Co-investigators and their institutions:
Albert Ascoli, Italian Studies, UC Berkeley
Joann Cannon, French and Italian, UC Davis
Claudio Fogu, French and Italian, UC Santa Barbara
John Marino, History, UC San Diego
Deanna Shemek, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Lucia Re, Italian, UCLA
Funds will support California Italian Studies (CIS), a new electronic journal, and research related activities, including the sponsorship of an annual “day of studies.” CIS is an online, peer-review journal committed
to publishing the finest, most innovative, and most potentially influential scholarly work in the field of Italian Studies today. CIS seeks contributions which meet the following criteria: interdisciplinarity; comparative study; critical reflection on theory and method. Contributions that make the most creative use of the journal’s digital format are especially encouraged.