Background
Vitiello, Justin was born on February 14, 1941 in New York, United States. Son of Michael and Ruth (Weishaupt) Vitiello.
(This study incorporates over 40 oral histories of Sicilia...)
This study incorporates over 40 oral histories of Sicilian emigrants to North Italy, Germany, South Africa, and America, collected upon their return in 1988 to their hometown of Trappeto, a village of about 3000 inhabitants in Palermo Province. The documents are analyzed as subjective/objective, or inter-subjective sources for understanding of a people's emigration. The multi-disciplinary approach includes anthropological, folkloric, poetico-literary, and historical and sociological aspects. It reveals a still-vital Sicilian culture. As contribution to the work of conservation, the Trappetese oral histories are transcribed verbatim, translated faithfully, and printed in the final chapter.
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foreign language educator poet
Vitiello, Justin was born on February 14, 1941 in New York, United States. Son of Michael and Ruth (Weishaupt) Vitiello.
Bachelor in English and Spanish, Brown University, 1963. Master of Arts in Spanish, University Michigan, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature, University Michigan, 1970.
Assistant professor comparative literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1970-1973; from assistant professor to associate professor Italian, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1974-1991; professor Italian, Temple University, Philadelphia, since 1991.
(This study incorporates over 40 oral histories of Sicilia...)
(Book by Vitiello, Justin)
Member Modern Language Association, Arba Sicula (editorial board), Industrial Workers World.
1 child, Domenic.