ILLIANO, Antonio 1934-

PERSONAL: Born April 21, 1934, in Italy; son of Fausto and Luigina (Scotto) Illiano; married Elfriede R. Worsthorn, June 11, 1962; children: Vincent. Education: University of Naples, Laurea de Dottore in Lettere, 1958; University of California, Berkeley, Ph. D., 1966.

ADDRESSES: Home—400 Ridgecrest Dr., Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Office—Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.

CAREER: University of California, Santa Barbara, instructor, 1963-66; University of Texas at Austin, assistant professor of Italian language and literature, 1966-68; University of Oregon, Eugene, assistant professor of Italian language and literature, 1968-69; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, assistant professor, 1969-71, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures, 1971-81, professor of romance language and literature, 1982—.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, Dante Society of America.

AWARDS, HONORS: Postdoctoral fellowship from University of Texas Academic Excellence Program, 1966; Pogue Leave, University of North Carolina, 1978.

WRITINGS:

Introduzione alla critica pirandelliana, Fiorini (Verona, Italy), 1976.

Metapsichica e letteratura in Perandello, Firenze (Vallecchi, Italy), 1982.

Per l'esegesi del 'Corbaccio,' Federica & Ardia (Napoli, Italy), 1991.

Morfologia della narrazione manzoniana: dal 'Fermo e Lucia' ai 'Promessi Sposi,' Fiesole (Cadmo, Italy), 1993.

Sulle sponde del prepurgatoria: poesia e arte narrativa del preludio all' ascese, Fiesole (Cadmo, Italy), 1997.

Da Boccaccio a Pirendello: scritti e ricerche con un saggio su letteratura e cristianesimo, Federico e Ardia (Napoli, Italy), 1997.

Dalla Vita Nuova a Palomar, L'Orientale Editrice (Napoli, Italy), 1999.

Contributor to Dante Encyclopedia, and Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. Contributor to Italica, PMLA, New York Public Library Bulletin, Forum Italicum, Italianistica, Mark Twain Journal, Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, and other journals. Editor of Forum Italicum, Symposium; series editor for Italian Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale.