Alessandro Portelli

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1942 –

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Who is Alessandro Portelli?

Alessandro Portelli is an Italian scholar of American literature and culture, oral historian, writer for the daily newspaper il manifesto, and musicologist. He is currently a professor of Anglo-American literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza. In the United States he is best known for his oral history work, which has compared workers' accounts of industrial conflicts in Harlan County, Kentucky and Terni, Italy.

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Born
Jul 8, 1942
Education
  • Sapienza University of Rome

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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