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Luigi Fontanella Professor of Italian   Editor of Gradiva: An International Journal of Italian Poetry   President IPA (Italian Poetry in America) To contact Prof. Fontanella, click here

Luigi Fontanella studied at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza” (Laurea in Lettere), and at Harvard University (Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures). He was a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University, 1976-1978. Currently he is Professor of Italian in the Dept. of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, at Stony Brook University. Fontanella  is Founder and President of IPA (Italian Poetry in America). and the editor of Gradiva and Gradiva Publications, which was recently awarded the prestigious Prize for Translation by the “Ministero dei Beni Culturali”. He has given lectures in more than seventy universities in the United States and in Europe. Selections of his poetry have been included in twenty anthologies, both in Europe and in the United States. As a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist. he has published twenty books (eleven collections of poetry; seven volumes of criticism, two books of narrative), and seventy scholarly articles.
 

Publications:

Literary Criticism

I campi magnetici di A.-Breton-P. Soupault (traduzione, introduzione e note) Roma: Newton Compton, 1979

Il Surrealismo Italiano. Roma: Bulzoni, 1983

Tozzi in America. Roma: Bulzoni, 1986

La Parola Aleatoria. Firenze: Ed. Le Lettere, 1992

Il filo verde di Ugo Betti. Camerino: Ed. Mierma, 1993

Storia di Bontempelli. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1997

La Parola Transfuga: Scrittori Italiani Espatriati in America.  Firenze: Cadmo, 2003

I racconti di Murano di Italo Svevo, Roma: Empiria, 2004

Pasolini rilegge Pasolini, Milano: Archinto-Rizzoli, 2005

Giuseppe Berto: Trent'anni dopo, Venezia: Marsilio, 2009

Sovrappensieri di Giuseppe Berto, Torino: Aragno, 2010

Migrating Words. Italian Writers In the Unites States, New York: Bordighera Press, 20012

Paolo Volponi.L'inedito di New York, Torino: Aragno Editore, 2012

Poetry

Simulazione di reato. Manduria: Lacaita, 1979

Stella Saturnina. Roma: Ed. Il Ventaglio, 1989

Round Trip. Udine: Campanotto, 1991 (Ragusa Prize, 1993)

Ceres. Formia: Caramanica Editore, 1996 (Orazio Caputo Prize, 1998)

Terra del Tempo. Bologna: Book Editore, 2000 (Circe Sabaudia Prize, Minturnae Prize, S.Andrea Prize)

Angels of Youth. Riverside, Calif.: Xenos Books, 2001 (Transl. into English by C.Lettieri and I. Marchegiani Jones)

Azul.  Milano: Archinto Ed., 2001.

Land of Time, Edited by Irene Marchegiani, New York: Chelsea Editions, 2006

L'azzurra memoria, Bergamo: Moretti & Vitali, 2007 (Città di Marineo Prize, Laurentum Prize

Oblivion, Milano: Archinto, 2008

Bertgang, Bergamo: Moretti & Vitali, 2012 (Prata Prize, I Murazzi Prize)

Disunita Ombra, Milano: Archinto, 2013

Fiction

Milestone e altre storie (Siena-Roma: Il Messapo, 1983

Hot Dog, Roma: Bulzoni, 1986

Controfigura, Venezia: Marsilio, 2009