Dr. Leparulo received a Laurea in materie letterarie from the University of Salerno in Italy. His research interests include contemporary Italian Literature; Comparative Literature: Camus, and Pirandello; Italian Cinema and Creative Writing.
He has received several research awards and grants among which are: the Fondazione Cini Fellowship (1978), Italian Government Summer Grants (1979, 1986, 2006), the Silarus National Award (1978), the Ultimo Novecento award for his work on Albert Camus (1990), and the Premio Internazionale Europa award for his book Sogno dantesco (1993).
In addition, Professor Leparulo has received a number of small research grants at Florida State University and was also a recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences award for excellence in teaching (1990), the University award for excellence in teaching (1994), and the Teaching Incentive Program Award (1994).
He has been a Managing Editor and Associate Editor for Italian Culture, book review editor and Consulting editor for the Canadian Journal of Italian Studies and currently associate editor of Riscontri.
From 1998 to 2002 Professor Leparulo participated in the Italian government’s “Distinguished Lecturer Series program” and taught summer sessions at various Romanian universities.
His books include Raffaele Viviani: momenti del teatro napoletano (Pisa: Giardini, 1975), L’Italia nell’opera di Albert Camus (Pisa: Giardini, 1975), Maria Montessori scrittrice (Hamilton, Ontario: Symposium Press, 1984), Radici disperse (Hamilton, Ontario: Symposium Press, 1997 and 1999), and Sogno dantesco (Pisa: Gruppo Internazionale di Lettura, 1993).
He has authored many articles in North American and Italian journals such as the Canadian Journal of Italian Studies, Il cristallo, Esperienze letterarie, Italian Quarterly, Italian Culture, Italica, Riscontri. For Dr. Leparulo's most recent publications, click here.
In the spring of 2004 Professor Leparulo was granted a semester sabbatical for the following research project: “Writers and society in Contemporary Romania.” In the Fall of 2006 he received a one semester Italian government grant at the Scuola Nazionale Cinema in Rome, Italy. Currently Professor Leparulo is concentrating his research on Italian cinema and will be teaching ITW 3391 (Italian Cinema ) and ITA 5900 (Italian Cinema and Literature) each spring semester.
Professor Leparulo has actively participated in the building of the Italian Master program both through his teaching and by helping to recruit teaching assistants from Romania and Italy. One of his recent M.A. students went on to earn the Ph.D. from Rutgers University and is currently an assistant professor at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. Another is currently a teaching assistant in the doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University.
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