AAIS '98
Thursday, April 2

1:00 -2:15

1. Italian Influences on Other Literatures 

Minuet

Organizer and Chair: Carla E. Lucente, Duquesne University

Gloria Lauri-Lucente, University of Michigan - "Absence and Desire in Petrarch 
and Shakespeare"

Nicoletta Pireddu, University of Houston - "Da Pescara a Dublino: paralisi e 
rigenerazione in D'Annunzio e Joyce"

Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University - "Calvino's invisible cities and 
Pynchon's Evident Wilderness: Charting the Borders of Literature from Polo and
Kublai Khan to Mason and Dixon"

2. The Homoerotic Imagination in Middle Ages and Renaissance 

Operetta 

Organizer and Chair: Michael Sherberg, Washington University St. Louis

Gary P. Cestaro, De Paul University - "Love Among Men in Trecento Perugia"

Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University - "Homoeroticism and Orientalism in the 
Early Italian Epic"

Margaret A Gallucci, University of Michigan - "Sexuality and Subjectivity in the 
Renaissance: The Case of Cellini"

Rosalind Kerr, University of Alberta - "The Lettere of Isabella Andreini: 
Performing the Language of Homoerotic Desire"

3. The Returns of History: The Politics of Memory in the 90's 

Duet I

Organizer and Chair: Giuliana Minghelli, Harvard University


Alan R. Perry, University of Wisconsin - "Commemorative Biography and the 
Sacralization of Resistance Memory: The Holy Partisan-Martyr and the Rhetoric of
Sacrifice" 

Peter Sarram, Northwestern University - "Technologies of Memory: Cinema and the 
Writing of History in Recent Italian Film"

Giancarlo Lombardi, Smith College - "Spiderwebs, Stolen Briefcases, and Rotten 
Tangerines: The Many Fictions of the Moro Affair"

4. Travel Literature to 1700 

Solo

Organizer: Luigi Monga, Vanderbilt University
Chair: Theodore Cachey - University of Notre Dame

Luigi Monga, Vanderbilt University - "La donna e i viaggiatori del Cinquecento"

Nathalie C. Hester, University of Chicago - " Travelling Cadavers in Pietro della 
Valle's Viaggi"

Patrizio Rossi, University of California at Santa Barbara - "I gesuiti in Cina 
nel Seicento"

5. Scrittura e riflessione teorica nell'epica cinquecentesca 

Duet II

Organizer and Chair: Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University

Massimo Scalabrini, Princeton University - "Un'allegoria del macaronico 
folenghiano (Baldus, IX 1-373)"

Adelaide Basile, Rutgers University - "Astolfo, o della creativita"

Lori J. Ultsch, University of California, Berkeley - "Discourse Unbecoming: 
Reconciling Erminia and Epic Form"

Roberta Ricci, Johns Hopkins University - "Compiacimento e censura: le lettere 
poetiche di Tasso alla Gerusalemme Liberata (1575-6)"


2:30-3:45

6. La via dei simboli: Jung e la letteratura italiana 

Solo

Organizer: Massimo Maggiari, College of Charleston
Chair: Kathleen Argylan, Loyola University Chicago

Arielle Saiber, Yale University "Mandalic Patterns in Giordano Bruno"

Massimo Maggiari, College of Charleston - "Esperienza metafisica ed inconscio 
nella poesia di Arturo Onofri"

7. Tendenze realistiche e tendenze fantastiche -prosa del '900 

Operetta

Organizer and Chair: Giovanna Fogli, Michigan State University.

Enrico Cesaretti, Wake Forest University - "Il 'nomade costruttore': Alberto 
Savinio"

Paola Moscarelli, UCLA - "Viaggi metafisici di bambini ribelli"

Francesca Parmeggiani, Fordham University - "Guido Morselli e la scrittura della 
'contro- realta'"

8. Literary Represantations of Sicily I 

Duet I

Organizer and Chair: Mark Chu, University College Cork, Ireland

Susanna Spaziani-Testa, Connecticut College - "La Sicilia di Tomasi di Lampedusa: 
tra il vecchio ed il nuovo in un percorso di Morte"

Paolo Villa, Indiana University - "Leonardo Sciascia: siciliani e continentali"

Concettina Pizzuti, Northwestern University. "Visioni contemporanee della Sicilia 
del passato: Tomasi di Lampedusa e Sciascia"

9. War: An Ex-centric Perspective 

Minuet

Organizer: Stefania Nedderman, Gonzaga University
Chair: Norma Bouchard, University Of Puerto Rico

Barbara Zaczak, Clemson University - "Resisiting War Accounts in Giampaolo 
Pansa's I nostri giorni proibiti"

Stefania Nedderman, Gonzaga University - "Epic and Banality in Luce D'Erasmo's 
Deviazione"

Lucienne Kroha, McGill University - "World War I and the Crisis of Masculinity: 
G.A. Borgese's Rube"

10. Heroines in the Italian 19th Century Novels 

Duet II

Organizer and Chair: Maria Adelaide Basile, Rutgers University

Cinzia Di Giulio, Wesleyan University - "Arabella o dell'Antiprovvidenza"

Susan Amatangelo, Harvard University - "The Adolescent Heroine in the Novels of 
Giovanni Verga"

Sergio Ferrarese, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - "Sacro e profano 
ne La Vergine Orsola di Gabriele D'Annunzio"

Annamaria Pagliaro, Monash University - "Phenomenology of love: Constructing the 
Male and Female Characters in Federico de Roberto's Illusione and
Ermanno Raeli"

4:00-5:15

11. Venice as Image in the Arts & Literature

Duet I

Organizer and Chair, Susana Cavallo, Loyola University Chicago

Angel Aguirre, Inter American University of Puerto Rico- "La civilta veneziana 
del Rinascimento"

Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University- "Venezia nel romanzo latino 
americano dell'ottocento"

Susana Cavallo, Loyola University Chicago - "Crossing the Waters: A Study of 
Rosario Ferre's Las Dos Venecias"

12. The Novella Tradition in the Renaissance

Operetta
Organizers: Olga Pugliese, University of Toronto and Christopher Nissen, Northern 
Illinois University
Chair: Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, Florida Atlantic University

Nancy L. D'Antuono, Saint Mary's College of Notre Dame - "Beyond the Frontier: 
Italian Novellieri and Spanish Golden Age in Comedy"

Nicole Prunster, Latrobe University - "The Sense of Place in the Variants of the 
Romeo and Juliet Story"


Christopher Nissen, Northern Illinois University - "A Female Voice for the 
Italian Renaissance Novella"

Thomas Mussio, Fairfield University - "Bandello's Dedicatory Letters: Rereading 
Boccaccio"

13. Alba de Cespedes: Letteratura e scrittura

Marquette Center 402 (Loyola Water Tower Campus)

Organizer and Chair: Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey

Paola Blelloch, The College of New Jersey - "La scrittura come conoscenza di se: 
Il Diario segreto di Alba de Cespedes"

Carole Gallucci, College of William and Mary - "Alba de Cespedes's Io, suo padre: 
Father, Son and Fascism"

Dana Crudup, New York University - "Predilected Space and Subjectivity in Alba de 
Cespedes's Dalla parte di lei"

14. Word and Image I: Male Words/Female Images in Literary Discourse

Marquette Center 404 (Loyola Water Tower Campus)

Organizer and Chair: Franco Ricci

Paul Ferrara, Hofstra University - "Chisel and brush in the Ortis" 

Beno Weiss, Pennsylvania State University - "Pathetic and Chromatic Phallacies in 
Svevo's Novels"

Allison A. Cooper, UCLA - "Laughter and Carnival: The Character of Angiolina in 
Svevo's Senilita "

Amy Rowden, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana - " The Power of the Pen: 
Duse vs. D'Annunzio"

15. The Arts of Crime in Italian Literature and Film

Marquette Center 408 (Loyola Water Tower Campus)

Organizer and Chair: Robin Pickering -Iazzi, University Of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Federica Pedriali, University of Edinburg - "'Gli occhi del Lazio,' Spatial 
Mimesis and Private Geography in Gadda's Quer pasticciaccio brutto de Via 
Merulana"

Ada Testaferri, York University - "Scritture e riscritture in Voci"


16. La guerra civile nella narrativa italiana

Marquette Center 422 (Loyola Water Tower Campus)

Organizer: Luca Bufano
Chair: Pier Raimondo Baldini, Arizona State University

Piero Garofalo, Trinity College - "Narrative and Resistence: Uomini e no and 
Representations of Civil War"

Marilena Santuccio, University of Connecticut - "Bassani e Vancini. Una notte del 
'43 dal racconto al film"

Luca Bufano, University of Connecticut - "Beppe Fenoglio e il racconto di guerra"


17.New Perspectives on Dante: Questions of Influence
Sponsored by the Dante Society of America

Duet II

Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Sergio Corsi Loyola UniversityChicago

Christopher Muskopf, Miami University - "Architectural Structure and Dante's 
Celestial Rose Image"

Fabian Alfie, University of Arizona - "Dante and the Comic Style"

Santa Casciani, Pennsylvania State University - "Fifteenth-Century Mariology: 
Dante and the Franciscans"

18. Donne rinascimentali

Solo

Organizer and Chair: Veena Kumar-Carlson, Dominican University

Allison Cornish, University of Michigan - "Il secolo femminile"

Janet Smarr, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana - "A Dialogue of Dialogues: 
Tullia D'Aragona and Sperone Speroni"

Paola Malpezzi Price, Colorado State University - "Growing Up Female and Literate 
in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Moderata Fonte"

5:30 - 6:45

19. Poesia Italiana Contemporanea

Duet I

Organizer: Luigi Fontanella, SUNY-Stony Brook
Chair: Margherita Pieracci-Harwell, University of Illinois at Chicago

Barbara Carle, University of North Texas - "Su Patmos di Rodolfo Di Biasio"

Catherine O'Brien, University College Cork, Ireland - "Changing Colours in the 
Poetry of Maura Del Serra"

Annelise Brody, The Johns Hopkins University - "The Normalization of Paradox in 
Luciano Erba's Poetry"

20. Voice and Discourse in Italian Women Writers I

Marquette Center 402 (Loyola Water Tower Campus)

Organizer and Chair: Mario Aste, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Daniela Cavallaro, University of Auckland - "Drammaturghe italiane degli anni 
'50"

Maria Teresa Maenza, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana - "Sibilla Aleramo: 
'modernita' e il nuovo ruolo della maternita in Una donna"

Mario Aste, University of Massachusetts Lowell- "Characterization of Women and 
Women's Voices in Grazia Deledda"

21. Before/Beyond Il nome della rosa: Retelling in Middle Ages.

Operetta

Organizer: Gloria Allaire, Purdue University
Chair: Colleen M. Ryan, Purdue University

Barbara de Marco, Managing Editor, Romance Philology - "Orlando in Sicily: 
Bonaviri's Puppet on the Cross.

Gloria Allaire, Purdue University - "Guerrino in Sicily: Bufalino's Homage to 
Popular Romance and Puppet Theater"

Regina Psaki, University of Oregon - "Mancinelli's Middle Ages and the 
Non-historical Novel"

22. Letteratura dell'emigrazione in Italia oggi

Duet II

Organizer and Chair: Andrea Ciccarelli, Indiana University

Serena Anderlini D'Onofrio, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez - "Italian 
American Women Writers: Narrative, Trajectories, Transformation"

Sheryl Postman, University of Massachusetts - "The (C)overt World of Giose 
Rimanelli in Il tempo nascosto tra le righe"

Alessandra Di Maio, University of Massachussets, Amherst - "Immigrato : i 
'Wanderjahare' italiani di Salah Methnani"

Emilio Lomonaco, Indiana University - "Il Diario di Dracula di Marin Mincu"

23. Renaissance Studies I

Solo

Organizer: Olivia Holmes, Yale University
Chair: Arielle Saiber, Yale University

Sherry Roush, Yale University - "Lorenzo de' Medici's Comento: Autobiography or 
Commentary?"

James Ward, University of Nevada - "Machiavelli and Rhetoric: Reading the Prince 
Ambiguously"

Paul Colilli, Laurentian University - "Philosophy as an Occult Kind of Ascesis 
(or, Renaissance Hermeticism and Posterity)"

Cristina Perissinoto, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - "La felicita 
nella Citta del sole: un'analisi lessicale"

24. La scrittura e l'impegno nell'eta postmoderna

Marquette Center 408 (Loyola Water Tower Campus)

Organizer: Stefania Lucamante, Georgetown University
Chair: Roberto Severino, Georgetown University

Angela Jeannet, Franklin and Marshall College - "Contro la morte: voci in Antonio 
Tabucchi"
.
Myriam Ruthenberg, Florida Atlantic University - "Kohelet/Ecclesiaste: Erri De 
Luca's Wasteland of Writing"
.
Franco Manai, The University of Auckland - "Discorso ideologico, tecnica dello 
straniamento e piacere del narrare nei gialli di Loriano Macchiavelli"

Giovanna Miceli-Jeffries, University of Wisonsin-Madison - "Settanta, ottanta, 
novanta: evoluzione e articolazione dell'impegno nella scrittura di Clara Sereni"

25. From the Resistance to the Reconstruction...

Marquette Center 422 (Loyola Water Tower Campus)

Organizer and Chair: Vincenzo Binetti, University of Chicago

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fordham University - "Screening Memory: Film and the Fascist Past 
in Italy, 1945-50"

Cesare Vespignani, University of Oregon - "Calvino, Fenoglio, la Resistenza e la 
memoria"

Catherine Ramsey Portolan, University of Chicago - ""Il mito dell'America in 
Americana."


8:00 

26. Poesaggio '98 - Poetry Reading . Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Suite 1450, 
500 N. Michigan Ave. 
Organizer: Maurizio Godorecci, University of Alabama 
Welcome by Lidia Ramogida, Direttor



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