Emanuele Pettener
PhD Comparative Studies,
Florida Atlantic University
Instructor of Italian
PhD Comparative Studies,
Florida Atlantic University
Instructor of Italian
Areas of Expertise
Modern & Comtemporary Italian Literature
John Fante
Modern & Comtemporary Italian Literature
John Fante
Email:
epettene@fau.edu
Office Phone: 561-297-3623
Office Phone: 561-297-3623
Emanuele Pettener
Emanuele Pettener was born in Venice, Italy, has lived in the United States since 2000, and teaches Italian language and literature at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton) where, in 2004, he received his Ph.D in Comparative Studies with a dissertation on the American novelist John Fante.
Emanuele's articles and interviews with writers have appeared in Italian and American journals and books. His short essay “Italian/American stereotypes in Italian/American movies” has been published by the Croatian literary journal LICUS.
Emanuele's articles and interviews with writers have appeared in Italian and American journals and books. His short essay “Italian/American stereotypes in Italian/American movies” has been published by the Croatian literary journal LICUS.
Some fiction of his, appeared in Italian literary magazines, has been translated by Tom di Salvo and published in American magazines: Portrait in Green with Proust in “The Mississippi Crow”, The night I became a real man in “Big Pulp”, Interview with Oscar Wilde in “The American Drivel”, A Season in Florida in “Sliptongue”.
He wrote in English the novella “Grassona”, published first by the FAU literary magazine Coastline and then by the webmagazine “Bewildering Stories”.
He wrote in English the novella “Grassona”, published first by the FAU literary magazine Coastline and then by the webmagazine “Bewildering Stories”.
Emanuele is the author of two books: ”E’ sabato mi hai lasciato e sono bellissimo", a novel (Corbo Editore, Ferrara, 2009) and “Nel nome del padre del figlio e dell’umorismo. I romanzi di John Fante”, an essay (Franco Cesati Editore, Florence, 2010).
He edited the collection of articles and short-stories “Essere o non essere italoamericani” (Greco&Greco, Milan, 2009).
He has just been appointed director of the series “Pop” for Corbo editore, that will publish its first novels (most of them will be American works not translated in Italian yet) in spring 2011.
He has just been appointed director of the series “Pop” for Corbo editore, that will publish its first novels (most of them will be American works not translated in Italian yet) in spring 2011.
