E Pluribus:
What Is Italian America?
45th Annual Conference
of the
Italian American Studies Association
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York
November 29- December 1, 2012
IASA
45TH Annual Conference
November 29 - December 1, 2012
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York
E Pluribus:
What is Italian America?
SPONSORS
Hofstra University
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY
Queensboro UNICO
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Athelene Collins
Natalie Datlof
George Guida
Deborah S. Lom
Stanislao Pugliese
HOFSTRA CONFERENCE COORDINATORS
Athelene Collins
Natalie Datlof
George Guida
Deborah S. Lom
Stanislao Pugliese
Program
Thursday, November 29
1:00-6:00 p. m.
REGISTRATION
Student Center Lobby
Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center
North Campus
1:00–4:00 p. m.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING
[DEBORAH SENDS]
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
4:00-5:15 p. m.
SESSION 1A: Italian Americans in Law Enforcement:
From Petrosino to Forensic Pathology
Chair: Anne T. Romano, Nassau Community College, SUNY
"Italian Americans in Law Enforcement"
Anne T. Romano
"Det. Giuseppe Petrosino: His Legacy"
Prof. Joanne Lecci, Nassau Community College, SUNY
"Italian Americans & Discrimination"
Enrico Annichiarico, Nassau Community College, SUNY
"Italian Americans in Policing"
Prof. Anthony Ottomano, Nassau Community College, SUNY
"Italian Americans in Forensic Pathology: The Crimes They Solve"
Penny Bartell Schlachter, Nassau Community College,
SESSION 1B: Italian Americans Among Others
Chair: Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University
“’But What Are You?’: Crossing the Continental Divide(s) on the Navajo Reservation”
Carmela Delia Lanza, Dakota State University
“Who Lives in Boston’s ‘Italian’ North End?
James Pasto, Boston University
“Living in a Multi-Ethnic Community in the 1940s”
Judith Pistacchio Bessette, Independent Scholar
“Italianità and Its Atlantic Transformation: From the Mediterranean to the Caribbean, 1896-1939"
Antonietta Di Pietro, Florida International University
SESSION 1C: Discoveries in Italian American Literature
Chair: Dennis Barone, University of Saint Joseph
“Joseph Torra’s Prose and the Italian Value of Work”
Dennis Barone
“A Tricky Game in a Foreign Country” (Spencer’s A Light in the Piazza)
Patricia Polak, Manhattanville College
“Philip Lamantia and His Embrace of Italian-American Imagery: The Path of a Surrealistic Mystic Poet”
Maria Protti, Independent Scholar
SESSION 1D: Unto the Daughters
Chair: Louisa Calio, Author, Poet
“The Scapegoat Complex as Defined by Jungian Sylvia Perera
and the Feminine in Italian/American Experience”
Louisa Calio
“Remembering the Aunts”
Florence Gatto, Author
Excerpt from Unto the Daughters
Karen Tintori, Author
“Domestic Violence and the Italian American Temperament”
Marisa Labozzetta, Author
5:30-6:45 p. m.
SESSION 2A: Unearthing Italian American History
Chair: Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University
“Boston’s Italian Burial Ground: St. Michael’s Cemetery”
Richard Bonanno, Assumption College
“The Boston Italian Wheelmen of the 1890s Cycling Craze”
Lorenz J. Finison, Independent Scholar
“For God and Country: St. Lucy’s Italian American Parish Responds to WWII”
Salvatore LaGumina, Nassau Community College, SUNY
“The American Life of Joseph Biggio”
Edward Albert Maruggi, Rochester Institute of Technology
SESSION 2B: Book Presentation and Reading: Ellis Island, by Robert Viscusi
Chairs: Fred Gardaphè and Anthony Julian Tamburri, Bordighera Press
and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College, CUNY
SESSION 2C: A Knowledge Management System (KMS)
for the Italian Historical Emigration--Roundtable
Chair: Dominic Candeloro, Governors State University
Fabio Capocaccia, President of CISEI (Centro Internazionale Studi Emigrazione Italiana)
Domenic Candeloro, Governors State University
Anthony Julian Tamburri, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
SESSION 2D: Italian Americana Presents Its Authors
Chairs: John Paul Russo and Alan Gravano, Editors, Italian Americana
Joseph Bathanti, Author
Alan Gravano
John Paul Russo
7:00-7:30 p. m.
A TRIBUTE TO IASA'S FOUNDERS
Salvatore LaGumina, Nassau Community College, SUNY
7:30-9:30 p. m.
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, November 30
8:00-9:00 a. m.
LIGHT BREAKFAST
8:30 a. m.–4:00 p. m.
REGISTRATION
Student Center Lobby
Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center
North Campus
10:00-4:00
BOOK TABLE DISPLAYS
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
9:00-10:15 a. m.
SESSION 3A: Padroni and Prominenti:
Patronage and Leadership in Italian America
Chair: Fraser Ottanelli, University of South Florida
“Kingfish: An American Padrone”
Laurie Buonanno, Buffalo State College, and Michael Buonanno, State College of Florida
“From the Prominenti to the Ethnic Leadership: The Changing of the San Francisco Italian-American
Community Ruling Group (1931-1951)”
Tommaso Caiazza, Università di Venezia “Ca’ Foscari”
“Everyone is Welcome to the Table: Italian Traditions and The Radical Leaders of East Harlem”
LuLu LoLo Pascale, Independent Artist
SESSION 3B: Italian American Women’s Lives
Chair: Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University
“Sliced Thin: Anorexia in an Italian-American Adolescence”
Rosangela Briscese, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
“Women at a Crossroads: Rites of Passage in Italian America”
Camilla Dubini, University College of London
“Popular Women’s Fiction and the Shaping of Italian-American Identity: The Case of Adriana Trigiani”
Theodora D. Patrona, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
“‘When You Do Something With Your Hands’:
Reading Female Hands, Touch, and Handwork in the Poetry of Maria Mazziotti Gillan”
Marie Plasse, Merrimack College
SESSION 3C: Italian Americans: Perceptions and Realities
Chair: Salvatore LaGumina, Nassau Community College, SUNY
“Bombshells, Goombahs, Nonnas and Wiseguys: Will the Other Italian Americans Please Stand Up?”
Kris DiLorenzo (Kris Dean), Independent Scholar, Actor
“Beliefs About Italian Americans and Organized Crime in the United States”
Louis Gesualdi, St. John’s University
“The Foundation of Inter-Colonialism and Its Integration into Italian-American Studies”
Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, State College of Florida
SESSION 3D: Robert Viscusi: A Life in Italian American Studies—Roundtable
Chair: George Guida, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Teresa Fiore, Montclair State University
Pellegrino D'Acierno, Hofstra University
Josephine Gattuso Hendin, New York University
Stephen Belluscio, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College, CUNY
10:30-11:45 a. m.
SESSION 4A: Why We Need a New History of Italian Americans—Roundtable
Chair: William J. Connell, Seton Hall University
Fred Gardaphé, Queens College, CUNY
Mark Choate, Brigham Young University
Nancy Carnevale, Montclair State University
Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University
SESSION 4B: Lavender Paesans: Italian American Gay and Lesbian Identities
Chair: Dawn Esposito, Saint John’s University
“To Answer the Question: ‘What Is Italian America?’ . . .
Well, We Gay Italian Americans Are a Part of Italian America”
Michael Carosone, Teachers College of Columbia University
“My Identity is Lavender, So Am I Italian American?”
Joseph Anthony LoGiudice, The Graduate Center, CUNY
"Poems on Being First-Generation Lesbian Italian American"
Vittoria repetto, Author
SESSION 4C: Beyond Little Italy
Chair: Salvatore LaGumina, Nassau Community College, SUNY
"From "Big Boss" to Big Business: Italian-Americans as Entrepreneurs and in Corporate America, or ItalianAmericans and Business (No, not that business)"
Madeline Crocitto, State University of New York--Old Westbury
“Italian Americans: The Move to Suburbia”
William Egelman, Iona College
“Sarah Wool Moore: Education as the Key to Assimilation of Italian Immigrants”
Teresa Fava Thomas, Fitchburg State University
“Are There Still Italian American Social Institutions?”
Donald Tricarico, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
SESSION 4D: What Is an Italian American Poet?:
A Reading and Discussion—Part I
Chair: Alan J. Gravano, Marshall University
Peter Covino, University of Rhode Island
Mary Giamo, La Scuola d’Italia
Gerry LaFemina, Frostburg State University
11:45-1:15 p. m.
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:15-2:30 p. m.
SESSION 5A: Life in Between: Immigrants in Italian America
Chair: Dennis Barone, University of Saint Joseph
“The Family Sagas of Barolini and Mazzuco and Italian Women’s Global Migrations”
Dennis Barone
“How the History of Brigandage and Genocide in Southern Italy
Shaped My Grandfather’s Attitudes in Italian America”
Daniela Gioseffi, Author
“Italian American Migrant Literature: The Feeling of Being Suspended Between Two Worlds”
Michela Valmori, Università di Bologna
SESSION 5B: What's in a Name That Ends in a Vowel?:
Italian (American)ness in Dispute
Chair: Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College, CUNY
“Reflections on an Italian Name”
Lawrence Baldassaro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Why Am I Not an Italian-American?: The Fruitless Search for Roots; or, You Can’t Get There From Here”
Jerry Krase
“How Could They: Don’t They Know I’m Italian?”
Maria Protti, Independent Scholar
SESSION 5C: Italian American Writers Search for Home—A Reading
Chair: Maria Mazziotti Gillan, The Poetry Center, Passaic Community College
Rachel Guido DeVries, Author
Fred Gardaphé, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
Josephine Gattuso Hendin, New York University
SESSION 5D: What is an Italian American Poet?:
A Reading and Discussion—Part II
Chair: Alan J. Gravano, Marshall University
Joanne Detore Nakamura, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Joey Nicoletti, Niagara University
Joseph Ricapito, Louisiana State University
Martha Silano, Bellevue College
2:45 - 4:00 p. m.
SESSION 6A: Topics Taboo in Italian American Culture
Chair: Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College, CUNY
“Who's Afraid of Columbus?”
William Connell, Seton Hall University
“The Perpetual Immigrant”
A. W. Cafarelli, Independent Scholar
“Taboo or Not Taboo: What Italian American Stand-Up Comics Won't Talk About”
Fred Gardaphé, Queens College, CUNY
SESSION 6B: All That Lies Between Us: Maria Mazziotti Gillan—
A Screening and Discussion
Chair: Kevin Carey, Salem State University
Mark Hillringhouse, Passaic Community College
Anthony Julian Tamburri, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, The Poetry Center, Passaic Community College
SESSION 6C: Expressions of Italianità
Chair: Victoria Sferlazza, Nassau Community College, SUNY
“Fashioning Home in America: Ebe Cagli’s Displaced Italian Language”
Evelyn Ferraro, University of California-Davis
“The Linguistic Status of Sicilian”
Victoria Sferlazza
“The Italian Tarantella”
Vera Lentini, Rutgers University
SESSION 6D: Eternally Remembered:
Death and Mourning Amongst Italian Americans
Chair: Joseph Ricapito, Louisiana State University
“Early Deaths in the Italian Enclaves at the Turn of the 20th Century: A Great Granddaughter’sPerspective”
Alexandra de Luise, Queens College, CUNY
A Reading
Marisa Frasca, Writer and Poet
A Reading
Fred Misurella, East Stroudsburg University
A Reading
Joseph Ricapito
SESSION 6E: Women, Memory and the Quotidian
Chair: Nancy Caronia, University of Rhode Island
from On the Streets of Gela
Edvige Giunta, New Jersey City University
from After the Manner of Women
Joanna Clapps Herman, Manhattanville College
from First Sleep
Agnes Rossi, Author
4:00 p. m.
COFFEE BREAK
4:15 – 5:15 p. m.
FEATURED READING
Frank Lentricchia
Author, The Accidental Pallbearer
Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature, Duke University
5:30 – 5:45 p. m.
FEATURED SCREENING
[Annie Lanzillotto Short]
BREAK
7:00 - 8:00 p. m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“ITALIAN AMERICAN STUDIES: A LITTLE HISTORY”
Donna Gabaccia, Professor of History
The University of Minnesota
Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar
8:00-11:00 p. m.
BANQUET
with Cash Bar
Saturday, December 1st
8:00 a. m. – 9:00 a. m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 a. m. – 4:00 p. m.
REGISTRATION
Student Center Lobby
Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center
North Campus
8:00 – 4:00 p. m.
BOOK DISPLAYS
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
9:00-10:15 a. m.
SESSION 7A: Book Presentation: Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture
Chair: Peter Covino, University of Rhode Island
Nancy Caronia, University of Rhode Island
Jim Cocola, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Roseanne Giannini Quinn, De Anza College
SESSION 7B: La Mia Strada: A Screening and Discussion—Part I
Chair: Michael Angelo DiLauro, Film Director; Robert Morris University
Joseph D’Andrea, Honorary Consul of Italy, Pittsburgh
Dominic Candeloro, Casa Italia Library, Chicago
Fred L. Gardaphé, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
John Paul Russo, University of Miami
SESSION 7C: Baby, You’re Not in the Bronx Anymore
Chair: Joanna Clapps Herman, Author
"Raw Bronx Roar"
Annie Lanzillotto, Poet, Author, Performer, Independent Scholar
"People Of The Heart"
Jean Feraca, Author
"Bronx Accent For Life"
Rosette Capotorto, Poet and Writer
from After the Manner of Women
Joanna Clapps Herman
SESSION 7D: Readings By Italian American Novelists
Chair: Fred Misurella, East Stroudsburg University
From Sweet Hope
Mary Bucci Bush, Author
From The Brooch
Arthur Cola, Italian Community Center of Milwaukee
From A Trilogy
Mario Fumarola, Author
10:30-11:45 a. m.
SESSION 8A: Performing Italian America
Chair: Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University
“Woody Guthrie’s Sicilian Sojourn: Reflections of Folk Life on the Road from Palermo to Plymouth”
Michele Fazio, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
"Righteous Babe: Ani DiFranco and Empowered Identity 'Through Loud Acoustic Music'"
Mary Jo Bona
“Ethnicity this Way: From Connie Francis to Lady Gaga
and the Embodied Legacy of Italian American Female Performance”
Roseanne Giannini Quinn, De Anza College
SESSION 8B: La Mia Strada: A Screening and Discussion—Part
Chair: Michael Angelo DiLauro, Film Director; Robert Morris University
Joseph D’Andrea, Honorary Consul of Italy, Pittsburgh
Dominic Candeloro, Casa Italia Library, Chicago
Fred L. Gardaphè, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
John Paul Russo, University of Miami
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SESSION 8C: What Do We Look For in Italian-American Identity?
Chair: Bénédicte Deschamps, University of Paris Diderot
“The Italian American Electorate: From Ethnic to Racial Voting”
Stefano Luconi, Università di Padova
“From Italian to American? Identity Building in the Italian-American Press”
Bénédicte Deschamps
“Italians and Italian Americans: A Not So Immediate Understanding”
Marie Saccomando Coppola, Malia
“Does “Dante’s Place” Still Exist? Buffalo’s Changing Italian-American Community”
Maria Susanna Garroni, Università di Roma, TRE
SESSION 8D: How Humor, Sardonic Wit, and Remembrance in Italian American
Literature Defines Italian America and Its Sensibility: A Reading and Discussion
Chair: Daniela Gioseffi, Author, Editor, Independent Scholar
Paola Corso, Western Connecticut State University
George Guida, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College, CUNY
11:45-1:30 p. m
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:30-2:45 p. m.
SESSION 9A: Italo-americana: storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti
—A Reading and Discussion
Chair: Pellegrino D’Acierno, Hofstra University
Francesco Durante, Universitá della Sapienza—Rome
Robert Oppedisano, Editor
Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College, CUNY
SESSION 9B: Icons in the Public Eye
Chair: Dawn Esposito, Saint John’s University
“Rise and Fall and Rise Again: The Films of Frank Sinatra”
Anthony D. Cavaluzzo, SUNY Adirondack
“Anna Magnani: An Icon of Italian-Americana”
Franco D’Alessandro, Independent Scholar
“Sport and the Construction of an Italian/American Identity”
Gerald R. Gems, North Central College
SESSION 9C: The Evolution of Ethnicity
Chair: Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University
“Italianità Americana: A Study of Ethnic Identity Among 2nd and 3rd Generation Italian Americans”
Angelyn Balodimas-Bartolomei, North Park University
“About the Definition of Italian American”
Giuliana Muscio, Università di Padova
“The Evolving Meaning of Being Italian American: Past, Present, and Future”
Sebastian Fichera, University of California—Los Angeles
“Italian American Identity Across America”
Denise Scannell-Guida, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
SESSION 9D: Nun, Wife, Peon: The Hopes and Demands
on Italian American Women Throughout the 20th Century
Chair: Edvige Giunta, Jersey City University
“After Mass”
Maria Giuria, Montclair State University
Excerpt from Sweet Hope
Mary Bucci Bush, California State University
“Aunt Alice in Wonderland and the Last Two McCormicks”
Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, SUNY Purchase
3:00-4:15 p. m.
SESSION 10A: Disappearing Hyphens: Cultural Hybridities in Literature
Chair: Fred Misurella, East Stroudsburg University
“At the End of the Hyphen: Italian American Contemporary Writers on the Edge of a New Identity”
Carla Francellini, Università di Siena
“We Are All Immigrants: Views of the Melting Pot by Italian-American Writers”
Fred Misurella
“Italian-Canadian Studies Between Canada and Italy”
Maria Cristina Seccia, Bangor University
SESSION 10B: Visible, Visual, Vision: Images of Italian American Identity
Chair: B. Amore, Independent Artist and Writer
“Identity, Art and Discovery”
B. Amore
“Where Is Italian America? The Identity on the Store Shelves”
Alessandra Coccopalmeri, Independent Scholar
“Engaging Italian American Women on Social Media Sites”
Samantha DeMuro, Independent Scholar
SESSION 10C: Not Just Sunday Gravy:
Italian-Americanization of Authors and Creative Writing
Chair: Chloe Yelena Miller, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Joey Nicoletti, Niagara University
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Passaic Community College
Valerio Bartolucci, Broward College
Gerard “Gerry” LaFemina, Frostburg Center for Creative Writing
SESSION 10D: Reading Mary Bucci Bush’s Sweet Hope—Roundtable
Chair: Edvige Giunta, Jersey City University
Mary Bucci Bush, California State University
Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University
Nancy Caronia, University of Rhode Island
Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, SUNY Purchase
Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University
SESSION 10E: Why IAWA?: The Italian American Writers Association
and the Italian American Community
Chair: Maria Lisella, Italian American Writers Association
“Spreading the Word”
Amy Barone, IAWA Board Member / Communications Specialist
“Building the Bridge: Two to Three Languages Are Better Than One”
Marisa Frasca, IAWA / Drew University
and
Gil Fagiani, IAWA / Bordighera Author
4:30-5:45 p. m.
IASA BUSINESS MEETING
2012 IASA Conference Participants
Albright, Carol Bonomo
Amore, B.
Annichiarico, Enrico
Baldassaro, Lawrence
Balodimas-Bartolomei, Angelyn
Barone, Amy
Barone, Dennis
Bartolucci, Valerio
Bathanti, Joseph
Belluscio, Stephen
Bessette, Judith Pistachio
Bona, Mary Jo
Bonnano, Richard
Briscese, Rosangela
Buonanno, Laurie
Buonanno, Michael
Bush, Mary Bucci
Cafarelli, A. W.
Caiazza, Tommaso
Calio, Louisa
Candeloro, Dominic
Capocaccia, Fabio
Capotorto, Rosette
Cappelli, Ottorino
Carey, Kevin
Carnevale, Nancy
Caronia, Nancy
Carosone, Michael
Cavaluzzo, Anthony D.
Choate, Mark
Coccopalmeri, Allesandra
Cocola, Jim
Cola, Arthur
Connell, William J.
Coppola, Marie Saccomando
Corso, Paola
Covino, Peter
Crocitto, Madeline
D’Acierno, Pellegrino
D’Allesandro, Franco
D’Andrea, Joseph
de Luise, Alexandra
Del Giudice, Luisa
DeMuro, Samantha
Deschamps, Bénédicte
Detore-Nakamura, Joanne
DeVries, Rachel Guido
DiLauro, Michael Angelo
DiLorenzo, Kris (Kris Dean)
Di Pietro, Antonietta
Dubini, Camilla
Durante, Francesco
Egelman, William
Esposito, Dawn
Eula, Michael
Fagiani, Gil
Fazio, Michelle
Feraca, Jean
Ferraro, Evelyn
Fichera, Sebastian
Finison, Lorenz J.
Fiore, Teresa
Francellini, Carla
Frasca, Marisa
Fumarola, Mario
Gabaccia, Donna
Gardaphe, Fred
Garroni, Maria Susanna
Gatto, Florence
Gems, Gerald R.
Gesualdi, Louis
Giamo, Mary
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti
Gioseffi, Daniela
Giunta, Edvige
Gravano, Alan
Guida, George
Hendin, Josephine Gattuso
Herman, Joanna Clapps
Hillringhouse, Mark
Krase, Jerry
Labozzetta, Marisa
LaFemina, Gerard “Gerry”
LaGumina, Salvatore J.
Lanza, Carmela Delia
Lanzillotto, Annie
Lecci, JoAnne
Lentini, Vera
Lentricchia, Frank
Lisella, Maria
LoGiudice, Joseph Anthony
LoLo, LuLu (Pascale)
Luconi, Stefano
Maruggi, Edward A.
Mazzucchelli, Chiara
McCormick, Kathleen Zamboni
Miller, Chloe Yelena
Misurella, Fred
Muscio, Giuliana
Nicoletti, Joey
Oppedisano, Robert
Ottanelli, Fraser
Ottomano, Anthony
Pasto, James
Patrona, Theodora D.
Plasse, Marie
Polak, Patricia Leuzzi
Protti, Maria
Pugliese, Stanislao
Quinn, Roseanne Giannini
repetto, Vittoria
Ricapito, Joseph
Romano, Anne T.
Rossi, Agnes
Ruffner Grieneisen, Courtney
Russo, John Paul
Scannell-Guida, Denise
Schlachter, Penny Bartell
Sciorra, Joseph
Seccia, Maria Cristina
Sferlazza, Victoria
Silano, Martha
Tamburri, Anthony J.
Thomas, Teresa Fava
Tintori, Karen
Trasciatti, Mary Anne
Tricarico, Donald
Valmori, Michela
Viscusi, Robert
IASA Officers and Executive Council
President
George Guida
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Vice President
Michael Eula
El Camino College, California
Secretary
Alan Gravano
Marshall University
Treasurer
Dawn Esposito
St. John's University
Curator
Ottorino Cappelli
Scholar in Residence at the Calandra Italian American Institute
Past President
Josephine Gattuso Hendin
New York University
Executive Council
Carol Bonomo Albright
Harvard Extension School
Dominic Candeloro
Curator, Casa Italia Library Chicago
†Paul Giaimo
Highland Community College
Luisa Del Giudice
Independent Scholar, Los Angeles
Fred Gardaphe
Queens College, CUNY
Stefano Luconi
University of Padua
Chiara Mazzucchelli
University of Central Florida
John Paul Russo
University of Miami
Joseph Sciorra
Queens College, CUNY
Anthony Julian Tamburri
Queens College, CUNY
Robert Viscusi
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Long Island Chapter President
Anne T. Romano
Western Chapter President
Laura Ruberto