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Kean University

Language selection

Education

  • Ph.D. in English, University of Miami (1991)
  • M.A. in English, University of Miami (1986)
  • Laurea in Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Catania, Italy (1983)

Courses Taught

Memoir; Creative Nonfiction; Flash Fiction and Nonfiction; the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire; Women in Literature; Literature of Immigration; Food Stories; Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture; Italian Film; Literature and Film; Mythological Themes in Literature; James Joyce; Modernism; Victorian literature; Modern and Contemporary American Literature: Children’s and Young Adult Literature; Composition.

Research Interests

Memoir; Italian American Literature and Culture; the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire; Sicilian Women Writers; Flash Fiction and Nonfiction; Film; Pedagogy.