Paper Title
Italian Catholicism and its Literary Representations
Location
Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor, Loyola University Chicago
Start Date
8-11-2013 11:30 AM
End Date
8-11-2013 12:30 PM
Abstract
Presenter: Mary Jo Bona, PhD
Mary Jo Bona is Professor of Italian American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University. Bona is the author of By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America and Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers; editor of The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian American Women’s Fiction and co-editor (with Irma Maini) of Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Bona is a past president of the Italian American Studies Association and editor of two of its conference volumes. Bona is the series editor of Multiethnic Literature at SUNY Press. Her current project examines representations of migratory women through the trope of needlework.
Respondent:
Gloria Nardini, PhD
University of Illinois - Chicago
Italian Catholicism and its Literary Representations
Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor, Loyola University Chicago
Presenter: Mary Jo Bona, PhD
Mary Jo Bona is Professor of Italian American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University. Bona is the author of By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America and Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers; editor of The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian American Women’s Fiction and co-editor (with Irma Maini) of Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Bona is a past president of the Italian American Studies Association and editor of two of its conference volumes. Bona is the series editor of Multiethnic Literature at SUNY Press. Her current project examines representations of migratory women through the trope of needlework.
Respondent:
Gloria Nardini, PhD
University of Illinois - Chicago
