Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise Desalvo (Critical Studies in Italian America) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nancy Caronia (Edited By)
Nancy Caronia is a lecturer at University of Rhode Island. She teaches in the Honors Program, Gender & Women’s Studies, and in the departments of English and Writing and Rhetoric. She works on issues of transnationalism and globalization in contemporary American and Anglophone ethnic literature and film. Her scholarly essays, reviews, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture, New Delta Review, and Don’t Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. Her introduction to Casting Off will appear in Bordighera’s reprint of DeSalvo’s novel.

Edvige Giunta (Edited By)
Edvige Giunta is professor of English at New Jersey City University, where she teaches memoir and other literature and writing courses. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and Dire l’indicibile. She is co- editor of The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture (with Louise DeSalvo); Italian American Writers on New Jersey (with Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan); Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (with Kathleen Zamboni McCormick); and Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora (with Joseph Sciorra).



Nancy Caronia is a Lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island. A recipient of URI's 2013 Diversity Award and a Pushcart Prize nominee, she has published numerous essays, fiction, and poetry in many journals and anthologies

Edvige Giunta is Professor of English at New Jersey City University where she teaches memoir. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and the coeditor of four books on Italian American literature and culture.