Antonio Morena

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Antonio Morena

is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA / MA). Thanks to a grant from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs he completed a Laurea (2001) from the University of Florence with a dissertation titled: "The exegetical tradition of the Song of Songs and the Duecento". In September 2008 he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University (Department of Romance Languages & Literatures). His dissertation, “1932” [Pertile, Erspammer, Ben-Ghiat] presents and discusses a cross-section of Italian culture in 1932, a year that marked the tenth year anniversary of the march on Rome of 1922 and an ideal opportunity to restore, re-create and exhibit a revolutionary aura by consecrating ideas, initiating new members into the fellowship of the State and shocking the nation into a new narrative: a future march from Rome. “1932” considers the regeneration of people and ideas in the youth debate, State textbooks and cinema (Camicia Nera) as well as a critical assessment, in the literary journal Solaria, of the exhibition value attributed to them. A revised book manuscript is currently under review for publication. He has co-authored the 6th edition of of Da Capo for Thomson-Heinle (January 2010). He has also edited the second edition of “Crescendo! An Intermediate Italian Program “ for Thomson-Heinle (2006) and is currently co-authoring an Italian language manuscript - Piazza - focusing on language acquisition and social networks, Google Earth and media discourse analysis.

He has also published "Autobiografia e struttura nel 'mezzo' delle rime sparse", Italica n. 2 April-June, 2005 pgs. 180-193. Articles on Iacopone da Todi, forgotten Italian-Americana scholars (Rudolph Altrocchi) and Italian epistolography are currently under review. A manuscript titled Lettere Italiane is being completed. He has also advised students (junior tutorials, senior thesis) focusing on Latin American (Italian-Argentinian literature: Antonio dal Masetto; Italian communities in Chile; El Tango) and Spanish culture (Flamencología). His translation of Giovanni Comisso’s novel Gente di Mare into English is currently under review for publication. Antonio has been teaching at Harvard since 2003. He is a lecturer at Bentley College and teaches at the Harvard Extension School. During the summer he is visiting professor at the Middlebury College Italian School (2007, 2008, 2009).

email: antomorena@gmail.com