In the Spotlight
Loredana Polezzi, Alfonse M. D’Amato Endowed Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies.
Loredana Polezzi joined Stony Brook as Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies in September 2020. She studied in Italy, at the University of Siena, and in the UK, where she obtained her MA and PhD at the University of Warwick and where she worked, first at Warwick and then at Cardiff University. She has written on contemporary Italian travel writing, colonial and postcolonial literature, migrant and diasporic cultures, translingualism and self-translation. She is one of the founding editors of the ‘Transnational Modern Languages’ book series, published by Liverpool University Press, and co-editor of Transnational Italian Studies (2020) and Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation (forthcoming).
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Loredana Polezzi to Stony Brook University and the Center for Italian Studies.
Latest News
Dear Friends,
Please find a listing of some of our Spring 2022 events below, and note that all past recorded events can be found on The Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook's YouTube Channel. _______________________________
From Renaissance letters to Digital Communities: Research and Methods in Digital Humanities
In collaboration with the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Writing Brick by Brick: Remembering Pietro Di Donato
Join us online to commemorate Pietro Di Donato and his work, 30 years after his death, and to celebrate the launch of the short film ‘Six Objects: Notes toward a film on Pietro Di Donato’
Clik here to wach the Short film
Click here to download the program.
More details available on our calendar
Grazie e a presto!
In Memoriam
Remembering Dr. Mario B. Mignone
Among the developments that resulted as we confronted the Covid 19 Crisis has been our having to postpone the formal memorial conference that was planned to honor the legacy and appropriately recognize Dr. Mignone's achievements as Distinguished Service Professor at the University and Director of the Center for Italian Studies which he founded in 1985. As we want to be sure that all of Mario's friends and colleagues have the possibility to participate in person. this memorial event is being planned to take place in September 2022.
In the meantime, to recognize the anniversary of his passing and to reflect with you on how he continues to be fondly recalled and thought of, we have posted the remarks that were spoken at his funeral service by his son in law, Daniel Salzman, and his daughter, Elizabeth Mignone Jakic. We've also included compositions written by his grandchildren, Luca Jakic and Isabella Armato, as submissions in an OSIA Italian Heritage Essay Contest which particularly reference and extol the life and achievements of their "nonno".
