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Carlo Chiarenza
Professor of Italian
Ph.D., 1973, Johns Hopkins University
e-mail: cchiaren@csulb.edu

Carlo Chiarenza taught Italian Language, Literature and Cinema and Critical Theory at University of British Columbia until 1988, when he was offered the directorship of the Fulbright Program in Italy. He has published articles on Modern Literature, Theory and International Exchanges and edited a book on the cultural imagination of Italians and Americans (1993). He joined CSULB in 1999 as the George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies. In addition to teaching Language and Cinema courses, Prof. Chiarenza is the Director of the Graziadio Center for Italian Studies. In 2004-05, he was the Resident Director in Florence.

Clorinda Donato
Professor of Italian and French
Ph.D., 1987, UCLA; MA, 1980, UCLA; BA, 1974, UC Berkeley
e-mail: cdonato@csulb.edu

Clorinda Donato received her Ph.D. at UCLA in Romance Languages, Literatures and Linguistics in 1987. She is Professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, where she has served two terms as Department Chair. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century encyclopedism, including the edited volume and catalogue The Encyclopédie in an Age of Revolution with Robert Maniquis (G.K. Hall, 1992). Slated to appear by the end of 2004 with Slatkine Press is Une Encyclopédie à vocation européene: le Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines de F.-B. De Felice (1770 – 1780) , a volume co-edited with Jean-Daniel Candaux, Alain Cernuschi, and Jens Haesler. Her over forty articles cover a wide range of eighteenth-century topics. R ecently she has been working on various figures of the Italian enlightenment including Giovanni Bianchi, the Prince of San Severo, Gaetano Filangieri and Cagliostro to better determine their place in the European enlightenment. She teaches the French eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, women writers, and the first half of the Italian survey of literature, as well as history of the Italian language. She served as co-book review editor for Eighteenth-Century Studies with Carl Fisher, and continues with him in the same capacity for EBRO (Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online) . Please visit this website at www.csulb.edu/ebro .

Teresa Fiore
Assistant Professor of Italian

Ph.D. University of California San Diego (2002); MA San Diego State University (1997); Laurea Universita` degli Studi di Trieste, Italy (1993)

e-mail: tfiore@csulb.edu

Areas of interest

Italian Studies (20th-century Italian literature; Italian American culture; Italian language teaching; Italian cinema)

Research

Interdisciplinary and cultural approaches to literature through Space Theory and Post-colonial Theory.

Prof. Fiore has published articles on the Italian diaspora (Diaspora); Italian cinema and literature on the migration experience (Annali d'Italianistica); foreign immigrant culture in Italy (Forum Italicum); ethnic identity and autobiography (Voices in Italian Americana); Italian American literature (forthcoming in MLA publication).

Her current projects include:

* The 2006 issue of Quaderni del '900, an Italian Studies literary journal. The issue is devoted to Italian American writer John Fante's ties to, and reception in, both Italy and the U.S (click here for more information).

*A manuscript entitled “Pre-occupied Spaces,” an interdisciplinary project about Italian emigration/immigration and culture concerned with questions of nationality, ethnicity and space in the arts.

Prof. Fiore is a member of AAIS, AATI, AIHA, and CLTA.

Enrico Vettore

Assistant Professor of Italian

email: evettore@csulb.edu