HALLER, Hermann W. 1945-

PERSONAL: Born June 2, 1945, in Aarau, Switzerland; U.S. citizen; son of Walter and Hedi Arni Haller. Education: Attended University of Florence, 1967-68, and University of Paris, 1969-70; University of Bern, Ph.D., 1971.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of European Languages and Literatures, Queens College, City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367-1191. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Educator and author. Queens College, City University of New York, assistant professor, 1974-79, associate professor, 1980-83, professor of Romance languages, 1984-96, professor of Italian, 1996—, chair of Department of European Languages and Literatures, 1999—. Visiting professor, Brown University, 1980, Johns Hopkins University, 1993, Middlebury College, 1996, University of Trento (Italy), 1996, and University of Foreigners (Perugia), 1999.

MEMBER: International Linguistic Association (president, 1992-93), Modern Language Association, AATI, AAIS, Società di Linguistice Italiane, Société de Linguistique Romene, LSA, Associatone per le Storia delle Lingue.

AWARDS, HONORS: Dino Campana prize, 1991, for The Hidden Italy; National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1994-95; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglone Publication Award, Modern Language Association, 1998, for The Other Italy.

WRITINGS:

Der deiktische Gebrauch des Demonstrativums im Altitalienisch, Lang (Bern, Switzerland), 1973.

Il panfilo veneziano. Edizione critica con introduzione e glossario (bilingual Italian/Latin; "Civiltà veneziana" series, volume XIII), Olschki (Florence, Italy), 1982.

(Editor and translator) The Hidden Italy: A Bilingual Edition of Italian Dialect Poetry, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1986.

Una lingua perduta e ritrovata: l'italiano degli Italo-Americani, Nuova Italia (Florence, Italy), 1993.

The Other Italy. The Literary Canon in Dialect, Toronto University Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1999.

Contributor of articles reviews to periodicals, including Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia and Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies. Contributor to books, including The Dialects of Italy, Routledge (London, England), 1997, and The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City, de Gruyter (New York, NY), 1997.