AAIS '98 Program
Sunday, April 5

8:30 - 9:45

103. Women's Places and Spaces in Literature and Film II

Ballroom A

Organizer: Silvia Ross, University Colege Cork, Ireland
Chair: Catherine O'Brien, University College Cork, Ireland

Patrizia Bettella, University of Alberta - "Spaces and Places in the Construction 
of Feminine Otherness in Fosca and Passione d'amore" 

Robin Pickering-Iazzi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - "Meticcia Drag and 
Colonial Borders in Sotto la croce del sud"

Silvia Ross, University College Cork, Ireland - "The Construction of Space in 
Gianna Manzini"

104. Word and Image II: Stories that Draw Pictures/Pictures that Tell Stories

Ballroom B

Organizer and Chair: Franco Ricci University of Ottawa

Laurence Simmons University of Auckland - "'Ch'assai t'intendo': The Narrative of 
Seduction and the Seduction of Narrative in an Early Fourteenth-Century
Fresco" 

Laura Benedetti, Harvard University - "'Vedranno chi e Artemisia': immagini di 
una pittrice"

Clara Orban, De Paul University - "Between Pictures and Stories: Carra's 
Manifestazione interventista"

105. Giacomo Leopardi: 1798-1998

Duet I

Organizer: Irene Marchegiani Jones, California State University, Long Beach
Chair: Alessandro Carrera, New York University

Moira Di Mauro-Jackson, Southwest Texas State University - "Tre poeti romantici e 
tre visioni diverse sulla funzione della poesia"

Irene Marchegiani Jones, California State University, Long Beach - "Leopardi: il 
viaggio, il tempo, lo spazio"

Kristin Ellis Solomon, Yale University - "Leopardi and Quantum Physics: 
Transcending Traditional Scientific Reason"

Margherita Heyer-Caput UC Davis- "Veggo un Leopardi fritto .. ."

106. 20th Century Italian Literature and Culture I

Ballroom C

Organizer: AAIS
Chair: Tonia Riviello, Santa Clara University

Teresa Picarazzi, University of Arizona - "'Il pozzo buio' di Natalia Ginzburg"

Giuliana Fazzion, James Madison University - "Lo scrittore Giulio Andreotti e il 
successo della serie dei 'visti da vicino'"

107. The Language and Literature of Emigration

Operetta

Organizer and Chair: Paolo Giordano, Loyola University Chicago

Tony Pagliaro, Latrobe University - "Epstolary Communication: Giorgio Cheda's 
L'emigrazione ticinese in California and L'emigrazione ticinese in
Australia"

Maria Predelli, McGill University - "Piccone e poesia: La cultura dell'ottava nel 
poema d'emigrazione di un contadino lucchese"

Valerio Ferme, University of California, Berkeley - "Go West, Imagination": The 
Italian Myth of America in the Fascist 1920's"

Hermann Haller, Queen's College/CUNY - "Tra gioco linguistico e mimesi dela 
realta parlata nell'emigrazione: le macchiette italoamericane"

108. Italia e Francia medievali

Solo

Organizer: David Beneteau, University of Delaware
Chair: David Posner, Loyola University Chicago

David Beneteau, Seton Hall University - "Il mercante come protagonista culturale"

Roberta Morosini, McGill University - "Marie de France e Boccaccio"

109. 16th Century Literature

Minuet

Organizer: Sergio Corsi, Loyola University Chicago
Chair: Albert Mancini, Ohio State University

Mario D'Alessandro, University of Toronto - "Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and the 
Emergence of the New Heroic Ideal"

Mauda Bregoli-Russo, University of Illinois-Chicago - "Torquato Tasso e i 
dialoghi sulle Imprese"

Maria Smith, University of North Carolina-"Passing the Buck at the Court of 
Urbino"

110. In/Visibility in the Italian Imaginary

Duet II

Organizer and Chair: Sante Matteo, Miami University of Ohio

Rossana Fenu Barbera, Johns Hopkins University - "La donna che cammina nella 
poesia italiana del '900: Un modello di liberta nella tradizione letteraria" 

Peter N. Pedroni, Miami University - "To See or Not to See in Pirandello's Enrico 
IV" 

Maria Silvia Riccio, independent scholar, Knoxville, TN - "Diversita e 
integrazione nel cinema italiano di fine millennio" 

Peter Carravetta, CUNY/Queens College - "The Great Exodus and the Historians' 
Silence"

10:00 - 11:15

111. Cristina Campo: poesia e saggi

Duet I

Organizer: Anna Botta, Smith College.
Chair: Anna camaiti-Hostert, University of Illinois at Chicago

Margherita Pieracci Harwell, University of Illinois - Chicago - "Cristina Campo e 
Simone Weil"

Monica Farnetti, Universita di Firenze - "Cristina Campo: La teologia della 
bellezza" 

Anna Botta, Smith College - "Cristina Campo and Emily Dickinson: The Quest for a 
Sublime Whose Location is Illocality"

112. Parola, gesto, suono e immagine: incontri 'emblematici' della lettertura con 
le altre arti

Ballroom A

Organizer and Chair: Francesca Savoia, University of Pittsburgh

Stefania Ferrarese, University of Pittsburgh - "La 'mutola facondia' e 
l''eloquente silenzio: note su La Galeria di Gian Battista Marino"

Ted Emery, Dickinson College - "D'Annunzio as Librettist: Rewriting La figlia di 
Iorio"

Clare Godt, University of Pittsburgh - "Challenging the Practiced Eye: Manzoni 
and the Theoreticians of Landscape Depiction"

113. Dialect Poetry in Southern Italy: una nuova antologia

Duet II

Organizer: Maria Ponce de Leon, Temple University Rome
Chair: Luigi Bonaffini, Brooklyn College

Gaetano Cipolla, St. John's University - "The Emergence of Dialect Poetry in the 
South"

Giose Rimanelli, SUNY/Albany - "'Rurale' e "cittadino' sia al nord sia al sud 
nella poesia dialettale: Giancarlo Consonni lombardo e Giuseppe Jovine
molisano"

Luigi Reina, L'Universita di Salerno - "La poesia dialettale meridionale 
italiana: un capitolo della letteratura europea del novecento"

114. Femininity under Fascism

Ballroom B

Organizer and Chair: Virginia Picchietti, University of Scranton

Cristina Lombardi-Diop, New York University - "Fascism, Colonialism, and War in 
Annie Vivanti's Work"

Daria Valentini, Regis College - "Food, Art and Ideology in Marinetti's 'La 
cucina futurista' of 1932"

Flora Ghezzo, Rutgers University- "Il volto della donna del novecento: identita 
femminili del rotocalco degli anni trenta"

Cinzia Sartini Blum, University of Iowa - "The Futurist Woman as Avant-Garde 
Artist and Fascist 'donna-madre'"

115. Multiple Voices in the Poetry of Montale

Minuet

Organizer: Rossella Riccobono, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Grazia Meneghello, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thomas Peterson University of Georgia - "Of Rhetoric and Rarefaction: Montale's 
Sparse Rose"

Alberto Celli, University of Connecticut - "Gravita e leggerezza nell'abissarsi 
dell'io"

Rossella Riccobono, University of Edinburgh - "Multiple Voices in the Poetry of 
Montale: 'Il fiore che ripete'"

116. Venice from Renaissance to Baroque

Operetta

Organizer and Chair: Glenn Palen Pierce, University of Missouri - Columbia

Nina Canizzaro, Harvard University - "Esoterismo e ufficialita nella cultura 
veneziana del '600: l'esempio degli Incogniti"

Douglas Biow, University of Texas at Austin - "Fathers and Sons: Ermolao 
Barbaro's Trattato and Ritratto of the Resident Ambassador"

Roberto Buranello, University of Cape Town - "The Demise of the Courtly Ideal in 
the Dialogues of Pietro Aretino and Sperone Speroni"

117. Petrarca: Prospettive

Solo

Organizer and Chair: Sergio Corsi, Loyola University Chicago

Jeremy Parzen, "The Humanist Obsession with Script: Petrarchan Transcription and 
Renaissance Rhythmic Sensibility"

Vera Golini, University of Waterloo - Petrarch and American Pop Music

118. Italian Cinema

Ballroom c

Organizer: Paolo Giordano, Loyola University Chicago
Chair: Aine O'Healy, Loyola-Marymount University

John P. Welle, University of Notre Dame - "The Empire of Silence: Writing Early 
Cinema in Italy"

G. Elisa Bussi, Universita di Bologna - "From The Dead to Viaggio in Italia. 
Joyce's Story into Rossellini's Film?"

Daniela Treveri Gennari, University of Warwick - "American Influences on Luchino 
Visconti's Cinematography"

11:30 - 12:45

119. Studies to Commemorate the Bicentenary of the Death of Giacomo Casanova 
(1798-1998)

Duet I

Organizer and Chair: Cynthia C. Craig, Michigan State University.

Tom Vitelli, Editor, L'intermediaire des Casanovistes - "Looking Glass Casanova: 
200 Years of Changing Critical Evaluations of the Histoire de ma vie"

Dana Renga, UCLA - Casanova's Homecoming: An Examination of Zanzotto's Dialect 
Poetry in Fellini's Casanova"

Giuseppe Gargiulo, University of Paris 10, Nanterre "Casanova tra Ariosto e Tasso 
sotto la penna di Calvino"

Cynthia C. Craig, Michigan State University - "Reversals and Fortunes: Casanova 
and Venice, 1753-1756"

120. Italo Calvino II

Duet II

Organizer: AAIS
Chair: Constance Markey, DePaul University

Antonella Dalla Torre, University of Oregon - "La parola e l'esperienza: per una 
fenomenologia della scrittura di Italo Calvino"

Roberto Ludovico, Brown University - "Dietro Le citta invisibili: Victor 
Sklovskij, narratore"

Constance Markey, DePaul University - "Calvino's Postmodern Short Stories"

121. Renaissance Studies II

Solo

Organizer: Olivia Holmes, Yale University
Chair: Sherry Roush, Yale University

Paolo Fasoli, Hunter/CUNY - "Su e contro Amore: trattati e dialoghi di inizio 
Cinquecento"

Antonio Ricci, University of Toronto - "The First Defence of the Orlando Furioso: 
Lodovico Dolce's Apologia"

Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University - "'Virtu' ed 'affetti' nella teoria epica 
cinquecentesca"

122. Literary Represantations of Sicily II

Ballroom A

Organizer: Mark Chu, University College Cork, Ireland
Chair: Daniela Bini, University of Texas-Austin

Eduardo Fichera, Rutgers University- "Tra contemporaneita e mitizzazione: la 
Sicilia nella poesia d Salvatore Quasimodo"

Mark Chu, University College Cork, Ireland - "Sciascia and Sicily: Discourse and 
Actuality"

123. Images of the Monstrous in Modern Italian Literature

Ballroom B

Organizer: David Del Principe
Chair: Wiley Feinstein, Loyola University Chicago

David Del Principe, Montclair State College -"Fangs and Family: Luigi Capuana's 
Un vampiro"

Keala Jewell, Dartmouth College - "Gendered Monsters: Savinio's Lady Birds."

124. Ideologia, storiografia e genealogie nel rinascimento

Minuet

Organizer: AAIS
Chair: Dolores Pigoni, University of Chicago

Enzo di Nardo, Southern Methodist University - "Tradizione letteraria e ideologia 
nelle opere in versi del Machiavelli"

Andrea Fedi, SUNY/Stony Brook - "L'opera imperfecta: testi incompiuti, interrotti 
e rimandati nella storiografia del Rinascimento"

Luciano Farina, The Ohio State University - "Geneologia, formule e contenuti dal 
Testamento di Batoassare Cavemi, 11 genaro 1600.

125. Voice and Discourse of Italian Women III

Operetta

Organizer: Mario Aste, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Chair: Sheryll Postman, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Rosa Maria LaValva, SUNY/Binghamton - "Stanze con vista"

Pia Bertucci-Baxter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - "La voce 
ignota di Matilde Serao"

Laura A. Salsini, University of Delaware - "Narrating the Self: Epistolary 
Practices in the Works of Italian Women Writers"

126. 20th Century Italian Literature and Culture II

Ballroom C

Organizer: AAIS
Chair:Dora Taylor, University of Georgia

Grazia Meneghella, University of Wisconsin-Madison - "Anoressia e narrativa di 
fine secolo"

Daniela Fargione, Mount Holyoke College - "Dalle Langhe al Giappone, da Barnum a 
Seta: in viaggio con Alessandro Baricco"

Giuseppe Nava, Universita di Siena - "Il viaggio, l'identita, il sogno nella 
narrativa di Antonio Tabucchi"



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