Arturo Figliola

Senior Lecturer

Education

BA Dartmouth College (1973)
MA Middlebury College (1978)
MS University of Washington (1986)
PhD University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2002)

Research Areas

• Socio-spatial aspects of Italian literature (including regional literatures, land use, and environmental questions)
• Italian regionalism in the European Union
• the role of Italy (especially Venezia and Sicilia) as a “cultural mediator” between ‘East’ and ‘West’
• Napoli and the culture of  the South
• the activities of  Italian anarchist Luigi Galleani in Barre, Vermont.

Publications

Published papers

• Literature of the Sienese contrada: its functional and existential significance, in Rondas literarias de Pittsburgh 2006-2007  (2008)
• Space and its role as a medium for human interaction in Rosetta Loy’s Strade di polvere, in Romance Languages Annual VI (1994).