Pasquale Verdicchio has taught courses in literature, film and writing in the Dept of Literature at UCSD since 1986. Considered a leading translator of major Italian writers, he has englished the work of Pasolini, Merini, Caproni, Porta, and Gramsci among others. His poetry, reviews, criticism and photography have been published in journals around the world. As an author his books include Devils in Paradise: Writings on Post-Emigrant Cultures (Guernica, 1997), Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism through the Italian Diaspora (1998), and the poetry collection This Nothing's Place (Guernica, 2008). He is a founding member and past president of the Association of Italian Canadian Writer and a founder and Associate Director of the San Diego Italian Film Fetival. A complete bibliography can be found at http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=4808