Italian Studies

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies is devoted to the publication of scholarly works on Italian literature, film, history, biography, art, and culture, as well as on intercultural connections, such as Italian-American Studies.  Proposals can be sent to the Series Editor, Dr. Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, at anthony.tamburri@qc.cuny.edu.

Published books in the series can be divided as sub-categories, including, but not limited to:

Biography

Bonadeo, Alfredo. D’Annunzio and Great War. (2004)

Ialongo, Ernest. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics. (2015)

Rosengarten, Frank. Giacomo Leopardi’s Search for a Common Life Through Poetry. (2012)

Sarti, Lisa and Michael Subialka, editors, Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy: Imagination and Thought Across Media (2017)

Stevens, Denis. Monteverdi in Venice. (2001)

Film

Bouchard, Norma. Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture: Revisiting the Nineteenth Century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinema. (2005) 

Pascuzzi, Francesco and Bryan Cracchiolo. Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema. (2015)

History

Aliano, David. Mussolini’s National Project in Argentina. (2012)

Baliani, Marco. Body of State: A Nation Divided. (2011)

Bonadeo, Alfredo. D’Annunzio and Great War. (2004)

Bouchard, Norma. Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture: Revisiting the Nineteenth Century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinma. (2005)

Buonomo, Leonardo. Backward Glances: Exploring Italy, Reinterpreting America (1831-1866). (1996)

Conti, Flavio G. and Alan R. Perry, Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania: Allies on the Home Front, 1944-1945. (2016)

Del Principe, David. Rebellion, Death, And Aesthetics in Italy. (Out of print)

Feinstein, Wiley. The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy: Poets, Artists, Saints, Anti-Semites. (2003)

Ialongo, Ernest. The Artist and His Politics. (2015)

Lucamante, Stefania. Italy and the Bourgeoisie: The Re-Thinking of a Class. (2009)

Marazzi, Martino. Voices of Italian America. (Out of Print)

Parati, Graziella and Anthony Julian Tamburri (Editors). The Cultures of Italian Migration: Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives. (2011)

Parati, Graziella (Editor). New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: The Arts and History, Volume 1. (2012)

Parati, Graziella (Editor). New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: The Arts and History, Volume 2. (2012)

Pascuzzi, Francesco and Bryan Cracchiolo. Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema. (2015)

Picarazzi, Teresa. Maternal Desire: Natalia Ginzburgo’s Bonded and Separating Daughters. (2002)

Polezzi, Loredana and Charlotte Ross (Editors). In Corpore: Bodies in Post-Unification Italy. (2007)

Price, Paulo Malpezzi and Christine Ristaino. Lucrezia Marinella and the ‘Querelle des Femmes’ in Seventeenth-Century Italy. (2008)

Serra, Ilaria. The Imagined Immigrant: The Imags of Italian Emigration to the United States Between 1890 and 1924. (2009)

Stevens, Denis. Monteverdi in Venice. (2001)

Smith, Shirley Ann. Imperial Designes: Italians in China 1900-1947. (2012)

Tamburri, Anthony Julian. Of Saltimbanchi and Incendiari: Aldo Palazzeschi and Avant Gardism in Italy. (1990)

Trubiano, Marisa S. Ennio Flaiano and His Italy. (2010)

Verdicchio, Pasquale. Looters, Photographers, and Thieves: Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (2011)

War, David. Antifacisms Cultural Politics in Italy, 1943-46. (1996)

Literature

Billiani, Francesca and Gigliola Sulis (Editors). The Italian Gothic and Fantastic: Encounters and Rewritings of Narrative Traditions. (2007)

Bonadeo, Alfredo. D’Annunzio and Great War. (2004)

Borelli, Elena, Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and the Ethics of Desire: Between Action and Contemplation (2017)

Cavallo, Jo Ann. Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato: An Ethics of Desire. (Out of Print)

Cavigioli, Rita C. Women of a Certain Age: Contemporary Italian Fictions of Female Aging. (2005)

Coburn, Melissa. Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification. (2013)

Deledda, Grazia. Marianna Sirca. (2006)

Filippo, De Eduardo. Theater Neapolitan Style: Five One-Act Plays. (2004)

Francese, Joseph. Socially Symbolic Acts: The Historicizing Fictions of Umberto Eco, Vincenzo Consolo, and Antonio Tabucchi. (2006)

Gabriele, Tommasina. Italo Calvino: Eros and Language. (1996)

Godey, Amber R. Sister Souls: The Power of Personal Narrative in the Poetic Works of Antonia Pozzi and Vittorio Serini. (2011)

Halliday, Iain. Huck Finn in Italian, Pinocchio in English: Theory and Praxis of Literary Translation. (2009)

Ialongo, Ernest. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics. (2015)

Kozma, Janice. Grazia Deledda’s Eternal Adolescent: The Pathology of Arrested Maturation. (2002)

Lucamante, Stefania (Editor). Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing: Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art. (2014)

Marazzi, Martino. Voices of Italian America. (Out of Print)

Orton, Marie and Graziella Parati (Editors). Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy. (2007)

Pagano, Tullio. Experimental Fictions: From Emile Zola’s Naturalism to Giovanni Verga’s Verism. (1999)

Pagano, Tullio. The Making and Unmaking of the Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature: The Case of Liguria. (2015)

Parati, Graziella and Rebecca West (Editors). Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference. (2002)

Pezzotti, Barbara. The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey. (2012)

Picarazzi, Teresa. Maternal Desire: Natalia Ginzburgo’s Bonded and Separating Daughters. (2002)

Rosengarten, Frank. Giacomo Leopardi’s Search for a Common Life Through Poetry. (2012)

Sambuco, Patrizia (Editor). Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgressions. (2014)

Scambray. Kenneth. Queen Calafia’s Paradise: California and the Italian-America Novel. (Out of Print)

Tamburri, Anthony Julian. Re-Reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism. (2013)

Tamburri, Anthony Julian. Semiotics of Re-Reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, and Italo Calvino. (2003)

Trubiano, Marisa S. Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards from a Changing World. (2010)

Wood, Sharon and Erica Moretti, editors, Annie Chartres Vivanti: Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture

Music

Stevens, Denis. Monteverdi in Venice. (2001)

Social Sciences

Lucamante, Stefania. Italy and the Bourgeoisie: The Re-Thinking of a Class. (2009)

Parati, Graziella. The Cultures of Italian Migration: Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives. (2011)

Women’s Studies

Cavigioli, Rita C. Women of a Certain Age: Contemporary Italian Fictions of Female Aging. (2005)

Coburn, Melissa. Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification. (2013)

Parati, Graziella and Rebecca West. Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference. (2002)

Sambuco, Patrizia. Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgressions. (2014)