Italian Program

Faculty:

Hermann W. Haller is Professor of Italian at Queens College and at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Bern, after studying Romance Philology, Italian and French language and literature at the Universities of Bern, Florence, Paris. He is the author of Der deiktische Gebrauch des Demonstrativums im Altitalienischen (1973), Il Panfilo veneziano. Edizione critica con introduzione e glossario (1982), The Hidden Italy. A Bilingual Edition of Italian Dialect Poetry (1986), Una lingua perduta e ritrovata: l'italiano degli italo-americani (1993), The Other Italy: the literary canon in dialect (1999), La Festa delle Lingue. La Letteratura dialettale in Italia (2002), and of more than seventy articles and reviews. His research interests are mainly in Italian linguistics, the relations between language and literature, Italian dialect literature. He was a NEH fellow (1994-95), and received the International Dino Campana Award (1990) and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione MLA Publication Award (1998). He was elected in 2006 as a Member of the Accademia della Crusca (Socio Corrispondente Straniero).

Peter Carravetta is Professor of Italian at Queens College and on the Doctoral Faculty in the Comparative Literature Program at the CUNY/Graduate Center. He received his BA and MA from CCNY and PhD from New York University. He has written Prefaces to the Diaphora. Rhetorics, Allegory and the Interpretation of Postmodernity (Purdue UP 1991) and Il Fantasma di Hermes. Saggio su metodo, retorica, interpretare (Milella 1996). He is the founder of the journal DIFFERENTIA review of Italian thought (9 issues, 1986-1999), and author of six books of poetry. He has translated Gianni Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti, Weak Thought (forthcoming), won a Fulbright to Rome in 1991; he has authored over seventy articles and read over one hundred papers in a variety of contexts, most notably the avant-gardes and postmodernity, Literature and History, Methods and Theories of Interpretation, Colonialism, World Studies, Marginal Literatures.

Eugenia Paulicelli holds a Laurea in English and Literary Semiotics from the University of Bari, Italy and a PhD in Italian from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Queens College and is a member of the Doctoral Faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature as well as Women's Studies at the Cuny Graduate Center. She is author of Parola e imagine. Sentieri della scrittura in Leonardo, Marino, Foscolo, Calvino (Florence:1996), a collection of poems entitled Dimore (Dwellings), (Ragusa:1996), and co-author with Augusto Ponzio and Mariagrazia Tundo of Lo spreco dei significanti. L’eros, la morte, la scrittura (Bari:1983) as well as articles on literary semiotics, fashion theory and cultural studies, feminism and Italian novelist and poets.

Her latest book Fashion under Fascism. Beyond the Black Shirt was published by Berg in 2004.

Her current research is into identities and ethnicity and cultural spaces focusing on the study of fashion and dress. She is the editor of Moda e Moderno to be published by Meltemi in Rome in 2006. She is completing work on a book-length study entitled Dressing and Undressing the Public Self in Sixteenth Century Italy.

In addition, she is co-curator with Amy Winter of the upcoming exhibition "Couture and Cultures: Fashioning Identity" to be held at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College in spring 2006. She is the co-founder and coordinator of the Fashion Studies Forum, housed at the Cuny Graduate Center.

She teaches courses on Italian and European Cinema. Her interdisciplinary courses on literature and history, gender, nationalism, fashion and identity, draw on literature, critical theory and film.

Karina Attar is Assistant Professor of Italian; Ph.D. Columbia University, 2005.

Part-time faculty:

• Angelo Dicuonzo, 997-5983/5984; office: King 109
• Paul Ponessa, 997-5983/5984; office: King 109
• Rosetta Urgo, 997-5983/5984; office: King 109
• Monica Hanna, 997-5983/5984; office: King 109
• Rita Pasqui, 997-5983/5984; office: King 109