Anthony Julian Tamburri’s Select Books & Articles
Authored Books
• The Columbus Affair. Imperatives for an Itaian/American Agenda. New Fairfield, CT: Casa Lago Press, 2021. pp. 110.
“Anthony Tamburri's The Columbus Affair tackles the Christopher Columbus trilogy (man, myth and legend) spiritually,
culturally, and historically. He contextually navigates the ancient world and the modern one to help inform his readers about
the historical Columbus as well as the fictional one that serves as both hero and villain. A true Columbus, he argues, lies
outside of our 21st century imaginations.”
—Leslie Wilson, Professor of History & Associate Dean, Montclair State University
• Signing Italian/American Cinema: A More Focused Look. Glenside, PA: Ovunque Siamo Press, 2021.
“Whether you study the form, teach cinema or watch for enjoyment, there is a rich garden of ideas in these essays that will
challenge and delight you. Dr. Tamburri is one of the leading Italian American voices of our times. You will savor this collection.
It’s an intellectual Moviola by a man who knows movies.”
—Adriana Trigiani
“[Tamburri's] work employs the concentration of a neurosurgeon with the precision of a guided missile as he dissects, shatters
and reexamines such films as the well-known and well-loved Big Night and not as well- known but equally beguiling Dinner
Rush. Culture matters and his explanations of these films plus the classic Nuovomondo and the iconic Mean Streets makes you
want to screen them a second and a third time.”
—Richard Vetere
• Un biculturalismo negato. La letteratura "italiana" negli Stati Uniti. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2018. Listen to the presentation on September 25, 2018.
• Scrittori italiano[-]americani: trattino sì trattino no. Mantova: MnM Print Edizioni, 2018.
• Re-reading Italian Americana: Generalities and Specificities on Literature and Criticism. Italian Studies Series. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2014. Pp. 186; paperback 2015.
“A few times—a very few times—in a generation, a work of literary and cultural scholarship, critical analysis, and winning
polemic comes along that we confidently describe as a landmark in the field. For many reasons, Re-Reading Italian
Americana qualifies for the honor. It is unique in its accessibility of presentation without sacrifice of precision and complexity,
and tough in its call for Italian Americans to get involved, stop the cheerleading and sentimentality, and contribute.”
—Frank Lentricchia
• Re-viewing Italian Americana: Generalities and Specificities on Cinema. Bordighera P, 2011. Pp. 176.
• Una semiotica dell’etnicità. Nuove segnalature per la scrittura italiano/americana. Franco Cesati Editore, 2010. Pp. 178.
• Narrare altrove: diverse segnalature letterarie. Strumenti di letteratura 15. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2007. Pp. 110 (A. Palazzeschi, Giorgio de Chirico, Dacia Maraini, Massimo Griffo, Sandro Veronesi).
• Introducing Italian Americana: a bilingual forum, co-author with P. Giordano and F. Gardaphè. New York: Bordighera P, 2006. Pp. 89.
• Una semiotica della ri-lettura: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, e Italo Calvino. Franco Cesati Editore, 2003. Pp. 115.
• Semiotics of Re-reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, and Italo Calvino. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003. Pp. 135.
• Italian/American Short Films & Videos: A Semiotic Reading. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2002. ebook and print edition. Pp. 130.
• A Semiotic of Re-reading: Italo Calvino’s “Snow Job.” New Haven, CT: Chancery P, 1999. Pp. 80.
• A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognition of the Italian/American Writer. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1998. Pp. 176.
• A Reconsideration of Aldo Palazzeschi’s Poetry (1905-1974): Revisiting the “Saltimbanco.” Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. Pp. 160.
• Per una lettura retrospettiva. Prose giovanili di Aldo Palazzeschi. Stony Brook, NY: Gradiva, 1994. Pp. 126.
• To Hyphenate or not to Hyphenate: the Italian/American Writer: Or, An Other American? Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1991. Pp. 60.
• Of Saltimbanchi and Incendiari: Aldo Palazzeschi and Avant-Gardism in Italy. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990. Pp. 229.
Journal Articles
• “La diacriticità e lo scrittore italiano/americano: Il trattino come confine linguistico e l’”intelligibilità reciproca” in Christ in Concrete (1939) di Pietro di Donato,” Campi immaginabili 62-63 (2020): 363-389.
• “La letteratura ‘italofona’ negli Stati Uniti,” Geocultura. Annuario della Società Dante Alighieri (2019): 357-369.
• “Food as Delineator in Dinner Rush: A Semiotic of Generational Difference among “Italians” in America,” E|C Rivista On-line dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici (2019). http://www.ec-aiss.it. 1-14.
• “Il sistema di segni del cinema italiano/americano: cose-switching e la significabilità di Mean Streets di Martin Scorsese,” Ácoma 13 (Autunno-Inverno 2017): 108-121.
• “Un rimpatrio linguistico ovvero un recupero culturale? Il ritorno di Joseph Tusiani,” Italica 93.2 (2016): 338-57.
• “La cultura ‘italofona’ negli Stati Uniti,” Geocultura. Annuario della Società Dante Alighieri (2016): 221-230.
• “Narrative Plenitude in Limited Space: Dacia Maraini’s ‘Il calciatore di Bilbao’,” Italica 92.3 (2015): 747--53.
Book Chapters
• “Gianna Patriarca: Identity in Language” as “Preface to Gianna Patriarca, This Way Home: Selected and New Work. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2021. ix-xx.
• “Italian Diaspora Studies and the University: Professional Development and Curricular Matters” in Sian Gibby, Joseph Sciorra, and Anthony Julian Tamburri, eds. This Hope Sustains the Scholar: Essays in Tribute to the Work of Robert Viscusi. New York: Bordighera Press, 2021. 243-258.
• “Symbolizing Christopher Columbus? Reflections on Columbus and Italian Americans” in Antonio Vitti and Anthony Julian Tamburri, eds. Mediterranean Encounters and Legacies: Incontri e lasciti mediterranei. New York: Bordighera Press, 2021. 261-277.
• “Poet as Public Intellectual: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto’s Schistsong” in Salvatore Bancheri, Simone Casini, Michael Lettieri, Christine Sansalone. Fragments of Culture Between Diaspora, Language and Semiotics. Festschrift in Memory of Paul A. Colilli, A Modern-Day Renaissance Man. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2020. 441-458.
• “The Semiotics of Labeling: ‘Italian’ to ‘American,’ ‘Non-white’ to ‘White,’ and Other Privileges of Choosing” in Susanna Nanni and Sabrina Vellucci, eds. Circolazione di persone e di idee. New York: Bordighera Press, 2019. 1-18.
• “Segni e significabilità del cinema italiano/americano: code-switching in Dinner Rush, Big Night e Mean Streets” in Vito Zagarrio, ed. Mirroring Myths. Rome: Rome Tre Press, 2019. 175-184.
• “Aldo Palazzeschi and the Transgression of Humor” in Katia Pansa and Nichola Grosso, eds. The Manifestos of Aldo Palazzeschi. New York: Bordighera Press, 2019. 111-127.
• “Gli americani italiani in televisione” in Maddalena Tirabassi, ed. Storia degli Italoamericani. Milan: Le Monnier, 2019. 553-566. Italian version of 56.
• “Introduction: Cultural Philanthropy, A Private Affair” in Anthony Julian Tamburri, ed. Interrogations into Italian-American Studies. The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation Lectures. New York: Bordighera Press, 2019. xiii-xxii.
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