Alan R. Perry
1146 Boyds School Road
Gettysburg, PA 17325
(717) 337-2386
[email protected]
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Italian Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 1997. Area of
specialization: World War Two Resistance Literature. Minor: History.
M.A., Italian Language and Literature, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 1992.
B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, American Studies and Italian,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1986.
CURRENT AND PAST ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
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Director, Center for Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013 –
Chair, Dept. Italian Studies, Gettysburg College, 2011 –
Professor of Italian, Gettysburg College, 2014 –
Co-Chair, Dept. French and Italian, Gettysburg College, 2009 – 2010.
Associate Professor of Italian, Gettysburg College, 2007 – 2014
Assistant Professor of Italian, Gettysburg College, 2002 – 2007.
Visiting Professor of Italian, La Scuola Italiana, Middlebury College, 2005.
Visiting Professor of Italian, La Scuola Italiana, Middlebury College, 2003.
Assistant Professor of Italian, The Pennsylvania State University, 1999–2002.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Middlebury College, 1998–1999.
Visiting Professor of Italian, La Scuola Italiana, Middlebury College, 1998.
Teaching/Faculty Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993–1998.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
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The Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi: A Humorist Portrays the
Sacred. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. pp. 224.
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Il santo partigiano-martire: La retorica del sacrificio nelle biografie
commemorative. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2001. pp. 356. [Anthology]
Co-authored Book:
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______ and Flavio G. Conti. Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania, 1944 –
1945: Allies on the Home Front. Madison and Teanek, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson
Press, 2016. pp. 275.
Book Chapters:
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“Venite a Laudare”: Reflections of the Marian Cult in Il Laudario di Cortona in
Accesus ad Auctores, eds. Fabian Alfie and Adrea Dini. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS,
2011: 267 – 283.
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“Giovannino Guareschi and the South in a Cold War Context” in Incontri
Cinematografici e Culturali Tra i Due Mondi. Pesaro: Metauro Edizioni, 2012: 79
- 105.
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“Giovannino’s Dismay: The Making of Duvivier’s Don Camillo” in Incontri
culturali da oltre oceano. Pesaro: Metauro Edizioni, 2008: 153 – 180.
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“Giovannino’s Anger” in Incontri con il cinema italiano. Caltanissetta-Roma:
Salvatore Sciascia Editore, 2003. 159-186.
Electronic Book:
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Il Decimo clandestino: Lina Wertmüller’s Tribute to Giovannino Guareschi. [Peer
Reviewed: Winner of the Terme di San Giuliano National Prize for an Essay].
January 2013. Available at amazon.com (Kindle edition). pp. 39.
Journal Articles:
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“Giovannino’s ‘Libertà’: Guareschi’s Personal Freedom in Opposition to Power.”
Annali d’Italianistica: Speaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern
Italy.34 (2016): 399 – 422.
Benigni’s La vita è bella: Viktor Frankl and the Alchemy of Meaning.
Forthcoming with L’Anello che non tiene: Journal of Italian Literature.
Typewritten pages: 30.
“‘Io sono qui muto e solitario’: Giovannino Guareschi’s Prison Writing 1954 –
1955.” Modern Italy, vol. 17, no. 1 (2012): 85 – 102.
“ ‘C’era una volta la prigionia: Guareschi’s Resistance in the Favola di Natale.”
Italica, vol. 86, no. 4 (2009): 623 – 650.
“Guareschi’s Mondo piccolo and the Sacrality of Conscience” in Annali
d’Italianistica (25), 2007: 337 – 360.
“‘No, niente appello!’: How De Gasperi Sent Guareschi to Prison.” The Italianist,
n. 25, 2005, ii: 239-259.
“Pippo: An Italian Folklore Mystery of World War II”.The Journal of Folklore
Research, vol. 40, n. 2, May-August 2003: 115-48.
“Freedom of Imprisonment: Giovannino Guareschi and the Primacy of
Conscience”. Italian Culture, vol. 20, 1-2 (2001-2002): 67-78.
“Giovannino’s Secret Weapon: The German Lager and Guareschi’s Use of
Reason as Humor.” Italian Quarterly, nos. 153-154, Summer-Fall (2002): 39-53.
“Giovannino Guareschi: An Overview of Scholarly Attention in the United
States”in L’universo di Mondo Piccolo: 144 pagine per Guareschi, Al pont ad
mez: Periodico sociale della Famija Pramzana, December 2001: 49-55.
“‘Era il nostro terrore’: Come si può interpretare il mito di Pippo.” Italia
Contemporanea, no. 225 (2001): 589-604.
“‘Pippo volava di sera’: Unraveling the Mystery of a World War II Italian
Narrative.” Italica, vol. 79, no. 1 (2002): 95-113.
“Rita, Pina and Agnese: Martyred Mothers and the Myth of the Resistance.”
Romance Languages Annual XI (2000): 1–8.
“Fallen Partisans: Hagiographic Imprints in Italian Resistance Biography.” Annali
d’Italianistica, no. 16, 1998: 237-259.
“Literary and Cinematic Representations of Italian Resistance Memory: The Holy
Partisan-Martyr as Hero.” Forum Italicum, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 1999: 433 – 457.
“L’abito non fa il monaco: Disguise, Confession and Anti-Clericalism in
Boccaccio’s Tedaldo Tale (Decameron III, 7).” Italiana, 8 1998, “Pluralism and
Critical Practice”: 247–262.
“Liberatore! Personal Narratives of the Allied Invasion of Northeastern Italy,
April 1945.” The Powder River Journal, Nov. 1997: 19-24.
Electronic Articles:
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"Lo Zibaldino". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 August 2014
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35500]
"Corrierino delle famiglie ". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24
August 2014; last revised .
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35499]
“Guareschi Adapted: Lina Wertmüller’s Il decimo clandestino and Literary
Reconsiderations Gained From a Genial Collaboration. Luci e Ombre, n.4,
settembre – ottobre 2013: 81 – 110.
"Il destino si chiama Clotilde ". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28
June 2013.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35025
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“L’Italia provvisoria”. The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 June 2013.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35005]
"Il marito in collegio". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 January
2013.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32036]
"Il compagno Don Camillo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14
January 2013.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32043]
"La calda estate del Pestifero". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05
December 2012.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32044]
"Don Camillo e il suo gregge". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19
October 2012.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32042]
"Diario Clandestino". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 September
2012.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3204]
"Don Camillo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 July 2012.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32039
“La Favola di Natale.” The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 June 2012.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32037]
“Mondo Piccolo.” The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 September 2011.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34168]
"Giovannino Guareschi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06
December 2010.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12793, accessed 21
January 2011.]
Book Reviews:
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Mancini, Roberto. Il martire necessario: Guerra e sacrificio nell’Italia
contemporanea. Pisa: Pacini Editore, 2015. pp. 280. (Forthcoming with the
Journal of Modern Italian Studies).
Belco, Victoria C. War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy 1943 – 1948.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Reviewed in Italica 87.4 (Winter
2010): 706 – 08.
Calamandrei, Piero. Uomini e città della Resistenza. A.c.di Sergio Luzzatto.
Roma-Bari: Editori Laterza, 2006, pp. 282, with a preface by Carlo Azeglio
Ciampi, Journal of Modern Italian Studies 13 (4) 2008: 555 – 559.
Gabrielli, Patrizia. Col freddo nel cuore. Uomini e donne nell’emigrazione
antifascista. Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2004, pp. 200. Italian Culture, 26 (2008):
152 – 154.
Stampacchia, Mauro. Una brevissima “vita d’artista”: Mino Orzalesi tra
fascismo, Guerra, resistenza. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2005, pp. 101. Journal of
Modern Italian Studies, 11 (4), 2006: 575-577.
Petacco, Arrigo. A Tragedy Revealed: The Story of Italians From Istria,
Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, 1943 – 1956. Trans. Konrad Eisenbichler.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, Italica, 83 (3) Fall 2006.
Ministro per gli Affari Regionali. Italia, Territori, Culture. Ed. Mauro Masi.
Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato S.p.A.- Salario, 2003. pp. 326.
Italica, 83 (1) Spring 2006: 121-122.
Pugliese, Stanislao G., Ed. Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the Resistance in Italy,
1919 to the Present. Lanham, Maryland: Rowen and Littlefield, 2004, pp. 320.
Journal of Modern Italian Studies 10 (1) 2005: 103-04.
Vitti, Antonio, Ed. In Search of Italia: Saggi sulla cultura dell’Italia
contemporanea. Pesaro: Metauro, 2003, pp. 338. Italica, 81 (1) Spring 2004: 122123.
Davidson, Alastair and Steve Wright, Eds. “Never Give In”: The Italian
Resistance and Politics. Italica, vol. 76, n. 2, Summer 1999: 259-60.
Cooke, Philip. Fenoglio’s Binocular’s, Johnny’s Eyes: History, Language, and
Narrative Technique in Fenoglio’s Il Parigiano Johnny. Italica, vol. 78, n. 3 Fall
2001: 426-28.
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COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT:
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Intermediate Italian: Regioni Italiane (IT 202)
Dante’s Commedia: The Pilgrim, The Poet, The Prophet (IT 275)
Intermediate Italian: Adventures with Gianluigi and Jean (IT 201)
Elementary Italian Sequence [Italian] (IT 101 - 102)
Italy: From Fascism to Present Day [Italian] (IT 350)
Italian Through Film: The Classics II [Italian] (IT 309)
Italian Through Opera [Italian] (IT 307)
Italian Culture: Bella Figura, Sprezzatura, La Chiesa and a Whole Lot More
[English] (IT 260)
Italian Through Film: The Classics [Italian] (IT 306)
Wartime Italy: Cinema and Novel (IT 285)
An Introduction to Contemporary Italy (IT 251-252-253): Viaggio in Italia e
Scrittori Famosi [Italian: La Scuola Italiana, 2005, Middlebury College]
Italian American Culture: Faith, Family, Food, and the Moon [English] (IT 251)
Italian Through Film [Italian] (IT 303)
Modern Italy: 1860 to Present [English] (IT 250)
Viaggio in Italia [Italian] (IT 301)
Intermediate Italian Sequence [Italian] (IT 201- IT 202)
Wartime Italy: Cinema and Novel [English] (FYS 154-3)
An Introduction to Contemporary Italy (IT 251-252-253) [Italian: La Scuola
Italiana, 2003, Middlebury College]
Elementary Italian Sequence [Italian] (IT 101 - 102)
Italian American Immigrants: Faith, Family, Food, and the Moon [Italian] (FYS
154-2)
Italian Culture: From the Sublime to the Morose [Italian] (IT 260)
L’Italia in guerra: La memoria colletiva della Resistenza [Italian] (IT 497a)
Guareschi e la cultura popolare [Italian] (IT 460)
Introduzione alla cultura italiana [Italian] (IT 302)
Italian American Culture: Fact, Novel, and Film [English] (IT 131)
Italy in World War II [English] (IT 197b)
The Memory of the Italian Resistance [English] (IT 298)
Italian American Immigration: Fact, Film, Fiction [English] (IT 197b)
TEACHING INTERESTS:
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Giovannino Guareschi: Italian journalist, illustrator, and author
Italy in World War II and the Cold War (1941 – 1991): Resistance,
Reconstruction, Economic Miracle, Student Unrest, Terrorism, Recovery (culture,
poetry, art, narrative, and film)
Contemporary Italian literature, culture, and film
Italian American culture and film
Italian language, conversation and composition
Catholicism and Literature
COLLOQUIA:
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“Pippo: Understanding an Italian Folklore Mystery of World War II.” Invited
Guest Lecture, Seton Hall University, 10 February 2014.
“Pippo: An Italian Folklore Mystery of World War II.” Invited Guest Lecture,
The Ohio State University, 2 March 2012.
“‘La tesi dei racconti’: Guareschi’s Sacrality of Conscience in the Mondo
piccolo.” Italian Literature and Religion Conference. Toronto, Canada, 11 – 13
October 2012.
“Don Camillo and his Return: Guareschi’s Collaboration with Duvivier.”
Symposium on New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema.
Bloomington, Indiana, April 2011.
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“Guareschi’s Dismay: The Making of Duvivier’s Don Camillo.” Presenter,
Annual Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies, New York
City, May 2009.
“Giovannino Guareschi and the Italian South in a Cold War Context.” American
Association of Teachers of Italian Annual Conference. Erice, Sicily, May 2009.
“Sacraments and Sacramentals in Guareschi’s Mondo piccolo.” Presenter, Annual
Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. October 2007.
“Giovannino Guareschi and the Challenge of Vatican II.” Presenter, Annual
Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies, May 2007.
“Giovannino Guareschi and the Sacrality of Conscience.” Presenter, Annual
Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies, May 2006.
“Giovannino’s Rage: Interpreting Guareschi’s Contribution to La Rabbia.”
Presenter, Annual Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies,
April 2005.
“Freedom of Imprisonment: Giovannino Guareschi and the Primacy of
Conscience.” Presenter, First Annual Robert Dombroski Italian Conference,
University of Connecticut, 25 September 2004.
“The Italian Program at Gettysburg College.” Round Table Presenter, Annual
Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies, April 2004.
“ ‘Era il nostro terrore’: Come interpretare il mito di Pippo.” Guest Speaker, York
University, Canada. 25 March 2004.
“Pippo: Unveiling an Italian World War II Myth.” Guest Speaker, Italo Bosco
Annual Awards Banquet, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. 4 April
2003.
“Pippo: Unveilling an Italian World War II Myth.” Presenter, Women in War
Conference, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA. 3 March 2003.
“Pippo: Understanding and Italian Folklore Myth of World War II.” Guest
Speaker, Barbieri Lecture. Trinity College, Hartford, CT. 17 February 2003.
Giovannino Guareschi and the German Lager: Perceptions of Spiritual Humor.”
Presenter, Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, December 2001.
“Guareschi Unchained: Self Reflections on Two Imprisonments.” Presenter,
American Association of Teachers of Italian, Annual Conference, Washington,
D.C., November 2001.
“’Pippo volava di sera’: Svelare il mistero di una leggenda di guerra.” La Scuola
Italiana Invited Lecture Series, Distinguished Guest Lecturer, August 2001.
“Unravelling the Mystery of Pippo: The incubus of World War II Popular
Memory.” Presenter, American Association of Teachers of Italian, Annual
Conference, Boston, MA, November 2000.
“Fallen Partisans: Hagiographic Imprints in Italian Resistance Biography and
Renata Viganò’s L’Agnese va a Morire”. Presenter, Cold War Culture: Film, Fact,
and Fiction, Bloomington, IN, February 1999.
“The Holy Partisan Martyr in Commemorative Biography: The Sacralization of
Resistance Memory”. Presenter, American Association of Teachers of Italian,
Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., November 1998.
Rita, Pina and Agnese: Holy Martyred Mothers of the Italian Resistance.
Presenter, Annual Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies,
April 1998.
“‘Venite ad laudare’: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in the Laudario di Cortona.”
Presenter, American Association of Teachers of Teachers of Italian, Annual
Conference, Nashville, TN, November 1997.
“Eppure si muove: The State of Italian Economic Affairs, 1955–1995.” Academic
Lecture, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1995.
“L’abito non fa il monaco: Disguise, Confession and Anti-Clericalism in
Boccaccio’s Tedaldo Story (Decameron III, 7). Presenter, Annual Conference of
the American Association of Italian Studies, April 1994.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
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Gettysburg College, The Luther W. and Bernice L. Thompson Distinguished
Teaching Award, Spring 2007.
Gettysburg College. Approval of Tenure. 2007.
Pennsylvania Consortium Andrew Mellon Research Fellowship, $4,700, for
research at the Guareschi Archives, Roncole Verdi (Parma), Italy, Summer 2007.
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Gettysburg College Research and Professional Development Grant, $2,500, for
research at the Guareschi Archives, Roncole Verdi (Parma), Italy, Summer 2005 2006.
• Gettysburg College Research and Professional Development Grant, $2,500, for
research at the Guareschi Archives, Roncole Verdi (Parma), Italy, Summer 2003.
• The Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, Trinity College, $5,000
grant. April 2001.
• Department of French and Italian Award for Excellence in Teaching, University
of Wisconsin-Madison. Academic years: 1994-1995 and 1996–1997.
· Department of French and Italian Award for Academic Excellence, University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Academic years 1992–1995.
· Travel Awards, The Graduate School, College of Letters and Science, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 1995 and Summer 1997.
· Internship, Middlebury College, Summer 1993.
· Graduate Fellowship, The Graduate School, College of Letters and Science,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Academic year 1992-1993.
· Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society, 1986.
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OTHER RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
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Captain, Medical Service Corps, United States Army: Commander, 45th Field
Hospital Medical Company, Vicenza, Italy, September 1988–February 1990.
Personnel Officer and Adjutant, 45th Field Hospital, Vicenza, Italy, February
1990-June 1991.
M. A., Middlebury College, Florence, Italy. June 1991–July 1992.
REFERENCES:
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Dr. Janet Riggs, President of Gettysburg College and Professor of Psychology,
President’s Office, Penn Hall, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325. (717)
337 – 6010. Email: [email protected]
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Dr. Christopher Kleinhenz, 2247 Fox Avenue, Madison, WI 53711. (608) 2570515; FAX (608) 257-3051. Email: [email protected].
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Dr. Michele Lettieri, Director, Department of Italian Studies, Erindale College,
University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6. Email:
[email protected].
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