Publications

On American Literature and Intellectual History

“Staged Events: Don DeLillo, the Short Story, Intellectuals, and the Arts” in The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts. Ed. Catherine Gander. (in press).

“Don DeLillo’s Southwest” in The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo. Ed. Jesse Kavadlo. Cambridge University press (in press).

“From Philology to Formalism: Edith Rickert, John Matthews Manly, and the Literary/Reformist Beginnings of U.S. Cryptology” (reprinted from Reader: An Interdisciplinary Journal 54) in Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy: The Networks of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert. Ed. Katherine Ellison. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (in press).

“In Flight: Don DeLillo’s The Silence.” Ransom Center Magazine. November 20, 2020.

“Don DeLillo: Biography.” Twentieth Century and American Literature in Context. 288-290.

“Don DeLillo: White Noise.” Twentieth Century and American Literature in Context. 1330-1332.

“With, to and against the novel: The Short Stories” (reprinted from Understanding Don DeLillo) in Short Story Criticism Vol. 261, ed. Catherine C. DiMercurio. Columbia, S.C.: Layman Poupard Publishing, 2018: 102-108.

“Introduction.” Barack Obama’s Literary Legacy: Readings of Dreams from My Father. Henry Veggian and Richard Purcell, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 1-28.

“‘Profane Illuminations:’ Postmodernism, Realism and the Holytail Marijuana Crop” in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland.Pynchon’s California. Scott McClintock and John Miller, eds. Iowa City: U Iowa P. 2014. 135-163. The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.

Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship and Exchange Value in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.” boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture. 39:2(Fall 2012): 97-124.

 “Bio-Politics and the Institution of Literature: An Essayon East of Eden, its Critics and its Time.East of Eden: New and Recent Essays. Michael J. Meyer† and Henry Veggian, eds. New York: Rodopi Editions, 2013. 87-121. Dialogue Series 16.

“Introduction.” East of Eden: New and Recent Essays. Michael J. Meyer† and Henry Veggian, eds. New York: Rodopi Editions, 2013. ix-xxi. Dialogue Series 16.

“Displacements and Encampments: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.” The Grapes of Wrath: A Re-Consideration. Ed. Michael Meyer.  New York: Rodopi Editions, 2009: 351-374. Dialogue Series 7.

“Thomas Pynchon: Against the Day.” boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture.  34:2 (Spring 2008): 197-215.

“Giuseppe Garibaldi and Henry Adams.” Proceedings of the 37th Annual            Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, November 4-6, 2004:  Italian-Americans Before the Mass    Migration: We Have Always Been Here.  Ed. Jerome Krase, Frank B. Pesci, Sr., Frank Alduino. 2007. New York, NY:         The Association, 2007. 81-94.

“From Philology to Formalism: Edith Rickert, John Matthews Manly, and the Literary/Reformist Beginnings of U.S. Cryptology.” Reader: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 54 (Spring 2006): 67-89.

On Italian Immigrant Literature, Italy and Italian-American History

“The Poetry of Exile: An Interview with Diego Bastianutti” in Forgotten Italians: Julian-Dalmatain Writers and Artists in Canada. Konrad Eisenbichler, ed. University of Toronto Press, 2018. 207-231.

“Their naked souls’: Modern Italian Internment Narrative and Mario Duliani’s The City Without Women.” Literature of Concentration Camps. Ed. Colman Hogan. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 77-91.

“Giuseppe Garibaldi and Henry Adams.” Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, November 4-6, 2004:  Italian-Americans Before the Mass    Migration: We Have Always Been Here.  Ed. Jerome Krase, Frank B. Pesci, Sr., Frank Alduino. 2007. New York, NY:         The Association, 2007. 81-94.

“The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi.” Quaderni d’Italianistica:  The Journal of Italian Studies. 30:1 (2009): 211-214.

 “Il cuore oltre l’Oceano.” Quaderni d’Italianistica: The Journal of Italian Studies. 28:1 (2007): 178-181.

“A Tragedy Revealed: The Story of Italians from Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia-Giulia, 1943-1956.” Quaderni d’Italianistica: The Journal of Italian Studies. 27:2 (2006): 184-186.

“Helen Barolini racconta la visita di Garibaldi a Hastings-on-Hudson.” America Oggi. New York. February 19, 2006: 20.

“The Istrian Paradox:  African-American, Mittel-European, and Italian Readings of Mann’s Death in Venice.” Critical Quarterly.com. Web. 10 Nov. 2003.

“Reflexivity. Critical Themes in the Italian Cultural Tradition: Essays by Members of the Department of Italian at University College London.” Quaderni d’Italianistica: The Journal of Italian Studies. 21:2 (2000): 173-176.

 “Puglia tra l’accaio.”  America Oggi. New York: May 14, 2000.

“Un Simbolo di Tenacia: Una Intervista con Bunny Kuiken.” America Oggi. New York. April 5, 1998: 8b.

Miscellaneous Publications

“All Bowed Up. Wildlife in North Carolina Magazine. (November/December 2021): 16-21

“Adjunct Professors and the Myth of Prestige: Notes from 20 years of Adjunct Politics.” Pacific Standard. March 19, 2015.

“Ethnic Modernism.” American Studies. 50:1/2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 118-120.

“J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual.” Modern Fiction Studies. 54:4 (Winter 2008): 922-925.

Editing

Advisory Editor: boundary 2 (2013-present)

Editor: Steinbeck Review (2017-present)

Series Editor: Dialogue Series (Brill) (2013-2018; volumes 16-23, including collections on John Steinbeck, Marilynne Robinson & J.G. Ballard.

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