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John P. Welle
John P. Welle is professor emeritus of Romance languages and literatures, and film, television and theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Poetry of Andrea Zanzotto (Bulzoni, 1987) and the editor of Film and Literature (Annali d’Italianistica, 1988). His translation and edition of Peasants Wake for Fellini’s ‘Casanova’ and Other Poems by Andrea Zanzotto (with Ruth Feldman) (Illinois University Press, 1997) was awarded the Raiziss-de Palchi Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His scholarship on early Italian cinema appears in journals and volumes including Bianco e Nero, Cinema & Cinema, Film History, A nuova luce: Cinema muto italiano, Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader and The Printed Media in Fin-de-Siècle Italy. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Northwestern and the University of Bologna.