Michele Fazio, current President of the WCSA, served as a visiting professor in the Cultura e Letteratura Italiana-Americana (CLIA) graduate program at the Università della Calabria in October. Her lectures explored the intersections between ethnicity and class in 2oth-century and contemporary Italian American literature. She also presented her current research project on the music of Woody Guthrie, performing a selection of labor songs from the 1930s to the present.
