Irene Marchegiani, Regional Representative (New York State)
2014-2017
Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Stony Brook University
Tel: (631) 632-7440/7441
E-mail: irene.marchegiani@STONYBROOK.EDU
Biography:
Research Interests:
Second language acquisition applied methodology
Contemporary Italian poetry
Women Writers
Romanticism: Giacomo Leopardi
Theory and Practice of Translation
Greek and Latin World
Awards (selection)
- CAS Outreach Award
- Provost Outstanding Lecturer Award
- Dante Alighieri Award by the American Association of Italian teachers, Long Island Chapter
- Italian Prize Astrolabio, awarded by the University of Pisa, Italy, for the poetry book La vita in cerchio and for the overall literary career
- Monselice “Diego Valeri” translation prize for the translation of Torquato Tasso’s Aminta (co-translator: Professor Charles Jernigan)
Publications
Books
Fabio Dainotti, Selected Poems, edited by Irene Marchegiani, Gradiva Publications, February 2015.
La scopa, translation from English to Italian of the volume of poetry Broom, by JoelleBiele,Bordighera Press,November 2014.
Percorsi. (with Francesca Italiano, USC). First-year Italian textbook for college students. Third edition. Prentice Hall. Copyright January 2014.
A Breath in Creation. Edited and translated by Irene Marchegiani. Translation from Italian to English of selected poems by Daniele Piccini. Gradiva Editions. November 2012.
Percorsi. (with Francesca Italiano, USC). First-year Italian textbook for college students. Second edition. Prentice Hall. Copyright January 2012.
A Tired Angel. Edited and translated by Irene Marchegiani. New York: Gradiva Editions. September 2010. Translation from Italian to English of selected poems by Mario Lucrezio Reali.
Lovesickness. Edited and translated by Irene Marchegiani. New York: Gradiva Editions. Translation from Italian to English of the volume of poetry Malattia d’amore di Michele Caccamo. November 2009.
Introduction to the translation from Italian to English of the collection of poems by Michele Caccamo, Lovesickness, Gradiva Publications. November 2009.
Percorsi. (with Francesca Italiano, USC). First-year Italian textbook for college students. Prentice Hall. November 2007.
Percorsi. (with Francesca Italiano, USC). Prentice Hall. Ancillary material: web site program; workbook; lab audio manual; assessment package. November 2007.
Percorsi – Video. Development of a video connected with the textbook. November 2007
Land of Time. Edited by Irene Marchegiani. Preface by Dante Della Terza. New York: Chelsea Editions, 2006. A bilingual anthology of Luigi Fontanella’s poetry.
Crescendo! Intermediate Italian textbook for college students. Second edition. Heinle & Heinle. 2006.
Blood Autunm. Autunno di sangue, by Daniela Gioseffi. Boca Raton, FL: Bordighera Press, 2006. Translated 10 poems from English to Italian.
La vita in cerchio. Rome: Stango, 2004. Selected poetry by Irene Marchegiani.
Promises of Love. Trans. by Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones ofselected poetryby Plinio Perilli. Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones and Carol Lettieri. New York: Gradiva Publications, 2004.
Aminta. A Patoral by Torquato Tasso. Trans. Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. New York: Italica Press, 2000.
In Spring 2002, this volume was awarded the prestigious Italian Monselice “Diego Valeri” prize for translation.
The Poetics of Place: Florence Imagined. Ed. by Irene Marchegiani Jones and Thomas Haeussler. Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones. Florence: Olschki, 2000.
Angels of Youth. Trans. by Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones of Ceres by Luigi Fontanella. Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones and Carol Lettieri. Xenos Books, 2000.
Edited Torquato Tasso’s Aminta for the data bank Nuovo Rinascimento, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Department, University of Florence, Italy, and published it on the web, www.nuovorinascimento.org
The Star of Free Will by Maria Luisa Spaziani. Trans. by Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Irene Marchegiani Jones. Montreal: Guernica, 1996. 135 pp.
Crescendo!, Lexington: D. C. Heath and Co., 1994. (Co-author Prof. Francesca Italiano, University of Southern California). Instructor edition 624 pp. and Student edition 592 pp.
Crescendo! Workbook and Lab Manual, Lexington: D. C. Heath and Co, 1994. 200 pp.
Crescendo!, Transcript. Lexington: D. C. Heath and Company, November 1994. 144 pp.
Incontri Attuali (with Francesca Italiano, USC), Holt, Rinehart and Winston, November 1991. 265 pp.