A specific section analyzes the 2011 play Italianesi by Saverio La Ruina, which weaves tales of Italian departures and returns prompted by colonial expansion, international politics, and the lure of Italy, and in the process it productively “confuses” the notion of Italian-ness vis-à-vis an Albanian identity. Overall, the essay illustrates specific pedagogical routes and teaching materials, as well as opportunities and challenges within the classroom, including the yet-unexplored possibility of a pluri-language syllabus for a pluri-cultural student body interested in migrations from/to Italy as a telling example of transnational mobilities at large across time and space.

The essay appears in a volume included in a book series called and in a larger project titled supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant in the UK (2014-2017). The series and the whole project offer an innovative approach to language teaching and learning as part of a transdisciplinary vision.

By linking Italy’s long history of emigration to all continents in the world, contemporary transnational migrations directed toward it, as well as the country’s colonial legacies, Fiore’s book poses Italy as a unique laboratory to rethink national belonging at large in our era of massive demographic mobility. Showing how immigration in Italy today is preoccupied by its past emigration and colonialism, and how the commonalities between the two phenomena can potentially dispel preoccupations, the book offers interpretative routes about demographic and cultural movements that can be relevant to Europe at large as well as the U.S.

This panel will include a presentation by the author in discussion with Montclair State colleagues from the History Department (coeditor of Fordham UP Critical Studies in Italian America), from the Sociology Department and , Chair of Political Science and Law Department.

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Another article by Teresa Fiore, titled “Immigration From Italy Since 1990,” was included in (2018), a landmark volume on the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. Edited by William J. Connell and Stanislao G. Pugliese, the book features original essays by leading scholars and critics as well as rich illustrations, addressing themes that range from immigration, discrimination and assimilation to anarchism, Fascism, and patriotism. After offering a general analysis of the latest Italian migration to the States, Fiore focuses on the personal stories of three individuals whose trajectories from Italy to the U.S. break from the standard narratives to provide new insights into the recent migratory phenomenon in terms of sexual politics, artistic creativity, and il/legal status. Fiore was also invited to serve on the Academic Advisory Board for the production of this important volume.

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On Thur. Nov. 2, Dr. Fiore will give a presentation titled “Former Empire and Current Migration” at an international conference on  that will feature presenters from NYU, Columbia U, The New School, Rutgers, the University of Chicago as well as a journalist from the New York Times. This international group of specialists and practitioners from the academic and public sectors will discuss a range of issues concerning Mediterranean migration, including both the longer history of the Mediterranean as a maritime region of population movement, the hardening of the maritime frontiers in relation to the EU Schengen borders, the humanitarian emergency symbolized by Lampedusa, and the tri-continental Mediterranean migrant movements involving Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The conference is organized by NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) with the support of the The Remarque Institute at NYU and Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

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Teresa Fiore, associate professor and and Marisa Trubiano, associate professor in the received a $15,000 grant from Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (the grant was awarded in Spring 2017).

They will use this award to create a capstone course in audiovisual translation to prepare students to embark on careers in translation for the creative and cultural industries through professional projects developed with partners from the private and public sectors, with a focus on the internationalization of Italian culture.

Teresa Fiore and Marisa Trubiano were recognized as recipients of this curricular development and research grant at the 5th Annual Grant Recognition Reception (April 24, 2017), hosted by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and University Advancement.

This project was covered in the Spring 2017 issue of Forward Thinking (p. 6).

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Entitled "“New Italians on the Move: The Cultural Impact of the Contemporary U.S.-Bound Exodus,” the keynote speech offered a survey of the literature and art produced by and about new Italian immigrants. It aimed at showing how these new Italians on the move should not just be represented as a loss for the country, but also as an engine for the circulation of the concept of "Italy” in the sense of values and lifestyles, a phenomenon that is producing an increasing “Italianization” of American culture. In linking past and contemporary immigration from Italy through the analysis of Michele Petruzziello’s photography series (), the speech functioned as a preliminary theorization of the concept of “Made in Italy” in the diaspora and the diaspora as “Made in Italy” beyond its more common figuration as artistic creations and objects of consumption.

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