Professor Edvige Giunta to Serve as Panelist on September 11 for Documentary Screening

Edvige Giunta, Professor of English at New Jersey City University, and a prolific author, will be a panelist on Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. for the screening of "The Many Miracles of Household Saints", a new documentary by Martina Savoca-Guay. The event will be held at New York University. Dr. Giunta is a regular contributor to Italian American studies and a founder of the field.

At NJCU, she teaches memoir and courses on women writers and immigrant literature and culture. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of six anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, recipient of the 2023 Susan Koppelman Awrad for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture. Her memoirs, essays, poems, and interviews appear in anthologies, journals, and magazines and have been published in Italian translation. Talking to the Girls will be published in Italian translation by Iacobelli thanks to the generous support of Casa Italiana.

For more info and registration:

https://www.casaitaliananyu.org/events/the-many-miracles-of-household-saints/