This edition: The Elena Ferrante Phenomenon
TweetEpisode Details
Original tape date: October 16, 2018. First aired: November 13, 2018.This month on Italics we will visit the Elena Ferrante phenomenon. Here in the U.S, Ferrante is best known for her New York Times best-selling Neapolitan Quartet of Novels about two friends growing up in post-war Italy. One of the nation’s most beloved novelists today, Elena Ferrante has garnered great praise both in Italy and in the United States.
To discuss this nonpareil cultural event with us are Giancarlo Lombardi, Professor and Executive Officer of the Department of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Rebecca Falkoff, Professor of Italian at New York University. Both guests have significant publications on Elena Ferrante.
As both novelist and, now, the television series on HBO, which is adapted from the first of four novels, My Brilliant Friend, the Elena Ferrante phenomenon just seems to grow more and more.
Guest List
Rebecca Falkoff Assistant Professor, NYU
Prof. Giancarlo Lombardi Executive Officer/Professor, CUNY/Graduate Center/Comparative Literature
Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, PhD. Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - Queens College
Related Websites
- Antonio Tibaldi, Gorgona
- Thursday, April 23 - 9:30am
- Thursday, May 7 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, May 19 - 9:30am
- TBA
- Monday, April 27 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, April 28 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, April 29 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 30 - 9:30am
- Monday, May 4 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, May 12 - 9:30am
- Thursday, May 21 - 9:30am
- Book Launch, PIACE, and a Presepio
- Tuesday, May 5 - 9:30am
- Thursday, May 14 - 9:30am
- Frank Ingrasciotta in Blood Type: Ragu
- Wednesday, May 6 - 9:30am
- Monday, May 18 - 9:30am
- Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art
- Monday, May 11 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, May 20 - 9:30am
- Alain Elkann & ILICA
- Wednesday, May 13 - 9:30am
- Antonio Tibaldi, Gorgona
- Wednesday, April 8 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, April 21 - 9:30am
- Frank Ingrasciotta in Blood Type: Ragu
- Tuesday, April 7 - 9:30am
- Monday, April 20 - 9:30am
- Book Launch, PIACE, and a Presepio
- Monday, April 6 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 16 - 9:30am
- Alain Elkann & ILICA
- Thursday, April 2 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, April 15 - 9:30am
- THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO: CONVERSATION WITH ADRIANA TRIGIANI
- Wednesday, April 1 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, April 14 - 9:30am
- CAFÉ MARS AND CIVITA
- Tuesday, March 31 - 9:30am
- Monday, April 13 - 9:30am
- Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art
- Monday, March 23 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, March 24 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, March 25 - 9:30am
- Thursday, March 26 - 9:30am
- Monday, March 30 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 9 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, April 22 - 9:30am
