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Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion
Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 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] -
Clarissa Clò posted an update in the group
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPlease consider applying to the following guaranteed session:
Unlikely Archives and (Un)documented Transactions In Italian Americana
This panel invites contributions that approach the Italian American experience through a variety of alternative modes, genres and media such as comics, pulp fiction, songs and sound, home movies, performance,…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia posted an update in the group
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Business Meeting for LLC Italian American will take place on Friday, January 5 from 10:15 am to 11:30am in Madison 2 at the Sheraton New York Times Square. Anyone who is interested in learning more about LLC IA is welcome to attend. We hope to see you there.
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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 8 years, 1 month 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,
and the feti…[Read more] -
Nancy Caronia created the doc MLA LLC Italian American Studies Google Drive Link in the group
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago -
Nancy Caronia changed the description of the group
LLC Italian American from "LLC Italian American forum executive committee:Carla Simonini Jan. 2018
Nancy Caronia, Jan. 2019, 2017–Jan. 2018 Chair
Clarissa Clo, Jan. 2020, 2017-2018 Sec.
Jessica L. Maucione, Jan. 2021
Teresa Fiore. Jan. 2022" to "LLC Italian American forum executive committee:
Nancy Caronia, Jan. 2019
Clarissa Clo, Jan. 2020, 2018-2019 Chair
Jessica L. Maucione, Jan. 2021, 2018-2019 Sec.
Teresa Fiore. Jan. 2022
Mary Ann Trasciatti Jan. 2023Delegate Assembly Representative:
Alan J. Gravano, 2017-2020" on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago -
Nancy Caronia posted an update in the group
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoI’m thrilled to announce that this year’s MLA Italian American Studies Forum panel has been named a Presidential-themed session. If you are in NYC at MLA and are interested in migration, anarchism, assimilation and Italian American studies, we hope to see you there.
Session 224: From Anarchism to Assimilation: The Making of Italian…[Read more]
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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 8 years, 1 month 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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Nancy Caronia posted an update in the group
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello everyone, as the outgoing chair of the LLC Italian American forum, I am hopeful that the 2017 MLA elections will bring a robust constituency to the voting screen! Both candidates have a long and storied involvement in Italian American Studies in different ways and through various means. Please vote!
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Alan J. Gravano posted an update in the group
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI just received notification that the 2017 MLA elections for the forum executive committees are now under way.
I am asking each of you to vote for me as the new Delegate of the Italian American Discussion Group. Unlike the other nominee, I have taught Italian/American Literature courses and I am President of the Italian American Studies…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci deposited “The Skull and Hair of Alessandro de’ Medici: Reading Racial Signs in Historical Perspective.” in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoIn this essay I discuss the racial formations of Alessandro de’ Medici, first duke of Florence. These formations derive from different sources: verbal descriptions, portraiture, and the material evidence of Alessandro’s remains. I examine whether a painted “description” tallies with a verbal one, considering the variety of terms used to describ…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci deposited Mistaken Identities?: Alessandro de’ Medici and the Question of “Race” in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoa b s t r ac t
Alessandro de’ Medici’s life and its representation reveal important beliefs about family, politics,
and genealogy during the Italian Renaissance. Duke Alessandro’s government marked the end of
the Florentine Republic and the beginning of hereditary rule. Many scholars interpret Alessandro’s
assassination as a fitting end to…[Read more] -
Alan J. Gravano posted an update in the group
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoWe are pleased to announce that our 51 annual Italian American Studies Association (IASA) conference will be hosted by Loyola University, Chicago. The conference dates are Thursday, October 18 through Saturday, October 20 2018. More information to follow.
http://www.italianamericanstudies.net/cpages/conference-2018
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Alan J. Gravano posted an update in the group
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoFaith, (Ir)reverence, and the Italian Diaspora Fifty Years of Italian American Studies
Marriott Wardman Park
2660 Woodley Road NW Washington, DC 2008
November 2-4, 2017
The Italian American Studies Association (IASA) formerly the American Italian Historical Association (AIHA) celebrates its fiftieth year of academic inquiry into all things…[Read more]
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Susanna Allés Torrent deposited The Vita Caroli Magni of Donato Acciaiuoli, translated by Alfonso de Palencia (1491) in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis article analyzes the Vita Caroli of the Italian humanist Donato Acciaiuoli, and the translation done by Alfonso de Palencia, chronicler of the Spanish Catholic Kings.
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Elizabeth Coggeshall started the topic 2017 Dante Prize and Charles Hall Grandgent Award / June 30 deadline in the discussion
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
Did any of your students write an outstanding essay on Dante this past year? We invite you to encourage them to submit their essay for the annual <b>Dante Prize</b> or <b>Charles Hall Grandgent Award</b> sponsored by the Dante Society of America.
The Dante Prize ($500) is offered for the best essay submitted by an unde…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Coggeshall started the topic 2017 Durling Prize for excellence in teaching Dante at the secondary level in the discussion
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Dante Society of America is currently accepting nominations and self-nominations for its second annual Robert M. Durling Prize competition.
The Durling Prize recognizes excellence in the teaching of Dante’s life, time, and works by educators working in North American secondary schools (i.e., high school and middle school). T…[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 8 years, 11 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).
Le iscrizioni sono aperte fino al 30 aprile.…[Read more] -
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 8 years, 11 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.
Among the…[Read more] - Load More
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