Pasquale VERDICCHIO
- Ph.D. (UCLA)
Primary Office:
LIT 340
Primary Phone:
(858) 534-5794
Winter
2010 Office Hours :
MWF 2-3
Winter
2010 Teaching Schedule:
Course: LTEU 140 Time: MWF 1500-1550 Location: CENTR 218
Course: LTIT 122 Time: MWF 1300-1350 Location: WLH 2110
Email: pverdicchio@ucsd.edu
Website: http://www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
Website: http://environmondo.blogspot.com/
Modern Literature; Poetics; Italian Cinema; Cultural Studies; Environmental Movements and Literatures
Selected Publications:
This Nothing's Place. Poetry. Toronto: Guernica, 2008.
"'O Cuorp' 'e Napule: Naples and the Cinematographic Body of Culture." In: Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema, Laura E. Ruberto and Kristi M. Wilson eds. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. Pp. 259-289.
"Return voyages : Rossellini, Scorsese and the Identity of National Cinema." In:
'Merica:a conference on the culture and literature of Italians in North America. Aldo
Bove and Giuseppe Massara eds.. Stony Brook, NY : Forum Italicum Publishing, 2006.
Pp. 110-120.
Translation of Antonio Gramsci's The Southern Question. New Edition with New Introduction. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2006.
"Imaging America: The Photography of Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis" in Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929. European Contributions to American Studies, No. 53. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004. PPG. 333-340.
"The Place of Identity: San Diego's Little Italy and Community as Archive" in Italian Immigrants Go West: The Impact of Locale on Ethnicity. Worral, Janet, Carol Bonomo Albright and Elvira Fabio Eds. Chicago: Italian American Historical Association, 2003. ppg. 10-24"Tina Modotti: Putting Art into Life" Sandpail Productions, L.A.. Video Documentary. 22.35 minutes. 2002
Translation with Stephanie Jed of The Holy Land by Alda Merini. With introductory essay. Poetry. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2002.
"Renaissanceland: Virtual Cities and Historical Space." In The Poetics of Place: Florence Imagined. Florence: Olschki Ed., 2001. Ppg. 195-202.
"Pasolini's The Savage Father: Colonialism as a structure that wants to be another structure"' and translation of The Savage Father by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Toronto: Guernica, 1999.
Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism Through the Italian Diaspora. (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,1997),
Devils in Paradise: Writings on Post-emigrant Cultures.(Toronto: Guernica, 1997).
"The Preclusion of Postcolonial Discourse in Southern Italy." in Revisioning Italy: National Identity and Global Culture. Beverly Allen and Mary Russo editors. University of Minnesota Press, 1997); p. 191-212.
"Horizontal Languages and Decolonization: The Reorganization of Culture in Southern Italy."Essay on contemporary cultural/musical developments in Southern Italy and their ties to cultures outside of the peninsula. On www.italianrap.com.
"'If I was six feet tall, I would have been Italian': Spike Lee's Guineas." Differentia: review of Italian thought, Queens College, Number 6-7, Autumn 94 (pp. 177-192)