Dr. Fiore’s Research (Spring 2013)
Dr. Teresa Fiore has published an article, participated in the presentation of a book at NYU that includes one of her essays, and given a lecture at Princeton University.
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1. Publication (Winter 2013):
“From Family to Institutional Memory: John Fante’s Archive (A Conversation with Fante’s Biographer Stephen Cooper).” Italian Americana (Issue on Italian American archives, ed. Edvige Giunta) 31.1 (Winter 2013): 17-23.
A novelist, short story writer, and scenarist of Italian descent, John Fante is now considered to be one of the great “outsider” authors of 20th-century American letters. The story of his personal collection which was recently acquired by the UCLA Library was the occasion for this article.
2. Book presentation at NYU (March 27, 2013):
Panel discussion on the book Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity (Palgrave, Dec. 2012), edited by Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo containing an essay by Teresa Fiore: “Post-‘Colonia:’ Emigration, Colonialism, and Immigration in Contemporary Italy.”
The article explores the meaning of national identity by looking at the experience of Italians who emigrated to Brazil in the late 1800s and Brazilians of Italian descent who return to Italy nowadays as contemporary immigrants after acquiring Italian citizenship.
3. Lecture at Princeton University (April 3, 2013): “Neither Chendi nor Potatoes: Abundance and Deprivation in Sciascia’s Post-WWII Sicily.” The lecture addressed food habits and international politics in the post-WWII era, a crucial historical moment for relations between Italy and the U.S. as illustrated in Leonardo Sciascia’s novella “The American Aunt” (1963).