 Steve Cerulli teaches American History at Hostos Comunity College. He is also a College Assistant at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - Queens College. His areas of interest and research include: Italian/American and Italian diaspora studies from an interdisciplinary perspective, New York City history, critical race theory, ethnic studies, American studies, and anarchist studies.

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Steve Cerulli

Maria Giura is the author of What My Father Taught Me  (Bordighera Press) and Celibate: A Memoir (Apprentice House), which won a 2020 Independent Press Award and was called “complex and emotionally wrought” by Publisher’s Weekly. Maria’s writing has appeared in several journals including Prime Number, Presence, Italian Americana, Lips, VIA, Ovunque Siamo, and Tiferet. She has won awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Center for Women Writers and was selected to judge the Lauria/ Frasca Poetry Award.  She has taught Literature and Writing at St. John’s University, Montclair State University, and Binghamton University where she earned her doctorate in English.  https://www.mariagiura.com/

Maria Giura

 Allison Scola is founder, owner, and curator of Experience Sicily and the Cannoli Crawl. Named one of the experts for the 2019 New York Times Travel Show, Scola writes and lectures on Sicily and leads immersive tours and designs custom itineraries that delight discerning travelers. She has been featured on Rudy Maxa’s World with the Carey’s, America’s #1 Travel Radio Show and as the cannoli expert in the documentary Cannoli, Traditions Around the Table. Scola has lectured about Sicily at University of Pennsylvania, The New School, LIU Post University, Queens College, at high schools in the New York City metropolitan area, and at events in New York City. Experience Sicily https://experiencesicily.com/ Cannoli Crawl https://cannolicrawl.com/ Cannoli Crawl on Instagram @cannolicrawl_nyc From The Inquisitive Eater I Cannoli: Nothing Better in the World http://inquisitiveeater.com/2012/06/25/i-cannoli-nothing-better-in-the-world/

Allison Scola

Opened in 1910 by Ernesto Rossi as Rossi's Libreria, the shop began as a music store and publishing company. Joseph Sciorra, assistant director of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College has said that E. Rossi & Sons is a repository and archive for Italian-American popular culture. Its collection is unprecedented. For more information go to: https://erossico.com/ Link to a fabulous documentary on the history of E. Rossi & Sons: http://www.folkstreams.net/film,174

E. Rossi & Company

Anthony Julian Tamburri is the Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures. His research interests lie in literature, cinema, semiotics, interpretation theory, and cultural studies. 

Anthony Tamburri

Joey Nicoletti is the author of 4 poetry chapbooks and 4 full-length collections, including Boombox Serenade (BlazeVOX, 2019), and Cannoli Gangster, which was selected as a finalist for the 2009 Steel Toe Books Award. His Pushcart Prize-nominated work has appeared in Ovunque Siamo, Gradiva, Voices in Italian Americana, and Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books, among other journals, magazines, and anthologies. A graduate of the University of Iowa, New Mexico State University, and Sarah Lawrence College, Joey teaches creative writing at SUNY Buffalo State.

Joey Nicoletti

Kathy Curto teaches at The Writing Institute and Montclair State University. She is the author of Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood, published by Bordighera Press.  Her work has been featured on NPR, in the essay collection, Listen to Your Mother:  What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now, and in The New York Times, Barrelhouse, La Voce di New York, Drift, Talking Writing, The Inquisitive Eater, Voices in Italian Americana, Ovunque Siamo and Lumina.  She has been the recipient of the Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship, the Montclair State University Engaged Teaching Fellowship and also serves on the faculty of the Joe Papaleo Writers’ Workshop in Cetara, Italy.  Kathy lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and their four children.

Kathy Curto

Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is a poet, performance artist, songwriter, author and playwright.  Her books include: “Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning and Stagelight,” “Pitch, Roll, Yaw” (Guernica), "L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir" (SUNY Press), (Lambda Literary Award finalist) and "Schistsong," (Bordighera).  For more info, go to: www.annielanzillotto.com

Annie Lanzillotto

Rebecca Bauman is Associate Professor of Italian at Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, where she also teaches in the Department of Film, Media and Performing Arts. She has published essays and book chapters on Italian melodrama, masculinity in Italian cinema, and mafia movies in such publications as the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies and Italian Studies. She is Film and Digital Media Reviews editor for the Italian American Review and is Chair of the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies. 

Rebecca Bauman

 Edvige (Edi) Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors. Among her books are Personal Effects (co-edited with Nancy Caronia) and Embroidered Stories, an anthology on domestic needlework in the Italian diaspora (edited with Joseph Sciorra). Edi is a Professor of English at New Jersey City University, where she has trained scores of students, many first-generation immigrants, in the art of memoir. She has completed No Confetti For the Dead, a memoir moored in the space between her homeland of Sicily and North America (with Mary Anne Trasciatti). Currently, Edi is completing an anthology of personal essay on the Triangle Fire.

Edi Giunta

George Guida is Professor at the New York City College of Technology's English Department.   He is the author of Pugilistic: Poems, The Sleeping Gulf: Poems, The Pope Stories and Spectacles of Themselves: Essays in Italian American Popular Culture and Literature.  

George Guida

Joanna Clapps Herman is an Italian American writer, editor and poet. She is the author of three books of prose, editor of two anthologies, and her essays and writing have been published in many anthologies and literary journals. Among the books Joanna has written are When I am Italian, The Anarchist Bastard and No Long and Not Yet: Short Stories. 

Joanna Clapps Herman

Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Uncanny Valley and My Tarantella (Bordighera Press), which was selected as a 2019 “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her chapbook, After Bird was the winner of the Grey Book Press open reading, 2016. Her work is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine and The Sycamore Review and, most recently, has appeared in Verse Daily, The DMQ Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Iron Horse Review (winner, Photo Finish contest). Jennifer Martelli is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. She is co-poetry editor for Mom Egg Review and co-curates the Italian-American Writers Series at I AM Books in Boston.

Jennifer Martelli

Marianne Leone has had roles in several films, including True Love 1989), Goodfellas (1990).  Her longest-running recurring role was on the The Sopranos. She is also a writer. Her book Knowing Jesse was written in 2007 and more recently her book Ma Speaks Up was published by Beacon Press.  She has also contributed to Ovunque Siamo’s publications.

Marianne Leone

Chats with Italian-American artists, writers, musicians and performers.

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