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Dr. Ken Scambray

Ken Scambray received his Ph.D. in American Literature at the University of California, Riverside, and has taught in the Dept. of English at the University of La Verne since 1981. Among his other American literature courses, he teaches courses on North American Italian literature and Los Angeles fiction. In 1998, Prof. Scambray began a culture course that includes a three-week tour of Italy every January. His published works include A Varied Harvest: The Life and Works of Henry Blake Fuller (U Pittsburgh P, 1987), The North American Italian Renaissance: Italian Writing in America and Canada (Guernica Editions, 2000), and Surface Roots: Stories (Guernica Editions, 2004). His poetry and fiction have been anthologized in a collection of Sicilian American writers, Sweet Lemons (2004). He is currently at work on a collection of essays entitled Queen Calafia's Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel (Guernica Editions, forthcoming). Since 1978, Prof. Scambray has been the book and film critic for I'Italo-Americano, where he has published over 250 reviews on Italian and Italian American film and literature.