Italian Americana

Editorial Board

Editor-in-chief

Alan J. Gravano
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions
1800 S. Novell Place
Provo, Utah 84606
alan.gravano@rm.edu

Alan J. Gravano is the Writing Center Director at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. He is a former MLA Delegate Assembly member (2017-2020), the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession (2018-2021, Chair 2020-21), and past president of the Italian American Studies Association (2015-2021). Currently, he serves on the MLA LLC Italian American (2022-27). He contributed “Reassessing the Topography of New York City in Don DeLillo’s Fiction” to Don DeLillo in Context (Cambridge UP, 2021)and “Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson as the Anti-Hero in Boardwalk Empire” to The Neglected Works of Martin Scorsese (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024), and published “CNN’s Searching for Italy: Stanley Tucci as Foodways Icon” and “Chef/Cook, Influencer, Mixologist, Travel Host: Stanley Tucci as Everyman” in Italian Americans in Film and Other Media (Palgrave, 2024). He co-edited Italian Americans on the Page: Re-Reading the Classics and Examining Underexplored Subjects (SUNY Press, forthcoming 2025).

Co-editor & Book Review Editor

John Paul Russo
Department of Classics
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33124

John Paul Russo is professor and chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Miami. He has published books and essays on the theory of criticism, ethnicity, and history of culture. Recipient of three Fulbright Fellowships to Italy, he has taught at the universities of Palermo, Rome, Genoa, and Salerno. He was co-editor of RSA (Rivista di Studi Nord Americani) (2009-12). His The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society was awarded the 2006 Bonner Prize. His study of representations of Italy, Italians, and Italian Americans, co-written by Robert Casillo and entitled The Italian in Modernity, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011.

Poetry Editor

Maria Terrone

Maria Terrone is the author of the poetry collections No Known Coordinates (The Word Works, 2025), Eye to Eye (Bordighera Press, 2014), A Secret Room in Fall (McGovern Prize, Ashland Poetry Press), The Bodies We Were Loaned (The Word Works), and two chapbooks, American Gothic Take 2 and Life, Death, & Cash. Published in French and Farsi, her work has appeared in such media as Poetry, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and The Hudson Review and in more than 30 anthologies from publishers including Knopf and Beacon Press. She is also the author of At Home in the New World (Bordighera Press), a work of creative nonfiction. www.mariaterrone.com

Assistant Poetry Editors

Janine Certo

Janine Certo is the author of O Body of Bliss, winner of the Longleaf Press Book Contest in Poetry (Longleaf Press, 2023), Elixir, winner of both the New American Poetry Prize and the Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize (New American Press and Bordighera Press, 2021), and In the Corner of the Living, runner-up for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award (2017). She is an associate professor at Michigan State University and assistant poetry editor at Italian Americana.

Steve Reese

Steven Reese is Professor Emeritus of English at Youngstown State University in Ohio, where he taught in the Northeast Ohio MFA program. His poems have appeared widely in journals and in three book-length collections: Enough Light to Steer By (Cleveland State UP), American Dervish (Salmon), and Excentrica (BlazeVOX).

Fiction Editor

Alexander Sammartino

Alexander Sammartino’s debut novel, Last Acts, won the 2025 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Last Acts is available from Scribner in the US and Pushkin ONE in the UK. Selected as a 5 Under 35 Honoree by the National Book Foundation, Sammartino’s next novel, Gallo, is forthcoming from Scribner. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and cat, and he received his MFA in fiction from Syracuse University.

Editor-in-chief Emerita

Carol Bonomo Albright

Founded by Ernest S. Falbo and Richard Gambino

Past Editors

Carla Simonini (2016-2024)
Carol Bonomo Albright (1989-2015)
Bruno A. Arcudi
Michael Palma (Poetry Editor 2004-2015)
Dana Gioia (Poetry Editor 1994-2003)

EDITORIAL BOARD

  • John Alcorn, Trinity College (2025-27)
  • Loretta Baldassar, Edith Cowan University, Australia (2025-27)
  • Stefano Maria Casella,University of IULM, Milan (2025-27)
  • Robert Casillo, University of Miami (2025-27)
  • Rita Ciresi, University of South Florida (2024-2026)
  • Andrea Ciribuco, National University of Ireland, Galway (2024-26)
  • Mariaconcetta Costantini, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio (2025-27)
  • Ferdinando Fasce, University of Genoa (2024-26)
  • Perri Giovannucci, American University in Dubai (2025-27)
  • Luciano Iorizzo, Professor Emeritus, SUNY Oswego (2024-26)
  • Martino Marazzi, University of Milan (2025-27)
  • Maria Serena Marchesi, University of Messina (2024-26)
  • Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, SUNY Purchase (2025-27)
  • James Morone, Brown University (2025-27)
  • Robert Pascoe, Professor Emeritus, Victoria University, Melbourne (2025-27)
  • Maria Galli Stampino, University of Miami (2025-27)