Domenico Maceri

Domenico Maceri is an Italian-American educator and journalist. He retired after teaching for thirty-five years at Allan Hancock College but continues his work as a journalist, writing a weekly column in Italian for America Oggi.

Maceri was born in Pellegrina, Bagnara, Reggio Calabria, Italy, and moved to the US with his family as a teenager.^[1] After completing high school, he went on to obtain a BA in French and Spanish at New Jersey City University. Subsequent studies led to an MA in Italian literature at UCLA where he also served as a teaching assistant. In 1990, he completed a PhD in Comparative Literature (Italian, French, Spanish) at the University of California at Santa Barbara.^[2]

As a faculty member at Allan Hancock College, Maceri taught Spanish, French, and Italian. He published a book on Pirandello,^[3] one on Spanish grammar,^[4] and another on Italian grammar.^[5] He also published a number of academic articles in Italian Quarterly, Selecta, Hispania, Mosaic, Mester, Language Magazine, Italian Journal, Teacher Magazine,^[6] World Literature Today,^[7] and elsewhere.^[8][9][10]

Maceri has published op-ed pieces in English in The Japan Times, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times ^[11]

and many other newspapers on a wide range of topics including multilingualism,^[12][13]

^[14][15] immigration,^[16][17] and politics.^[18][19] Maceri has also published op-eds in Italian on similar topics in Il Nuovo Riformista, Le Opinioni delle Liberta, and in L'Unita, etc.^{[20][21][22][23][24]} He writes a weekly column for America Oggi.^[25] In 2005, one of his editorials won an award from the National Association of Hispanic Publications.^[26]