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Jeff Fort published an English translation of Jacques Roubaud's The Loop

The Loop
Jacques Roubaud (author) and Jeff Fort (translator)

Dalkey Archive Press, April 2009: Catalogue Page

The Loop finds Jacques Roubaud returning to his earliest recollections, as well as
considering the nature of memory itself, and the process - both merciful and terrible -
of forgetting. Neither memoir nor novel, by turns playful and despairing, The Loop is a
masterpiece of contemporary prose.

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Noah Guynn is one of the recipients of 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award

Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association
The Gamma Association of California
Website

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Noah Guynn's article is set to appear in The Cambridge History of French Literature

Article: "Historiography and Rhetoric in Villehardouin's Conquest of Constantinople"

The Cambridge History of French Literature
Edited by William Burgwinkle, Nick Hammond, and Emma Wilson
Cambridge University Press, 2010: Catalogue Page (Coming Soon)

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Margherita Heyer-Caput won the 2009 Ennio Flaiano International Prize for Italian Studies

From left to right:

Professor Thiang Shigang (University of Beijing, China),
Margherita Heyer-Caput, Paola Saluzzi (Italian television
anchorwoman who presented the awardees on stage during the
televised ceremony), and Professor Stefano Fogelberg Rota
(University of Stockholm, Sweden).

Margherita Heyer-Caput, professor of Italian, received the 2009 Ennio Flaiano International Prize for Italian Studies
for her book Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity (University of Toronto Press 2008). This study offers an original
ad thought-provoking interpretation of the narrative of the Nobel-Prize laureate and Italian writer Grazia Deledda (1871-1936).
The prestigious Flaiano International Prizes are co-funded by the Associazione Culturale Ennio Flaiano, Pescara, Italy, and the
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and encompass Literature (Fiction, Poetry, and Italian Studies), Cinema, Theater, and Television.
While the Fiction and Poetry awards have recognized internationally renowned writers such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dacia Maraini, and
Daniel Pennac, the "Italianistica Award" goes to Italian Studies books published outside of Italy in a language other than Italian. The
Italian Cultural Institutes in the world submit nominations, and an international jury may assign only one prize to a work in English.
Past recipients include distinguished fellow Italianists such as Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia U.), Millicent Marcus (Yale U.), and Lucia
Re (UCLA).

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Margherita Heyer-Caput published Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity

Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity

University of Toronto Press, June 2008: Catalogue Page

Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity is a highly original and innovative interpretation of
Deledda's narrative in philosophical perspective, which also includes the study of textual
variations and considers cultural history in Italy during the early twentieth century. It is a
much-needed examination of an important writer and how she managed to construct her own
literary and gender identity in the context of modernity.