Second Annual Neil R. Euliano Professorship Lecture-Mark Pietralunga
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013; 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Psychology Building, Room 106
Cost: Free and open to the public.
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures presents the Second Annual Neil R. Euliano Professorship Lecture
"Italians in America: Unbidden Guests and Neither Fish Nor Fowl"
Mark Pietralunga, Victor B. Oelschläger Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University
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Professor Mark Pietralunga received his PhD from University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include 20th century Italian literature, translation studies, post war Italian narrative, Italian American studies, and book publishing. He was the chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State from 1993 to 2003 and is currently the coordinator of the Italian Studies Program. He has served as resident associate director and as summer director of Florida State University's study abroad program in Florence, Italy. He has received both an Outstanding Teaching Award and a Teaching Incentive Award from Florida State University.
Professor Pietralunga is currently serving as associate editor for reviews for the journal Italica and is a member of the executive committee of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. He has also served on the editorial board of several journals both in Italy and the US as well as on the executive committees of SAMLA and the American Association of Italian Studies. Professor Pietralunga has authored and edited books on Italian contemporary literature. They include Beppe Fenoglio and English Literature: A Study of the Writer as Translator (Berkeley: UC Press), Beppe Fenoglio e l'esaltante fatica del tradurre (Turin: Allemandi), Prometeo slegato: Pavese traduttore di P.B. Shelley (Turin: Einaudi), Quaderno di traduzioni: Beppe Fenoglio (Turin: Einaudi) and Cesare Pavese and Anthony Chiuminatto: Their Correspondence (UToronto Press); Cesare Pavese: A Critical-Analytical Study by Giose Rimanelli (Bordighiera Press, forthcoming). His translations include the best selling biography Cesare Pavese, An Absurd Vice (New York: New Directions Press).
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