Helen Barolini (1925–2023)

ANTHONY JULIAN TAMBURRI is dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and distinguished professor of European languages and literatures. He is cofounder and codirector of Bordighera Press, past president of the Italian American Studies Association and of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. Concentrating on cinema, literature, and semiotics, he has authored eighteen books in both English and Italian, and more than 120 peer-reviewed essays and book chapters. His books within the last decade include Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (2014); Scrittori Italiano[-]Americani: trattino sì trattino no (2018); Un biculturalismo negato: La scrittura “italiana” negli Stati Uniti (2018); The Columbus Affair: Imperatives for an Italian/American Agenda (2021); Signing Italian/American Cinema: A More Focused Look (2021); and A Politics of [Self-]Omission: The Italian/American Challenge in A Post-George Floyd Age (2022). Edited collections include From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana (Purdue, 1991/2000) and Diversity in Italian Studies (Calandra Institute, 2020). He is executive producer and host of the Calandra Institute's TV program, Italics, in collaboration with CUNY TV. He writes a column for La Voce di New York, “The Italian diaspora.”