Nancy Caronia

Nancy Caronia is a lecturer at University of Rhode Island. She teaches in the Honors Program, Gender & Women's Studies, and in the departments of English and Writing and Rhetoric. She works on issues of transnationalism and globalization in contemporary American and Anglophone ethnic literature and film. Her scholarly essays, reviews, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture , New Delta...See more

Nancy Caronia is a lecturer at University of Rhode Island. She teaches in the Honors Program, Gender & Women's Studies, and in the departments of English and Writing and Rhetoric. She works on issues of transnationalism and globalization in contemporary American and Anglophone ethnic literature and film. Her scholarly essays, reviews, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture , New Delta Review , and Don't Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing . She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. Her introduction to Casting Off will appear in Bordighera's reprint of DeSalvo's novel. See less