Maria Mazziotti Gillan is to be honored during the 57th Annual Italian American Studies Association (IASA) Conference at Montclair State University held November 6-9, 2025.
Intersecting Transitalia in Communities: Nation(s), Transnation(s), Neighborhood(s) is the theme of this year’s conference. Community in the Italian diaspora, historically and in the present day will be explored in programs and panels addressing how, historically, Italians have worked in building their local communities and how they have attempted (successfully or not) to bridge (linguistic, cultural, etc.) gaps across communities throughout the country or even the world.
On Thursday, November 6, the conclusion of the conference's first day, there will be the Opening Plenary and Welcome Reception at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, 8 Yogi Berra Drive on the Montclair State University campus.
Information and registration at https://www.italianamericanstudies.net/cpages/2025-montclair
Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an artist, poet, and professor. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey, and is the founding editor of the Paterson Literary Review. Gillan is a Bartle Professor and Professor Emerita of English and creative writing at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published more than 20 books of poetry and four literature anthologies. Her newest poetry collection is When the Stars Were Still Visible (2021). Other recent publications are the poetry and photography collection, Paterson Light and Shadow, and the poetry collections What Blooms in Winter and The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets, a pairing of her poems with her paintings. Gillan is the recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs), the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book, All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions). Her website is MariaGillan.com.
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