Bios:                  
  Robert Viscusi
  James Periconi
  Vittoria Repetto
  Fred Gardaphé 
  George Guida
  Joann Sicoli
  Jeanne Dickey
  Gil Fagiani
  Maria Lisella

Fred Gardaphe

Fred Gardaphe directs the Italian/American Studies Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is Associate Editor of Fra Noi, an Italian American monthly newspaper, editor of the Series in Italian American Studies at State University of New York Press, and co-founding-co-editor of VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, a literary journal and cultural review. He is currently president of the American Italian Historical Association, and served as vice president of the Italian Cultural Center in Stone Park, IL from 1992-1998. His edited books include: New Chicago Stories, Italian American Ways, and From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana.. His study, Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative, is based on his dissertation which won the Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli/Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs award for 1993 dissertations) and was published by Duke University Press in 1996; it was named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 by Choice. He has also published Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer and Moustache Pete is Dead!: Italian/American Oral Tradition Preserved in Print.