Pasquale Verdicchio

Italian and Comparative Literature

Modern Literature; Poetics; Italian Cinema; Cultural Studies; Environmental Movements and Literatures.

San Diego Italian Film Festival | SDIFF

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Publications

• Translation of Sergio Atzeni's STORIES WITH SOUNDTRACK in Journal of Italian Translation XI N. 1 2016: 38-67.
• Translation of Vivian Lamarque's THE GOLDEN MAN Ekstasis Editions, 2016.
• Translation of Cesare Viviani's Thoughts Toward a Poetics of the Garment (1982-1984) Gradiva Editions, 2016.
• Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild.Lexington, 2016.
• "Blue is the Colour of Forgetting: Mediterranean Re-Orientations in Italian Cinema" in Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Volume 24, Number 2, 2015.
• "Sophisticating Action: Gramsci and Theatre, or Can the Subaltern Act?" in Differences on Stage, A. De Martino, P. Puppa, P. Toninato eds.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
• A BRIEF MEDITATION ON ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY in Italian Journal, Volume 20.  Number IX, 2013.
• TWO POEMS BY RENATA VIGANO’ from MONDINE (1955) in Journal of Italian Translation, Luigi Bonaffini editor, CUNY, Fall 2013.
• Looters, Photographers, and Thieves: Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.  J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011.  
• "Documentary on the verge of progress" in Studies in Documentary Film. Volume 5 Issue 2-3, August 2011.
• 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.
• "'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).

• Ph.D., UC Los Angeles