John Darretta

John Lawrence Darretta is a former metropolitan New York college professor who graduated from Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, and holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Fordham University. As a Fulbright Professor, he taught at universities in Milan and Turin, Italy, and has studied at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He has authored books including *Vittorio DeSica* (G.K. Hall), *Before the Sun Has Set: Retribution in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor* (Peter Lang), *Nature’s Wheel* (Kelsay Books), *Sacred Senses in Sacred Space: A Journey into a Church* (Gatekeeper Press), and *Here and Now, Then and There* (Kelsay Books), along with articles on American literature and Italian cinema.