ENGL 338 New York City, Modernity, and Postmodernity
ENGL 372 American Literature to 1914
ENGL 378 Modern American Literature
ENGL 379 Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 395 Senior Seminar
ENGL 399 Independent Study
Research & Scholarly Activities
American literature, especially modern and contemporary; poetry; cultural studies, particularly the political contexts of literature; Italian-American literature and culture; food studies.
Current Research: American literature and culture in the Depression; the Italian-American cultural tradition; food studies.
Publications
“’The sight to see and the will to do’: Charles Reznikoff and the Poetics of Exposure” (LIT:Literature Interpretation Theory, June 2006)
"I Get No Kick Out of Assimilation; or, My Frank Sinatra Problem" in Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian-American Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
"George Oppen's '"I've Seen America" Book': Discrete Series and the Thirties Road Narrative" (American Literature, September 2002)
"Charles Bernstein: An Interview" (Contemporary Literature, Spring 2000): and "Dago Christs or Hometown Heroes?: Proletarian Representations of Sacco and Vanzetti" (Centennial Review, Fall 1997).
Many conference papers include presentations on Objectivist poetry; Frank Sinatra and Italian-American culture; poetry and radical politics in the 1930s.
ForthcomingPublications: “’Tea and cookies. Diavolo!’: Italian American Masculinity and John Fante’s Wait Until Spring, Bandini” (MELUS).
