Personal Effects Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo

Nancy Caronia is a Lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island and was a recipient of URI's 2013 Diversity Award. Her work focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first century transnational global discourses, especially ethnic and immigrant narratives found in contemporary literature, film, television, and music. Her essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in the Italian American Review, Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture: A Decade and Beyond of Insights and Challenges, The Milk of Almonds, and Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Multicultural Writers. She is the editor of the girlSpeak journals (1997).

Edvige Giunta is Professor of English at New Jersey City University where she teaches memoir. She has spent the last two decades writing and organizing cultural events about Italian American women authors and getting their works published, reprinted, and recognized. She has published six books, including Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors (Palgrave, 2002) and Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (MLA 2010), coedited with Kathleen McCormick. She is the former poetry editor of WSQ and former co-editor of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy.