1ST ACCENTI MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
Festival Committee
Licia Canton, Accenti Magazine
Licia Canton is co-founder of Accenti Magazine. She is the author of two short story collections: The Pink House (2018) and Almond Wine and Fertility (2008), and the editor of 12 books. Her writing has been published in Canada and abroad. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Université de Montréal.
Mirko Casagranda, Università della Calabria
Mirko Casagranda è Professore Associato di Lingua e Traduzione Inglese presso il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università della Calabria dal 2015. I suoi ambiti di ricerca privilegiano il legame tra lingua e cultura. Le sue pubblicazioni si focalizzano in particolare sulle realtà linguistiche e culturali del Canada contemporaneo.
Domenic Cusmano, Accenti Magazine
Domenic Cusmano is co-founder and publisher of Accenti Magazine. His work as a communications professional and photojournalist has taken him throughout Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. He holds degrees from Université de Montréal and McGill University.
Local Committee
Roberta Cimarosti, Università della Calabria
Renata Oggero, Università della Calabria
Anastasia Parise, Università della Calabria
Michaela Quadraro, Università della Calabria
Valeria Russo, Università della Calabria
Carla Tempestoso, Università della Calabria
Scientific Committee
Michela Baldo, University of Birmingham
Simone Battiston, Swinburne University of Technology
Domenic Beneventi, Université de Sherbrooke
Lorena Carbonara, Università della Calabria
Roberta Cauchi-Santoro, St. Jerome's University
Silvia Caporale-Bizzini, University of Alicante
Carmen Concilio, University of Turin
Eva Darias-Beautell, University of La Laguna
Alessandra Ferraro, University of Udine
Paolo Frascà, University of Toronto
Margherita Ganeri, Università della Calabria
Rainier Grutman, University of Ottawa
Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano, Toronto Metropolitan University
Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna
Bruna Mancini, Università della Calabria
Lianne Moyes, Université de Montréal
Oriana Palusci, Associazione Italiana di Studi Canadesi
Marilena Parlati University of Padua
Alessio Ponzio, University of Saskatchewan
Silvia Ross, University College Cork
Maria Cristina Seccia, University of Pescara
Martin Stiglio, Associazione ARCHI
Advisory Committee
Anna Camilleri, ReDefine Arts
Trina Costantini-Powell, National Congress Italian Canadians
Liana Cusmano, spoken word artist
Giulia De Gasperi, translator and writer
Giuseppe Di Leo, visual artist
Christopher DiRaddo, writer
Elio Iannacci, journalist and writer
Alessandra Naccarato, poet
Robert Norton, photographer
Vincenzo Pietropaolo, photographer
Giulio Recchioni, Villa Charities
Christine Sansalone, Association of Italian-Canadian Writers
Maria Pia Spadafora, translator and writer
Carmine Starnino, writer