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Robert Viscusi

Biography

Robert Viscusi

Robert Viscusi, Ph.D., is Professor of English and executive officer of the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College, president of the Italian American Writers Association, novelist, critic, scholar of Italian-American literature and culture, and author of the epic poem “Ellis Island.”

Robert Viscusi

Books by Robert Viscusi

Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943
edited by Francesco Durante; Editor of the American Edition, Robert Viscusi - Anthology, Essays, Nonfiction

To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, ITALOAMERICANA brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of classic writings on, about and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience.