Rethinking Ethnic Studies: Affect and the Italian American Experience

Explores affect in lived experiences of ethnicity and its visual/textual representations, ie. the history of Italian American communities. Attention to the impact of feelings (shame, desire, etc.) in diasporic subjectivities and their intergenerational dimensions.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas (rcalabretta@gmail.com ) Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook U, State U of New York (loredana.polezzi@stonybrook.edu )