''Italian Americana'' is a biannual

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covering studies on the

Italian-American Italian Americans ( it, italoamericani or ''italo-americani'', ) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, w ...

experience. It publishes history, fiction, memoirs, poetry, and reviews. The

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is Carla A. Simonini (

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History

The journal was established in 1974 by

Richard Gambino Richard Gambino is an American author and educator. A professor emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York, Gambino pioneered the field of Italian-American studies in the 1970s. He is the author of ''Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma o ...

, Ernest Falbo, and Bruno Arcudi under the auspices of

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, where Gambino taught. In 1989, Carol Bonomo Albright became editor, and the journal was published by the

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. Other notable assistant editors have included novelist

Christine Palamidessi Moore Christine Palamidessi Moore (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American writer and novelist. Life She graduated from Boston University with a Master of Arts from the Creative Writing Department where she studied with Leslie Epstein, ...

and poets

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, past Director of the

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Michael Palma Michael Palma (born 1945 Bronx, New York) is an American poet and translator. Life He lives with his wife in Bellows Falls, Vermont. He is on the board of the Italian Poetry Society of America. He has read at the Italian Cultural Institute. Awa ...

and

Maria Terrone Maria Terrone (May 21, Manhattan) is an American poet and writer. She is the author of three collections of poetry: ''Eye to Eye'' (2014), ''A Secret Room in Fall'' (2006) and ''The Bodies We Were Loaned'' (2002). She has been nominated four times ...

. Simonini became editor in 2015, and the journal moved to

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. In the fall of 2019 the journal then moved to Loyola University Chicago, when Simonini became the Founding Director and Paul and Ann Rubino Endowed Associate Professor of Italian American Studies.

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