MICHAEL VENA, Ph.D., PROFESSOR OF ITALIAN

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

1. La maschera e il volto by Luigi Chiarelli, a play edited by M. Vena, Éditions Soleil, Toronto, 2002 –

(reviews in Italica, Summer 2003; Annali d’Italianistica,v.22, 2004)

2. Orizzonti culturali (Contemporary Italian Culture through Literature) edited by M.Vena / M. Moffa, Nutmeg Press, 1980 (second edition in progress)

3. Twentieth-Century Italian Grotesque Theater (three plays by Chiarelli, Antonelli, Cavacchioli) Translated with a Critical Introduction, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.

Has received the following reviews so far by:

1. Novelist Giose Rimanelli (SUNY Albany) in World Literature Today, December 2001.

2. Steve Botterill (U. of California, Berkeley)in Humanities, Summer 2001.

3. Daniela Cavallaro (U. of Auckland, New Zealand) in Annali d’Italianistica (U. N.C.,Chapel Hill, Fall 2002 –

4.A review by Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta at the request of the SCSU Faculty Scholar Committee.

4. Leonardo Sciascia, His honor , a drama in three acts,Italian Quarterly, Winter/Spring 1999, XXXVI, nos.139-40, Rutgers University ( play translated )

CHAPTER / SECTION PUBLISHED IN BOOK.

1."Alberti's Linguistic Innovations", Italian Literature: Roots and Branches, edited by Giose Rimanelli and Kenneth Atchity, Yale University Press, 1976, pp. 243-263.

2. Some articles on Alberti's language appearing in journals listed below and in the chapter from Italian Literature: Roots and Branches,Yale University Press, were incorporated in two historical/etymological dictionaries: the one by Cortelazzo - Zolli in Italy and the other by Max Pfister in Germany.(see articles ff.)

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:

"Leon Battista Alberti innovatore del volgare." In Il Veltro, vol.40, 3-4,1996,pp. 331-337(Rome, Italy); part of paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, Chianciano Terme, Italy, December l995.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

1.“Cavacchioli’s The Bird of Paradise and Metatheater”,Rivista di Studi Italiani , XVII, 2, 1999,pp.89-98.

2. “Early Italian Settlers in Norwalk,” Folio Series, Italian American Historical Society of Connecticut, 1999, pp.1-8.

3.“The 'Grotteschi' Revisited”, Forum Italicum, 31,1, Spring 1997, pp. 153-62.

4." Retrodatazioni e aggiunte lessicali dal Profugiorum ab aerumna di L.B.Alberti",Rivista di Studi Italiani, XIV, 2, 1996, pp.106-37.

5.“Retrodatazioni e aggiunte lessicali dalle Rime e sentenze morali e dal Theogenius di L.B.Alberti,”Italica, vol. 72, IV, 1995,pp.1-24.

6."Luigi Chiarelli: Portrait of a Playwright," Connecticut Review, 1974, pp. 59-63.

7."Alcune retrodazioni e aggiunte lessicali dal De Iciarchia dell'Alberti", Lingua Nostra,vol. 31, Florence,June 1970, pp. 41-48.-L.N.directed by president of Italian Language Academy.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING:

1. “Luigi Antonelli”(10,200 words +/- entry)for the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB, Gale Publications), proof-read, forthcoming.

2. “Enrico Cavacchioli”(10,800 words +/-,Dictionary of Literary Biography (DBL, Gale Publications),proof-read, forthcoming.

3. Entry on Luigi Chiarelli, Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Grolier Publications, submitted, forthcoming.

4. An Inter-Active Concordance of all the works of L. B. Alberti (one thousand pages of 15^th century prose)is being published by the Italian Academy in Florence - Accademia della Crusca -and the University of Pisa(in CD-ROM for sure, possibly in several volumes of about 7000 pages).

BOOK REVIEWS:

1. J. Street and Rod Umlas, transl., ed., The Italian Theater of the Grotesque, Mellen University Press, 2003, Italica, forthcoming in 2005.

2.P.D. Giovanelli, Lettere di Roberto Bracco a Sabatino Lopez e Dario Niccodemi, Forum Italicum,38,1,Spring 2004,pp.290-92.

3.R. Salsano, Rosso di San Secondo, Italian Quarterly, Summer / Fall 2003,XL,nos.157-8,Rutgers University.

4.A.L. Lepschky, "Varietà linguistiche e pluralità di codici nel Rinascimento",Italica, vol. 75, Summer 1998, pp. 258-60.

5.S. Martelli, "Letteratura Contaminata", Rivista di Studi Italiani, University of Toronto, vol. XV,1, 1997, pp. 261-66.(Italian)

6.S. Martelli, "Letteratura Contaminata", Voices in Italian Americana, Purdue University, vol. 8, 2,1997, pp. 237-40.(English)

7.J.Picchione,ed. "I discorsi della critica in America," Rivista di Studi Italiani, University of Toronto, vol. XIV,1, 1995, pp. 232-36.

8.G. Rimanelli,"Molise Molise",Canadian Journal of Italian Studies, vol. 6,1983, pp. 243-45.

9.E. Gerato, "A Critical Study of the Life and Works of Alessandro Poerio", Italica, vol. 55, Fall 1978, pp. 76-78.

10. Preface to E. Paparella, Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of G.B. Vico, Mellen Research University Press, 1993.(Also Web,1-31-2000)

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND INTEREST IN GENERAL:

1. A collection of Critical Essays on Twentieth-Century Italian Theater by well known scholars from America and Europe, edited by me with an introduction and one of the essays.

2. A new volume of Italian plays in translation.

3. A literary profile of Leon Battista Alberti in book form.

CONFERENCE PAPERS DELIVERED OR SESSIONS CHAIRED / ORGANIZED:

1. Presenter, Session on “Meet the Authors of Éditions Soleil”

of Torontoto discuss the pedagogy of a new text edition,

Annual Meeting, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign

Languages (ACTFL)/ American Association of Teachers of

Italian (AATI), Boston, November 16-19, 2000.

2. Chair, Session on “Women Writers in the Renaissance”, American Association for Italian Studies, New York University, April 14-16, 2000.

3. Chair, Session on “Renaissance Literature”, Annual Meeting, AATI / ACTFL, Dallas, Nov. 18-21,1999.

4. Presenter, “Enrico Cavacchioli : Some Innovations in Theater”, C.S.U. Conference at Eastern Connecticut State University, October 16,1999.

5. Presenter, “Cavacchioli’s The Bird of Paradise and Metatheater”,Conference on Romance Literatures, Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., March 5, 1999.

6. Presenter, “The Theater of Enrico Cavacchioli:from Futurism to Grotesque,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, April 16-19,1998.

7. Chair and Organizer of Session on "Power and Play in Renaissance Literature", American Association for Italian Studies, Chicago, April 2-5,1998.

8. Chair and Organizer of Session on " Migration Literature",Annual Meeting, AATI / ACTFL, Nashville, Nov. 20-23,1997.

9. Chair, “Session on Translation”, AATI / ACTFL, annual meeting, Philadelphia, Nov.19-21,1996.

10. Paper: "Leon Battista Alberti innovatore del volgare",American Association of Teachers of Italian, Annual Meeting AATI, sponsored by the Universities of Siena and Perugia, Chianciano Terme, Italy, Dec. 11-14,1995.

11. Panel Participant, "Legal Aspects in Studies Abroad", Annual Meeting, ACTFL, San Antonio, Texas, 1993.

12. Panel Participant,"Programs Abroad", Annual Meeting,

ACTFL,Boston,1989.

13. Commencement Address, Norwalk Community College, Stamford,

May 1988.

14. Lecture: " Nature and Love in Alberti", Southern Conference on Foreign Languages, Rollins College, February 7, 1983.

15. Chair, Session on Italian Renaissance, Northeast Modern Language Association, May, 1981.

16. Secretary, Session on Renaissance Literature, Northeast Modern Language Association, May, 1980.

17. Organizer and Chair, Session on “L.B. Alberti: Art and Literature”, American Association of University Professors of Italian, Urbana, Univ. of Illinois, November 22, 1980.

18. "Of Women and Love in Alberti", American Association of University Professors of Italian, University of Illinois, Urbana, November 22, 1980.

19. "Columbus - Five Centuries Later", Columbus Day Speech, Norwalk City Hall, Norwalk, Conn., October 13, 1980.

20. "Is There an Italian-American Language?" Also, moderator of a session on "Education and Teaching", Yale Symposium on the Italian-American Experience, July 20, 1979.

21. Participant, National Conference on "The Presence of Italian Culture in America", sponsored by the Harvard Center for European Studies, Cambridge, Mass., May 18-20, 1979.

22. Participant, International Conference on "Italy - U.S. Relations", Washington, D.C., sponsor the FIAT Foundation, May 10-11, 1979.

23. "Bilingual Education Round Table", with Prof. Janice Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University, April 25, 1979.

24. Participant, International Congress on Renaissance Theatre in Northern Italy, Columbia University, November 22-25, 1978.

25. "Higher Education in Connecticut", Exchange Club of East Haven, November 8, 1978.

26. "Coordination among Community and State Colleges",Professional Day Program for Faculty, Norwalk Community College, August 28, 1978.

27. "The Italian Language", Amity Club of New Haven, May 3, 1977.

28. "The Teaching of Italian in Connecticut", New England Foreign

Language Association, Fairfield University, May 4, 1974.

29. "Guglielmo Marconi on the Centennial of His Birth", Regional

Meeting, Sons of Italy, Norwalk, April 20,1974.

30. "A Renaissance Concept of Nature", Circolo Italiano di Yale, April 22, 1973.

31. "La donna nelle opere letterarie di L.B. Alberti" Trinity College, Hartford - New England Chapter, AATI (November 20,1971).

32. Commencement Address: Norwalk Community College, June, 1971.

GRANTS RECEIVED:

Fulbright Grant for American Teachers

National Endowment for the Humanities

Scholar in Residence, Italian Academy of Language – Accademia della Crusca – Florence, Summer 1997.

Several C.S.U. Grants

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Consultant - Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N. J., for the National Teachers Education certification exam in Italian,1987 to 2000.

MASTER’S THESES ADVISEMENT:

A number of theses dealing with literary topics such as Petrarch, Machiavelli, Saba, as well as applied linguistics and pedagogy.

DISSERTATION TITLE:

Leon Battista Alberti: contributo alla storia della lessicografia e del pensiero umanistico.

INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph. D.: YALE UNIVERSITY