Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

RE: Proposal for Library Enhancement Program in the Humanities (2014)
Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (UF)
Dr. Alessia Colarossi ([email protected])
Dr. Deborah Amberson ([email protected])
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Italian)
For the attention of Acting Director Dr. Adams,
The Italian program at UF is a small but strong program housed in the Department of Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures. We have five faculty members in the Italian program: two holding the
rank of associate professor (Dr. Mary Watt and Dr. Deborah Amberson); two senior lecturers
(Sherrie Nunn and Gianfranco Balestriere), and one lecturer (Dr. Alessia Colarossi). At present,
we offer a minor in Italian studies that attracts students from a broad variety of schools and
specializations across the campus. Our course enrollments are strong. This is particularly the case
at the level of the elementary language courses where we regularly fill all sections offered in both
the fall and spring semesters. Generally speaking, we maintain approximately 20-25 declared
minors. Our enrollments at the 3000 and 4000 level remain, for the most part, between 9 and 15
with some courses exceeding this average and some falling below. Our program also maintains
active links with several areas of study across campus. Beyond our ties to the many other programs
in our department, we cross-list courses with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(MEMS), the Center for Jewish Studies, and the University Honors program amongst others.
We are also proud to state that many of our graduating minors have gone on to pursue graduate
work in the field of Italian. Many of our students have completed an Italian masters and we have
several who are currently pursuing doctorates at various prestigious institutions (Johns Hopkins,
UCLA, Harvard, amongst others).
Last year the Italian program successfully proposed five new courses at the 3000 and 4000 level
(ITT3700 Italian Perspectives on the Jewish Holocaust; ITW4026C Literature & Cinema of the
Italian South; ITW4253 Crime Fiction & Film in Italy; ITW4491 Italian Theater Renaissance to
the Early Modern; ITW4600 Dante’s Inferno). We plan to submit additional course proposals
over the next calendar year (ITA3XXX Play Production; ITTXXXX Online Italian for Reading;
ITT3XXX Italian Mafia Movies). Moreover, we are also in the process of developing our
elementary language cycle as an offering for the UF online program.
In light of this recent and future course development, we are applying for this library grant in order
to supplement our Italian resources, both primary and critical. The library currently holds a good
collection of Italian literary and critical texts as well as a solid selection of Italian films. We would
greatly appreciate the opportunity to supplement these holdings with a particular eye to
strengthening the primary and critical collection in the field of literary modernism, contemporary
cinema, immigrant literature, and contemporary cultural studies. These resources would be
invaluable to our Italian minors and to those students who take our English language courses (ITT)
as electives. However, they would also serve the university community as a whole, particularly
those students and scholars active in the fields of cinema, immigration, literary genre studies,
contemporary European terrorism, and Mediterranean studies amongst others.
A separate, detailed, and ranked list of the desired acquisitions and their estimated cost is attached.
ITALIAN TEXTS/FILMS
Author
Title
Publ.
Series
Yr
ISBN
Price
Aldo Palazzeschi
Tutte le poesie
Mondadori
Meridiani
2002
€ 51.00
Aldo Palazzeschi
Tutti i romanzi
Vol. 1 & 2
Mondadori
Meridiani
2004/
2005
Noi italiani neri : storie di
ordinario razzismo
Southern thought and
other essays on the
Mediterranean
Sirene
Baldini Castoldi
Dalai
Fordham
University Press
I Saggi
880450322X/
9788804503224
Vol 1. 8804523743/
9788804523741/
Vol. 2 8804538147/
9788804538141
9788860737595
8860737591
9780823233649
0823233642
Einaudi
2007
Einaudi
8806185632
9788806185633
9788806196783
8806196782
€ 11.00
New Italian epic :
letteratura, sguardo
obliquo, ritorno al futuro
Free karma food
Arcipelago
Einaudi
Einaudi
tascabili. Stile
libero
24/7
€ 14.50
Immigrato.
Bompiani
2006
Pecore Nere: Racconti
GLF Editori
Laterza
Edizioni e/o,
Tascabili
Bompiani
Contromano
Assolo
2006
M. Di Salvo
Mangrovie
2007
Legenda
Italian
perspectives,
18.
2009
8817010502
9788817010504
8845257169
9788845257162
8842077976
9788842077978
9788876417160
8876417168
8889862351
9788889862353
9781906540487
1906540489
Legenda,
Italian
perspectives, 22
2012
9781907975264
1907975268
$ 85.03
Peter Lang
Italian
Modernities, 17
2013
9783034309714
3034309716
$ 64.95
Troubadour
Publishing.
Troubadour
Italian Studies
2010
9781848761766
1848761767
$ 22.46
Tauris,
International
library of visual
culture, vol. 5
Toronto Italian
studies
Toronto Italian
studies
2011
9781848855724
1848855729
$ 85.36
2010
9781442639980
1442639989
9781442645677
1442645679
9781442613935
1442613939
9780982484531
0982484534
0972356258
9780972356251
8845242595
9788845242595
0821934392,
9780821934395
$ 30.95
Pap Khouma
Franco Cassano;
Norma Bouchard
Laura Pugno
Ming Wu
Wu Ming 5, (pseud.)
Mario Fortunato,
Salah Methnani
Gabriella Kuruvilla,
Flavia Capitani et al.
Lakhous, Amara
Tahar Lamri; Silvia
De Marchi
Pierpaolo
Antonello;
Alan O'Leary
Deborah Amberson
Enrico Cesaretti
Grace Russo Bullaro
Flavia Brizio-Skov
Silvia M Ross
Chiara Ferrari
Lindia, Lucrezia G
Concetta Cirigliano
Perna
Tawfik, Younis; Egi
Volterrani
Lisbeth Thybo,
Karen Borch
Campanile, Achille;
Franca Meri
Maraini, Dacia, Zita
Vaccaro
Alberto Moravia
Ascensore a Piazza Vittorio
I Sessanta Nomi
Dell'amore
Imagining terrorism: the
rhetoric and
representation of political
violence in Italy 1969-2009
Giraffes in the garden of
Italian literature:
modernist embodiment in
Svevo, Tozzi and Gadda
Fictions of appetite:
alimentary discourses in
Italian modernist
literature
From terrone to
extracomunitario: new
manifestations of racism in
contemporary Italian
cinema
Popular Italian cinema:
culture and politics in a
postwar society
Tuscan spaces: literary
constructions of place
The rhetoric of violence
and sacrifice in fascist
Italy: Mussolini, Gadda,
Vittorini
Cultura italiana di regione
in regione
Non Soltanto Un Baule:
Storie Di Emigranti Italiani
La Straniera
Rizzoli
University of
Toronto Press
University of
Toronto Press
2010
2012
2009
2006
2009
2013
Edizioni Farinelli
2009
Farinelli
2005
Bompiani
2000
€ 51.00
€ 51.00
$ 50.00
$ 25.20
€ 12.33
€ 5.78
€ 10.20
€ 10.20
€ 15.00
$ 85.03
$ 26.96
$30.00
$ 47.46
€ 6.38
Io Non Ho Paura
Aschehoug/Alinea
Easy Readers
2007
$8.00
Il Segreto e Altri Racconti.
Grafisk Forlag,
Easy Readers
1992
9781856931656
$8.00
Mio marito; L'altra
famiglia
Aschehoug/
Grafisk Forlag
Easy Readers
1985
8711073403
$8.00
Sette Racconti
Aschehoug
Easy Readers
1972
8742977924
9788742977927
$8.00
Luigi Pirandello
Novelle Per Un Anno
Pierpaolo
Antonello;
Florian Mussgnug
Postmodern impegno:
ethics and commitment in
contemporary Italian
culture
Remembering Aldo Moro:
cultural legacy of the 1978
kidnapping and murder
The great black spider
knock-kneed tripod:
reflections of cinema in
early twentieth-century
Italy
Pranzo Di Ferragosto: Midaugust Lunch.
Io Non Ho Paura: I'm Not
Scared
Ruth Glynn;
Giancarlo Lombardi
Michael Syrimis
Patrizia La Trecchia
Tinozzi, Nicoletta
Villa-Sella,
Nicoletta.
Concetta Cirigliano
Perna
Chiara
Mazzucchelli,
Manlio Graziano
Beautiful
Cinema Paradiso
Easy Readers
2009
Peter Lang, 2009
Italian
modernities (v.
4)
2009
Legenda
Italian
perspectives, v.
23
Toronto Italian
studies
University of
Toronto Press
Edizioni Farinelli
Edizioni Farinelli
Edizioni Farinelli,
Edizioni Farinelli
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli;
Christ Stopped at Eboli.
The failure of Italian
nationhood: the geopolitics
of a troubled identity
Edizioni Farinelli
Dana Renga
Unfinished business :
screening the Italian Mafia
in the new millennium
University of
Toronto Press
Philip E Cooke
The legacy of the Italian
Resistance
Palgrave
Macmillan
Modigliani, Franco;
Renato Camurri
L'Italia vista dall'America:
battaglie e riflessioni di un
esule.
Arduous tasks: Primo Levi,
translation, and the
transmission of Holocaust
testimony
Italy and the
Mediterranean: words,
sounds, and images of the
post-Cold War era
Tragedia all'italiana:
Italian cinema and Italian
terrorisms, 1970-2010
Il corriere colombiano
Bollati
Boringhieri
Lina N Insana
Norma Bouchard;
Valerio Ferme
Alan O'Leary
Massimo Carlotto
Loriano
Macchiavelli
Gianni Di Gregorio
Marco Amenta
Paolo Sorrentino
Claudio Giovannesi
Claudio Giovannesi
Salvatore Mereu
Federico Bondi
Giuseppe Piccioni
Marco Turco
Gabriele Salvatores
Palgrave
Macmillan
9788723906328
8723906324
9783034301251
3034301251
$8.00
2012
9781907975271
1907975276
$ 57.88
2012
9781442644014
144264401X
$ 61.49
Film Studies
Program
Film Studies
Program
Film Studies
Program
Film Studies
Program
Film Studies
Program
Italian and
Italian
American
studies
Toronto Italian
studies
2013
9781937923075
193792307X
9780979503108
0979503108
9780982484524
0982484526
9780978601683
0978601688
0979503175
9780979503177
9780230104136
0230104134
$ 36.95
$ 26.96
Italian & Italian
American
studies
2013
9781442647480
1442647485
9781442615588
1442615583
9781137331250
1137331259
2007
2009
2008
2009
2010
2013
2010
9788833920535
8833920534
$ 88.02
$ 36.95
$ 36.95
$ 36.95
$ 36.95
$ 28.50
$ 26.60
University of
Toronto Press
Toronto Italian
studies
2009
9780802098634
0802098630
$ 16.97
Palgrave
Macmillan
2013
9781137343451
1137343451
$ 74.28
2011
9783039115747
303911574X
$ 55.75
E/o
Italian and
Italian
American
studies
Italian
modernities, v.
9
Dal mondo
2000
€ 4.17
I sotterranei di Bologna
Mondadori
Omnibus
2002
Branchie
Einaudi
Einaudi
tascabili. Stile
libero
1997
2008
8876414185
9788876414183
8804503548
9788804503545
8806143549
9788806143541
9788806184285
8806184288
DVD region 1
2008
2013
2012
2008
2012
2008
2012
2009
2012
DVD region 1
DVD region 1
DVD
DVD
DVD
DVD
DVD
DVD
DVD
$ 15.74
N/A
$ 58.05
$ 24.99
$ 25.86
$ 14.91
$ 33.99
$ 10.20
$ 10.87
Total sum in USD
$1884.24
Pranzo di Ferragosto; MidAugust Lunch
The Sicilian Girl
La grande bellezza
Alì ha gli occhi azzurri
La casa sulle nuvole
Bellas mariposas
Mar nero
Il rosso e il blu
La straniera
1960
Peter Lang
€ 8.08
€ 9.78
$ 16.77