Elizabeth Zanoni is Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and the 2015/2016 Culinaria Research Project Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at University of Toronto Scarborough. She is interested in the history of international migration, gender, and consumption, and the interdisciplinary fields of food and mobility…Continue Reading Migrant Marketplaces: Consuming Italian Ethnic Identities, 1880-1940
Dancing on the Hyphen, Trying Not to Fall Off: Narrating and Consuming Italian American Identities
[gview file=”https://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/files/2016/02/22112015.pptx” height=”400px” width=”600px” save=”0″] Anthony Julian Tamburri is the Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and Distinguished Professor of European Languges and Literatures. His research interests lie in literature, cinema, semiotics, interpretation theory, and cultural studies. He has divided his intellectual work evenly between Italian and Italian/American studies,…Continue Reading Dancing on the Hyphen, Trying Not to Fall Off: Narrating and Consuming Italian American Identities
Identity and subjectivity in Italian migrations
[gview file=”https://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/files/2016/01/Venice-Identity-x-video.ppt” height=”400px” width=”600px” save=”0″] Maddalena Tirabassi, Fulbright, is the Director of the Altreitalie Center on Italian Migration, Globus et Locus and editor of the journal Altreitalie. She is vice-president of AEMI (European Migration Institutions); she is in the advisory Board of the MEI (National Italian Museum on Emigration, Foreign Affaire Ministry), and past consultant…Continue Reading Identity and subjectivity in Italian migrations
Migrations of Memories: Visuality and Subjectivity in Historical Perspective
Liliana Ellena is Research Associate at the European University Institute in Fiesole (Italy) as part of the ERC Research Project “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond“. She has been Research Fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen (Germany) and more recently has taught cultural history and women’s and gender history at…Continue Reading Migrations of Memories: Visuality and Subjectivity in Historical Perspective
Tutto il mondo è paese : researching subjectivities from Italy in Global Historical Perspective
Donna R Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. From 2005-2012 she directed the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is author of many books and articles on transnational gender, class, and labor (From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the United States, Indiana University…Continue Reading Tutto il mondo è paese : researching subjectivities from Italy in Global Historical Perspective
Detours to the Self: How to Run Away from your Subjectivity and Find It at Your Doorstep
Shaul Bassi is associate professor of English language and literature. He graduated from the University of Venice, studied at Berkeley and Liverpool, and earned his Ph.D. from the Universities of Pisa and Florence. He was assistant professor of English at Ca’Foscari (2000-2007). His research, teaching and publications are divided between Shakespeare, postcolonial theory and literature…Continue Reading Detours to the Self: How to Run Away from your Subjectivity and Find It at Your Doorstep