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Italian Faculty Profiles
Philip Balma
Assistant Professor of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies;
Italian Language Coordinator
Philip Balma is Assistant Professor of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, where he also serves as the Coordinator of the Italian language program. He teaches modern Italian literature and cinema, as well as courses on the Italian-American experience. His research interests include the Jewish experience in contemporary Italophone literature and film, artistic representations of World War II, the theory and practice of literary translation, Italian literature in dialect, the influence of English on the Italian language, and the postcolonial question in Italy.
He was previously a member of the Italian faculty at Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Georgia. His work has been published in Italica, Forum Italicum, Italian Quarterly, Italian Poetry Review, Translation Review, Saggi di 'Lettere Italiane', and Italianistica Ultraiectina. He is the co-author of Streetwise Italian: the User Friendly Guide to Italian Slang and Idioms published by McGraw-Hill in 2005. He was awarded the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship in 2009, by the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. In the summer of 2011 Prof. Balma was awarded a Visiting Scholarship for the Study of Italian Jewry by the CDEC (Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea) in Milan, Italy.
Recent publications:
"Quando non tradurre vuol dire censurare:
appunti su un racconto di Edith Bruck." Italian Quarterly 177-178 (2008): 31-42.
[Volume published in 2011]
"From Can
to Dawg: Rendering Calzavara’s
Dialectal Poetry for Italophone
and Anglophone Readers." Forum
Italicum 44.1 (Spring 2010): 119-135.
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Norma Bouchard
Associate Professor of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies
Norma Bouchard (PhD, 1996, Comparative Literature, Indiana University) is Associate Professor of Italian Studies. She teaches courses in 19th and 20th century Italian Culture and Literature, from the Risorgimento to Migrant and Postcolonial Writers, Italian American Studies, Film, Critical Theory, and Mediterranean Studies. Among her publications are The Politics of Culture and the Ambiguities of Interpretation: Umberto Eco's Alternative (Lang, 1998), Celine, Gadda, Beckett: Experimental Writers of the 1930s (Florida UP, 2000), Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture: Revisiting the 19th century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinema (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2005), Reading and Writing the Mediterranean: Essays by Consolo (Toronto UP, 2006), Italian Cultural Studies: Negotiating Regional, National and Global Identities, Annali d'Italianistica 24 (2006), Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean (Fordham UP, 2011, Race and Ethnic Studies series) as well as critical essays and translations. She has recently edited a journal issue on the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification, Italy @ 150: National Discourse at the Sesquicentennial 1861-2011, and is completing two monographs, Las indias de por aca: Southern Italian Cultural Theories and Practices in the Era of Globalization, with Valerio Ferme, and Cultural Interventions: Umberto Eco's Historic Imaginary. She is Vice-President elect of the American Association of Italian Studies and has served as Associate Editor of Italica. She is currently Book Review Editor for Italian Culture and Associate Editor of Annali d'Italianistica.
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Federico Pacchioni
Assistant Professor In-Residence of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies
Federico Pacchioni (PhD, 2010, Italian, Indiana University Bloomington) is an Assistant Professor In-Residence in Italian Literary and Cultural Studies. He teaches courses on 20th-century Italian literature, cinema and culture, and on Italian American culture. He is also affiliated with the program of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, contributing with courses in the Film Studies Minor. His scholarship has appeared in journals such as: Italica, Intersezioni, Studi pasoliniani, Fellini-Amarcord, and Forum Italicum. He is currently working on a book manuscript about the creative partnerships between film director Federico Fellini and a number of writers. He is also researching intermedial dynamics linking puppetry with film and literature.
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