Professor Mark Pietralunga received his PhD from University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include 20th century Italian literature, translation studies, post war Italian narrative, and Italian American studies. He was the chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State from 1993 to 2003. He has also served as resident associate director and as summer director of Florida State University's study abroad program in Florence, Italy.
Professor Pietralunga is currently serving as associate editor for reviews for the journal Italica and is a member of the executive committee of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. He has also served on the editorial board of several journals and is on the executive committees of both SAMLA and the American Association of Italian Studies.
Professor Pietralunga has authored and edited books on Italian contemporary literature. They include Beppe Fenoglio and English Literature: A Study of the Writer as Translator (Berkeley: UC Press, 1987), Beppe Fenoglio e l'esaltante fatica del tradurre (Turin: Allemandi, 1992), Prometeo slegato: Pavese traduttore di P.B. Shelley (Turin: Einaudi, 1997), Quaderno di traduzioni: Beppe Fenoglio (Turin: Einaudi, 2000) and Cesare Pavese and Anthony Chiuminatto: Their Correspondence (UToronto Press, 2007). His translations include the best selling biography Cesare Pavese, An Absurd Vice (New York: New Directions Press, 1983).
In 2001, Professor Pietralunga was named the Victor B. Oelschläger Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Victor B. Oelschläger was a professor of Spanish languages in the department for 21 years (1953-1974), who served as Chair from 1953 to 1968. During his tenure the department grew from a faculty of 8 to 40 and increased its student enrollment from 800 to over 4000. In addition to his outstanding service to the department, Professor Oelschläger was a nationally and internationally known Spanish philologist and Cervantes specialist.
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