Linguistic Futures

Linguistic Futures

Event time: 
Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - 5:30pm
Location: 
HQ 132 See map
320 York St
New Haven, CT
Event description: 

The Memoria Presente Digital Archive: The Common Spanish Legacy in Italian and Latin American Cultures

 

Teresa Fiore holds the Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, and serves as Full Professor in the Italian Program, Department of World Languages and Cultures.
The recipient of several fellowships (De Bosis, Rockefeller and Fulbright), Fiore has held Visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, NYU, and Rutgers University. Her pluri-awarded book Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies (Fordham UP, 2017, and Mondadori/Le Monnier, 2021 in Italian). Fiore is also the co-editor of the section “Italy and the Euro-Mediterranean ‘Migrant Crisis’” in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies (2018). Her numerous articles on migration to/from Italy and (post-)colonialism linked to 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature, theater, music and cinema have appeared in Italian, English, and Spanish both in journals and edited collections, including Postcolonial Italy (2012), The Routledge History of Italian Americans (2017), and Transnational Italian Studies (2020). She is currently working on a research project initially supported by the NEH: Memoria presente: The Common Spanish Legacy in Italian and Latin American Cultures.” She directs a program of interdisciplinary events about Italian culture in a transnational perspective (montclair.edu/inserra-chair).

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