Edited by Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, this new groundbreaking volume features an introduction that explores the potential of Italian American literature and the arts to enable the recovery of a forgotten, even repressed, historical past and the contributions of thirty scholars and teachers who present innovative ways of teaching Italian American texts—fiction, poetry, memoir, oral history, theater and performance, film, and television. Readers will learn ways to integrate them into a wide variety of courses in ways that can help interrogate dominant ideological assumptions about America, aesthetics, and Italians. The roundtable discussion will also include: Marisa Trubiano, Associate Professor of Italian, Montclair University; Anthony Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Institute and Professor of Italian Studies, The City University of New York; and Robert Viscusi, Broeklundian Professor and Executive Director of the Humanities Institute, Brooklyn College. Moderated by Josephine Gattuso Hendin, Professor of English and Tiro A Segno Professor of Italian American Studies, New York University.
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