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 a book on the cultural imagination of Italians and Americans. 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 will be the Resident 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
Italian Studies (20th -Century Italian literature; Italian cinema; Italian American culture; Italian language teaching)
e-mail: tfiore@csulb.edu

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

Prof. Fiore has published articles on the Italian diaspora; Italian American literature; foreign immigrant culture in Italy; ethnic identity and autobiography.

Currently working on 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.

Irene Marchegiani-Jones
Professor of Italian
e-mail: imarchjn@fea.net

Catia Confortini
Adjunct Faculty in Italian
MA, 1996, University of Notre Dame; Laurea, 1992, University of Florence
e-mail: cconfort@csulb.edu

Laurence Moscato
Adjunct Faculty in Italian and French
MA, 1991, California State University, Long Beach; BA, 1961, Hunter College
e-mail: lnmoscato@csulb.edu

Francesca Padano
Adjunct Faculty in Italian
C. Phil., 2001, UCLA; Laurea, 1998, University of Padua
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Jane Rinaldi
Adjunct Faculty in Italian
MS, 1993, California State University, Long Beach; Credential, 1990, California State University, Long Beach; MA, 1974, Indiana University; BA, 1965, Indiana Univeristy
email: janerinaldi2002@yahoo.com