John P. Welle, Professor Emeritus of Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame and expert on Italian Silent Cinema, discusses L'Inferno (1911), a silent movie by Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan.
JOHN P. WELLE
John P. Welle is Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures and Concurrent Professor Emeritus of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on modern Italian literature and culture, film and media interactions, theatre and early cinema, and poetry and literary translation.
He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Northwestern University and the University of Bologna. He is the author of The Poetry of Andrea Zanzotto and the editor of Film and Literature: Annali d’Italianistica (1988). His translation and edition of Peasants Wake for Fellini’s Casanova and Other Poems by Andrea Zanzotto was awarded a prize from the Academy of American Poets. His scholarship on silent cinema appears in such journals as Bianco e Nero, Cinema & Cinema and Film History; and in such volumes as A nuova luce: Cinema muto italiano, Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader, and The Italian Cinema Book.
He serves on the editorial boards of Annali d’Italianistica, L’Avventura: International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes; Italian Studies, and PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is currently completing a book on theatre, silent cinema and celebrity culture in Italy.
- Year2021
- Runtime22 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorItalian Cultural Institute in Washington DC
John P. Welle, Professor Emeritus of Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame and expert on Italian Silent Cinema, discusses L'Inferno (1911), a silent movie by Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan.
JOHN P. WELLE
John P. Welle is Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures and Concurrent Professor Emeritus of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on modern Italian literature and culture, film and media interactions, theatre and early cinema, and poetry and literary translation.
He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Northwestern University and the University of Bologna. He is the author of The Poetry of Andrea Zanzotto and the editor of Film and Literature: Annali d’Italianistica (1988). His translation and edition of Peasants Wake for Fellini’s Casanova and Other Poems by Andrea Zanzotto was awarded a prize from the Academy of American Poets. His scholarship on silent cinema appears in such journals as Bianco e Nero, Cinema & Cinema and Film History; and in such volumes as A nuova luce: Cinema muto italiano, Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader, and The Italian Cinema Book.
He serves on the editorial boards of Annali d’Italianistica, L’Avventura: International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes; Italian Studies, and PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is currently completing a book on theatre, silent cinema and celebrity culture in Italy.
- Year2021
- Runtime22 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorItalian Cultural Institute in Washington DC
