"
• Claudio Mazzola, University of Washington – "A Cinema in Search of an Identity: Immigration in the Post-Industrial Age"
• Latifah Troncelliti, Dickinson College – "All’ombra della Controriforma: Dal 'Discorso' di Paleotti alla 'Ricotta’ di Pasolini"

State

Session; The Case of the Vita N(u)ova: from Readings to Reading (Workshop)
Organizer and Chair: Wayne H Storey, Indiana University

• Presenters: Martin Eisner, Duke University; H. Wayne Storey, Indiana University;  Dario Del Puppo, Trinity College - Hartford;
• Respondent: Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University

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11:30 - 12:45

Caucus

Session:  Technology in the Classroom I Round Table
Moderators:  Chiara Lage and Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University

Presenters:

• Salvatore Bancheri, University of Toronto  – "Study/Testmaker Pro"
• Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College  –  "Società Famiglia Cinema: An Interactive and Multimedia Educational DVD"
• Antonio Morena, Harvard University –  "Media-Discourse Analysis and Class Discussions"
• Robin Worth, University of Wisconsin-Madison – "Beyond Rome, Florence and Milan: Collaborative Learning through Wikis"

Dupont

Sessione "Il paratesto nella letteratura rinascimentale italiana"
Organizer: Marco Santoro, Università  di Roma, for COFIN 2003 "Oltre il testo"
Chair: Albert N. Mancini, Ohio State University

Presenters:

• Carmela Reale, Università della Calabria – "Il paratesto nei romanzi italiani del ‘600"
• Maria Gioia Tavoni, Università di Bologna), "Gli ‘indici’ nella loro prima evoluzione"
• Marco Santoro, Università  di Roma "La Sapienza"  – "Paratesto: una nuova rivista all’insegna dell’interdisciplinarità"

Kalorama

Session: Teaching the Italian American Experience
Chair: Paolo Giordano, University of  Central Florida

Participants:

• Felice Italo Beneduce, University of Connecticut – "Teaching Italian American Literature"
• Norma Bouchard, University of Connecticut  – "Teaching Italian American Cinema"
• Fulvio Orsitto, University of Connecticut – "Italian American Studies and the Italian Studies Curriculum"

State

Session: Women Writers in the Twentieth Century
Chair: Laura Salsini, University of Delaware

Presenters:

• Lucy Delogu: John Cabot University /Rome – "Anna Banti: Una visione personale del femminismo."
• Louise Rozier, University of Arkansas – "The Theme of Childhood in Paola masino’s Periferia"
• Daniela Orlandi, Dominican University – "Caratteri e temperamenti, particolarità, sensibilità e carismi, regole ferree e ribellione nella Brescia femminile"

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12:45 - 2:00    LUNCH BREAK

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2:00 - 3:00

Monroe West

Keynote Address by  Professor Franco Fido "Goldoni Oggi"

 

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3:00 - 4:45

Monroe West

Annual Business Meeting of the AATI

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5:00 - 6:15

Caucus

Session – Behind the Screens: A Variety of Approaches to Teaching Italian Cinema I
Discussion on I cento passi – A Roundtable

Organizers and Chairs: Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Middlebury College; Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, University of Notre Dame

Speakers:

• Victoria Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania; Claudio Mazzola, University of  Washington;  Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University, Áine O'Healy, Loyola Marymount University, Roberta Tabanelli Christopher Newport University, Antonio Vitti, Wake Forest University

Dupont

Session: La Frontiera tra lingua e letteratura: dal moderno al post-moderno II
Chair: Andrea Ciccarelli, Indiana University

Presenters:

• Fabio Benincasa, "Viaggio al termine di Tempo di uccidere: Ennio Flaiano oltre la frontiera del modernismo letterario"
• Andrea Scapolo, "Il tema della frontiera nell'opera di Antonio Tabucchi"
• Maria Roncalli di Montorio, "Barocco e dissimulazione nell' Isola del giorno prima"

Kalorama

Session: Women Mystics  from 1200 to 1600
Organizer and Chair: Olympia Pelosi

Presenters:

• Gaetana Marrone Puglia, Princeton University – "Chiara d’Assisi and Cinematic Adaptation"
• Dino Cervigni, University of North Carolina – "Angela da Foligno’s Memoriale and the Book of Margery Kempe: Male Writers, Female Voices"
• Jane Tylus, New York University – "Santa Catarina and the Poets"

State

Session: Arthurian Romance:  Why Read it, How to Teach it. Roundatble
Chair:  Regina Psaki, University of Oregon

Presenters:

• Stefano Mula, Middlebury College; Eleonora Stoppino, Dartmouth College; Regina Psaki, University of Oregon

8:00 p.m. - Midnight Friday Night Entertainment with Jay and the

Americans/Salute to the Martini

Cigar and Grappa Event in separate room

SATURDAY

9:00 – 10:15

Caucus

Session:  Technology in the Classroom II Roundtable
Moderators:  Chiara Lage and Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University

Panelists

• Gabriella Colussi-Arthur, York University – "Vantaggi e svantaggi della Smart Classroom"
• Enza Antenos-Conforti, Montclair State --  "Evolving Strategies for the Foreign Language Classroom: The Fusion of Songs and Course Management Software."
• Elvira Di Fabio and Chiara Frenquellucci, Harvard University  –  "Corpora-Based, Internet Enhanced Writing: Student Becomes Researcher."
• Luciana Fellin, Duke University – "Ipods and the assessment of oral communication."

Dupont

Sessione "L’italianistica in rete"
Organizer and Chair: Marco Santoro, Director Italinemo

• Gianfranco Crupi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" – "Biblioteche digitali per l’italianistica"
• Giuseppina Monaco,  Università di Roma "La Sapienza" –  "Italinemo: il portale delle riviste di italianistica nel mondo"
• Francesco Iusi, Università della Calabria –  "Di alcuni portali su letterati italiani"

Jackson

Session: Italian Modern Poetry
Chair:  Giuseppe Cavatorta, Dartmouth College

Presenters:

• Viktor Berberi, University of Minnesota Morris – "Ethics and the Event in Piero Bigongiari’s ‘Dove finiscono le tracce’"
• Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University – "‘Un posto di vacanza’ di Vittorio Sereni: Una lettura testuale e contestuale"
• Franco Masciandaro, University of Connecticut – "La poetica dell’ascolto di Paolo Valesio: Appunti sulla poesia ‘La grazia’

Kalorama

Session: Behind the Screens: A Variety of Approaches to Teaching Italian Cinema II: Discussion on Il Gattopardo
Organizers and Chairs: Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Middlebury College;  Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, University of Notre Dame)

Speakers:

• Antonello Borra, University of Vermont; Mary Ann Carolan, Fairfield University;  Marcia Landy,  University of Pittsburgh; Ben Lawton, Purdue University; Cristina Maddoli, Università per Stranieri di Perugia; Sam Rohdie, University of Central Florida

Map Room

Session: Re-reading Machiavelli’s Works of Fiction as Moral and Political Allegories
Chair:  Gilberto Paolini, Tulane University

Presenters:

• Giuseppe Falvo, University of Maryland – "‘Belfagor’ as Political Allegory Behind the Theme of Misogyny.
• Salvatore Di Maria, University of Tennessee – "Originality in Imitation: Machiavelli’s Clizia."
• Federica Brunori - Deigan, University of Maryland – "A response to Machiavelli’s Mandragola in Alfred De Musset’s Lorenzaccio"

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10:30 – 11:45

Caucus

Session: Methods for Assessment
Chair: Rosa Bellino-Giordano, Lyons Township H.S.

Presenters:

• Valeria Garino, The Catholic University of America – "Technological Methods for Assessing Oral Production: Wimba Horizon Activties for Elementary and Intermediate Italian Courses"
• Donna Luvera Del Prete, Montclair State University, and  Kristen di Gennaro, Pace University  –  "Multiple Choice Tests and Communicative Language Teaching: Designing Effective Tests"
• Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville – "Strategies for Developing and Assessing Listening Skills in the Elementary and Intermediate Italian Language Classroom"

Dupont

Session: Strategies for a Successful Italian Program: From Joint Ventures to Cultural Studies and Experiential Learning. Roundtable
Organizer and Chair: Carla Lucente, Duquesne University

Presenters:

• Daniela Bini, University of Texas; Carla Lucente, Duquesne University; Annalisa Sacca, St. John’s University.

Jackson

Session: The Italian Literary Seicento: Current Perspectives and New Readings I
Organizer and Chair: Albert N. Mancini, Ohio State University

Presenters

• Laura Benedetti, Georgetown University – "Il percorso di Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1645)"
• Paul Colilli, Laurentian University – "Filicaia and the Emergence of an Arcadian Poetology"
• Maria Galli Stampino, University of Miami  – "A Synergy between Poetry and Music in the Seventeenth Century"

Kalorama

Session: L’Italia è fatta.  Adesso . . .?
Chair: Paolo Giordano, University of Central Florida

Presenters:

• Sante Matteo, Miami University – "Italy is made! Now Go Away!  Garibaldi, Pinocchio and Other Unstrung Heroes"
• Paola Gambarota, University of Connecticut – "Vico in Time of War"
• Norma Bouchard, University of Connecticut – "Commemorating the Centenary of Unification: Torino "Italia (19)61"

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12:00 –  2 : 00             LUNCH BREAK

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2:00– 3:15

Caucus

Session: AP Italian Language and Culture: An Overview and Update
Chair: Elissa Tognozzi, UCLA

Presenters:

• Elissa Tognozzi, UCLA and Chair of the AP Development Committee; Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, University of Notre Dame; Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville; Irene Marchegiani, SUNY/Stoney Brook; Anna De Fina, Georgetown University.

Dupont

Session: The Teaching and Adaptation of Italian Culture
Chair:  Cajsa C. Baldini, Arizona State University

Presenters:

• Luigi Ferri and Mary Macklem, University of Central Florida – "Il melodramma come veicolo di interdisciplinarità: riflessioni sul seminario Understanding Modern Italy Through Italian Opera, Literature and Film."
• Nadia Ceccacci, University of Oregon – "Corsi di cultura e lingua a livello intermedio"
• Sarah Annunziato, The Johns Hopkins University – "Autobiography and Adaptation in Disney’s "The Adventures of Pinocchio."

Jackson

Session: Primo Levi
Chair: Virginia Picchietti, University of Scranton

Presenters:

• Elizabeth Schreiber, Rider University – "Demeter at Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Use of Greek Mythology to Depict the Holocaust in Il sistema periodico"
• Giuseppe Tosi, Georgetown University – "Cura di sé nello stato di eccezione: La tregua    di Primo Levi"
• James Chiampi, University of California, Irvine – "Primo Levi’s Voyage into Otherness"

Kalorama

Session: Renaissance Italian Literature.
Chair: Regina Psaki, University of Oregon

Presenters:

• Paola Malpezzi Price, Colorado State University – "'Autocoscienza' and 'affidamento,' and Early Modern French and Italian Women Writers"
• Olga Pugliese, University Of Toronto – "Humor in Il libro del cortegiano and its Development from the Manuscript to the Printed Edition"
• Patricia Lynn Richards, Kenyon College – "Beauty in Della Casa’s Version of Petrarch’s 'Portrait Sonnets'"

Monroe West

Session: The Meaning of Pasolini Thirty Years Later  -- Roundtable
Organizer & Chair: Ben Lawton: Purdue University

Presenters:

• Joseph Francese, Michigan State University; Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburg; Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University; Colleen Ryan, Notre Dame University.

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3:30 - 4:45

Caucus

Session: Italian Language Studies and the Media
Chair: Tullio Pagano, Dickinson College

Presenters:

• Marina Frescura, York University.  – "A Fine Balance: Managing Telemarketing Exchanges"
• Francesco Fiumara, Wesleyan University–  "'Voci dall’Italia':: Radio e informatica per lo sviluppo della comprensione e della produzione orale in italiano"
• Teresa Fiore, California State University. Long Beach – "Pubblicizziamo l’Italiano: L’uso didattico della pubblicità per un apprendimento linguistico e culturale."

Dupont

Session: Early Modern and Modern Italian Tragic Theatre
Organizers: Salvatore Bancheri, University of Toronto and Michael Lettieri, University of Toronto
Chair:  Salvatore Bancheri, University of Toronto

Presenters:

• Michele Lettieri, University of Toronto e Rocco Mario Morano, University of Toronto – "Tentativi di imitazione-emulazione del modello: il caso della tragedia Camilla."
• Christine Sansalone, Laurentian University – "La figura femminile nel teatro grottesco."
• Salvatore Bancheri, University of Toronto – "Processi di riscrittura: L’Ifigenia in Tauride di Euripide e l’Oreste di Giovanni Rucellai"

Jackson

Session: Italy in the Twentieth Century
Chair:  Laura Salsini, University of Delaware

Presenters:

• Cinzia Di Giulio, Merrimack College – "Salgari’s La bohème italiana, or the Ghosts of Italy’s belle époque"
• Claire J. Paolini, Sacred Heart University – "Italians on the Spanish Front"
• Clara Orban, De Paul University – "In the Kitchen with F.T.: Cucina Futurista as Cultural Provocation

Kalorama

Session: Tips for Teachers of AP Italian
Organizer: Lucrezia Lindia, Eastchester School District, Eastchester NY.
Chair: Grace Mannino

Presenters:

• Bruna P. Boyle, Narraganstt High School, Narragansett RI; Lucrezia Lindia, Eastchester School District, Eastchester NY; Ida Gianpietro Wilder, Greece Athena High Scholl, Rochester NY

Map

Title: Identità fluttuanti tra letteratura e cinema.
Organizer and Chair:  Felice Italo Beneduce, University of Connecticut

Presenters:

• Felice Italo Beneduce, University of Connecticut – "The Conscience of Zelig: Analogies between a modernist novel and post–modern film"
• Fulvio Orsitto, University of Connecticut – "Il mito di Narciso in Foscolo e Visconti"
• Giovanna De Luca, College of Charleston – "Germi’s 'Divorzio all’italiana' and 'Sedotta e abbandonata': Commedia all’italiana and Noir Revisited."

Monroe West

Session: The Italian modern Novel
Chair: Virginia Picchietti, University of Scranton

Presenters:

• Enrico Vettore, Kenyon College  – "Leonardo Sciascia: The Power of Compassion"
• Magda Ferretti, The George Washington University – "Relationship Between Scientific and Literary Culture in Italo Calvino’s Vision"
• Peter N. Pedroni, Miami University – "Kossi Komla-Ebri’s Imbarazzismi and Nuovi imbarazzismi"
• Giuseppe Cavatorta, Dartmouth College – "Il romanzo della neoavanguardia ovvero di una lingua comunista."