Ammiel Alcalay published a translation from Bosnian, with introduction, of Nine Alexandrias by Semezdin Mehmedinovic (San Francisco: City Lights, 2003) and Poetry, Politics and Translation: American Isolation and the Middle East (Ithaca: Palm Press, 2003). He published articles: "Intellectual Life," in The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times, eds. R. Simon, M. Laskier, S. Reguer, (New York: Columbia U Press, 2003): 85-112; "No Return," in Wrestling with Zion, eds. Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon (New York: Grove-Atlantic, 2003): 205-19; and original texts in Frederic Brenner, Diaspora: Homelands in Exile. 2. Voices (New York: Harper Collins, 2003): 4, 22-3, 29-30, 36, 42, 53-5, 58, 64, 80, 113.

He was named to editorial advisory board of Archipelago, a publishing/educational venture dedicated to literary translation. He was a judge for the PEN Poetry in Translation Award. He received an Innovative Teaching Award at Queens College (2003) for a project called "Images of the Middle East."

Peter Carravetta published a chapter, "La questione dell'identita nella formazione dell'Europa," in Franca Sinipoli, ed., La letteratura europea vista dagli altri. (Rome: Meltemi, 2003):19-66.

He presented the following lectures in 2002: " 'They Are Just Like Us!': Alterity and Politics in the National Press in Post-Unification Italy," (Calandra Institute, CUNY, February); "For a Re-reading of Pico's Heptaplus," Conference, Renaissance Society of America (Scottsdale, AZ: April); "Metron: Between Historical Space and Geographical Time: The French and Italian Geographical Societies in Africa to 1885," Conference 'Cryptic Cartographies' (University of Oregon/Eugene: October); "The Problem of Reference: Literature Between Philosophy and Politics," Conference, 'Qu'est-ce que la literature' (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa: October). "How to Interpret a Text, or Anything Else," (Casa Italiana, New York University: December).

He presented the following lectures in 2003 and 2004: "The Crisis of Italian National Identity" (Department of Italian, SUNY Stony Brook: March); "Italian Explorers in Africa," American Assoc for Italian Studies, annual convention, (Washington, D.C.: March); "The Relevance of Pragmatism for Literary Interpretation," Conference, 'El pensamiento Angloamericano. El Pragmatismo: William James', (University Complutense: March); "Aspects of Contemporary American Poetry," (Institute of Linguistics, Spanish Society, St. George's Hall: Madrid: April); "Currents in American Poetry," (Department of Filologia Inglesa, University of Malaga: May); "Che cosa (non) c'era di postmoderno nel Gruppo 63," Conference 'Il Gruppo 63': quarant'anni dopo," (Arena del Sole, Bologna: May); "Political Aspects of Multicultural Poetry in the United States," (Facultad de Filologia Inglesa, Universidad de Salamanca: May); "Hyphenated Poetry in the United States today," followed by a reading from his book, The Sun and Other Things, (Facultad de Filologia Inglesa, Universidad de Valladolid: May); "Philosophy, Rhetoric, War," during presentation of his book Dei Parlanti, (Turin Book Fair: May); "Behind the Bollettino dell'Emigrazione: Politics, History, and Migration in Italy, 1886 -1913" (Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY: December 2003); "Emigrazione e storia" (Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza": January); "Migration, History and Existence," Human Rights Defence Centre , 4th Annual Conference, "Migrants and Refugees," Athens, Greece.

Clare Carroll's book, Ireland and Postcolonial Theory (with an Afterword by Edward Said), was published by Cork University Press and Notre Dame University Press in October 2003. She presented a paper, "The New British Historiography," at the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies meeting (October 2003), on a panel including graduate participants in the Folger Institute Seminar that she taught in Fall 2002. She lectured on "Irish in the Age of Elizabeth I" at the Newberry Library, Chicago (December 2003). Her article, "Between Hope and Fear: the Jews in Early Modern Europe," appeared in Voices of Toleration in an Age of Persecution ed. Vincent Carey (published for a Folger Shakespeare Library exhibit, June-October 2004).

Mary Ann Caws published Marcel Proust: Illustrated Life (Overlook Duckworth: 2003) and Robert Motherwell with Pen and Brush (Reaktion, 2003). During fall 2003 she lectured at Williams College (on translation), Mt. Holyoke (on Motherwell), for the Chicago Humanities Festival (on Proust and on Joseph Cornell), at Cooper Union and at the Mercantile Library (on Proust). At the Modern Language Association convention (December 2003), she spoke on "World Literature Anthologies" and on "Translation," and she chaired the memorial reading for Carolyn Heilbrun. In 2004 she published the Yale Anthology of 20th Century French Poetry (Yale U Press) and Surrealism (Phaidon).

William Coleman was a member of a collaborative research team at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, in June 2003. The project was "An Electronic Edition of Dante's Commedia." He was awarded a PSC/CUNY research grant for "Bookmaking in Renaissance Ferrara: The Case of the Teseida and the Fatiche d'Ercole." He delivered a paper, "Boccaccio's Two Settings for the Teseida," at the European Society for Textual Scholarship conference ('Editing Texts in Multiple Versions,') in Alicante, Spain, in November 2004.

Vincent Crapanzano's book, Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology, was published by the University of Chicago Press (2003). The University of Nebraska Press has republished his first book, The Fifth World of Forster Bennett: A Portrait of a Navajo. He published the following articles: "Reflections on Hope as a Category of Social and Psychological Analysis," Cultural Anthropology 18(1): 1-32; Afterward. pp. 135-48. in Illness and Irony: On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture, eds. Michael Lambek and Paul Antze. Social Analysis 47(2):135-148; Concluding Reflections. pp. 175-97. in Dreams and the Phenomenology of the Self,ed. J. Mageo. (Albany: SUNY Press); "The Metaphoricity of Translation: Text, Context, and Fidelity in American Jurisprudence. pp.44-63 in Translation And Ethnography: The Anthropological Challenge of Intercultural Understanding, ed. Tullio Maranhao and Berhard Streck (Tucson: U Arizona Press).

He delivered a paper, "The Betwixt and Between," at the University of Neuchatel. He was a general discussant for academic panels in Heidelberg and at the American Anthropological Association and the Society for the Study of the Anthropology of Religion.

Giuseppe DiScipio published "San Tommaso e il suo latino" in La Ciociaria tra Scrittori e Cineasti. (Pesaro: Meaturo, 2004); "Dante Writes the Divina Commedia" in Great Events in History: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. (Salem, N.C.: Salem Press, 2004).

He reviewed the following books: The Dante Colloquia in Australia 1982-1990 in Forum Italicum (Fall 2002); Divine Dialectic: Dante's Incarnational Poetry (by G. P. Raffa) in Renaissance Quarterly (Summer 2003); and Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife, Essays in Honor of John Freccero. (eds. A. Cornish and D. Stewart) in Renaissance Quarterly (Autumn 2003).

His conference symposia talks were: "Dante and Auerbach:'che lume fia tra 'l vero e l'intelletto'" Symposium: 'Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Erich Auerbach's Mimesis,' Renaissance and Medieval Studies Certificates Programs, Graduate Center (November 2003); "San Tommaso e il suo latino" Simposio Internazionale sulla Ciociaria (February 2004); and "Slaves and Slavery in Renaissance Florence" Convention: Renaissance Society of America, April 2004.

During his recent sabbatical leave, Hermann Haller was a visiting professor at the Universities of Florence and Genoa, where he taught seminars on Italian dialect literature. He also lectured at the universities of Heidelberg, Siena, and Naples, and participated in a conference on "Globalizzazione e Lingua nazionale" in Livorno in April. His new book La festa delle lingue. La letteratura dialettale in Italia (Rome: Carocci) was presented at the University of Genoa. He contributed the chapter "I dialetti italiani negli USA" to I dialetti italiani: storia, struttura, usi, eds. M. Cortelazzo, C. Marcato, N. De Blasi, and G.P. Clivio (Turin: UTET). From September 8-12, 2003 he was invited to lecture at the Centro di Dialettologia e di Etnografia della Svizzera Italiana in Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Catherine McKenna has published "Between Two Worlds: Saint Brigit and Pre-Christian Religion in the Vita Prima," in Defining the Celtic, ed. Joseph F. Nagy, Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook 2 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002); "Revising Math: Kingship in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi," Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, Winter 2003; "Triangulating Opposition: Irish Expatriates and Hagiography in the Seventeenth Century," in Language and Tradition in Ireland: Continuities and Displacements, ed. Maria Tymoczko and Colin Ireland. American Conference for Irish Studies Publication Series Volume 3 (Amherst: U Massachusetts P, 2004); "Vision and Revision, Iteration and Reiteration, in Aislinge Meic Con Glinne," in Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes: Studies in Honor of Patrick K. Ford, ed. Joseph F. Nagy. Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook 3 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2004).

Her reviews of Early Christian Ireland, by T.M. Charles-Edwards (2002), and Ireland in the Middle Ages, by Sean Duffy, appeared in Speculum 77 (2002).

She gave two invited lectures at Harvard University during 2003: "The Beirdd y Tywysogion and the Secrets of the Confessional," a Humanities Colloquium on March 14, and "Performing Penance and Poetic Performance in Medieval Wales," a Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures lecture on December 1. She spoke at the annual meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America at the University of California Berkeley in April on "Gothic Brigit: The Collection of Saints' Lives and the Representation of Sanctity in the High Middle Ages," and at the Twelfth International Congress of Celtic Studies, in Aberystwyth, Wales, in August on "The Confessional Self in the Poetry of Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch."

Eugenia Paulicelli published a book, Fashion under Fascism. Beyond the Black Shirt (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004). She published the following articles: "Fashion Writing under the Fascist Regime: An Italian Dictionary and Commentary of Fashion by Cesare Meano and Short Stories by Gianna Manzini and Alba de Cespedes," Fashion Theory: Journal of Dress, Body and Culture 8:1 (Winter 2004): 1-32; "Fashion, the Politics of Style and National Identity in Pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy," Gender and History 14:2 (2002): 537-559; "Fashion, the Politics of Style and National Identity in Pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy," in Barbara Burman and Carole Turbin, eds., Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historical Perspectives (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), 167-89; "La moda, le donne e il cinema: CONTESSA DI PARMA di Alessandro Blasetti," in Bonizza Giordani Aragno, ed., Donne tra Brividi ed Emozioni (Rome: De Luca, 2002), 26-32; "Performing the Gendered Self in Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier and the Discourse on Fashion," in Annalecta Husserliana (2001): 237-48; "Art in Modern Italy. From the Macchiaioli to the Transavanguardia," pp. 243-63, and "Fashion: Narration and Nation," pp. 283-91, in An Introduction to Modern Italian Culture, eds. Zygmunt Baranski and Rebecca West (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2001): 243-63.

She presented the following papers: "Dress and Identity in Fascist Italy," The Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, Yale University (February 2004); "Dolce Vita and Italian Identity," St. Joseph University, Philadelphia (October 2003); "Il cinema, la moda e il fascismo," Accademia di Costume e Moda, Rome (January 2003); "Per una ri-lettura del cinema di Alessandro Blasetti," Winter Session, Wellesley College, Rome (January 2003); "Uso del cinema per la diffusione dell'italiano," The Italian Cultural Institute, New York (October 2002); "Politica e ideologia. Usi del discorso della moda nell'Italia degli anni trenta," Universita di Bari, November 16-18, 2002 . International conference, 'The Relevance of Ferruccio Rossi Landi's Semiotics Today.'

She was organizer of the International Conference on "Italian Fashion: Identities Transformation, Production" sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, the Italian Trade Commission, and the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature (Graduate Center) on October 30-31, 2002.

Jacob Stern published "Heraclitus the Paradoxographer: Peri Apiston, On Unbelievable Tales," Transactions of the American Philological Association 133 (2003) 51-97. In January 2004 he delivered a paper, "degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento," at a Symposium on 'Popular Wisdom and Subliterary Texts in Classical Antiquity' at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.

Joshua Wilner published "I Speak of One from Many Singled Out: Individuation, Singularity and Agrammaticality in Wordsworth" in Inventing the Individual: Romanticism and the Idea of Individualism, ed. Larry H. Peer (Brigham Young U Press, 2002).

He presented the following lectures: "Wordsworth and Mandelbrot on the Coast of Britain," Conference, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (August 2003); "Experimental Prose and the Reconfiguration of Incestuous Bonds: from the Grasmere Journal to Tender Buttons," International Conference on Romanticism (Milwaukee: November 2003); "Opening New Doors in his Dungeon: Benjamin Reads Blanqui," Convention, Modern Language Association (San Diego: December 2003). He was elected to the advisory board of the International Conference on Romanticism.