Publications

Publications in Italian Studies

Articles

“Between Interdisciplinarity and Experiential Learning in Online and Hybrid Culture Courses.” In ILCC Challenges in the 21st Century Italian Classroom Vol. 1 (Fall 2020): 30-49.

“Building Self-Confidence and Motivation through Readers Theater: Integrating Jhumpa Lahiri’s In altre parole in the Italian Class.” In The Journal of Language Teaching and Technology-LTT Issue 2 (December 2019).

“La violazione di una nazione: Rosetta e Cesira ne La ciociara di Vittorio De Sica [The Violation of a Nation: Rosetta and Cesira in Vittorio De Sica’s La ciociara].” In Cultura e Comunicazione Vol. VIII/13 (November 2018): 16-23, 90-92.

“L’insegnamento della lingua e della cultura italiana attraverso la gastronomia: cuciniamole! [Teaching Italian Language and Culture through Gastronomy: Let’s Cook Them!].” In TILCA, Teaching Italian Language and Culture Annual (Special Issue 2018): 108-125.

“(E-)Portfolios as a Final Project in Language Classes.” In Mosaic Vol. 12/2 (Summer 2018): 179-186.

“Lezioni accademiche, lezioni pratiche: l’insegnamento della cultura italiana tra storia e gastronomia [Academic Lessons, Practical Lessons: Teaching Italian Culture between History and Gastronomy].” In Cultura e Comunicazione Vol. VIII/12 (March 2018): 12-17, 48.

“L’americanizzazione negli anni Cinquanta tra Roman Holiday e Un americano a Roma [The Americanization in the 1950s between Roman Holiday and Un americano a Roma].” In Cinema e storia (Rubbettino) Vol. V (2016): 97-110.

“Alberto Moravia in Uzbekistan nel 1956 tra eurocentrismo, orientalismo e colonialismo [Alberto Moravia in Uzbekistan in 1956 between Eurocentrism, Orientalism, and Colonialism].” In Cultura e Comunicazione Vol. VI/09 (June 2016): 30-36, 88-90.

“La coscienza linguistica dei parlanti nativi tra italiano e dialetto: il caso toscano [The Linguistic Awareness of Native Speakers between Italian and the Dialect: The Tuscan Case].” In Cultura e Comunicazione Vol. V/6 (2015): 10-15, 54.

“Da Italiano 2.0 a Italiano 4.1: Il successo di un programma nato dopo la crisi di Albany [From Italian 2.0 to Italian 4.1: The Success of a Program Born after Albany Crisis].” In Cultura e Comunicazione Vol. IV/5 (2014): 29-32.

“L’Alta Val d’Elsa nella Divina Commedia [The Alta Val d’Elsa in the Divine Comedy].” Miscellanea Storica della Valdelsa 1-3 (306-308) (Jan.-Dec. 2007): 61-94.

Book Chapters: Cinema and Literature

““Eat First”: Martin Scorsese’s Mother and Italian-American Gastronomy, Family Values in Film” (April 28, 2017). IN PRINT: In Teresa Lobalsamo, Adriano Pasquali, and Caroline Lebrec (eds.). Gastronomy, Culture, and the Arts: A Scholarly Exchange of Epic Portions (New York, Ottawa, and Toronto: Legas Publishing, 2017). 129-142.

“Il Risorgimento di Roberto Faenza via Federico De Roberto: I Vicerè come specchio di un’Italia immobile [The Risorgimento of Roberto Faenza via Federico De Roberto: The Viceroys as a Mirror of an Immobile Italy].” In Fulvio Orsitto (ed.). Cinema e Risorgimento: Visioni e re-visioni. Da Noi credevamo a La presa di Roma. Roma: Vecchiarelli Editore, 2012. 273-294.

“Between Novel, Biography, and Autobiography: The Father-Daughter Relationship in Anna Banti’s Artemisia.” In Ioana Larco and Fabiana Cecchini (eds.). Italian Women and Autobiography. Ideology, Discourse, Identity in Female Life Narratives: From Fascism to the Present. Cambridge-UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 31-54.

Book Reviews

Kleinhenz, Christopher, and Kristina Olson (eds.). Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy. 2nd ed. New York: Modern Languages Association of America, 2020. Pp. 300. In Choice Vol. 58/1 (September 2020).

Danila Cannamela. The Quiet Avant-Garde: Crepuscolar Poetry and the Twilight of Modern Humanism. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. 344. In Choice Vol. 57/6 (February 2020).

Elizabeth Zanoni. Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2018. Pp. 273. In Annali d’Italianistica (forthcoming 2019).

Willa Zhen. Food Studies: A Hands-On Guide. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, and Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 212. In Choice Vol. 57/2 (October 2019).

Francesca D’Alessandro Behr. Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2018. Pp. 285. In Choice Vol. 56/6 (February 2019).

Silvia Carlorosi. A Grammar of Cinepoiesis: Poetic Cameras of Italian Cinema. Lanham, Boulder, New York, and London: Lexington Books, 2015. Pp. 222. In Annali d’Italianistica Vol. 36, (2018): 511-513.

Rossella Catanese (ed.). Futurist Cinema: Studies on Italian Avant-Garde Film. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. Pp. 258. In Choice Vol. 56/1 (September 2018).

Antonio Cardini. Storia di Siena. Dal Risorgimento al Miracolo economico. Florence: Edizioni Nerbini, 2009. Pp. 320. In Modern Italy: Journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, Vol. 23, Issue 3 (August 2018): 346-348.

Alexandra Coller. Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy. New York and London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 282. In Choice Vol. 55/9 (May 2018).

Maria Nicolai Paynter On Friendship and Freedom: The Correspondence of Ignazio Silone and Marcel Fleischmann. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. 260. In Choice Vol. 54/6 (February 2017).

Anthony Julian Tamburri, Fred L. Gardaphé (eds.). Transcending Borders, Bridging Gaps: Italian Americana, Diasporic Studies, and the University Curriculum (Studies in Italian Americana, Vol. 10). New York: John D. Calandra Italian American Institue, 2015. Pp. 155. In Annali d’Italianistica Vol. 34 (2016): 701-703.

Jacqueline Reich. The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015. Pp. 414. In Choice Vol. 53/11 (July 2016).

Giorgio Scotoni. Il nemico fidato: La guerra di sterminio in URSS e l’occupazione alpina sull’Alto Don. Trento: Casa Editrice Panorama, 2013. Pp. 447. In Journal of Modern Italian Studies Vol. 21/1 (April 2016): 167-169.

Roberto M. Dainotto. The Mafia: A Cultural History. London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Pp. 239. In Choice Vol. 53/6 (February 2016).

Simonetta Rossi. Scuola 2.0: come insegnare a scrivere testi. Indicazioni per la scuola secondaria di primo grado e per il biennio. Rome: Aracne, 2014. Pp. 196. In Quaderni d’italianistica Vol. 36/1 (2015): 283-285.

Giorgia Alù and Nancy Pedri (eds.). Enlightening Encounters: Photography in Italian Literature. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: Toronto University Press, 2015. Pp. 328. In Choice Vol. 53/1 (September 2015).

Stefania Lucamante (ed.). Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing: Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015. Pp. 283. In Choice Vol. 52/10 (June 2015).

Katharine Mitchell. Italian Women Writers: Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. 264. In Choice Vol. 52/5 (January 2015).

Mary Ann McDonald Carolan. The Transatlantic Gaze: Italian Cinema, American Film. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2014. Pp. 172. In Choice Vol. 52/1 (September 2014).

Roberto Dolci and Anthony Julian Tamburri (eds.). Why Study Italian: Diverse Perspectives on a Theme. Transactions 2. New York: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2013. Pp. 94. In Annali d’Italianistica Vol. 32 (2014): 738-740.

Sabina Donati. A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861-1930. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. 424. In Annali d’Italianistica Vol. 32 (2014): 543-545.

Simone Cinotto.  The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013. Pp. 312. In Choice Vol. 51 (June 2014).

Yehuda Cohen. The Italians: Family as a Core. Brighton, Chicago, and Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2013. Pp. 193. In Choice Vol. 51 (February 2014).

Anthony Julian Tamburri. Re-viewing Italian Americana: Generalities and Specificities on Cinema. New York: Bordighera Press, 2011. Pp. 161. In Annali d’Italianistica Vol. 31 (2013): 736-738.

Patrizia Sambuco. Corporeal Bonds: The Daughter-Mother Relationship in 20th Century Italian Women's Writing. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. 175. In Journal of Modern Italian Studies Vol. 18/4 (August 2013): 543-545.

Anthony Mollica. Ludolinguistica e Glottodidattica. Perugia e Welland, Ontario: Guerra e Soleil Publishing, 2010. Pp. 448. In Cultura & Comunicazione Vol. IV/4 (June 2013): 30-31.

Martino Marazzi. Voices of Italian America: A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology. Trans. Ann Goldstein. New York: Fordham UP, 2012. Pp. 343. In Annali d’Italianistica Vol. 30 (2012): 436-439.

Daniela Bartalesi-Graf. Voci dal sud: A journey to Southern Italy with Carlo Levi and His Christ Stopped at Eboli. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2011. Pp. 419. In Italica Vol. 89/1 (Spring 2012): 127-129.

David Gilmour. The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their People. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Pp. 447. In Choice Vol. 49 (May 2012): 1729.

Julie Dashwood and Margherita Ganeri (eds.). The Risorgimento of Federico De Roberto. Berna: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. 319. In L’Anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature Vol. 23/1-2 (Spring-Fall 2011): 169-176.

Jacqueline Andall and Derek Duncan (eds.). National Belongings: Hybridity in Italian Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 239. In Annali d’Italianistica Vol. 29 (2011): 477-479.

Marisa S. Trubiano. Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards from a Changing World. Madison-NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010. Pp. 225. In Italian Culture Vol. XXIX/2 (Sept. 2011): 150-152.

Allison S. Belzer. Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 282. In Choice Vol. 48 (June 2011): 2008.

Matteo Di Gesù (ed.). Letteratura, identità, nazione. Palermo: :duepunti edizioni, 2009. Pp. 334. In Annali d’Italianistica Vol. 28 (2010): 465-467.

Claudia Baldoli. A History of Italy. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 337. In Choice Vol. 48 (Oct. 2010): 1083.

Luciano Monzali. The Italians of Dalmatia: From Italian Unification to World War I. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. 403. In Choice Vol. 47 (Mar. 2010): 1351.

Bibliographies and Encyclopedia Entries

“Anna Banti: Further Reading.” In Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 303. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale-Cengage Learning (2014). 139-141.

AcademicAdvisorship

“Anna Banti.” In Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 303. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale-Cengage Learning (2014). 1-141.

Web-Based Publications

“Il mio 11 settembre nel marzo del 2020. Non quasi, ma tutto online ai tempi del coronavirus [My September 11th in March 2020: Not Almost, but All Online during the Coronavirus].” In Griselda Online: Il Portale di letteratura (April 5, 2020). https://site.unibo.it/griseldaonline/it/diario-quarantena/chiara-de-santi-mio-11-settembre-marzo-2020

“Il progetto IEREST sbarca negli Stati Uniti. Chiara De Santi intervista Luisa Bavieri e Lucia Livatino [The IEREST Project Lands in the United States. Chiara De Santi Interviews Luisa Bavieri and Lucia Livatino].” In Insula Europea (July 23, 2018). http://www.insulaeuropea.eu/2018/07/23/il-progetto-ierest-sbarca-negli-stati-uniti-chiara-de-santi-intervista-luisa-bavieri-lb-e-lucia-livatino-ll/

“I ‘romanzi di voci’ di Svetlana Alexievich (Premio Nobel per la Letteratura 2015) [The ‘Novels of Voices’ by Svetlana Alexievich (Nobel Prize for Literature 2015)].” In Insula Europea (November 27, 2015). ONLINE: http://www.insulaeuropea.eu/memorie_oltreoceano/alexievich_desanti.html

“Se un giorno d’estate uno studioso… alla Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze [If in a Summer Day an Academic… at the Central National Library of Florence].” In Insula Europea (October 30, 2015). ONLINE: http://www.insulaeuropea.eu/memorie_oltreoceano/bibliotecafirenze_desanti.html

“Il precariato accademico negli Stati Uniti [The Academic Temporary Employment in the United States].” In Insula Europea (August 30, 2015). ONLINE: http://www.insulaeuropea.eu/memorie_oltreoceano/desanti_precariato.html

“Tra libri cartacei e libri digitali: una prospettiva transnazionale” [Between Paper Books and Digital Books: A Transnational Perspective].” In Insula Europea (July 9, 2015). ONLINE: http://www.insulaeuropea.eu/

“Roma non fu fatta in un giorno: nascita di un programma d’italiano negli Stati Uniti [Rome Was Not Built in a Day: The Birth of an Italian Program in the United States].” In Insula Europea (March 18, 2014). ONLINE: http://www.insulaeuropea.eu/letture/editoriale_de_santi.html

“Chiara De Santi intervista Arturo Larcati [Chiara De Santi Interviews Arturo Larcati]” (in Italian with German translation of the interview published in L’Anello che non tiene). In Insula Europea (January 27, 2014). ONLINE: http://www.insulaeuropea.eu/leinterviste/interviste/desanti_larcati.html

Selected Publications in Russian Studies

Book

Strategies of Sovietization in Central Asia: The Red Cross and the Red Crescent, the Hujum, and the Purges, 1924-1930. Köln-Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009.

Articles

“Storie di donne uzbeke tra emancipazione e tradizione (1924-1928) [Stories of Uzbek Women between Emancipation and Tradition (1924-1928)].” Slavia 4/XII (Oct.-Dec. 2003): 119-141.

“La donna nell’Asia centrale sovietica negli anni Venti [The Woman in Soviet Central Asia in the 1920s].” Il Calendario del Popolo 659 (Dec. 2001): 26-35.

Book Chapters

“Cultural Revolution and Resistance in Uzbekistan during the 1920s. New Perspectives on the Woman Question.” In Paolo Sartori and Tommaso Trevisani (eds.). Patterns of Transformation In and Around Uzbekistan. Reggio Emilia-Italy: Diabasis, 2007. 51-89.

“La legislazione sovietica di famiglia in Asia centrale (1917-1929) [Soviet Legislation on the Family in Central Asia (1917-1929)].” In Cristina Carpinelli. Donne e povertà nella Russia di El’cin. Milan-Italy: Franco Angeli, 2004. 209-234.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Marriage Practices: Central Asia.” In EWIC-Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. 255-257.

“Political-Social Movements: Feminist: Central Asia.” In EWIC-Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 2. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. 587-589.

“Religious Associations: Central Asia.” In EWIC-Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 2. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. 705-706.

Other publications

C'era una volta un pidocchione in giro per il mondo. Translated from Italian by Alessandra Calamassi and Chiara De Santi. Illustrated by Sofia E. Caviedes and Julia G. Caviedes. Self-published children's book via Amazon KDP: August 9, 2019.

C'era una volta un pidocchione who travelled the world. Edited by Alexander A. Caviedes. Illustrated by Sofia E. Caviedes and Julia G. Caviedes. Self-published children's book via Amazon KDP: April 16, 2019.

“Prefazione.” In Piero De Santi. La strenna natalizia. Florence: Edizioni Visiva, 2014. 5-7.

“We are ‘famiglia’: A sister-city project to connect Chautauqua region to Tuscany, Italy.” Dunkirk Observer (Sunday, August 19, 2012): C1-C2.

“Returning home from Italy with a luggage full of memories.” Dunkirk Observer (Sunday, August 12, 2012): C2.

“A Vacation by the Adriatic Coast: Relaxing at the beach, excellent food, and some excursions.” Dunkirk Observer (Sunday, July 29, 2012): C2.

“Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Italian reenactments.” Dunkirk Observer (Sunday, July 22, 2012): C2.

“Italian festivals during the summer time.” Dunkirk Observer (Sunday, July 15, 2012): C2.

“The Italian market: a cultural alternative.” Dunkirk Observer (Sunday, July 8, 2012): C2.

“From Italy to America and back: Daughter thanks her mother fro keeping family ties strong, an ocean away.” Supplement to the Dunkirk Observer (Tuesday, May 8, 2012): 8, 12.

Published translations from English into Italian

Risto Alapuro. “La guerra civile finlandese del 1918 e il suo ricordo in prospettiva locale [The 1918 Finnish Civil War and Its Remembering in Local Perspective].” Memoria e Ricerca 21 (Jan.-Apr. 2006): 21-34.

Heike Karge. “Dalla ‘memoria congelata’ allo scontro del ricordo: i monumenti commemorativi della Seconda Guerra Mondiale nella Jugoslavia di Tito [From ‘Frozen Memory’ to the Encounter of Remembrance: Memorials of the Second World War in Tito’s Yugoslavia].” Memoria e Ricerca 21 (Jan.-Apr. 2006): 81-100.

Eleni Pashaloudi. “I siti web della memoria: la Guerra Civile Americana e l’avvento di internet [Websites of Memory: The American Civil War and the Advent of Internet].” Memoria e Ricerca 21 (Jan.-Apr. 2006): 177-196.

Newsletter of the Department of World Languages and Cultures, State University of New York at Fredonia (Editor)

Newsletter: Third Issue (Spring 2013-Fall 2013)

Newsletter: Second Issue (Fall 2012)

Newsletter: First Issue (Fall 2011-Spring 2012)