Gaetano Rando was born in Rome (Italy) in 1942, has gained tertiary qualifications in Italian literature, linguistics and TESOL at Australian and Italian Universities and has taught at the University of Western Australia, Griffith and Wollongong universities, the University of Auckland in New Zealand and universities in Perugia, Macerata, Florence and Reggio Calabria in Italy. He is a world authority on Italian-Australian studies and has translated a number of literary and non-literary works of Italian/Australian interest. His main teaching areas are Italian language and civilisation and in English Language and Linguistics with subjects currently taught being ELL310, LING210, ELL151, ELL152, LANG305, ITAL110. He has successfully supervised and examined honours and higher degree theses in Italian Australian literature, Italian Australian language, socio-historical aspects of the Italian presence in Australia, contemporary Italian narrative, the sociolinguistics of contemporary Italian, translation. Searchable UOW RIS publications are available from 2000 to date here. Personal web page here.
Articles
La cinematografia nazionale australiana nella seconda metà del Novecento e la rappresentazione del fenomeno migratorio non angloceltico, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2008)
Although a significant minority of Australia’s population is of non angloceltic origin, Australia’s national cinema...
Cronotopi del paese natio e di quello d’adozione nella poesia e la narrativa calabroaustraliana, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
Il saggio di Gaetano Rando prende lo spunto dal lavoro fondamentale di Pasquino Crupi che...
Mai lontan dal cuore — manifestazioni e trasmutazioni del rapporto con il paese di origine (with G. Turcotte), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
The field of Italian Australian studies is both diverse and dynamic. It has embraced topics...
Liminality, temporality and marginalization in Giorgio Mangiamele’s migrant movies, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
Giorgio Mangiamele, born in Catania in 1926, migrated to Melbourne in 1952 and constitutes a...
Italian Australian Poetry by First Generation Writers: An Overview, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
This paper focuses on the way in which first generation Italian Australian writers express the...
Contributions to Books
Expressions of the Calabrian Diaspora in Calabrian Australian Writing, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
This chapter is an exhaustive study of literary works, memoirs, theatre and film produced by...
Italian Australian Studies: A (Post)Colonial Perspective (with G. Turcotte), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
This chapter introduces the volume and discusses related theoretical issues. This volume seeks to map...
Introduction - The Italian Diaspora after the Second World War (with J. Hagan), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
This paper provides a critical introduction to the English section of the edited volume La...
Conclusion - The Italian Diaspora after the Second World War (with J. Hagan), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
Provides a conclusion to the English section of the edited book.
Conclusioni - La Diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale (with J. Hagan), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
Provides a conclusion to the Italian section of the edited book.
Presentations
Expressions of the Calabrian diaspora in Calabrian Australian writing, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
Although a number of studies on Italian Australian literature have been produced they have to...