Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies) has focused on one of her current research projects this summer – Food, Hunger, Migration and the American Myth in Sicily at the Time of the WWII Allied Landing – taking advantage of new resources available in Sicily. 

This project offers a variegated reading of the 1943 Allied Landing on the Southern coast of Sicily as part of Operation Husky through the novel perspective of food practices by interweaving accounts of food security and insecurity sourced from direct witnesses, historical scholarship, and a novella by Leonardo Sciascia addressing foodways in Sicily before, during and after WWII (read more).