Anthony Julian Tamburri
Associate Dean for Research,
Graduate and Interdisciplinary Programs Director, Ph.D. in Comparative Studies Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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Anthony Julian Tamburri |
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| Areas of Expertise | Graduate Courses: |
| 19th and 20th Century Italian Literature | Theories and Developments of "Narrative" Fiction |
| Italian /America studies (literature & cinema) | Studies
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| Modernism/Postmodernism/the Avant-Gardes | Italy's Dynamic Duo: Fictional Writings of Italo |
| Comparative Literature |
Calvino and Umberto Eco |
| Literary Theory | The Academic Novel & Film |
| Semiotics | Modern and Contemporary Italian Fiction |
| Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry | |
| Italian/American Literature and Film | |
| Undergraduate Courses: | |
| Italian language courses: all levels | |
| Italian Literature courses | |
| Italian Cinema and Culture | |
| Italian/American Literature & Film |
| Professor Tamburri's books and recent essays include: Of "Saltimbanchi" and "Incendiari": Aldo Palazzeschi and Avant-Gardism in Italy (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990); To Hyphenate or not to Hyphenate: the Italian/American Writer: Or,An "Other" American? (Guernica Editions, 1991); Per una lettura retrospettiva. Prose giovanili di Aldo Palazzeschi (Gradiva Publications, 1994); A Reconsideration of Aldo Palazzeschi's Poetry (1905-1974): Revisiting the "Saltimbanco" (Mellen Press, 1998); A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognition of the Italian/American Writer (SUNY Press, 1998); A Semiotic of Re-reading: Italo Calvino's "Snow Job" (Chancery Press, 1999); Italian/American Briefs: A Semiotic Reading of Short Films & Videos (Purdue UP 2002); and Una semiotica della ri-lettura: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, e Italo Calvino (Franco Cesati Editore, 2003), also available in English as Semiotics of Re-reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, and Italo Calvino . ( Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003). With Paolo A. Giordano and Fred L. Gardaphé, he has edited From The Margin: Writings in Italian Americana (1991; revised ed., 2000); with Anna Camaiti Hostert, Scene italoamericane: rappresentazioni cinematografiche degli italiani d'America . (Sossella Editore, 2001), also available in English as Screening Ethnicity: Cinematographic Representations of Italian Americans in the United States (Bordighera Press, 2002). Recent essays include: "Abitare in limine : Per dove parte questo treno [mica tanto] allegro di Sandro Veronesi" Esperienze letterarie (forthcoming 2005); "Uno scrittore ciociaro-irlandese." La Ciociaria tra scrittori e cineasti. Ed., Franco Zangrilli. Pesaro: Metauro: 2004. 311-22; "Beyond "Pizza" And "Nonna"! Or, What's Bad about Italian/American Criticism? Further Directions for Italian/American Cultural Studies." MELUS . 28.3 (2003): 149-74; "Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete : An Italian/American Novel Not Set in Stone: LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 14.1 (2003): 3-16; "Early Italian/American Fiction: Getting Our Languages Straight." Voices in Italian Americana 13.1 (2002): 142-5; "Italian/American Critical Discourse: Studies for the New Millennium with A Little Help from Our Friends!" Altreitalie . 20.1 (2001): 23-42. |
| Awards and grants include: Distinguished Alumnus for the Year 2000. Southern Connecticut State University; Sonia Raiziss-Giop Foundation; Certificate of Appreciation for Distinguished Contribution to the National Defense; National Italian American Foundation; Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli. |
 tamburri@fau.edu |
| Curriculum vitae (pdf file) |
| Bordighera Press |
| http://www.language.fau.edu/tamburri/ |
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