8:00–8:45
Hall of Fame – Registration
Great Hall – Breakfast
8:45–9:15
Great Hall – Opening Remarks:
Conference Organizing Committee
Professor Norma Bouchard
Professor Franco Masciandaro
9:15-10:30
The Fantastic in Italian Cinema
Chair Fulvio Orsitto – University of Connecticut
Antonio Morena – Harvard University
The aura of 1932: Camicia Nera
Kathryn St. Ours – Goucher College
Fantasy and the Comedic in Pasolinis Uccellacci e uccellini
Antonio Vitti – Wake Forest University
An Anti–globalization Utopist Journey with a Rossellinian Gaze: Gianni Amelios La stella che non ce/The Missing Star
Board Room
The Fantastic in Dante
Chair Rosetta Giuliani-Caponetto – University of Connecticut
Alberto Gabriele – University of Connecticut
The Fantastic and its Other: Platonic Inspiration –and its Challenges–in the poetry of Dante and Wordsworth
Giuliana Nuvoli – Universit degli Studi di Milano
Il fantastico nell'Inferno di Dante
Sangjin Park – Harvard University
Religious Imagination and Literary Salvation: The Form of Utopia in Dante's Comedy
10:30–11:45
The Fantastic in the Renaissance I
Chair Dario Del Puppo – Trinity College
Sean Cocco – Trinity College
Il Vesuvio e la citt di Napoli nel tardo Rinascimento
Dario Del Puppo – Trinity College
A Lingering Fascination with the Fantastic: Brunettos Bestiary in the Renaissance
Maria Frank – University of Hartford
Fantastic Elements in the Early Biographies of the Prophet Muhammad
Anglo-Italian compromises: the Constant Evolution of Modern Slang
Ermanno Conti – Indiana University
Regional Variations on Italian Slang: le Marche, Tuscany, and Lazio
Giovanni Spani – Middlebury College
Writing and Revising a Dictionary of Italian Slang: a Case for Co-authorship.
11:45–13:15
Angela Matilde Capodivacca – Yale University
Teofilo Folengos Phantasiae Domus
Marina Della Putta Johnston – University of Pennsylvania
The Fantastic In Leonardo: Courtly Entertainment, Art, And Science
Anna Maranini – Universit di Bologna
Animali, uomini, mostri: tenerezze e orrori per unanima sulla soglia
Cristina Perissinotto – University of Ottawa
Imagining the World anew: Renaissance, Utopia and the Fantastic
Board Room
Corrado Federici – Brock University
Intuiting the Void beneath the Order in the Fictional World of Dino Buzzati
Barnaba Maj – Universit di Bologna
Tra il fantastico e linquietante: lallegoria in Buzzati e Kafka
Joseph Perricone – Fordham University
La realt dellimmaginario fantastico: motivazioni etiche ed ideologiche in Buzzati, Moravia, Cassieri.
FIP Conference Room
Intersections of the Fantastic I
Chair Mario Trubiano – University of Rhode Island
Federica K. Clementi – City University of New York
Le Parole Invisibili: Fantastic Architectures in Bruno Schulz and Italo Calvino
Roberto Dainotto – Duke University
The Fantastic Italian–American or the Return of the Repressed Southern Question
Michelangelo La Luna – University of Rhode Island
Il fantastico arbresh di ieri e di oggi: dal De Rada ad Abate
Javier Venturi – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Il taccuino del viaggio introspettivo ed estrospettivo in Palomar di Italo Calvino
13:15-14:15
Great Hall
Lunch (for registered participants only)
14:15–15:00
Great Hall
La fantascienza italiana dal 1952 a oggi
Valerio Evangelisti
Author and Scholar
15:15–16:45
Alumni Lounge
Contemporary Perspectives on the Fantastic I
Chair Norma Bouchard – University of Connecticut
Christopher Larkosh-Lenotti – University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
A Portugal of One: Antonio Tabucchis Transnational Fiction and the Futures of European Identity
Andrea Malaguti – Columbia University
Liquid Dystopia: Rules and Exceptions of the Fantastic in Sebastiano Vassallis 3012: Lanno del profeta
Peter Pedroni – Miami University of Ohio
Two Fantastic Visions of a Post-Atomic World – Carlo Cassola and Paolo Volponi
Luca Somigli – University of Toronto
Il mio nome Pantera: sul western fantastico di Valerio Evangelisti
Board Room
Andrea Baldi – Rutgers University
Visitazioni fantastiche nella scrittura di Anna Maria Ortese: tra abbandono onirico e impegno etico
Tina Chiappetta-Miller – University of Connecticut
Hybrid Subject / Hybrid Theory: Reading Anna Maria Orteses LIguana via Nomad–Rhizome–Voice
Amelia Moser – Columbia University
Sacrifice of the Innocent: Uncanny Techniques in the Works of Anna Maria Ortese
Valerio Cappozzo – Indiana University
Dante e limmaginario onirico popolare
Alfredo Crudale – University of Connecticut
Sogno damore: Apparitions of Love in Dantes Vita Nuova
Rossana Perri – Universit degli Studi della Calabria
I vostri falsi concetti e illuse oppenioni: il viaggio fantastico nelle diaboliche illusioni di messer Olfo del Paradiso degli Alberti.
Giovanni Spani – Middlebury College
Tra cronaca e memoria: La nova gente e i sbiti guadagni.
17:00–17:45
Great Hall
Pirandello e Svevo: due forme diverse di spiritismo
Paolo Puppa
Universit di Ca Foscari, Venezia
17:45–18:00
Great Hall
Coffee Break
18:00–18:45
Great Hall
Insinuations of the Fantastic
(Italy, the Turn of the Nineteenth Century)
Paolo Valesio
Columbia University
18:45–19:30
19:30
Great Hall
Dinner (for registered participants only)
21:00
Great Hall
Da Svevo a Pirandello –
Lettere impossibili di e con Paolo Puppa
Monologue by Paolo Puppa
Universit di Ca Foscari, Venezia
8:15–9:00
Great Hall – Breakfast
9:00–10:15
Alumni Lounge
Chair Tina Chiappetta-Miller – University of Connecticut
Silvia Camilotti – Universit Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna
Letteratura della Migrazione in Lingua Italiana: i Racconti di Christiana de Caldas Brito
Barbara Garbin – Mount Holyoke College
Paola Masino and the Aesthetics of Otherness
Giulia Po – City University of New York
Se...: le alternative della fantasia in Sigma Epsilon, opera esordio di Clara Sereni.
The Fantastic of Tommaso Landolfi
Mattia Acetoso – Yale University
Autumn Tale: representing desire through the Fantastic
Simone Castaldi – Hofstra University
Language as a function of the Fantastic in Tommaso Landolfis narrative
Leonardo Cecchini – Aarhus Universitet
Tommaso Landolfi scrittore fantastico?
10:30–11:45
Alumni Lounge
Rosita Tordi – Universit IULM di Milano
Alberto Savinio. Solitudine e avventura
Stefano Lazzarin – Universit de St.Etienne
Gli scrittori del Novecento italiano e la nozione di fantastico
Beatrice Sica – New York University
LItalia magica: il fantastico italiano contro il surrealismo francese negli anni Trenta e Quaranta del Novecento.
Daniela La Penna – University of Reading
Paradigms of Representation and the Paradox of Realism in Camillo Boitos Un corpo
Francesca Billiani – University of Manchester
Fallen Women and Disjointed Nations. I. U. Tarchettis Fosca and Camillo Boitos Senso
Lisa Sarti – City University of New York
12:00–13:15
Alumni Lounge
Anna Lazzari – Universit di Siena
Ai confini dell(in)credibile: la fantascienza di Emilio Salgari
Fabrizio Foni – Universit di Trieste
Molta emozione, poco intelletto: narrativa fantastica e horror nelle riviste popolari di primo Novecento
Gloria Pastorino – Fairleigh-Dickinson University
Predica ai pesci e il viaggio onirico del Teatro della Valdoca
Chair Charles Klopp – Ohio State University
Anna Botta – Smith College
Nomadic Trajectories in Celatis Short Stories
Charles Klopp – Ohio State University
Celati africano
Gianni Celatis Concept of la letteratura come fantasticazione
13:15-14:15
Great Hall
Lunch (for registered participants only)
14:15–15:30
Alumni Lounge
Chair Alberto Gabriele – University of Connecticut
David Del Principe – Montclair State University
Dont Be Fruitful and Multiply: Gothic Visions of Dystopia
Mark Epstein – Rider University
Utopia, Dystopia and the Fantastic in I.U.Tarchetti
Andrea Righi – Cornell University
Le forme dellinsubordinazione e il carattere sociale del fantastico. Un confronto tra Le avventure di Pinocchio (1881) di Carlo Collodi e Pinocchio con gli stivali (1977) di Luigi Malerba.
Chair Felice Italo Beneduce – University of Connecticut
Morena Corradi – University of Pennsylvania
Uno spettro si aggira per l'Italia: istanze del soprannaturale nei giornali della Scapigliatura democratica.
Daniela De Pau – Drexel University
Il realismo fantastico di Jean Rouch nelle inchieste di Donne mie
Cale LaSalata – University of North Carolina
Terra Madre: An Italian-American reading of Cristo si e' fermato a Eboli
15:45–17:00
Alumni Lounge
Intersections of the Fantastic III
Chair Gloria Pastorino – Fairleigh-Dickinson University
Marco Cupolo – University of Hartford
The Fantastic Language of Vincenzo Rabito
Estelle Gilson – Independent Scholar
The long arduous but happily successful task of bringing the voice of Massimo Bontempelli to readers of English
Teresa Fava Thomas – Fitchburg State College
The Role of Italian Diplomacy in the US 1870–1903
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg – Brown University