Nancy Caronia is a Lecturer in the
Honors Program at University of Rhode Island, where she teaches contemporary literature, composition, and creative writing. Caronia's creative writing has most recently appeared in
Animal, New Delta Review, Lowestoft Chronicles, biostories , and
The Missing Slate. Her scholarship appears in peer-reviewed journals, including
AEQ, Italian American Review, and
Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture (Bordighera Press, 2012). She and Edvige Giunta co-edited
Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Culture, and Teaching in the Work of Louise DeSalvo (
Fordham University Press, 2015). Caronia wrote the introduction for the recent reprint of Louise DeSalvo's
Casting Off (
Bordighera Press, 2014).
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 has co-edited several anthologies including:
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
; Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora with Joseph Sciorra
; and Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Culture, and Teaching in the Work of Louise DeSalvo (Fordham University Press) with Nancy Caronia.
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