Luogo. Migrazione. Roma. Intervista: 29 luglio 2019, Pigneto, Roma

RYAN CALABRETTA-SAJDER is associate professor and section head of Italian and associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he teaches courses in Italian, Film, and Gender Studies. He is the author of Divergenze in celluloide: colore, migrazione e identità sessuale nei film gay di Ferzan Özpetek (Mimesis editore), editor of Pasolini's Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Fairleigh Dickinson UP), and coeditor of Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future (Lexington Books). His research interests include the integration of gender, class, and migration in both Italian and Italian American literature and cinema, as well as teaching Italian language and culture through digital humanities and virtual reality. In Spring 2017, he was a Fulbright Scholar for the Foundation of the South at the University of Calabria, and in Fall 2024, he will be the Tiro a Segno Fellow at NYU. He is currently the president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, president of Gamma Kappa Alpha, and founding editor of Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association. [calabret@uark.edu]