Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Luisa Del Giudice is an Independent
Scholar. She was Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian Folklore, UCLA
(1995-2001); has published and lectured widely on Italian and Italian
American folklife, from foodways and oral expression to material culture,
children's literature, and belief; and has produced many public events
on Italian and Mediterranean regional and folk culture in Los Angeles,
California.
Among her monographs and recordings are: Cecilia: Testi e contesti
di un canto narrativo tradizionale, Brescia: Grafo, 1995; Studies
in Italian American Folklore (ed.), Logan: Utah State UP, 1993;
Italian Traditional Song (recordings and book), Italian Heritage
Culture Foundation and the Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles,
1989 (2nd rev. ed., 1995); Il canto narrativo al Brallo, Varzi:
Guardamagna, 1989; Canto narrativo al Brallo (recording), Milan:
Albatros, 1990; “Paesi di Cuccagna and other Gastronomic Utopias,”
in Imagined States: Nationalism, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures
(ed. by LDG and Gerald Porter), Logan: Utah State UP, 2002. Forthcoming:
"Neo-Tarantismo and Folk Revival in the Salento," Performing
Ecstasies: Music, Dance, and Ritual in the Mediterranean (ed. L.
Del Giudice and Nancy Van Deusen). She is currently President of the
Kommission für Volksdichtung (Commission pour l’étude
de la chanson populaire), Société Internationale d’Ethnologie
et de Folklore (2000 - 2005) and a member of the SIEF Executive
Board. She is committed to community education and to creating innovative
public programs on the folk and regional cultures of Italians and Italian
Americans.
PUBLICATIONS
Publications in Folklore
Imagined
States: National Identity, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures,
ed. by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter, Logan: Utah State University
Press, 2001.
“Paesi di Cuccagna and other Gastronomic Utopias,” in Imagined
States: National Identity, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures,
ed. by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter, Logan: Utah State University
Press, 2001: 11-63.
“Healing the Spider's Bite: `Ballad Therapy’ and Tarantismo,”
in Thomas A. McKean Ed., The Flowering Thorn (International
Ballad Studies, A Project of the Kommission für Volksdichtung and
the Elphinstone Institute), Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press,
2003: 23-33.
Introduction to: Italian Treasury: Puglia, Rounder Records
(Alan Lomax Collection), 2003.
“Pasta” (46-52) and “Slow Food”(288-89), in
Encyclopedia of Food, Vol. 3, ed. by Solomon H. Katz, New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, Thomson Gale, 2003.
"Cursed Flesh: Faith Healers, Black Magic, and Death in a Central
Italian Town," in Italian American Review, John Calandra
Institute, SUNY, New York, Vol. 8, number 2, 2001: 45-56.
“`Wine Makes Good Blood’: Wine Culture Among Toronto Italians,”
in Ethnologies, 2001, Vol. 23, number 1, 1-27.
Introduction (and translation into English): Canto d'amore: canti,
suoni, voci nella Grecia salentina (`Love Song: Songs, Sounds,
and Voices from the Griko-speaking Area of the Salento’), Lecce:
Edizioni Aramirè and UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, 2000.
“Italian American Folklore, Folklife” (237-245) and “Italian
American Food and Foodways” (245-248), in S. LaGumina, F. Cavaioli,
S. Primeggia, J. Varacalli, eds., The Italian American Experience:
An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland, 2000.
Preface (and translation into English): Bonasera a quista casa:
Antonio Aloisi, Antonio Bandello “Gli Ucci” Pizziche, stornelli,
canti salentini, Lecce: Edizioni Aramirè, 1999.
“Costantino Nigra: Le chant populaire, la politique régionaliste
et nationale” in Fanch Postic, ed., La Bretagne et la découverte
de la littérature orale en Europe, Brest, 1999.
"Giulio Cesare Croce," "Paese di Cuccagna," in Encyclopedia
of Folklore and Literature, Mary Ellen Brown, Bruce Rosenberg,
eds., Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 1998: 148-50; 487-89.
Introduction (and translation into English): Bonasera a quista casa:
Antonio Aloisi, Antonio Bandello ("Gli Ucci"): Pizziche, stornelli,
canti salentini, Lecce: Edizioni Aramirè, 1999.
"The International Ballad Comission (SIEF): 1985 - 1997,"
in ed. Marjetka Golez, Ljudske balade med izrocilom in sodobnostjo/Ballads
Between Tradition and Modern Times, Proceedings of the 27th International
Ballad Conference, IBC (International Ballad Commission, SIEF), Gozd
Martuljek, Slovenia (July 13-19, 1997), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1998:37-44.
"Tomie de Paola and the Writing/Illustrating of Italian Folk Culture,"
in Italian Americana, winter 1997: 22-30.
Cecilia: Testi e contesti di un canto narrativo tradizionale,
Brescia: Grafo, 1995. (revised and translated Ph.D. dissertation (UCLA,
1987): "Cecilia (Nigra 3): A Traditional Narrative Ballad in Socio-Literary
context").
"Mythic Space," Italian Journeys Humanities Guide,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995.
"Oral Theory and the Northern Italian Ballad Tradition: An Ethnographic
Approach to the Ballad Formula," in Mary Ellen Brown, ed, Journal
of Folklore Research (special ballad issue), 31 (1994) 97-126.
"Italian Traditional Song in Toronto: From Autobiography to Advocacy,"
in Journal of Canadian Studies, ed. Pauline Greenhill, Gary
Butler (special issue on folklore), 29 (Spring 1994) 74-89.
"The `Archvilla': An Italian Canadian Architectural Archetype,"
in Luisa Del Giudice, ed., Studies in Italian American Folklore,
Logan: Utah University Press, 1993:53-105. Chosen official publication
of the American Folklore Society.
"Bibliography of Italian American and Canadian Folklore,"
in L. Del Giudice, ed., Studies in Italian American Folklore
(245-69).
"Il canto popolare italiano," in Alessandro Falassi, ed.,
Tradizioni Italiane: Codici, Percorsi e Linguaggi, Siena: Università
per Stranieri, 1992:238-51.
"Ubi saltatio ibi diabolus: Eros and Dance in the Italian Ballad
and Dance Song," in Leander Petzoldt, Stefaan Top, edd., Dona
Folcloristica: Festschrift für Lutz Röhrich), Frankfurt
am Main: Peter Lang, 1990:57-67.
"The Sicilian Oral and Literary Traditions," preface to Vincenzo
Ancona, Malidittu la lingua/Damned Language, New York: Legas,
l990:16-23.
Italian Traditional Song (2 audio cassettes + 135 pp. booklet),
for the Italian Heritage Culture Foundation and the Italian Cultural
Institute, Los Angeles, 1989, 2nd revised edition, 1995.
Preliminary Survey of Italian Folklife in Los Angeles, for
the Folk and Traditional Arts Program, Department of Cultural Affairs,
Los Angeles, 1990 (70 pp.).
"Il canto narrativo al Brallo," in Pavia e il suo territorio,
(musical transcriptions by Linda Levin) publications of the Folklife
Office of the Regione Lombardia, Vol. 14, Milano: Silvana, l990, pp.
165-214; prepublished as monograph, Il canto narrativo al Brallo (Amministrazione
Provinciale di Pavia), Varzi: Guardamagna, 1989.
Canto narrativo al Brallo (lp), Ricerche etnomusicologiche,
Archivio Sonoro 7, Milan: Albatros, 1990.
"Ninna-nanna-nonsense? Fears, dreams, and falling in the Italian
lullaby," Oral Tradition, 1988 (3): 270-86; also in La
ricerca folclorica (in Italian), Brescia: Grafo, Vol. 22 (Europa zingara,
ed. by Leonardo Piasere), 1991:105-14.
"Erotic Metaphor in the Nigra Ballads" in ARV: Scandinavian
Yearbook of Folklore 1989, Stockholm, Almquist & Wiksell, 1989:17-41.
"Computer applications to the analysis of ballad variants,"
in Conrad Laforte (ed.), Ballades et chansons folkloriques,
Actes de la l8e session de la Commission pour l'étude de la poesie
de tradition orale (Kommission für Volksdichtung) de la S.I.E.F.
(Société internationale d'ethnologie et de folklore),
Québec: CELAT, 1989:173-87.
"Ballad Theater: Carnival dramatization of narrative ballads in
Brallo (Pavia): Cecilia, Ratto al ballo, Isabella, Fernanda e Bortolino,"
in Walter Puchner, ed., Tod und Jenseits im Europäischen Volkslied,
Ioannina, 1986:337-60.
Reviews in: Western Folklore, Dance Research Journal, Italian Americana,
Journal of American Folklore, Merveilles et contes/Marvels and Tales
Forthcoming Publications in Folklore:
"Interpreting
Treasure: Oral Tradition, Archaeology and Horace’s Villa,"
in Bernard Frischer, Monica De Simone, Jane Crawford (editors), New
Studies of Horace’s Villa (Licenza, Italy), 1997-2001, Monumenta
Series, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, forthcoming 2005
Performing Ecstasies: Music, Dance, and Ritual in the Mediterranean,
edited by Luisa Del Giudice and Nancy Van Deusen, Claremont Cultural
Studies, Nancy Van Deusen, General Editor, Ottawa: Institute for Medieval
Music, 2004.
Feeding The Poor: St. Joseph's Tables in Los Angeles.
[B] Publications
in Italian Literature
Vittorio Bodini: Meridian's
Surrealist, Selected Poems, (`Vittorio Bodini: surealista meridiano'),
translation into English for Multimedia performance (Beyond Barocco
festival), Istituto Italiano di Cultura, March 25, 2000.
Western Gerusalem: University
of California Studies on Tasso, (ed.) New York: Out of London Press,
1984.
"Armida: virgo fingens
(The Broken Mirror)," in Western Gerusalem, ibid.:29-53.
"Il processo narrativo nei
componimenti LXI-CV del Canzoniere di F. Petrarca," in Canadian
Journal of Italian Studies, 31 (1985) 145-59.
"Boccaccio's Commedia
delle ninfe fiorentine and literary dissociation: to allegorize
or not to allegorize?" in Carte Italiane, 3 (1982) 15-27.
"Antonio Porta est consequentia
rei" (interview with Antonio Porta), Testuale, 7 (1987) 117-126.
"Intervista con Giulia Niccolai:
I think I'm becoming Japanese," (with P. Verdicchio, P. Vangelisti),
in Carte Italiane, 6 (1985) 1-18.
[C] Folklore Courses (developed
and taught)
- Popular Italian
Literature: from Boccaccio to Pasolini (UC San Diego)
- La Canzone Tradizionale
Italiana (UC San Diego)
- Folk Traditions
in Italian Literature (UCLA)
- A Singable Feast:
Food and Song in Traditional Italian Culture (UCLA)
- The Other Italy:
Italian Folk Culture (UCLA)
- Introduction
to American Folklore (UCLA)
- Other Italies:
Italian Regional and Folk Cultures (UCLA)
- Feast and Fast:
Food in Italian Folk Rituals (American Inst. of Wine and Food)
- Italian Culture
in Los Angeles: Collecting and Connecting (Historic Italian Hall Foundation/El
Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument)
APPOINTMENTS
- Editorial board,
Slovene Studies (Journal of the Society for Slovene Studies), 2004-
- The Canterbury
Westwood Foundation (The Episcopal/Anglican Chaplaincy serving UCLA):
elected to board 2003-2006.
- Editorial board,
Western Folklore, 2003-
- Editorial board
(comité scientifique), Rabaska: revue d’ethnologie de
l’Amérique française (Société québecoise
d’ethnologie), 2003-
- Vestry, St. Alban’s
Episcopal Church (elected for 3-year term: 2001-04); Programs Committee
Chair (2002-4)
- Advisory Board
for Encyclopedia: Folk Heroes, ed. Graham Seal, 2001.
- Associate of
the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2001-)
- Elected to the
Executive of the Société Internationale d’Ethnologie
et Folklore (SIEF); term 2001-2005.
- Founder of the
IOHI (2000); (formerly Italian Oral History Project, 1994-2000)
- First Vice-President,
Komission für Volksdichtung (1995-2000); President (2000-2005)
- Convenor, Italian
Section, American Folklore Society (1988-1995)
- Italian Hall
Museum Advisory Board (El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument)
1994-1998
- National Advisory
Board, Center for the Study of Art and Culture, (Craft and Folk Art
Museum, Los Angeles)
- Editorial Board,
Carte Italiane l98l-86 (Editor in chief l985-86)
- Editorial Advisory
Board, Italian Americana (journal of the Italian American
Historical Association) (l990-)
- Editor of Newsletter,
Italian Section, American Folklore Society (1988-1992)
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Born July 30, 1956 in Terracina (Latina),
Italy
EDUCATION:
- 1987 - Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles,
UCLA
- 1979-81 - University of Florence, Italy
- 1978-79 - M.A., University of Toronto
- 1-5, 1978- independent study in Florence, Italy
- 1975 - summer session, University of Siena
- 1974-78 - B.A., University of Toronto
PROFESSIONAL
- Director, Italian Oral History Institute (1994-present)
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Italian/Folklore
& Mythology Program, UCLA (1995-present)
- Consultant, Getty Center for the Study of Art and
the Humanities (Provenance Index, Dec. 1993 - March 1994)
- Visiting Lecturer, University of California, San
Diego (Winter l985, 86)
- Research Assistant, UCLA, Medieval & Renaissance
Center (1983-84)
- Teaching Assistant, UCLA, Department of Italian (1981-85)
- Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto, Dept.
of Italian (1978-79)
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
- Fulbright Research Grant for 1992 at University of
Pavia (March - August)
- Research on "Oral Formulaic Theory and the Northern
Italian Ballad Tradition" for Regional Government of Lombardy's Folklife
Office (1991-92)
- Folksong Field Collecting, in Pavia mountain region
on behalf of Regional Government of Lombardy's Folklife Office, Italy
(Fall, Summer 1985, Fall l987 under Italian Ministery of Foreign Affairs
Grant)
- Folksong Field Collecting, Toronto, under Multiculturalism,
Canadian Secretary of State, Grant (l986)
- Italian Study Program, Florence, Italy (accompanying
tutor) summer 1982
SCHOLARLY PAPERS
- Kommission für Volksdichtung (Société Internationale
d'Ethnologie et de Folklore) meetings in Dublin (1984), Crete (1986),
Freiburg (1989), Québec (1989), Bergen (1990); Los Angeles (1993),
Faroe Islands (1994), Brittany (1995), Wales (1996), Slovenia (1997),
Aberdeen (1999), Romania (2000)
- American Folklore Society (Boston l988, Philadelphia
l989, Jacksonville, 1992, Eugene, 1993, Milwaukee, 1994, Lafayette
1995, Pittsburgh 1996, Austin, 1997)
- "Immigrant Cultures and the Performing Arts" (University
of Minnesota 1996)
- Italian Folk Art Federation of America (Pittsburgh
1995)
- "Italian Journeys," University of Hawaii at Manoa,
1995
- Folklore Studies Association of Canada (Québec l989)
- American Italian Historical Association (San Francisco
l989)
LECTURES:
"Healing the Spider's `Bite': Tarantismo and
Neo-Tarantismo in the Salento (Apulia)," American Museum of
Natural History, New York, December 5, 6, 1998.
"Tarantismo, Neo-Tarantismo and Folk Revival in the
Salento," in Essential Salento: Festival of Salentine Culture,
Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles, October 18-23, 1998.
"Joseph Among the Angeles: St. Joseph's Day Tables and
Feeding the Poor in Los Angeles," UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
March, 1997.
"Il carnevale di Ivrea," seminar in Bologna, Italy,
December 1988 for Alessandro Falassi's ExpertItalia series on Festivals
in Italy.
"Italian Traditional Song," Patrons of Italian Culture,
Beverly Hills, March 12, 1989 and at Casa Italiana, UCLA.
"Toronto's Archvillas: Dreamscapes and Archetypes,"
May 12, 1993, Folklore and Mythology Program, UCLA.
"Paesi di Cuccagna: Inhabiting the Italian
Landscape in America," Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, September
21, 1994.
"Mapping Italians in Los Angeles," Lingua e Cultura
Regionale nell'Insegnamento dell'Italiano all'Estero (International
symposium), Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angles, November 15, 1995.
"Toronto's Archvillas: Dreamscapes and Archetypes,"
Lingua e Cultura Regionale nell'Insegnamento dell'Italiano all'Estero
(International symposium), Italian Cultural Institute, Toronto, November
18, 1995.
"Italian Musical Roots and Folksong Revival," Immigrant
Cultures and the Performing Arts, University of Minnesota, March
28-30, 1996.
"Italian Folklife in California: Continuity of Tradition,"
Italian Migration in the United States, Los Angeles, Ist. It.
di Cultura, February 7, 1998.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
- Société Internationale d'Ethnologie
et Folklore, SIEF, Kommission für Volksdichtung KfV/International
Ballad Commission/Commission internationale pour l’etude de
la chanson populaire (SIEF) cf. Appointments;
- Food Ethnology Commission (SIEF)
- American Folklore Society
- Folklore Studies Association of Canada
- Slow Food – Los Angeles Convivium (founding
member)
- International Oral History Association
CONFERENCE
and FESTIVAL ORGANIZATION
Speaking
Memory: Oral History, Oral Culture and Italians in America: (AIHA
in LA – 2005), 38th annual conference of the American Italian
Historical Association, Los Angeles, November 3-6, 2005.
Italian Los Angeles: Celebrating Italian Life, Local History, and
the Arts in Southern California, Los Angeles, multi-media festival,
October 1-30, 2005.
In Vino Sanitas: Health, Certification and Marketing of Organic
Wines (International Symposium), Park Hyatt Hotel, Los Angeles,
November 15-16, 2001.
Italian Jews: Memory, Music and Celebration, Los Angeles (UCLA,
Skirball Center, Ist. It. di Cultura), October 24-November 5, 2001.
Performing Ecstasies: Dance, Music, and Ritual in the Mediterranean
(International Symposium), UCLA, 2000.
Ballads
and Boundaries: Narrative Singing in an Intercultural Context,
23rd international conference of the Kommission für Volksdichtung (Société
Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore S.I.E.F.), UCLA, June 21-24,
l993.
Italian
panels for the Centenary of the American Folklore Society meeting, Philadelphia,
and special Italian American symposium at the Fleisher Art Memorial
as part of the Philadelphia Folklore Project, October l989.
Petrarch
and Petrarchism in Europe, UCLA l983.
Literature
in the Nuclear Age, UCLA, 1982.
American
Association of University Professors of Italian conference, UCLA l98l.
EXHIBITS
Essential
Salento: Festival of Salentine Culture (curator: multimedia festival),
UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles,
October 18-23, 1998
St.
Joseph's Day Table, co-curated with Virginia Buscemi Carlson, UCLA
at the Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, March 18-19, 1998.
Ballads
and Boundaries: Narrative Singing in an Intercultural Context,
Exhibits in honor of D.K. Wilgus, curated by L. Del Giudice and Norm
Cohen
(1) Ballads and Folksong (University Research
Library), June 1-30
(2) 18th - 19th-Century Broadsides, Chapbooks
and Songsters from Special Collections (Dept. of Special Collections,
URL), June 18-Sept. 4
(3) Ballads: 17th - 19th-Century Materials from
the William Andrews Clark Library (Clark Library), June 14-Aug.
30, 1993.
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