- Professor
of Italian
Editor of Gradiva: An International Journal of Italian Poetry
President IPA (Italian Poetry in America) - e-mail: lfontanella@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Luigi Fontanella
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Luigi Fontanella studied at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”
(Laurea in Lettere), and at Harvard University (Ph.D. in Romance Languages and
Literatures). He was a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University, 1976-1978.
Currently he is
Professor of Italian in the Dept. of European Languages, Literatures, and
Cultures, at Stony Brook University. Fontanella is Founder and President of IPA (Italian
Poetry in America). and the editor of Gradiva and Gradiva
Publications, which was recently awarded the prestigious Prize for
Translation by the “Ministero dei Beni Culturali”. He has given lectures in more
than seventy universities in the United States and in Europe. Selections of his
poetry have been included in twenty anthologies, both in Europe and in the
United States. As a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist. he has
published twenty books (eleven collections of poetry; seven volumes of
criticism, two books of narrative), and seventy scholarly articles.
Publications:
Literary Criticism
Poetry
Fiction