Contributors

DANIELA D'EUGENIO is assistant professor of Italian at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests focus on proverbs in Renaissance and Baroque literature, the intersections between paleography and linguistics, and the relationships between texts and images as well as pedagogical approaches to foreign language instruction. Her articles have appeared in Italian, American, and British journals, including Esperienze letterarie, Forum Italicum, International Studies on Humor, Italianistica, Italica, Lingua e Testi di Oggi, and Rivista di studi fraseologici e paremiologici. She is the author of Paroimia. Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Purdue University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Italia, Italie. Studi in onore di Hermann W. Haller (with Alberto Gelmi and Dario Marcucci; Mimesis, 2021) and Rappresentare per includere. Metodi, strumenti e testi per un italiano plurale (with Alberto Gelmi; Cesati, 2023). Her next project, tentatively titled Images of Knowledge. The Textual, the Visual, and the Moral in Early Modern Italian Culture, investigates visual representations of gnomic expressions in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century calligraphy specimens, emblem books, collections of illustrated proverbs, and popular prints.REBECCA HOWARD is professor of history at Lone Star College in Houston, Texas. She has authored essays for the University of Georgia Press, LSU Press, and the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Her research is focused on the intersections of race and personal loyalties in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War in the border South up to the arrival of new immigrants in the late nineteenth century. Her current project is a book-length exploration of the agricultural and social history of a community of Italian immigrants in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma in the early twentieth century.COLLEEN B. LAWRENCE is a writing professor, curriculum specialist, and instructional designer at NorthWest Arkansas Community College. Her scholarly work in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers at Oregon State University examines rhetorical arrangement, diplomatic emergent taxonomies, and representation of marginalized voices in archives. She is the daughter-in-law of Paula Marinoni and a University of Arkansas alumna.PAULA MARINONI is the biographer, archivist, and granddaughter of Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni and Professor Antonio Marinoni. She has worked as a real estate broker, commercial developer, and historic preservation activist within her community for the better part of three decades. She and her husband raised their four sons in Villa Rosa, the cherished family home located in Fayetteville, Arkansas.JOHN MARINONI is one of the grandsons of Professor Antonio Marinoni and Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni. John is retired from a career in commercial construction, owning his own company for many years. He recently translated Come Ho Fatto L'America, published in 1932 by Professor Marinoni, and one of the last chapters is included in this journal.ALESSIA MARTINI is a visiting assistant professor of Italian at Sewanee: The University of the South. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century transnational Italian studies. Dr. Martini's work is primarily concerned with spatial representations of modernity in twentieth-century Italian literature and visual arts and identity and memorialization in Italian American communities. Her most recent work explores Italian ethnic identity through an analysis of memorials created by Italian Americans.