Italian Americana

About

Italian Americana is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to exploring the Italian emigrant/immigrant experience through both scholarly and creative works. Founded in 1974 by Richard Gambino, together with Ernest Falbo and Bruno Arcudi, the journal was first published at Queens College, City University of New York. In 1989 Italian Americana’s founders turned over the publication and editorship to Carol Bonomo Albright, who published the journal at the University of Rhode Island up until her retirement in the spring of 2015. The journal’s next appointed editor, Carla A. Simonini, relocated Italian Americana first to Youngstown State University in Youngstown, OH, and later, in 2018, to Loyola University Chicago, where it served as a cornerstone of Loyola’s endowed Paul and Ann Rubino Italian American Studies Program. The current editor is Alan J. Gravano.

Although the journal has undergone several changes in editorial leadership, its mission has remained consistent since its original founding — i.e. to publish scholarly and creative works that explore the topic of Italian Americanness from a wide variety of perspectives. Italian Americana today maintains its long tradition of printing innovative articles by historians, social scientists, literary critics, and visual artists, among others, as well as presenting original works of fiction, poetry, and memoir. A number of writers whose early works first appeared in Italian Americana have, in fact, gone on to achieve national and international acclaim, which is a particular point of pride for the editorial team.

Beyond scholarly and creative offerings, each issue also features a book review section, which aims to introduce readers to the most recent contributions to the interdisciplinary field of Italian American Studies. We are pleased to be able to maintain the legacy of and to continue to print the journal semi-annually, bringing our readership a winter and summer issue.

Italian Americana has been given a Fascia A, or A rating, from Anvur, Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems).

Indexes

America: History & Life with Full Text, America: History and Life, Anvur, Brepols, Current Abstracts, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, EBSCO, Ethnic Diversity Source, Historical Abstracts (Online), IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes - und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur, MLA International Bibliography, Periodicals Index Online, Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, TOC Premier

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Editors

Editor-in-chief
Alan J. Gravano
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions
1800 S. Novell Place
Provo, Utah 84606
alan.gravano@rm.edu

ALAN J. GRAVANO is the Writing Center Director at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. He is a former MLA Delegate Assembly member (2017-2020), the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession (2018-2021, Chair 2020-21), and past president of the Italian American Studies Association (2015-2021). Currently, he serves on the MLA LLC Italian American (2022-27). He contributed “Reassessing the Topography of New York City in Don DeLillo’s Fiction” to Don DeLillo in Context (Cambridge UP, 2021)and “Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson as the Anti-Hero in Boardwalk Empire” to The Neglected Works of Martin Scorsese (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024), and published “CNN’s Searching for Italy: Stanley Tucci as Foodways Icon” and “Chef/Cook, Influencer, Mixologist, Travel Host: Stanley Tucci as Everyman” in Italian Americans in Film and Other Media (Palgrave, 2024). He co-edited Italian Americans on the Page: Re-Reading the Classics and Examining Underexplored Subjects (SUNY Press, forthcoming 2024).

Co-editor & Review Editor
John Paul Russo
Department of Classics
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33124

John Paul Russo is professor and chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Miami. He has published books and essays on the theory of criticism, ethnicity, and history of culture. Recipient of three Fulbright Fellowships to Italy, he has taught at the universities of Palermo, Rome, Genoa, and Salerno. He was co-editor of RSA (Rivista di Studi Nord Americani) (2009-12). His The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society was awarded the 2006 Bonner Prize. His study of representations of Italy, Italians, and Italian Americans, co-written by Robert Casillo and entitled The Italian in Modernity, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011.

Poetry Editor
Maria Terrone

Maria Terrone is the author of the poetry collections Eye to Eye (Bordighera Press, 2014); A Secret Room in Fall (McGovern Prize, Ashland Poetry Press); The Bodies We Were Loaned (The Word Works), and two chapbooks, American Gothic, Take 2 and Life, Death, & Cash. Her fourth collection, No Known Coordinates, is forthcoming from The Word Works. Published in French and Farsi, her work has appeared in such media as Poetry, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and The Hudson Review and in more than 30 anthologies from publishers including Knopf and Beacon Press. She is also the author of At Home in the New World (Bordighera Press), a work of creative nonfiction. www.mariaterrone.com

Janine Certo is the author of O Body of Bliss, winner of the Longleaf Press Book Contest in Poetry (Longleaf Press, 2023), Elixir, winner of both the New American Poetry Prize and the Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize (New American Press and Bordighera Press, 2021), and In the Corner of the Living, runner-up for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award (2017). She is an associate professor at Michigan State University and assistant poetry editor at Italian Americana.

Steve Reese

Steven Reese is Professor Emeritus of English at Youngstown State University in Ohio, where he taught in the Northeast Ohio MFA program. His poems have appeared widely in journals and in three book-length collections: Enough Light to Steer By (Cleveland State UP), American Dervish (Salmon), and Excentrica (BlazeVOX).

Fiction Editor
Christine Palamidessi Moore

Christine Palamidessi (Moore) is the author of two novels, The Virgin Knows and The Fiddle Case. Her ancestral memoir, Bridge of Love, documents the Great Wave of Immigration between wars and contains side-by-side Italian-English translations of love letters written by her grandparents in 1919-1920. With Editor-in-Chief Carol Bonomo Albright, she co-edited American Women, Italian Style. She was a Professor of Writing at Boston University for 13 years. Her public art memoir “Grandmothers” ise ngraved on a granite monolith at Boston’s Jackson Square MBTA stop. Her non-fiction has appeared in publications as widely diverse as Andy Warhol’s Interview, the New York Times, and Italian American collections. Currently working as a visual artist, Palamidessi is an awarded Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome and Mass MoCa. She teaches several writing workshops for artists each year. www.palamidessi.com Insta@palamidessi.art

Assistant Fiction Editor
Robin Hazard Ray

Robin Hazard Ray is a historian, essayist, crime fiction writer, and editor. She has degrees in geology and biology from Brown University. She has edited books on art history and antiquities for Cambridge University Press and Getty Publications, among others. Her writings have been published in the Boston Herald, the MIT News, Quaker History, Italian Americana, and Mystery Magazine. Her two historical mystery novels, The Strangers’ Tomb and The Soldiers’ Rest are set in and around Mount Auburn Cemetery, where she leads tours. She lives in Somerville, MA.

Editor-in-chief Emerita
Carol Bonomo Albright

Founded by Ernest S. Falbo and Richard Gambino

Past Editors
Carla Simonini (2016-2024)
Bruno A. Arcudi
Michael Palma (Poetry Editor 2004-2015)
Dana Gioia (Poetry Editor 1994-2003)

Editorial Board

• John Alcorn, Trinity College (2025-27)
• Loretta Baldassar, Edith Cowan University, Australia (2025-27)
• Robert Casillo, University of Miami (2025-27)
• Rita Ciresi, University of South Florida (2024-2026)
• Andrea Ciribuco, National University of Ireland, Galway (2024-26)
• Mariaconcetta Costantini, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio (2025-27)
• Ferdinando Fasce, University of Genoa (2024-26)
• Perri Giovannucci, American University in Dubai (2025-27)
• Luciano Iorizzo, Professor Emeritus, SUNY Oswego (2024-26)
• Martino Marazzi, University of Milan (2025-27)
• Maria Serena Marchesi, University of Messina (2024-26)
• Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, SUNY Purchase (2025-27)
• James Morone, Brown University (2025-27)
• Robert Pascoe, Professor Emeritus, Victoria University, Melbourne (2025-27)
• Maria Galli Stampino, University of Miami (2025-27)

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