Teresa Fiore is the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA). The recipient of several fellowships (De Bosis, Rockefeller, and Fulbright), she was Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University, NYU, and Rutgers University. Her book Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies (Fordham UP 2017) received the 2017 American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize, an Honorable Mention at the 2018 MLA Marraro Prize; and the 2019 Gadda Prize as Runner Up. Fiore is also the editor of the 2006 issue of Quaderni del ‘900, devoted to John Fante, and the co-editor of a special section of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies’ Fall 2018 issue about the migration “crisis” in the Mediterranean. Her numerous articles on migration to/from Italy linked to 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature, theater, music and cinema have appeared in Italian, English and Spanish in both journals and edited collections published by Routledge, Palgrave, Liverpool UP, Illinois U Press, Bompiani and Le Monnier-Mondadori. Fiore designs and directs a regular program of collaborative cultural events and educational activities in Italian and Italian American Studies within an interdisciplinary perspective: montclair.edu/inserra-chair
