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The Editors
Edvige Giunta is a Professor of English at New Jersey City University. Her books include
Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors (Palgrave, 2002),
Dire l'indicibile: Il memoir delle autrici italo americane (University of Siena, 2002),
The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, coedited with Louise DeSalvo, (The Feminist Press, 2002), and
Italian American Writers on New Jersey, coedited with Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan (Rutgers University Press, 2003), winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Award for Fiction and Non-Fiction, and
Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (Options for Teaching Series of the Modern Language Association; forthcoming), co-edited with Kathleen Zamboni McCormick. She has edited/co-edited special issues of the journals
VIA and
TutteStorie devoted to Italian American women, and
A Tavola: Food, Tradition and Community among Italian Americans. Her articles, reviews, translations, memoir, and poetry have been published in many journals and anthologies. She has been profiled in The New York Times for her work in Italian American studies and won the 2003 Teacher of the Year Award for Higher Education given by the Association of Italian American Educators. She has lectured and taught workshops about the memoir for teachers, writers, and lay audiences in the US and Italy. She is at work on
Cut Threads, Embroidered Lives: Domestic Needlework in the Italian Diaspora, coedited with Joseph Sciorra and
Between Sugar and Salt: A Memoir of Sicilian People and Places.
Jacqueline Ellis
is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at New Jersey City University. Her articles on representations of gender and working-class identity in visual and popular culture have appeared in
Feminist Review
and
History of Photography,
and she is the author of
Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States, 1933-1945
. Her latest article "Working Class Women Theorize Globalization" was published in the
International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Her current research focuses on the cultural politics of assisted reproductive technologies.
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