Academic Affiliation

Bio

Fred Gardaphe is Distinguished Professor of English and Italian/American Studies at Queens College/CUNY and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute.  He is a Fulbright Fellow (University of Salerno, Italy (2011) and past president of the Italian American Studies Association (formerly AIHA), MELUS, and the Working Class Studies Association.  His books include Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative, From Wiseguys to Wise Men: Masculinities and the Italian American Gangster,The Art of Reading Italian Americana, and Read ‘Em and Reap. He is co-founding/co-editor of VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, editor of the Italian American Culture Series of SUNY Press, and frequent contributor to the Fra Noi, L’italoamericano, and i-Italy magazine and television.

Selected Publications

Authored Books

Read’em and Reap: Gambling on Italian American Literature. New York: Bordighera Press,

2017.

Segni italiani, strade americane: l’evoluzione della letteratura italiana americana. Trans.

Alessandra Senzani. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2012.

The Art of Reading Italian Americana.  New York: Bordighera Press, 2011.

From Wiseguys to Wise Men: Masculinities and the Italian American Gangster.  New York:

            Routledge. 2006.

Leaving Little Italy: Essaying Italian American Culture.  Albany, NY: SUNY Press,

2003.

Moustache Pete is Dead: Evviva Baffo Pietro! (Italian American Oral Tradition Preserved in

            Print). W. Lafayette, IN: Bordighera, Inc., 1997.

Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian/American Narrative.  Durham,

NC: Duke University Press, 1996.

Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer. Toronto: Guernica Editions,

1996.

The Italian American Writer: An Essay and Annotated Checklist.  Spencertown, NY:

Forkroads Publications, 1995.

Edited Books

The Italian Diaspora.  Special Issue of Voices in Italian Americana.  Eds. Eleonora Federici

and Fred Gardaphe.  New York: Bordighera Press, 2016.

Ed. Anthony Julian Tamburri and Fred L. Gardaphe.  New York: Studies in Italian Americana.

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2015.

Reconstructing Italians in Chicago: Thirty Authors in Search of Roots and Branches.  Edited with            Dominic Candeloro.  Stone Park, IL: The Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia, 2011.

Anti-Italianism.  William F. Connell and Fred Gardaphe, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2010.

Gardaphe, Fred and James Periconi.  Bibliography of Italian American Writing.  New

York: Italian American Writers Association, 2000.

Ashyk, Dan, Fred Gardaphe and Anthony Julian Tamburri. Shades of Black and White:

            Conflict and Collaboration Between Two Communities.  Proceedings of the

            American Italian Historical Association: Staten Island, NY: AIHA, 1998.

Gardaphe, Fred. Cultures, Communities and the Arts, selected presentations

from the Columbia College Lilly Endowment Conferences.  Chicago: Columbia

College, 1997.

Tamburri, Anthony Julian, Paolo A. Giordano and Fred L. Gardaphe, editors.  From the

            Margin: Writings in Italian Americana.  West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1991.

Second edition 2000.

Candeloro, Dominic, Fred L. Gardaphe and Paolo A. Giordano, editors. Italian Ethnics:

            Their Languages, Literature and Lives. Proceedings of the American Italian

Historical Association. Staten Island, NY: AIHA, 1991.

Gardaphe, Fred. New Chicago Stories.  Chicago: City Stoop Press, 1990.

Gardaphe, Fred. Italian-American Ways.  New York: Harper & Row, 1989.