Dr. Emanuele Pettener

Ph.D., Comparative Studies
Associate Professor of Italian and Writer in Residence
Areas of Expertise
Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
John Fante
E-mail:
epettene@fau.edu
Phone:
561-297-3623
Emanuele Pettener was born in Venice, Italy, and has lived in the United States since 2000. He teaches Italian language and literature at 大象传媒, where he received his Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2004.
He is the author of five novels:
, Cagliari; Arkadia, 2022 (news)
. Cagliari: Arkadia, 2021.
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. Tropea: Meligrana e Priamo Editori, 2014.听
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. Tropea: Meligrana Editore, 2013. .听
. Ferrara: Corbo Editore, 2009.
A collection of short stories in English:
, transl. by Thomas de Angelis. New York: Bordighera Press, 2014.
In 2024 Floridiana has been translated into Spanish by Juan Jos茅 Delgado Gelabert:
He is the author of the critical volumes:
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Mantua: Oligo, 2023
. F arleigh Dickinson University University Press, 2024. Translated by Zach Scalzo (大象传媒 graduate).
Dr. Pettener translated (with Irene Marchegiani Jones) Joelle Biele鈥檚 book Broom. La scopa. (New York: Bordighera Press, 2014) and Anthony Tamburri's Scrittori Italiano(-)Americani. Trattino s矛 trattino no (Poggio Rusco: MnM Print, 2018).听
He prefaced and edited the special issue " of the literary journal Nuova Prosa (Milan: Greco&Greco, 2009).
Both in Italy and in the United States, he published several short-stories, interviews with writers, nonfictions pieces, translations, reviews, scholarly articles and book chapters.
Book chapters:
"Preface" to A Window to Zeewijk by Marino Magliani. Bordighera Press, 2021.听
鈥淏reve passeggiata nel giardino della letteratura italoamericana.鈥 Gli italiani in USA: nuove prospettive di una diaspora secolare, edited by Anthony Tamburri and Silvana Mangione. New york: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute 2021. 129-168.
"John Fante and the Others: The Strange Destiny of the Italian/American Writers." Mediated Ethnicity: New Italian-American Cinema,.edited by Giuliana Muscio, Joseph Sciorra, Giovanni Spagnoletti, Anthony Julian Tamburri. New York: Calandra Institute, 2009. 45-54.
"Ethnic Stereotypes in John Fante" in Italian Americans in the Third Millennium: Social Histories & Cultural Representations, edited by Paolo Giordano and Anthony Julian Tamburri. New York: AIHA, 2009. 128-44.
"John Fante e gli Altri: lo Strano Destino degli Scrittori Italo/Americani" in Quei Bravi ragazzi. Il Cinema italoamericano contemporaneo, edited by Giuliana Muscio, Giovanni Spagnoletti. Marsilio: Venezia, 2007. 47-54.听
Articles:
鈥淲hen we were Bandini.鈥 VIA. Voices of Italian Americana, 30.1 (Spring 2019). 71-84.
"Tra umorismo e satira: donne americane e donne italoamericane nella narrativa di John Fante." 听Lettere aperte听 (University of Innsbruck, Austria). Edition 2 (2015).
"Scrivere in America". Studi Italiani, n.1 (2014) .
"Italian American Stereotypes in the Italian/American Movies." LiCuS 鈥 Journal of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, 4.5 (2009). 147-156.
"" Rain Taxi Review of Books (Winter 2008/2009), online edition.
"Ethnicity, Desires, and Dreams in John Fante鈥檚 Fiction." Quaderni del 鈥900 鈥 The Road to Italy and the United States: La creazione e diffusione delle opere di John Fante. Vol. 6 (2006). 89-100.
"Like Father, Unlike Son: the Novels of Dan Fante." VIA. Voices of Italian Americana. (2002). 11-22.
Dr. Pettener opens the 2023 John Fante Festival (Torricella Peligna)
Read the short story, "Oscar Wilde in Boca" published by Adelaide. Independent Monthly Literary Magazine. April 2019.
Read the short story "" published in LeccePrima, per la serie "Racconti Raminghi" a cura di Emanuela Chiriac貌, 2023. It has been translated from its English version (published in the Michigan-based LitMag "The MacGuffin") into Turkish by Burcu Ozun, "K眉莽眉k Sar谋 Ayakkab谋lar" and published by the Istanbul-based LitMag "Hece 脰yk眉" (n.119). The story has been discussed at the Italian Culture Institute in Beijing, China, September 27, 2023.
Watch Dr. Pettener's interview on the national news for and for , in Italian.