Anthony Julian Tamburri

Anthony Julian Tamburri is the seventh executive director and longest serving with the title of Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures. He has written over one hundred thirty journal articles and book chapters, and twenty-one books.

Biography Born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut

In addition to more than one hundred journal articles and book chapters, his authored books include:

Of Saltimbanchi and Incendiari: Aldo Palazzeschi and Avant-Gardism in Italy (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990); To Hyphenate or not to Hyphenate: the Italian/American Writer: Or, An "Other" American? (Guernica Editions, 1991); Per una lettura retrospettiva. Prose giovanili di Aldo Palazzeschi (Gradiva Publications, 1994); A Reconsideration of Aldo Palazzeschi’s Poetry (1905–1974): Revisiting the "Saltimbanco" (Mellen P, 1998); A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognition of the Italian/American Writer (SUNY P, 1998); A Semiotic of Re-reading: Italo Calvino’s "Snow Job" (Chancery P, 1999); Italian/American Short Films & Videos: A Semiotic Reading (Purdue UP, 2002); Semiotics of Re-reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, and Italo Calvino (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003), which also appeared in Italy as Una semiotica della ri-lettura: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, e Italo Calvino (Franco Cesati Editore, 2003); (Franco Cesati Editore, 2007); (Franco Cesati Editore, 2010); Re-viewing Italian Americana: Generalities and Specificities on Cinema (Bordighera Press, 2011); Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2014/2015); Un biculturalismo negato: La letteratura “italiana” negli Stati Uniti (Franco Cesati Editore, 2018); Scrittori Italiano[-]Americani: trattino sì trattino no (MnM Print Edizioni, 2018); Signing Italian/American Cinema: A More Focused Look (Ovunque Siamo Press, 2021); The Columbus Affair. Imperatives for an Italian/American Agenda (Casa Lago Press, 2021).

Among his more than 30 co-edited volumes, with Paolo A. Giordano and Fred L. Gardaphé, Tamburri is contributing co-editor of the best-selling, historical volume From The Margin: Writings in Italian Americana (Purdue UP, 1991; 2nd edition, 2000) and co-founder of Bordighera Press, publisher of the semi-annual, Voices in Italian Americana, a literary and cultural review, the annual, Italiana, and two book series, Via Folios and Crossings, as well as The Bordighera Poetry Prize. Other edited volumes include, with Giordano, Beyond the Margin: Readings in Italian Americana (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1998); with Anna Camaiti Hostert, Screening Ethnicity: Cinematographic Representations of Italian Americans in the United States (Bordighera P2002), which also appeared in Italy as Scene italoamericane: la rappresentazione degli Italiani d’America (Sossella, 2002); with Joseph Sciorra et alii, Mediated Ethnicity. New Italian-American Cinema (Calandra Institute, 2010); with Graziella Parati, The Cultures of Italian Migration: Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011). He is also the director of two book series: Americana for Franco Cesati Editore (Florence, Italy), and Italian Studies for Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.