STANISLAO G. PUGLIESE, PH.D. Professor of History Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian & Italian American Studies Fellow, Hofstra Cultural Center Hofstra University Hempstead, New York 11549 USA 516.463.5611 [email protected] Web page: http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stanislao_Pugliese/ Fulbright Scholar, University of Calabria, CLIA Program, Spring 2020 Visiting Scholar, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU, 2014-15 Visiting Scholar, Istituto Campano per la Storia della Resistenza, Naples, Fall 2010 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Romance Languages & Literature, Spring 2010 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford, June 2004 Visiting Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. June 2003 Visiting Research Fellow, Italian Academy, Columbia University, Spring 2001 EDUCATION Ph.D. Modern European History, City University of New York Graduate School, 1995. M.A. in Modern European History, City College of New York, 1990. Certificato di Studio, Modern Italian Political History, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 1988. B.A. University Honors Degree in History & Philosophy, Hofstra University, 1987. Phi Beta Kappa & Phi Alpha Theta TEACHING Fall 2009-present Distinguished Professor, Hofstra University Fall 2004-present Professor of History, Hofstra University Fall 2000-August 2004 Associate Professor of History, Hofstra University Fall 1995-Spring 2000 Assistant Professor of History, Hofstra University Fall 1994-Spring 1995 Instructor in History, Hofstra University Fall 1993 Adjunct Instructor in History, Hofstra University Fall 1989-Spring 1993 Adjunct Lecturer, City College of New York, CUNY CLASSES TAUGHT Western Civilization I & II; Modern Europe; European Intellectual History; 20th Century Europe; Fascist Italy; Sex, Crime, and Violence in Venice (Hofstra in Venice 1997, 1998, 2017); Modern Italy; Intellectuals and Exile; History and the Holocaust; History of the Jews of Italy; Renaissance Europe; European Historiography; Comparative Dictatorships; The Italian American Experience; Representations of the Holocaust; Italian Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the Resistance; Primo Levi; Sex, Crime & Violence in Italy; The Haunting of Modern Spain: Remembering and Forgetting the Spanish Civil War; History and Culture of Naples; Sex, Soccer & Sedition in Modern Italy; History of Soccer; History of the Mafia; Gangsters, Bimbos and Guidos: Confronting Italian American Stereotypes. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Modern Italy; Italian Fascism and Anti-Fascism; the Holocaust; Italian Jews; Italian-American History and Culture; Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe. PUBLICATIONS MONOGRAPHS Dancing on a Volcano in Naples: Scenes from the Siren City Contracted with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, June 2009. New York Times Book Review, “Editor’s Choice” selection, August 30, 2009. Winner of the Fraenkel Prize awarded by the Wiener Library of the Institute of Contemporary History, London. Finalist: National Book Critics Circle Award; Awarded the Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano per Italianistica, Pescara, Italy. Awarded the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize in Italian History by the American Historical Association, 2010. Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome, Boca Raton, FL: Bordighera Press, 2002. Sons of Italy National Book Club Selection, Winter 2005. Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Winner, 2000 International Ignazio Silone Prize. “Best Unpublished Manuscript,” Society for Italian Historical Studies, 1996. Runner-up, Fraenkel Prize, Institute for Contemporary History, London. Runner-up, Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas. Carlo Rosselli. Socialista eretico ed esule antifascista (Italian translation by Davide Panzieri and Paolo Soddu) Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2001. Carlo Rosselli: exilul socialist, eretic si antifascist (Romanian translation by Aurora Martin) Bucharest: Polirom, 2003. Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile (Russian translation by Ildar Rismukhamedov) Moscow: Praxis Publications, 2007. EDITED VOLUMES Delirious Naples: A Cultural History of the City of the Sun, co-edited with Pellegrino D’Acierno, Fordham University Press, 2019. The Routledge History of Italian Americans, co-edited with William J. Connell, Routledge, 2018. Storia degli italoamericani Italian translation edited by Maddalena Tirabassi. Milan: Mondadori, 2020. A Century of Sinatra: Gay Talese and Pete Hamill in Conversation, Bordighera Press, 2018. Football and the Boundaries of History: Critical Studies in Soccer, co-edited with Brenda Elsey, New York: Palgrave, 2017. What is Italian America? co-edited with George Guida. New York: Bordighera Press, 2015. Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance, New York, London: Verso, 2013. After Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism After the Fall, New York: Fordham UP, 2011. Carlo Levi, Fear of Freedom, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. The Legacy of Primo Levi. New York: Palgrave, 2005. Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture, New York: Palgrave, 2004. Fascism, Anti-Fascism & the Resistance in Italy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. The Political Legacy of Margaret Thatcher, London: Politicos, 2003. EDITED VOLUMES (CONT) The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Galeazzo Ciano, Diary, 1937-1943. New York: Enigma Books, 2002. Italian Fascism and Antifascism: A Critical Anthology. Manchester University Press, 2001. Renzo De Felice, The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History. New York: Enigma Books, 2001. Nino Favara: The Essence of Sicily. Edited, with a foreword and translations (with Francesca Favara Magliochetti), Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1999. Contributing Editor, Seven Cultural Traditions, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. TRANSLATIONS Salvatore Di Giacomo, “Era de maggio,” in Nexus (Amsterdam), n. 62 (2012): 94-98. Carlo Levi, “Fear of Painting,” in Fear of Freedom. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Ignazio Silone, Memoir from a Swiss Prison, Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2006; awarded the Ignazio Silone International Prize for Translation, 2007. Ignazio Silone, “Memoir from a Swiss Prison,” in Dissent (Summer 2006). Ignazio Silone, “At the Foot of an Almond Tree,” www.wordswithoutborders.org; July 2005. Andrea Bocelli, The Music of Silence, New York: William Morrow, 2001. ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “Resisting the Totalitarian Temptation: The Case of Ignazio Silone,” in Vladimir Tismaneanu and Christian Iacob Bogdan, eds., Ideological Storms. Intellectuals and the Totalitarian Temptation. New York/Budapest: Central European University Press, 2019. “Three Wars and a Past That Will Not Pass,” in Claudio Pavone, A Civil War, New York: Verso, 2013. “Preface” to Salvatore LaGumina, Hollywood and Italian Americans. New York: Teneo Press, 2012. “Wrestling With Two Angels: Communism and Christianity in the Work of Ignazio Silone,” in New Directions in Italian and Italian-American History, Ernest Ialongo and William M. Adams, eds. New York: Studies in Italian Americana, v. 6, 2013, pp. 50-64. “Answering Auschwitz: Science and Humanism as Antifascism,” in Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism After the Fall. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. (A slightly different version appears as “Primo Levi’s Politics,” in New Reflections on Primo Levi, eds. Millicent Marcus and Risa Sodi, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.) “Politiek als een ethisch ideaal. Het liberaal socialisme van Carlo Rosselli,” (Politics As An Ethical Ideal: Carlo Rosselli’s Liberal Socialism), in Europees humanisme in fragmenten. Grammatica van een ongesproken taal (European Humanism: The Grammar of a Silenced Language), edited by Rob Riemen. Amsterdam: Nexus Institute, 2008; adapted from Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile. “Gendering the Resistance,” in Resisting Bodies: Narratives of Italian Women Partisans, Rosetta D’Angelo & Barbara Zaczek, eds. Chappell Hill, NC: Annali d’Italianistica, 2008. “Rethinking an Assassination: The Deaths of the Rosselli Brothers,” in Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy, S. Gundle & L. Rinaldi, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2007. “In Defense of Liberal Socialism,” Italian Americana, Winter 2007, pp. 23-36. ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (CONT) “Sciatap: L’America secondo Silone,” in Regione Abruzzo, December 2006, pp. 40-44; in English as “Silone and America,” The Harvard College Journal of Italian American History and Culture, vol. 1, n. 1 (Winter 2007). “Trauma/Transgression/Testimony” in The Legacy of Primo Levi, New York: Palgrave, 2005. “Reflections From the Fountain,” afterword to Thomas V. Belmonte, The Broken Fountain, 3rd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. “The Double Bind of Ignazio Silone: Caught Between the Archives and Hagiography,” in Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy, eds. Guido Bonsaver and Robert Gordon, Oxford: Legenda, 2005. “The Antidote to Fascism,” in Carla Pekelis, My Version of the Facts. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005. “Longing, Loss and Nostalgia,” in Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture, New York: Palgrave, 2004. “Tortura incruente: i libri del ghetto di Roma sotto l’occupazione nazista,” in Il libro nella Shoah, edited by