Table of Contents:
  • The history of Italians in the United States / Donna R. Gabaccia
  • The history of Italian American literary studies / Robert Viscusi
  • The history of Italian American film and television studies / Anthony Julian Tamburri
  • Italian American studies in Italy / Mark Pietralunga
  • Creating a program in Italian American studies / Fred GardaphĂ©
  • Rich harvest : an overview of Italian American fiction / Mary Jo Bona
  • Innovation, interdisciplinarity, and cultural exchange in Italian American poetry / Peter Covino
  • "Stripping down" gender roles in Italian American fiction by women / Rose De Angelis
  • Religion in Don DeLillo's White noise and Underworld / John Paul Russo
  • Avant-garde Italian American fiction : experimental experimentalism
  • Remembering, misremembering, and forgetting the motherland / Caterina Romeo
  • Past and present : teaching the family memoir / David Del Principe
  • Oceans away : rethinking Italian American autobiography in the Antipodes / Bernadette Luciano
  • When the story is silence : Italian American student writers and the challenges of teaching-and writing-memoir / Louise DeSalvo
  • Spoken memories : oral history, oral culture, and Italian American studies / Luisa Del Giudice
  • From the classroom to the community and back again : oral histories and the Italian American experience course / Marisa Trubiano
  • Italian American immigrant theater / Ermelise Aleandri
  • A lived history under scrutiny : Italian American performance art / Joseph Sciorra
  • Uncovering and performing Italian American stories / Stefania Taviano
  • A contested place : Italian Americans in cinema and television / Anthony Julian Tamburri
  • Palookas, Romeos, and wise guys : Italian Americans in Hollywood / Peter Bondanella
  • Language and dubbing in the filmic representation of Italian Americans / Giulia Centineo
  • Cultural stereotyping in Happy days and The Sopranos / Courtney Judith Ruffner
  • Situating Italian immigrant women's radical writing in American history / Jennifer Guglielmo
  • Recrossing ocean parkway : teaching Italian American literacy narratives and racial formation in first-year composition courses / Kimberly A. Costino
  • Teaching Italian American literature through popular culture and intersectionality in an ethnic studies class / Roseanne Giannini Quinn
  • "How is Sicily like Jamaica?" : gendered multiethnic identities and cross-cultural encounters / Clarissa Clò
  • Class and ethnicity : an interdisciplinary approach to teaching Christ in concrete / Teresa Fiore
  • The immigrant question in the Italian American experience course / Elvira G. DiFabio and Carol Bonomo Albright
  • Imagining the Italian : nineteenth-century American literature, Italian immigrant writing, and the power of literary representation / Peter Kvidera
  • Travel literature : negotiating the gaze between Italy and America / Ilaria Serra
  • A review of anthologies for teaching Italian American studies / RoseAnna Mueller and Dora Labate