Alumni
Agostini, Caterina
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Current position at the University of Notre Dame, Caterina is the Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, and The Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society. She will be teaching and working on the edition of early modern scientific texts, The Harriot Papers, a project based at Notre Dame, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the Cambridge University Library to document the mathematical and scientific work of early modern polymath Thomas Harriot. The grant is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Caterina Agostini was The Edison Papers’ Postdoctoral Associate, and Princeton's Center for Digital Humanities Project Manager. Recent publications: medical humanities (http://digital.casalini.it/10.19272/202111802008), Benvenuto Cellini (https://ideah.pubpub.org/pub/rcyaqntb/release/3), maps and digital humanities (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3486187.3490207). Invited speaker: Alberto Institute, Fundação Getulio Vargas, University of Göttingen.
Visit Caterina's exhibit "Currency, Culture, and the D’Argenio Collection" at Seton Hall University.
Fognani, Arianna
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Arianna Fognani is Assistant Professor of Italian at Coastal Carolina University where she teaches language and culture courses. She is the coordinator of the Italian program and faculty leader for the Maymester program in Tuscany. Her most recent work is a co-authored blog entry titled “Teaching Italian Language within a Transnational Framework: Mahmood's "Soldi" in the elementary Italian classroom” commissioned by the Transnational Italian Studies Working Group.
Guiati, Andrea
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Ph.D, Rutgers University (1992), M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton (1983) B.A., University of Scranton (1981). Distinguished Teaching Professor (2009-pres), Director Muriel A. Howard Honors Program (1999-2017), Coordinator Italian Section (1999-pres.). Director Siena Program (1991-1993). Director Trois-Pistoles, Québec, CA, Summer Program (1994 & 1995). He teaches Italian and French Languages, Culture, Literature, Cinema, and Humanities courses. His publications: Dante Alighieri, Galileo Galilei, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Marino Moretti, Alessandro Bonsanti, Grazia Deledda, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giorgio Bassani, Rodolfo Doni, Vittorio De Sica, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Bob Dylan, Global Humanities, Film Studies. Italian Culture & Civilization appeared in Xenia, La Fiera Letteraria, La Fusta, Italian Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Italian Studies, Il Cristallo, Italian Culture, Italica, Ramance Language Annual, Italica, Mosaico, European Scientific Journal, The Nobel Prize in the Literature of the World, Dentro e fuori, le avanguardie, Letteratura e storia, storia in letteratura. Poems and short stories appeared in https://gattogenova.blogspot.com/, Xenia, Salpare, C'era una volta, Newsletter International, The Catalyst, Il Pasquino, Antología Poetica and other anthologies. His latest book Itinerari del 900, Scrittori Singolari, was published in 2021.
Miceli Jeffries, Giovanna
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Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1983, Emerita U. of Wisconsin Madison.
Her latest books are collections of short stories: Mondo nuovo (in Italian, 2022, Rubbettino.it, available also in Ebook) and Bitter Trades (2018, Legas).
Giovanna Miceli Jeffries was born in Ribera (Ag) and emigrated with her family to Canada when she was 18 and later to the United States. She is an Emerita from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a Master and Ph.D. in Italian Language and Literature from Rutgers University. She has authored books, book-chapters and numerous articles on contemporary Italian literature, culture and Italian women writing in a wide range of topics on authors such as Svevo, Vittorini, Volponi, Buzzati, Primo Levi, Gianna Manzini, Sibilla Aleramo, Clara Sereni, ecc. She is the editor of Feminine Feminists; Cultural Practices in Italy (U. Minnesota Press, 1994). In addition to authoring two book chapters on Sereni’s work, she co-translated with Susan Briziarelli Sereni’s novel Casalinghitudine [Keeping House, a Novel in Recipes, SUNY Press, 2005]. Her last publications include, Darwinismo, Machiavellismo e ‘Capitalist Creative Destruction’ nella rappresentazione del lavoro e degli affari in Svevo (Annali d’Italianistica, 2014); Bitter Trades. A Memoir (Legas, 2018), and Mondo Nuovo (Rubbettino, 2022). A selection of stories included in Mondo nuovo was awarded the second prize of the Premio Letterario Nazionale Clara Sereni 2020.
Waters Bredin, Sandra
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I’m currently translating Porpora Marcasciano’s AntoloGaia with Francesco Pascuzzi (Rutgers UP, 2023), with whom I co-edited The Spaces and Places of Horror (Vernon Press, 2020). My previous publications on Italian cinema and literature have appeared in academic journals (JICMS, Forum Italicum) and collections of essays (with Fairleigh Dickinson UP, Palgrave Macmillan).
With Alessandro Vettori and Eilis Kierans, I co-edit Other Voices of Italy, a series of Italian texts translated into English for Rutgers University Press. I also enjoy working with Alessandro, Eilis, and Paolo Scartoni as the managing editor of Italian Quarterly.