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Hermann Haller

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Research Interests

  • Italian linguistics and dialectology, Romance philology, Italian as an immigrant language, dialect literature, History of Italian and French

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Bern

Contact

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Queens College

Office Hours

By appointment only

Professional Experience

  • University of Bern, Research Assistant, 1970-1972
  • Queens College, Department of Romance Languages
    • Assistant Professor, 1973-1980
    • Associate Professor, 1980-1983
    • Professor, 1983-1996
  • Queens College, Department of European Languages and Literatures, Professor, 1996-present. Department chair, 1999-2004
  • Director of the Italian Specialization, Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature, 2003-2011
  • Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 1993; 2001; Middlebury College, 1996; University of Trent, 1996; University of Florence, 2003; University of Milan-Bicocca, 2006; University of Genoa, 2003; University of Pennsylvania, 2012

Honors, Awards:

  • Member, Accademia della Crusca (2006-)
  • President, International Linguistic Association (2004-2006)
  • Honorary Member, Phi Beta Kappa (2001-)
  • Member, Associazione per la Storia della Lingua Italiana
  • Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award of the MLA (1998)
  • NEH Fellowship for University Professors, 1994-95
  • International Dino Campana Prize (1991)  

Selected Publications:

Books:

  • Tutti in America. Le guide per gli emigranti italiani nel periodo del grande esodo. Firenze: Cesati, 2017.
  • (Co-editor with Lori Repetti) Linguistic Identities of Italian in Italy and North America. Special Issue of Forum Italicum, vol. 48/2, 2014.
  • A Worlde of Wordes by John Florio. A Critical Edition with an Introduction. Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
  • Tra Napoli e New York. Le macchiette italo-americane di Eduardo Migliaccio. Testi, note e glossario. Roma: Bulzoni, 2006.
  • La festa delle lingue. La letteratura dialettale in Italia. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2002. The Other Italy. The Literary Canon in Dialect. Toronto-Buffalo-London: Toronto University Press, 1999. (Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for Italian Literary Studies).
  • (Co-editor with Gianclaudio Macchiarella and Roberto Severino) Preserving and Promoting Italian Language and Culture in North America. Welland, Ontario-Lewiston, NY, 1997.
  • Una lingua perduta e ritrovata: l'italiano degli italo-americani. Florence-Rome: La Nuova Italia, 1993.
  • The Hidden Italy: A Bilingual Edition of Italian Dialect Poetry. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986.
  • Il Panfilo veneziano. Edizione critica con introduzione e glossario. Civiltà veneziana. Fonti e testi, vol.XIII, serie terza, 4. Florence: Olschki, 1982.
  • Der deiktische Gebrauch des Demonstrativums im Altitalienischen, Bern-Frankfurt a.M.: Lang, 1973.

 Articles

  • “Tra italiano e inglese: gli anglicismi nei titoli dei quotidiani”, Lingua Nostra LXXXI, 2020, 36-44.
  • “John Florio e Claudius Holyband: I dialoghi didattici di due maestri nell’Inghilterra rinascimentale”, in Giada Mattarucco, Félix San Vicente (eds.). Maestri di lingue tra metà Cinquecento e metà Seicento, in Studi di grammatica italiana 37, 2018, 59-74.
  • “Autobiografie linguistiche italoamericane: identità in movimento”, in Thomas Stehl, Claudia Schlaak, Lena Busse (eds.), Sprachkontakt, Sprachvariation, Migration: Methodenfragen und Prozessanalysen. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2013, 155-176.
  • “Italoamericano.” Enciclopedia dell’italiano. Vol.1, Rome, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2011, 731-734.
  • “Shrimp Fra Diavolo e Chicken Scarpariello: Italiano e italianismi nella lingua dei menu dei ristoranti newyorkesi”, in Cecilia Robustelli and Giovanna Frosini (eds.), Storia della lingua e storia della cucina. Parole e cibo: due linguaggi per la storia della società italiana. Florence, Cesati, 2009, 703-715.
  • “L’italiano nei nomi dei ristoranti di New York”, Lingua italiana d’oggi 2, 2005,  331-352.
  • “Tra Stati Uniti e Italia: aspetti del giornalismo linguistico”, Lingua Nostra 72, 2011, 50-60.
  • “Italian”. In Ofelia García and Joshua A. Fishman (eds.), The Multilingual Apple. Languages in New York City. Berlin-New York: Mouton De Gruyter, 1997, 119-142.
  • “Dialects Abroad”. In Martin Maiden and Mair Parry (eds.), The Dialects of Italy. London: Routledge, 1997, 401-411.
  • “Romanische Migranten- und Vertriebenensprache: Italienisch”, in Gerhard Ernst, Martin Dietrich Glessgen, Christian Schmitt, and Wolfgang Schweickard (eds.), Romanische Sprachgeschichte. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Geschichte der romanischen Sprachen.Vol.2, Berlin-New York, De Gruyter, 2006, 1886-1892.
  • “I dialetti italiani negli USA”. In Manlio Cortelazzo, Carla Marcato, Nicola De Blasi, Gianrenzo P. Clivio (eds.), Dialetti italiani: storia, struttura, usi. Turin: UTET, 2002, 1083-1086.
  • “Minority Languages in Italy” / “Italian outside Italy”, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Gino Moliterno (ed.), London: Routledge 2000.
  • “Caterina Percoto”. Italian Women Writers, Rinaldina Russell (ed.), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1994, 324-332.
  • “Literature in Dialect and Dialect in Literature: A Sociolinguistic Perspective”. E. Tandello and D. Zancani (eds.), Italian Dialects and Literature. From the Renaissance to the Present. Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies. Supplement 1, London, 1996, 73-79.
  • “L’italianismo recente come riflesso dell'immagine italiana nell’anglo-americano. Lorenzo Coveri (ed.), L’italiano allo specchio. Aspetti dell’italianismo recente. Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier 1991, 15-24.
  • “Atteggiamenti linguistici italo-americani”, Rivista di Linguistica 3, 1991, 389-405.
  • “Ethnic-Language Mass Media and Language Loyalty in the United States Today: The Case of French, German and Italian”, Word 39, 1988, 187-200.
  • “Italian Speech Varieties in the United States and the Italian-American Lingua Franca”, Italica 64, 1987, 393-409.
  • “The Poetic Universe of Sandro Penna”, Italian Quarter­ly 23, 1982, 43-52.
  • “Between Standard Italian and Creole: An interim report on language patterns in an Italian-American community”, Word 32, 1981, 181-191.
  • “The Teaching of Italian Dialects and Dialect Literatu­re in the United States”, Italica 57, 1980, 195-200.
  • “Da Le Storie Ferraresi al Romanzo di Ferrara: varianti nell’opera di Bassani”, Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 1, 1977, 74-96.
  • “Stylistic Trends in the Making of Pirandello's Novelle per un anno”, Italica 52, 1975, 273-290.
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Contact

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Queens College

Office Hours

By appointment only

Books

John Florio: A Worlde of Wordes (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library)

John Florio: A Worlde of Wordes

(Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library)

by Hermann Haller Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, Professor Emeritus, Global Early Modern Studies

A Worlde of Wordes, the first-ever comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, was published in 1598 by John Florio. One of the most prominent linguists and educators in Elizabethan England, Florio was greatly responsible for the spreading of Italian letters and culture throughout educated English society. Especially important was Florio's dictionary, which-thanks to its exuberant wealth of English definitions-made it initially possible for English readers to access Italy's rich Renaissance literary and scientific culture. Haller has prepared the first critical edition of A Worlde of Wordes, which features 46,000 Italian entries-among them dialect forms, erotic terminology, colloquial phrases, and proverbs of the Italian language. He reveals Florio as a brilliant English translator and creative writer, as well as a grammarian and language teacher. 

Published March 2013
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division 2013

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