YOUNGSTOWN Italian-American culture lecture in New York
YOUNGSTOWN -- Dr. Fred Gardaphe, who directs the Italian/American Studies Program at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, presents "The Consequences of Class in Italian-American Culture" Monday at Youngstown State University. The event is part of the Center for Working-Class Studies Lecture Series at YSU and is co-sponsored by YSU's American Studies Program.
The free, public lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Presidential Suite in Kilcawley Center.
Gardaphe also will present a free, public seminar on "Why is it Important to Study Italian-American Culture?" at 4 p.m. that day in the faculty lounge on the first floor of DeBartolo Hall.
Gardaphe is associate editor of Fra Noi, an Italian American monthly newspaper, editor of the Series in Italian American Studies at State University of New York Press, and co-founder/co-editor of "VIA: Voices in Italian Americana," a literary journal and cultural review. He is president of the American Italian Historical Association.
His study, "Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative," won the Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli/Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs award for 1993 dissertations and was published by Duke University Press in 1996.