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 hasedited
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 theEllis 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)