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Fred Gardaphé

 

Professor of Italian American Studies

Coordinator of the New American Studies

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Fred Gardaphé directs the Italian American Studies Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is Associate Editor of Fra Noi, an Italian American monthly newspaper, editor of the Series in Italian American Studies at State University of New York Press, and co-founding-co-editor of Voices in Italian Americana, a literary journal and cultural review. He is current President of MELUS (2003-2006) and past President of the American Italian Historical Association (1996-2000). His study, Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative, is based on his dissertation which one the Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli/Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs award for 1993 dissertations, and was published by Duke University Press in 1996; it was named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 by Choice.


Professional Activities

President of the American Italian Historical Association

Vice President of the Italian Cultural Center, in Stone Park, IL

Associate Director Fra Noi, an Italian American Monthly Newspaper

Editor of the series in Italian American Studies at SUNY Press

Co-founder and co-editor of Voices in Italian Americana, a Literary Journal and Cultural Review

 

Publications:

Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Duke University Press, 1996)

Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian American Writer (Guernica, 1996)

Mustache Pete is Dead: Italian-American Oral Tradition Preserved in Print (Bordighera Inc. 1998)

New Chicago Stories

Italian American Ways

From the Margin, Writings in Italian Americana

Two one-act plays:

Vinegar and Oil
Imported from Italy

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