December 03, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Date:
December 3, 2012
Time:
2:00-3:00pm
Location:
Sullivan B-4
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Leading Voices: A Speaker Series on Intellectual and Artistic
Creativity
Monday, Dec. 03, 2012
2:00-3:00 (Common Hour) – Sullivan B-4
Everyone – students, faculty, administrators, and general public -
is invited to attend
Invited Speaker
Annalisa Saccà, Ph.D.
Department of Languages and Literatures
Interviewer
Zoe Petropolou, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Languages and Literatures
Dr. Annalisa Saccà received her Ph. D. from New York University
and began teaching at St. John’s in 1990. She is Professor
of Italian Language and Literature, Vincentian Fellow,
Delegate of the Holy See Mission to the UN, Academic
Coordinator of the Study Abroad and Internship Program in Italy,
and, until recently, Director of the Center for Global
Development and of the Master’s Program in Global Development and
Social Justice, created in collaboration with Unicaritas
of Rome. Dr. Saccà’s publications on contemporary
and post-modern Italian writers include Saggi critici su EnzoNasso,
Contenuti Latenti , Saggi critici di C.E. Oppo,
Significando Simulacri: Scrittura di contrabbando di P.F. Paolini.
She also has published three collections of poems (Dove non è
mai sera, Nominare Delfi. , Il tempo del grano), and has
represented Italy in international poetry festivals. She also
has edited and contributed to many key reference works in her
field, including Encyclopedia of Modern Drama and the
Dictionary of Literary Biography 264, Italian Prose Writers,
1900-1945.
Dr. Saccà has been awarded several grants from the Department of
Education, the last one received in 2012, to develop a new
undergraduate major in Global Development and Area Studies. She is
a recipient of the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, and
member of the Academy of Parnassos, Athens, Greece, the
oldest poetry society in the world, whose membership roster
includes Lord Byron, and the Italian poets Ugo Foscolo and Gabriele
D'Annunzio.
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“Leading Voices”, a speaker series held once a semester, recognizes
and invites a faculty member from St. John’s College with a
distinguished record in scholarship, research and creative
accomplishment to reflect upon her/his craft and career. In the
format of a conversation with an interviewer, this informal yet
informative forum is intended to uncover individual personalities,
passions, and approaches that have lead each of these scholars,
researchers, or artists to such excellent levels of achievement. It
recognizes them as “leading voices” in the College, who serve to
enrich, encourage, and inspire both faculty and students. This
forum similarly is in line with efforts to foster a vibrant,
collegial environment of interdisciplinary communication and
collaboration at St John’s University.
Leading Voices Steering Committee Dorah Ahmad (Eng), José G.
Centeno (CSD; Coordinator), Robert Delfino (Phi), Paul
Fabozzi (Fine Arts), Beverly Greene (Psych), Timothy Milford
(Hist), David Rosenthal (Math), Laura M. Schramm (Bio)