Head of Section, Italian Literature
Modern Literature; Poetics; Italian Cinema; Cultural Studies; Environmental Movements and Literatures
Selected Publications:
1. “Sophisticating Action: Gramsci and Theatre, or Can the Subaltern Act?” in Differences on Stage, A. De Martino, P. Puppa, P. Toninato eds. Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2. A BRIEF MEDITATION ON ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY in Italian Journal, Volume Number IX,
3. TWO POEMS BY RENATA VIGANO’ from MONDINE ()
in Journal of Italian Translation, Luigi Bonaffini editor, CUNY, Fall
4. Looters, Photographers, and Thieves: Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, ISBN:
Working toward an analysis of the influence of photography on the construction of an Italian "type" to serve the mandates of the new nation in the s, this book engages the work of writers and photographers who have addressed or participated in this venture. From Giovanni Verga and Italo Calvino writings to the conceptual visual philosophy of Tommaso Campanella and Luigi Ghirri's pho
Pasquale Verdicchio
Selected Publications since
BOOKS
Poetry
CONTENTMENT, Ekstasis Ed., Victoria,
ONLY YOU, Ekstasis Ed., Victoria,
THIS NOTHING'S PLACE, Guernica,
Scholarly
Pasquale Verdicchio. Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild. New York: Lexington. pages.
___________________. Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema. Coedited with Loredana Di Martino. London: Cambridge Scholars, pages.
ESSAYS (journals and volumes)
___________________. “Toxic Disorder and Civic Possibility: Viewing the Land of Fires From the Phlegrean Fields” in Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature. Edited by P. Verdicchio. New York: Lexington Books: ().
___________________. “Revelatory Crises of the Real: Before the Revolution and After Reality” in Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema. P. Verdicchio and L. DiMartino, : Cambridge Scholars, ().
___________________. “This Nostrum That Is Neither Sea Nor Remedy: Mediterranean Re-visions." in Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. Edited b
Pasquale Verdicchio has taught courses in literature, film and writing in the Dept of Literature at UCSD since Considered a leading translator of major Italian writers, he has englished the work of Pasolini, Merini, Caproni, Porta, and Gramsci among others. His poetry, reviews, criticism and photography have been published in journals around the world. As an author his books include Devils in Paradise: Writings on Post-Emigrant Cultures (Guernica, ), Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism through the Italian Diaspora (), and the poetry collection This Nothing's Place (Guernica, ). He is a founding member and past president of the Association of Italian Canadian Writer and a founder and Associate Director of the San Diego Italian Film Fetival. A complete bibliography can be found at ?id=
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Pasquale Verdicchio
Essays On His Works
By Antonio D'Alfonso
The ten essays included in this volume address the themes of immigration, migration, and history in Pasquale Verdicchio’s poetry and scholarship. Giuliana Gardellini, Joseph Pivato, Anna Zampieri Pan, Diego Bastianutti, Carmelo Militano, Leonardo Buonomo, Kenneth Scambray, Laura E. Ruberto, and Antonio D’Alfonso discuss Verdicchio’s unconventional forms and contents that reveal the difficulties of being considered a marginalized ethnic voice in North American culture. Not conforming to conventional poetic models, Verdicchio writes poetry that presents itself as a puzzle in which for decades he demonstrates the role that politics, history, and culture play in self-analytical writing. The immigrant (or defined as such by conventional terminology) offers as his central theme a “moving” cultural landscape that he must personally inhabit from the moment he leaves his native home. The ever-changing persona in Verdicchio’s texts defies linguistic and literary constraints. Verdicchio challenges the conventional role that nostalgia plays in ethnic poetry and contributes in a daring manner to how v
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