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Alison Rini FCRH ’21 was featured in The Fordham Ram for her research project, “Mapping Ethnic Histories of the Bronx,” that she conducted in Fall 2018 on the Bronx Italian American History Initiative and the Bronx African American History Project. Using these oral history archives to map personal stories of multi-ethnic encounters in the Bronx, Rini created a digital map using […]

On Tuesday November 27, professors Alessandro Daniele and Alessia Valfredini led a “lezione di cucina” (cooking class) in which they demonstrated (and had the students engage in) cooking pasta alla puttanesca, in a vegetarian and more traditional, anchovy-laden version. Students raved about the results. The event was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Aramark and […]

News from MLAL Alumni/ae Joseph Tumolo (FCRH ’14, Honors Program, Italian Language & Literature) Congratulations to Joe Tumolo, class of 2014, on the publication of “Arturo Bandini’s Eclectic Identities in John Fante’s Ask the Dust,” in the journal Voices in Italian Americana 29.1 (2018)! This article originates in the research he did at Fordham for […]

On Friday November 17th drawing artist and director Andrea Mastrovito was interviewed by the students in Dr. Valfredini’s Intermediate Italian II courses on his last work, NYsferatu, that they had watched in September with a live music performance at the Italian Institute of culture in NY. Thanks to Andrea Mastrovito for his wonderful generosity in […]