{"id":12329,"date":"2016-10-24T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T10:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneconilsud.it\/?p=12329"},"modified":"2017-10-23T17:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:08:28","slug":"italian-professor-receives-fulbright-foundation-for-southern-italy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneconilsud.it\/en\/news\/italian-professor-receives-fulbright-foundation-for-southern-italy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Professor Receives Fulbright Foundation for Southern Italy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ryan Calabretta-Sajder<\/strong>, a visiting assistant professor of Italian in the\u00a0<strong>Department of World Languages, Literatures &amp; Cultures<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0<strong>J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences<\/strong>\u00a0was recently awarded one of four\u00a0<strong>Fulbright<\/strong>, Fondazione CON IL SUD (Foundation for Southern Italy) awards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>This award is an incredible honor<\/em>,&#8221; Calabretta-Sajder said. &#8220;<em>And it will allow me to pursue my research interests, including intersections of critical theory, particularly queer and feminist theories, with Italian and Italian American literature and cinema<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calabretta-Sajder will spend the spring of 2017 in Italy. He said the Fulbright award will also allow him the time to finish his second manuscript,\u00a0<strong>Beyond the Margin or Within the Canon: The Novels of Amara Lakhous<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His forthcoming book\u00a0<strong>Divergenze in celluloide: Colore, migrazione e identit\u00e0 nei film gay di Ferzan \u00d6zpetek\u00a0<\/strong>with Mimesis editore will also be released this year. Calabretta-Sajder has published various articles on Italian cinema and literature in edited volumes and in the journals Italica and Italian Culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The University of Calabria, Arcavacata<\/strong>\u00a0will be hosting Calabretta-Sajder, where he will offer two courses in the Laurea magistrale program (master&#8217;s program). The University of Calabria is the first and only Italian university requiring students to enroll in a course on\u00a0<strong>Diaspora Literature for the Masters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Calabretta-Sajder&#8217;s first course, titled\u00a0<strong>Queering Italian Americana, explores LGBTQ Italian American authors and their struggles with gender, cultural, and social class identity issues<\/strong>. His second course,\u00a0<strong>Realismo Nella Letteratura Italiana<\/strong>, considers realistic characters and moments in Italian history as represented through literature.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Calabretta-Sajder will join the faculty of the three-week Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar co-sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and the University of Calabria.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar, organized in a similar fashion to the\u00a0<strong>NEH Summer Program<\/strong>s, is open to graduate students and faculty at all levels who are interested researching and\/or teaching Italian American culture, literature and cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Calabretta-Sajder will also be a visiting scholar at the prestigious University of Gastronomic Sciences before arriving in Calabria for his teaching assignment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uark.edu\/articles\/35734\/italian-professor-receives-fulbright-foundation-for-southern-italy-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source &#8220;University of Arkansas&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, a visiting assistant professor of Italian in the\u00a0Department of World Languages, Literatures &#038; Cultures\u00a0in the\u00a0J. 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