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David Ward
Department
of Italian Studies
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA 02481
Office Phone: (781) 283 2617/Fax: (781) 283 2876
Email: dward@wellesley.edu

Publications

1984    "Translating Registers:  Proletarian Language in 1984," in Quaderni di Filologia Germanica della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Bologna 3 (1984):  297-304
 

1989    "Double Dealing:  Dante's Ironic Self.  Inferno, XV and XXVI," in entralogos, 2 (1989):  70-76
 

1990    "É possibile un'ermeneutica edonista?," in L'ansia dell'interpretazione (Modena:  Mucchi, 1990),             207-227 

            Translation of Pier Cesare Bori, Il vitello d'oro (Turin:  Boringhieri, 1983) as The Golden Calf and the Origins of the Anti-Jewish Controversy (Atlanta:   Scholars Press, 1990) 
 

1992    Review of Robert Pogue Harrison, The Body of Beatrice (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), in Comparative Literature 44:1 (Winter 1992):  88-90 

            "Irony in Augustine and Dante," in Northeastern Modern Languages Association: Italian Studies XVI (1992):  5-19 
 

1993    "Giovanni Raboni," in Dictionary of Literary BiographyTwentieth Century Italian Poets (Columbia, S.C.:  Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, Inc., 1993), 270-275 

            "Fascism and Resistance in the Films of Florestano Vancini," in Italian Culture 10 (1993):  227-242 

"Una geniale mente analizzatrice:  Empirismo eretico di Pier Paolo Pasolini," in Fai la cosa giusta, n. 0 (1993) 

"Pier Paolo Pasolini:  intellettuale senza frontiere--tavola rotonda," with Lino Miccichè, Giorgio De Vincenti, Virgilio Fantuzzi, Marco Tullio Giordana, GiamPiero Samonà, Sam Rohdie and Carlo Donolo,in Fai la cosa giusta, n. 0 (1993) 
 

1994    "The Dialogical Text:  Pier Paolo Pasolini's Film Theory" and Translation of "Il manifesto per un nuovo teatro," in PasoliniContemporary Perspectives, eds. Patrick Rumble and Bart Testa (Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 1994), 127-70 

            "Antefascism/Antifascism:  Benedetto Croce, Carlo Levi and Cultural Politics in Italy, 1943-46," in Romance Languages Annual 6 (1994):  376-82 
 

1995    A Poetics of ResistanceNarrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Madison, NJ:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995)  

            Review of Romana Habekovic and Claudio Mazzola, Insieme (New York:  MacGraw, 1994), in Italica 71:4 (Winter 1994):  571-72 

            Review of Massimo Lollini, Le muse, le maschere e il sublimeG.B. Vico e la poesia nell'età della "ragione spiegata" (Naples:  Guida Editori, 1994), in Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe/Italian Studies in Southern Africa 8:2 (1995):  123-24 
 

1996    AntifascismsCultural Politics in Italy, 1943-1946Benedetto Croce and the Liberals, Carlo Levi and the "Actionists" (Madison, NJ:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996)

             "Unfolding the Image:  Gilles Deleuze and Film Theory," in New Observations 110 (January/February 1996):  30-31

             "Carlo Levi's Antifascism," in The European Legacy 1:1 (1996):  59-64

"Carlo Levi e L'Orologio:  Resistenza e creatività," in L'Orologio di Carlo Levi e la crisi della Repubblica, ed. Gigliola De Donato (Manduria, Bari and Roma:  Piero Lacaita, 1996), 55-64

            Translation of Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Il discorso dei capelli,” Scritti corsari (Milan:  Garzanti, 1975), 9-16, originally published in Corriere della sera, January 7, 1973, in LAnello che non tiene 8: 1-2 (Spring-Fall 1996):  73-78

             Translation of Pier Paolo Pasolini, "Analisi linguistica di uno slogan," Scritti corsari (Milan:  Garzanti, 1975), 17-23, originally published in Corriere della sera, May 17, 1973, in L'Anello che non tiene 8: 1-2 (Spring-Fall 1996): 79-83

 

                                                                                                                            

1997    "`Italy' in Italy.  Old Metaphors and New Racisms in the 1990s," in Revisioning ItalyNational Identity and Global Culture, eds. Beverly Allen and Mary Russo (Minneapolis and London:  University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 81-97 

            "From North to South:  resistance and creativity in Carlo Levi's L'orologio," in Italy and America 1943-44Italian, American and Italian American Experiences of the Liberation of the Italian Mezzogiorno (Naples:  La città del sole, 1997), 391-410 

            Review of Sam Rohdie, The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini (London:  British Film Institute, 1996), in Italica 74:2 (Summer 1997):  267-269 

            Review of Richard Drake, The Aldo Moro Murder Case (Cambridge, MA and London:  Harvard University Press, 1995), in The European LegacyTowards New Paradigms 2:8 (December 1997):  1448-49 

            With Eugenia Paulicelli, "Intervista con Dacia Maraini," in L'Annello che non tiene 9: 1-2 (Spring-Fall, 1997):  73-82 

            With Eugenia Paulicelli, "Interview with Clara Sereni," in L'Annello che non tiene 9: 1-2 (Spring-Fall, 1997):  82-111 
 

1998    Review of Julius Kirschner, The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600 (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1996) in The European LegacyTowards New Paradigms 3:2 (April 1998):  136-37 

With Eugenia Paulicelli, "Intervista con Michele Serra," in Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies 31 (1998):  20-31.  On-line journal:  http:\\www.leeds.ac.uk/ bsis 

            Review of Robert Lumley, Italian JournalismA Critical Anthology (Manchester and New York:  Manchester University Press, 1996), in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 3:3 (1998): 341-42 

            "Stefano Benni," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 196:  Italian Novelists Since World War II, 1965-1995, ed Augustus Pallotta (Detroit, Washington, D.C., London:  Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 1998), 25-31 

            Review of Robert S. Gordon, PasoliniForms of Subjectivity (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), in Modern ItalyJournal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy 3:1 (May 1998):  132-34 

            Review of David Forgacs and Robert Lumley, eds. Italian Cultural StudiesAn Introduction (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1996), in Annali d'italianistica 16 (1998): 366-69 
 

1999    "From Croce to Vico:  Carlo Levi's L'orologio and Italian Anti-Fascism, 1943-46," in Italian FascismHistory, Memory and Representation, eds. R.J.B. Bosworth and Patrizia Dogliani (Basingstoke, GB and London:  Macmillan Press, 1999), 64-82           

            "Fifty Years On:  Resistance Then, Resistance Now," in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 4:1 (Spring 1999): 59-63 

            "Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Events of May 1968:  The `Manifesto per un nuovo teatro'," in PasoliniOld and NewSurveys and Studies, ed. Zygmunt G. Baranski (Dublin:  Four Courts Press, 1999), 321-44 

            With Eugenia Paulicelli, “An Interview with Gianni Riotta, New York, 12th October 1996 (A Retrospective),” Rivista  di studi italiani 17: 2 (December 1999): 162-81           

            Review of John Pollard, The Fascist Experience in Italy (London:  Routledge, 1998), in Modern ItalyJournal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy 4:2 (1999): 273 

            Review of R.J.B. Bosworth, Italy and the Wider World, 1860-1960 (London and New York:  Routledge, 1996), in The European LegacyTowards New Paradigms 5:3 (1999): 483-84 

            Review of Jeffrey Cole, The New Racism in EuropeA Sicilian Ethnography (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1997), in The European LegacyTowards New Paradigms 5:3 (1999): 484-85 

Review of Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascist SpectacleThe Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London:  University of California Press, 1997), in The European LegacyTowards New Paradigms 5:3 (1999):  486-87 
 

2000    Review of Stanislao G. Pugliese, Carlo RosselliSocialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard UniversityPress, 1999) in The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 13, 2000 

            "Comment" on Mauro Canali, "Ignazio Silone and the Fascist political police," in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 5: 1 (Spring 2000): 55-57 

            Review of eds. Helmut Peitsch, Charles Burdett and Claire Gorrra, European Memories of the Second World War (New York and Oxford:  Berghahn Books, 1999) in Modern ItalyJournal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy 5:1 (May 2000): 85-86 

            "Natalia Ginzburg's Early Writings in L'Italia libera," in Natalia GinzburgA Voice of the Twentieth Century, eds. Angela Jeannet and Giuliana Sanguinetti

            Katz (TorontoUniversity of Toronto Press, 2000), 46-62 and translation of "I nostri figli" as "Our Children," "Chiarezza" as "Clarity," and "Cronca di un paese" as "Chronicle of a Village," 226-241  
   

2001    “Intellectuals, Culture and Power in Modern Italy," in The Cambridge Companion  to Modern Italian Culture, eds. Zygmunt Baranski and Rebecca West (CambridgeCambridge University Press), 81-96 

"Intellectuals, Culture and Power in Modern Italy,” a longer version of the chapter included in The Cambridge Companion  to Modern Italian Culture, in The Italianist 21-22 (2001-02):  291-318 

Review of Stanislao G. Pugliese, Carlo RosselliSocialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1999) for The Journal of Modern History 73:4 (December 2001): 971-73 

            Review of Giovanni De Luna, La passione e la ragioneFonti e metodi dello storico contemporaneo (La Nuova Italia/RCS Libri:  Milan, 2001) in Italian Culture 9:2 (2001): 163-65 
 

2002    Carlo LeviGli Italiani e la paura della libertà (Milan:  Nuova Italia, 2002) 

            Review of eds., Luciano Cheles and Lucio Spinoza, The art of persuasionPolitical Communication in Italy from 1945 to the 1990s (ManchesterManchester University Press, 2001), in Italian Culture 20: 1-2 (2002): 231-32 
 

2003    "Carlo Levi," in Dizionario del fascismo, Volume II, eds. Sergio Luzzato and Victoria di Grazia (Turin:  Einaudi, 2003), 30-32


Review of Gian Biagio Furiozzi, ed. Aldo Capitini tra socialismo e  liberalismo (Milan:  Franco Angeli, 2001), in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 8:3 (Fall 2003): 464-66 

 

Review of Paul Gilroy, Against RaceImagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (Cambridge, MA:  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000) in The European Legacy 8:6 (2003):  848-89

 

            Review of Roy Palmer Domenico, Italy in the Twentieth Century (Lanham:  Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), in H-Italy, on-line review: 
www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=133481066977050

 

2005        "Natalia Ginzburg's Early Writings in L'Italia libera," in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, vol. 156 (Gale Group, 2005)

 

            Review of Sandro Rinauro, Storia del sondaggio d’opinione in Italia, 1936-1994.  Dal lungo rifiuto alla Repubblica dei sondaggi (Venice:  Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2002), in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 10:2 (Spring 2005): 259-60

Translation of Clara Sereni, "Ebrei," Eppure (Milan: Fletrinelli, 1999), as "Jews" in Thomas Nolder and Fran Malino, eds. Voices of Diaspora: Jewish Women Writing in Contemporary Erurope (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press), pp. 39-53

2006   "L'otto settembre e dintorni ne i piccoli maestri di Luigi Meneghello," Prospettive italiane. Prosa e critica degli italianisti del Nord America (Milan: Greco & Greco, 2006), Special issue of Nuova Prosa 44:111-126

2007    "Primo Levi's Turin," in The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi, ed. Robert S. C. Gordon (Cambridge, GB: Cambridge University Press), pp.1-16


            Entries "Piero Bogetti" (862-864), "Carlo Levi" (1035-1038), and "Cristo si è fermato a Eboli" (1038-1039), in The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, 2 vols, ed. Gaetana Marrone-Puglia (New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge)

            Review of Roverto Saviano, Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System (New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2007), in The Internet Review of Books, December 15th, online at: http://www.internetreviewofbooks.com/dec07/gomorrah.html

 

2008    "Mysteries about Mysteries,"Journal of Modern Italian Studies 13:1:93-102, online at http://www,digilander.libero.it/S.Sarasso/David%20Ward%20-%20Mysteries%20about%20Mysteries%20-%20gennaio%202008.pdf


            Review of Pierluigi Battista, Cancellare le tracce. Il caso Grass e il silenzio degli intellettuali italiani dopo il fascismo (Milan: Rizzoli, 2006), in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 13:2:286-287

"Il passato del Piemonte nel presente di Piero Gobetti" in Athanor, New Series 18:11:150-156

"Ai confini dei misteri d'Italia," in Oggi 7, cultural supplement to America Oggi (June 15th), online at http://www.confinedistato.blogspot.com/2008/06/confine-di-stato-sul-magazine-di-italia.html and http://www.oggi7.info/2008/06/15/1086-speciale-libri-ai-confini-dei-misteri-d-italia

Review of John Foot, Winning at all Costs. A Scandalous History of Modern Italian Soccer (New York: Nation Books, 2007) in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 13:4 (Decmeber 2008): 564-566

 

2009    "Nel gioco d'azzardo della vita: Yonkers Joe di Robert Celestino," in Oggi 7, cultural supplement to America Oggi (February 8th), online at http://www.oggi7.info/2009/02/12/1759-speciale-cinema-nel-gioco-d-azzardo-della-vita. Also "Intervista con Roberto Celestino" and "Intervista con Chazz Palminteri," Oggi 7 (February 8th), online at http://www.oggi7.info/2009/02/12/1760-parla-il-regista-robert-celestino-non-un-film-di-gangsters and http://www.oggi7.info/2009/02/12/1761-parla-l-attore-chazz-palminteri-orgoglioso-di-averlo-fatto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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