Pirandello Society of America

03/22/2025

04/07/2024

Dear Colleagues,

you’re cordially invited to submit your paper proposal for the “Drama and Society” panel at the upcoming PAMLA Conference in November: this year we’re particularly interested in translation and adaptation of drama and performance across languages and cultures, but any topic about theatre/performance and society is welcome, as there is space for two or more panels.

CFP “Drama and Society” Panel at PAMLA, Palm Springs CA, November 6-10, 2024

121th PAMLA CONFERENCE (Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association)
“Translation in Action” https://www.pamla.org/pamla2024/
November 6-10, 2024, Palm Springs, California

“Drama and Society Panel”
Drama has long served as a communal mirror to society, reflecting its habits, aesthetics, politics, and cultural norms. This session seeks to discuss the many ways in which drama reveals its intricate relationship to society. Papers for this session are welcomed that explore how drama supports, embodies, and critiques the society in which it was created; how theatre arts, with its variety of tools, successfully conveys the complexities of such a relationship. Papers are also encouraged to consider the topic from the perspective of diverse places, time periods, and genres.

Papers that address the conference theme “Translation in Action” are especially welcome. What are the challenges of translated/adapted drama, texts aimed at becoming action on stage? How does a shift from one chronotope to another – from one society to another, in another time and space – prompt necessary changes in terms not only linguistic but also practical? What transformations does translated and adapted drama entail for characters, situations, performers’ gender, locales, or themes?

Please submit your abstract at this link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19159

Due date April 30, 2024

For more information, please contact Stefano Boselli at [email protected]
https://www.unlv.edu/people/stefano-boselli

02/19/2024

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Andrea Sartori and I are co-editing a special issue of the Journal of the Pirandello Society of America titled "Pirandello on Alienation: Man, Modernity, Technology" to be published in 2025.

Please consider sending us a 250-word abstract and a short bio by April 15, 2024. Accepted papers should be submitted by December 15, 2024, and will undergo a double blind peer-review process.

Below you can find the full CfP.

Looking forward to reading your ideas!

Ana and Andrea

10/21/2023

See our call for Pirandellian Dramaturgies for the next issue of PSA

PSA, the Journal of the Pirandello Society of America (www.pirandellosociety.org/psa-journal), seeks submissions of short dramatic pieces (5 to 30 minutes of expected performance time) inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s short stories, for publication in the next or future issues.

05/08/2023

Nuovi contenuti digitali pubblicati sul sito internet dell'Istituto:
Archivio Luigi Pirandello
http://www.studiodiluigipirandello.it/.../non-si-sa-come/

05/08/2023

Per un nuovo Pirandello Presentazione dell'edizione nazionale dell'opera omnia di Luigi Pirandello Catania, 11 maggio 2023, ore 16 Coro di notte, Monastero dei Benedettini Per tutti i dettagli, scarica la locandina

05/02/2023

Dear Pirandello scholars, students, friends!

Our updated website is up and running and we've made the login as well as the membership process simpler. All of the work for the Pirandello Society of America (journal editing, peer review, secretarial work, event organization) is done on a volunteer basis and we would very much appreciate your support. Please consider becoming members of the PSA by following the steps on our website: https://www.pirandellosociety.org/

In return, you will get full access to the archives of the PSA and will be put on our mailing list for new events and publications.

The PSA is wishing you a wonderful month of May!

Pirandello Society of America, scholarship and theatre in publications, conferences, andconversations.

04/12/2023

📚 La produzione novellistica accompagna tutta la vita di Luigi Pirandello.

📘 Il volume degli Atti di quest'anno con le relazioni sulle quali si prepareranno gli studenti provenienti da tutta Italia per il prossimo Convegno Internazionale di Studi Pirandelliani di dicembre è disponibile presso la "Edizioni Lussografica" di Caltanissetta.

📦 [email protected]
📲 0934 25965

12/30/2022

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As the year comes to a close and the holidays are upon us, we wanted to invite you to celebrate “Italian style” with a newly translated, and little-known, short story by the great Italian author, Luigi Pirandello. Known as a skeptic of all forms of faith, Pirandello probably doesn’t seem the most likely author of Christmas tales. But in 1896, he published two of them in close succession to mark the holiday. The first, published on Christmas day in Roma letteraria, is now available as a part of our in-progress (soon-to-be) complete English translation of his Stories for a Year (Novelle per un anno): “Christmas on the Rhine” (“Natale sul Reno”), translated by Jacob DeCarli. We warmly invite you to read it here: https://www.pirandellointranslation.org/christmas-on-the-rhine

The second, “A Christmas Dream” (“Sogno di Natale”), was published two days later in the Rassegna settimanale universale, and a new English translation by Michael Subialka will be posted on the website shortly – so check back soon.

In addition to these little-known Christmas stories, our open access scholarly edition of Stories for a Year now features 46 other short stories in new English translations, many of which have never been translated into English before. You can browse the full edition, including the editors’ introduction to the project, here: https://www.pirandellointranslation.org/

We are proud to feature the work of a team of translators from across the globe, and want to acknowledge the contributions of Caterina Agostini, Sarah Barrett, Fabio Battista, Scott Belluz, Alexander Bertland, Howard Curtis, Julie Dashwood, Jacob DeCarli, Steve Eaton, Maria Enrico, Marella Feltrin-Morris, Jonathan R. Hiller, Enzo Lauretta, Marla Moffa, Emanuela Pecchioli, Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Patricia Stumpp, and Julianne VanWagenen.

Our team may be large, but it is also still growing! We invite interested professionals with translation experience working with literary texts from Italian to English to contact us, as the project is ongoing into the new year and the editors are actively accepting proposals for new translations. You can contribute to the effort to finally make Pirandello’s complete corpus of short stories available (free and widely) to the English-reading public.

Wishing you all a happy holiday season,

Lisa and Michael

Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka, Editors
Stories for a Year - Digital Edition and Project
www.pirandellointranslation.org

12/19/2022

"Io sono nato in Sicilia e lì l’uomo nasce isola nell’isola e rimane tale fino alla morte, anche vivendo lontano dall’aspra terra natìa circondata dal mare immenso e geloso".

10/01/2022

In occasione della , che si celebra ogni anno il 30 settembre in corrispondenza della festa di San Girolamo, patrono dei traduttori, ne approfittiamo per ricordare che Luigi Pirandello è uno degli autori italiani a poter vantare un gran numero di lingue (almeno 4️⃣0️⃣) in cui hanno visto la luce le sue opere.