TERESA FIORE

Assistant Professor of Italian
Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures Department
California State University Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-2406
Tel. (562) 985-4630
Fax (562) 985-2406
tfiore@csulb.edu

EDUCATION

May 2002 University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Ph. D. in Literature (Comparative Literature section) .
Dissertation: "Pre-occupied Spaces: Re-configuring the Italian Nation through its Migrations"

Jan. 2, 1997 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
MA Degree in English and Comparative Literature
Thesis: "On Nomads and Olives: Ethnic Borders and Food Imagery in 20th Century Italian American Literature."

Nov. 29, 1993 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Degree (Laurea) in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Thesis: "Intergeneric Mestizaje in Sandra Cisneros' writing."

Oct. 1991- June 1992 University of Sussex (Dept. of English), Brighton, UK.
Erasmus student (European Community one-year exchange program)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Current position Tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Italian (RGRLL Dept.), California State University Long Beach.

1998-present Regular correspondent from Southern California for the NY-City-based daily newspaper in Italian America Oggi (90 articles)

2003 (2nd semester) Visiting Professor (Scientific English). Dept. of Medicine. University of Palermo. Palermo campus.

Fall 2002 Part-time Lecturer (Scientific English). Dept. of Medicine. University of Palermo, Agrigento campus.

Spring 2002 Editor of Master's Theses (Teaching and Education Program, UCSD).

Winter 2002 Research Assistant for the organization of the African Literature Association Annual Meeting (San Diego, April 2002).

June 11-July 17, 2001 Italian instructor at the Fondazione Italia (Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles). 2 beginning classes.

Sept 2000-June 2001 Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles (Coordinator of the Education Dept./ Resource Center and Web Site Content Manager).

1999-2000 Teaching Assistant in the Third World Studies Program at UCSD (Caribbean/African/Latin American Literature)
1998-1999 Teaching Assistant in the UCSD Literature Dept. for the Film Series (French/German/Italian)
1997-1998 Teaching Assistant in the Dimensions of Culture Writing Program (Thurgood Marshall), UCSD.

1997-1999 Italian language instructor (all levels). Italian Community Center, San Diego, CA.

1997 (Spring semester) Part-time Lecturer in Italian (100A). Dept. of Italian and French Languages and Literatures, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.

1997 (Spring semester) Internship as editor/translator at San Diego State University Press, San Diego, CA.

1995-1996 Italian Teaching Assistant in the Dept. of Italian and French Languages and Literatures at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.

1995-96 One-year Full-Time Lecturer in English Language. University of Palermo (Agrigento branch), Italy.

RESEARCH AREAS

Italian Studies (Italian language teaching; Italian modern and contemporary literature, Italian American culture); Theory (Post-colonial; Space); Film Studies; Women's Studies.
Issues: the migration experience; ethnic identity; nationalism vs. regionalism/globalization; colonialism and postcolonialism; folk traditions.
Specific topic of interest: Space, Identity, and Creativity.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Italian (native language); English (native fluency); Spanish (fluent); French (advanced for reading; intermediate for oral and written).

PUBLICATIONS

Articles

Forthcoming "The Ship as a Pre-occupied Space: A Theoretical and Applied Approach to Migrant Culture between Italy and the United States" in Comparative Sites of Ethnicity: Europe and the Americas. Eds. Carmen Birlkle, William Boelhower, and Rocio Davis. Winter Verlag: Heidelberg, Germany (22 pp. ms.).

2003 "Frances Stephenson's Promises, a Woman's Bildungsroman: Contradictions in Growing Up Female and Italian in San Diego." Italian Immigrants Go West and the Impact of Locale on Ethnicity (American Italian Historical Association). 25-37.

March 2003 "Un muro rosso sangue" (Guerra all'immigrazione sul "fronte interno" degli Usa). Terre di Mezzo 101. 6-8.

2001 "Unlikely Connections: Italy's Cultural Formations between Home and the Diaspora." Co-written with Clarissa Clò. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 10:3. 415-441.

Fall 2000 "Mediterranean Voices in the Revised Italian Canon." A review article of Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy (1999) edited by Graziella Parati. Forum Italicum 34:2. 556-561.

Fall 2000 "Little Italies, Broad Cultural and Life Experiences: The polyphony of academic and non-academic discourses in an anthology devoted to the complex meaning of Little Italies." A review article of Adjusting Sites: New Essays in Italian American Studies edited by William Boelhower and Rocco Pallone. Filibrary Series 16 (a monographic supplement to Forum Italicum) (1999). VIA Voices in Italian Americana 11:2. 119-123.

Fall 2000 "Diasporic Crossroads: 'Italian' Transnational Migrations and the Re-definition of the Nation"/
"Crocevia della diaspora: Come le migrazioni transnazionali hanno contribuito alla ridefinizione dell'Italia come Nazione." Leggendaria: Libri, Letture, Linguaggi 23 (Sept. 2000): Special bilingual issue on Women's Studies. 17-21 and XVII-XXI.

1999 "Reconfiguring Urban Space as Thirdspace: The Case of Little Italy, San Diego (California)." Adjusting Sites: New Essays in Italian American Studies. Eds. William Boelhower, and Rocco Pallone. Filibrary Series (a monographic supplement to Forum Italicum) 16. 89-110.

1997 "The 'I' Counterfeiting the 'I:' Frank Lentricchia's Faked Confessional Ethnic Writing" VIA (Voices in Italian Americana) 8:2. 13-28.

1995 "Crescere Donna, Chicana e Artista" (Growing up Chicana and Artist). LeggereDonna (Italian women's studies bimonthly journal) 54: 20-21.

1994 "Crossing and Recrossing 'Woman Hollering Creek' by Sandra Cisneros." Prospero (a journal of the German Philology Institute, University of Trieste, Italy) 1: 61-75.

Reviews

Forthcoming Memoirs of an Immigrant by Theodore Buzzeo. Port Jefferson, NY: The Vineyard Press, 2001. Italian Americana (2 pp. ms.).

2001 (Autumn/Winter) The Discovery of America: An Autobiography/La scoperta dell'America: Un'autobiografia
di Carmine Biagio Iannace (West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera, 2001). The Italian American Review: A Social Science Journal of the Italian American Experience 8:2. 197-201.

1997 "L'amore molesto." Review of the movie by Mario Martone (1997). Lightzoo: Italian Film in Review. On-line. Internet. (http://members.tripod.com/~verdicchio/lightzoo.html)

1996 "Umbertina by Helen Barolini." LeggereDonna 60: 30.

1995 "Il Paese degli Abeti Aguzzi" (book review of The Country of the Pointed Firs). LeggereDonna 54: 5.

Translations

2002 Booklet accompanying the CD Folkmusic and Songs from Salento (Edizioni Aramirè).

2000 Booklets accompanying the CDs Opillopillopìopillopillopà: A Voyage into the Popular Music of Salento and Christ's Passion: An Easter Song of Quest in the Greek Tradition of the Salento (Edizioni Aramiré).

1997 Voyage to the End of the Word: The Intraverbal Research/Viaggio al Termine della Parola: La Ricerca Intraverbale (edited by Renato Barilli). Anthology of contemporary Italian poetry co-translated with Harry Polkinhorn. San Diego: SDSU Press.

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS

Sept. 2003 27th edition of the "Emigration International Award" (Abruzzo Region and Ministry of Italians in the World). Special mention in the category "Journalism" for the article "Una donna da leggere", published in America Oggi.

2003 Rockefeller Foundation. Residency Program for completion of a publishable manuscript at the Bellagio Center (Como Lake), Italy.

2001 One-quarter fellowship (Department of Literature, UCSD)

2000 Friends of the International Center Scholarship. University of California, San Diego.

1999 American Italian Historical Association Annual Scholarship

1996 Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, San Diego, CA.

1995 FULBRIGHT
Master in English and Comparative Literature at SDSU.

1995 Università degli Studi di Trieste. Research funds for a project on ethnic literature

1994 Centro di Studi Americani (Center for American Studies)

1994 Centro Studi "Maria Marangelli" for a project on "The Woman's Condition"

1993 Centro di Studi Americani (Center for American Studies)

1991-92 Progetto Erasmus (EC University Exchange Program) at the University
of Sussex (English and American Dept.). Brighton, UK.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Nov. 6-8, 2003 "Italian American Culture in Italy: Melania G. Mazzucco's 2003 Strega-Prize-Winner Novel Vita. American Italian Historical Association 36th Annual Conference. Boca Raton, FL.

Sept. 25, 2003 "Riflessi linguistici italiani nella letteratura italoamericana." Presentation as part of a panel on "Letteratura mediata, immediata e riflessa. Echi italiani nella letteratura americana." III Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo. Istituto Italiano di Cultura Los Angeles.

Aug. 31-Sept 2, 2002 "Il luogo dell'identità: la Little Italy di San Diego, la comunità come archivio." International Conference: L'Emigrazione Italiana Transoceanica e la Storia delle Comunità Derivate. Second Edition. University of Messina. Salina, Eolie Islands, Italy.

June 26-29, 2002 "The Ship as a Pre-occupied Space: A Theoretical and Applied Approach to Migrant Cultural Production Between Italy and the United States." MESEA (Multi-Ethnic Studies Europe and the Americas) Biannual Conference. University of Padua, Italy.

Oct. 25-27, 2001 "Frances Stephenson's Female Bildungsroman: Contradictions in Growing up Woman and Italian in San Diego." 34th Annual American Italian Historical Association Conference, Las Vegas.

April 14, 2000 "Aedificare e Habitare: Lo Spazio nella Narrativa Italiana dei Migranti (Di Donato e Melliti)." American Association for Italian Studies 20th Annual Conference, New York.

April 14, 2000 "Narrative e Spazi Italiani: Fome di Riappropriazione ed Esclusione in Testi di Italo Calvino, Moshen Melliti e Renato Curcio." American Association for Italian Studies 20th Annual Conference, New York.

April 8, 2000 "A Palestinian Woman's Diasporic Experience Transcribed in Italian Words: The Collaborative Project of Teacher/Activist Salwa Salem and Anthropology Student Laura Maritano." 10th Annual Pacific Southwest Studies Association Conference "Feminist Transformations: Past, 'Presence,' Futures: Students and Teachers Learning Together." San Diego State University. San Diego, CA.

Nov. 12-14, 1999 "San Diego's Little Italy: A Critical History of Its People In/And Space." American Italian Historical Association. 32nd Annual Conference: "Italian Americans: A Retrospective on the 20th Century." San Francisco, CA.

Oct. 16, 1999 "Hybrid Houses: Immigrant Architecture Between Sicily and California (a slide show)." Western Humanities Alliance 18th Annual Conference: "Beyond Babel: Common Language, Common Differences, Common Ground. University of California San Diego.
Nov. 12-15, 1998 "Immigrant Spaces: Global Movements, Local Sites." American Italian Historical Association 31st Annual Conference. "Italian American Politics: Local, Global/Cultural, Personal." Hunter College/CUNY. New York City, NY.

Nov. 13-15, 1997 "The Color I Eat: Italian American and African American 'Gastroimages' in Women's Literary Texts". American Italian Historical Association 30th Annual Conference: "Shades of Black and White (Italy-Africa-US): Conflict and Collaboration between Two Communities." Cleveland, Ohio.

Nov. 8-10, 1996 "Basil and Olives: The Sense of Sicilianness among Italian American Women Writers" PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Annual Convention. University of California, Irvine, CA.

Feb. 7-10, 1996 "An Epistolary Journey through Ana Castillo' The Mixquiahuala Letters." Fifth Annual Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society. "Latin American Women: Discourse by/on Women. Albuquerque, NM.

Sept. 29-30, 1995 "Writing In Spite of Omertà: Italian American Women Writers Breaking the Silence." Crisis Carnival 1995: III Annual Graduate Conference. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.

July 5-8, 1995 "The Wicked Ways of a Loose Woman: Subversive Strategies in Sandra Cisneros' Poetry." I Conference: "Hijas del Quinto Sol: Studies in Latina Identity." Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and Saint Mary's University. San Antonio, TX.

April 22, 1995 "Looking for Women's Communities on/beyond Borders." Fifth Annual Conference on Southern California Women's Studies : "Building Bridges, Crossing Borders."
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA.

GUEST SPEAKER LECTURES

June 5, 2003 "Dagoes forever?" Round table entitled "Overseas: The Italian Influence on American English." University of Palermo, Italy.

March 20, 2003 "Migration Stories in 20th-century Italian Literature." State University of Milan, Italy.

March 6 & 7, 2002 "Young People in Italy." World Cultures Program and Italian Club. San Diego City College.

March 15, 2000 "Lamerica:" Introduction to Gianni'Amelio's film screening. San Diego City College Foreign Language Month Events. San Diego, CA.

March 9, 2000 "Diasporic Experiences and Subjects in Three Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories (Lorna Goodison, Neil Bissoondath, F.B. André)." Lecture for a lower-division undergraduate class (120 students) in Caribbean literature (Third World Studies Program, UCSD). San Diego, CA.

Dec. 7, 1999 "Tutto Benigni." A Lecture on director/actor Roberto Benigni with screening of film excerpts. San Diego City College, San Diego, CA.

Oct. 27, 1999 "Three Self-Taught Italian Artists." Slide Lecture at the San Diego City College as part of the "World Cultures Program."

April 20, 1999 "The Singing Rose: The Story of a Sicilian Voice" (audio-visual presentation on Rosa Balistreri). Women's Center at the University of California San Diego.

Feb. 22, 1999 "The Italian American experience: immigration, internment, integration." Guest speaker for "Immigrant Literature in the US," a class offered at the UCSD Women's Center during Spring 1999. San Diego, CA.

Feb. 10, 1999 "Body and Sign Language in Italy." Guest speaker in an undergraduate class in Intercultural Communications offered at San Diego City College, San Diego, CA.

Feb. 9, 1999 "The Revised Italian Nation: Immigrant Literature, New Literacy." 1998-1999 Literature Colloquia. Winter 1999: Nationalism, Literacy, and the Literary. Literature Dept. UCSD. San Diego, CA.

Jan. 29, 1999 "Immigrant Architecture between California and Sicily." Fridays at the New School Series. New School of Architecture. San Diego, CA.

Oct. 27, 1997 "Lo Spazio come Lingua: L'Esperienza di Tre Immigrati Italiani." Presentation in Italian and slide-show. Qui Si Parla Italiano Series, Italian Community Center, San Diego.

July, 25, 1997 "Below and Above Ground: The Re/Creation of Space as a Language among Southern Italian Immigrants to the US." I conference of the Italian American Community: "Italian American Art, History and Folk Architecture." San Diego, CA.

Feb. 22, 1997 Co-moderator for the debate: "Literary Texts and Violence." VI Annual Conference on Sexual Violence on Campus. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.

ACADEMIC SERVICE (CSULB)

2003-04 Curriculum Development Committee (Dept. of Romance Languages)
Think Tank for the Development of Business French and Italian Classes
Committee for Proposal of Single Subject Teaching Credential in Italian
Cultural Event Organizer for the George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2004 AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian)
2004 CLTA (California Language Teachers Association)
2002 MESEA (Multi-Ethnic Studies Europe and the Americas).
2000 and 2004 AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies).
1998-2003 AIHA (American Italian Historical Association).
1998 MLA (Modern Languages Association).
1996 PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association).

OTHER MEMBERSHIPS

2001 IOHI (Italian Oral History Institute), Los Angeles.
1997-98 Arba Sicula (Sicilian ethnic and cultural organization), Jamaica, NY.
1997-2000 IIC (Italian Community Center), San Diego.
1995-97 GWSSC (Graduate Women Scholars of Southern California).
1995 Honor Society SDSU PHI BETA DELTA.
1995 PSWSA (Pacific Southwestern Women's Studies Association).

EXTRA-CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES (volunteer work)

March 7, 2003 Osservatorio permanente sull'immigrazione di Agrigento
Italian language courses and cultural events involving the immigrant community in town.

1994 Research and social work for a group (Gruppo di Lettura, Riflessione e Progetti contro la Violenza alle Donne) devoted to fight violence against women, Trieste, Italy.