INVESTORAMERICAN NEWSLETTER ASSOCIATION ISSUE OF TEACHERSN°3 OF ITALIAN SPRINGFALL 2005 2016 AATI Newsletter Message from the President Since the last message in the AATI Newsletter (Fall 2015), there are many new items to report. The following is a brief summary. Without the gracious cooperation of the members of AATI, this work could not be accomplished. We are grateful to all of the members of AATI for their help and assistance. AATI Meetings The annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Italian had a successful conference in San Diego, CA, November IN THIS ISSUE 20-22, 2016 in conjunction with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. We will also be meeting in 1. Message from the President Boston, MA, November 18-20, 2016. We hope that you will be 3. Message from the Editor of able to attend. I would like to thank the Program Committee for Italica its hard work: Lyn Scolaro (AATI VP K - 12, Prospect High 4. AATI Officers and Exec. Council School, Mt. Prospect, IL) Chair, Paul Colilli (Laurentian 6. Online Working Papers University, Sudbury, Canada), Christopher Concolino (San 7. Distinguished Service Award Francisco State University, CA), Antonietta Di Pietro (G.W. 8. AP Sources Carver School and Florida International University, Miami, FL), 9. National Contest, AP, and Anna Rein (University of Southern Maine). College Board 10. IACE 11. AATI Survey Report The AATI’s next meeting will be in Naples, Italy, June 22-26, 14. AATI Chapters 2016. The meeting will be very interesting since we will be able 15. AATI Essay Contest to meet with European Italianists as well as our colleagues from 16. AATI/ACTFL San Diego the U.S. For further information about this conference, please go (2015) the AATI website: https://bancheri.utm.utoronto.ca/aati-online/ 17. ACTFL 2016 index.html I would like to thank the Conference Committee for 18. AATI Conference Abroad its hard work: Colleen Ryan, Chairperson (AATI VP College and 19. Annual Teachers Study Grant University, Indiana University), Elizabeth Bartolini-Salimbeni 20. Società Onoraria Italiana (Cibola High School, Albuquerque, NM), Daniele De Feo 23. OPI and JICMS (Princeton University), Christen L. Picicci (Colorado State 24, Scholarships, Grants, Exams, Training Sessions, and Regional University-Pueblo), Jessica Greenfield (Vanderbilt University), News Federica Santini (Kennesaw State University). AATI is also very 26. Members’ News and Regional grateful to the local organizing committee:Rita Librandi, Andrea News Mazzucchi, Matteo Palumbo, Salvatore Luongo, Nicola de Blasi, 37. Presses and Advertising Anna De Meo. Hanks also to the local Secretariat: Daniele 38. Job Announcements D’Aguanno, Rosa Piro, Antonio Del Castello, Elisa Pellegrino, 40. Notes for contributors Ciro Perna, Vittorio Celotto, Gennaro Ferrante. special thank you in particular to Rita Librandi, Rosa Piro, Andrea Mazzucchi and Vittorio Celotto. INVESTORAATI NEWLETTER NEWSLETTER SPRING ISSUE 2016 N°3 FALL 2005 2 Message from the President (Continued) AATI Executive Committee Votes the AATI@Naples Conference and to invite Tullio De Mauro, already an The Executive Council is constantly honorary member of AATI, to deliver a holding discussions about AATI matters keynote address. Approved on March 2, via the EC listserv, as evident from the 2016. following list of votes below taken by the AATI EC. The votes are taken via 5) To invite Fred Gardaphé to deliver a Surveymonkey to insure not only keynote address at AATI@Naples transparency but also the confidentiality Conference. Approved on March 9, of the vote. 2016. 1) To approve the new regulations for the 6) To approve an agreement of relation between the AATI and its collaboration with GPS (Global Chapters. Approved on December 22, Professional Search), a job-matching 2015. (see pp. 10-13 of this newsletter) service especially created for languages. Approved on March 1, 2016. GPS will 2) To approve travel grants for the AATI soon create a customized link for AATI Naples and Boston Conferences. to send out to its candidates inviting Approved on January 8, 2016. Here are them to register with GPS and to create the details of the items approved: a profile. For further information about a) 6-8 travel grans ($400 each) to GPS, see: graduate students in order to participate globalprofessionalsearch.com/ in the session “Dissertations in progress” https://globalprofessionalsearch.com/ at the AATI@ACTF; account/create b) 12-15 travel grants ($500 each) to https://globalprofessionalsearch.com/ graduate students, secondary school employers teachers with salary below 50K, and contingent higher education faculty in 7) To increase to 11k the amount of order to participate in the travel grants to the AATI@Naples AATI@Naples Conference; Conference to be distributed to 14 c) to award a $250 prize to the best graduate students and 8 contingent paper (never published or presented faculty. Approved on April 5, 2016. before) by a graduate student delivered at the AATI@Naples Conference. A I conclude with my personal committee will be established for this appreciation to all members of the AATI award. Executive Council and all the members of the many standing committees, to 3) To give the President of AATI the whom I wish to express my for their permission to secure an appropriate dedication and hard work in addressing arrangement to ensure the best AATI various issues related to the welfare of National Italian Examination possible the Association. for AATI. Approved on January 26, 2016. Unfortunately, an agreement Best wishes, regarding this important issues has not been reached. Salvatore Bancheri (President) University of Toronto 4) To confer honorary membership to Luca Serianni, the keynote speaker at AATI NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016 3 Message from the Editor of Italica From the Editor of Italica Forthcoming in Italica 92.4 Guittone all’Inferno Antonello Borra Etica cortese e dimensione fantastica: lettura delle novelle “africane” del Decameron (I, 3; II, 9; V, 2 e X, 9) Matteo Bosisio Si sbarca a New York: A Forgotten Novel on Youth, Poetry, and Immigration Danila Cannamela The Zibaldone as Leopardi’s Self- Education Paola Cori Raccontare la crisi: il cinema di Roberto Minervini Daniele Fioretti Rhetorical Strategies in the Zibaldone Alessandra Mirra Beheading the Elegy: Gender and Genre on the Scaffold of Bologna Gabriella Scarlatta “I’m just gonna put ‘la’ in there, everywhere”: Exploring Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy Use in Tasks Focusing on Italian Object Pronouns Antonella Strambi, Claire Kennedy and Wendy Dekker La spirale barocca nel Sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio: l’euritmia strutturale e la sperimentazione linguistica di Vincenzo Consolo Renato Ventura INVESTORAATI NEWLETTER NEWSLETTER SPRING ISSUE 2016 N°3 FALL 2005 4 AATI OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COUNCIL President: Salvatore Bancheri REGIONAL Mid-Atlantic (NJ, PA, DE, MD, University of Toronto REPRESENTATIVES DC) Department of Italian Studies 100 Joseph Street New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, Daniele De Feo Toronto, ON M5S 1J4 RI, VT) Princeton University Canada Department of French and Italian Tel: (416) 669-4672 Gina Maiellaro 303 East Pyne E-mail: [email protected] World Languages Center and Dept. Room 317 of Languages, Literatures and Princeton, NJ 08544 Vice President (University): Cultures Tel: (201) 988-0851 Colleen M. Ryan Northeastern University Fax: (609) 258-4535 E-mail: Indiana University 101 BV [email protected] Department of French and Italian 360 Huntington Ave 626 Ballantine Hall Boston, MA 02155 Southeast-South (NC, SC, VA, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA WV, KY, TN, AL, FL, GA, LA, AR, Tel: (815) 855-1249 E-mail: [email protected] MS, PR) E-mail: [email protected] California Kimberly Beltrame Website:Click Here Olympia High School Christopher Concolino E-mail: Vice President (K-12): Lyn Department of Foreign Languages [email protected] Scolaro and Literatures Prospect High School San Francisco State University Midwest (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI, 801 W. Kensington 1600 Holloway Avenue MN, IA) Mt. Prospect, IL 60056 San Francisco, California 94132 Tel: (847) 718-5400 (school)/ (847) USA Chiara Fabbian 302-9460 (cell) Tel. (415) 338-3161 Department of Hispanic and Italian Fax: (847) 718-5216 or (847) E-mail: [email protected] Studies 718-5220 University of Illinois at Chicago E-mail: [email protected] New York State 601 S. Morgan Street 1830 UH (MC 315) Anthony Julian Tamburri Secretary/Treasurer: Enza Chicago IL 60607-7115 John D. Calandra Italian American Antenos USA Institute 43 Mt. Prospect Avenue phone: 312-355-8485 Queens College/CUNY E-mail: [email protected] Verona, NJ 07044 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor USA New York, NY 10036 Plains-Southwest (KS, MO, AZ, Tel: (973) 655-7943 USA NE, ND, SD, NM, OK, TX) E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (212) 642-2094 E-mail: Giuseppe Cavatorta Director of Communication: [email protected] Department of French and Italian Ryan Calabretta-Sajder Modern Languages Building Dept. of World Languages, Irene Marchegiani University of Arizona Literatures and Cultures Department of European Languages, Tucson, AZ 85721-0067 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Literatures, and Cultures Tel: (520) 626-0782 Kimpel Hall 425 SUNY Stony Brook E-mail: [email protected] Fayetteville, AR 72701 Humanities 1074 Tel: (847) 217-1630 Stony Brook, NY 11794-5359 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (631) 632-7440/7441 Fax: (631) 632-9612 Past President: Frank Nuessel E-mail: University of Louisville [email protected] Department of Classical and Modern Languages Humanities Building 332 Louisville, KY 40292 Tel: (502) 852-6686 / (502) 852-0503 Fax: (502) 852-8885 E-mail: [email protected] AATI NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016 5 AATI OFFICERS (cont.d) Rocky Mountains-Far West (CO, Local Chapters Italian Teachers ID, MT, NV, UT, WY, AK, HI, Association of New York OR, WA) State Connecticut Italian Chris Picicci Teachers Association President: Lucrezia Lindia Colorado State University-Pueblo (CITA) [email protected] (202D PSY) Vice President: Vito Recchia Department of English & Foreign President: Rita Leonardi Treasurer: Maria Colella Languages ([email protected]) Secretary: Lina Rocchio 2200 Bonforte Blvd.