From the Editor

RYAN CALABRETTA-SAJDER is assistant professor and section head of Italian at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he teaches Italian, film, and gender studies. He is the author of Divergenze in celluloide: colore, migrazione e identità sessuale nei film gay di Ferzan Özpetek (Mimesis), editor of Pasolini's Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Fairleigh Dickinson UP), and coeditor of Italian Americans On Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future (Lexington Books) and Italian Americans on the Page (under review). His research interests include the integration of gender, class, and migration in both Italian and Italian American literature and cinema, as well as teaching Italian language and culture through digital humanities and virtual reality. In Spring 2017, he was a Fulbright Scholar for the Foundation of the South at the University of Calabria. He is currently working on two authored books, one exploring the Italian American gay author Robert Ferro, who died of AIDS in 1988, and the second on the Algerian Italian author Amara Lakhous. He is president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, president of Gamma Kappa Alpha, and founding editor of Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association.