Two upcoming events co-hosted by Fordham’s Italian Studies program and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will offer students and the public an opportunity to engage more deeply with the memories of millions of Italian immigrants across the world. Both groups will welcome Margherita Ganeri, Ph.D., an award-winning visiting scholar from Italy, this April.

Ganeri is a professor at the University of Calabria, where she teaches contemporary Italian literature. She has been awarded two Fulbrights and one DAAD Scholarship and has served as a visiting professor at schools worldwide. On April 17 at the Lincoln Center campus, Ganeri will discuss the Italian Diaspora with two scholars: poet and SUNY Binghamton professor emerita Maria Mazziotti Gillan and poet, essayist, and photographer Mark Hillringhouse.