Pasquale Verdicchio

Pasquale Verdicchio (b. 1954) is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California San Diego, where he taught Italian studies, film, cultural studies, and environmental literature. As a translator he has published the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giorgio Caproni, Antonio Porta, and Andrea Zanzotto, among others. His own poetry, reviews, essays, and photography have been published in journals and in book form by a variety of presses. His books include Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism Through the Italian Diaspora (1996), Devils in Paradise: Writings on Post-Emigrant Cultures (1997), Looters, Photographers, and Thieves (2011), Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild (2016), and From Neo Realism to Nuovo Realismo: Encounters with the Real, co-edited with Loredana Di Maritno (2017). During 1998–2000, and again from 2017–2020, he was Director of the University of California’s Study Centers in Italy.

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