Thomas Ferraro Explained

Thomas J. Ferraro is an American non-fiction writer, and Frances Hill Fox Professor of English at Duke University.

Life

He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College,^[1] and earned his Ph.D. atYale University, where he took the Theron Rockwell Field Prize for Distinguished Humanities Dissertation.He teaches American literature and cultural studies at Duke University, with a special emphasis on Catholicity, immigrant literature, and visual media.^[2]

Awards

• 2006 American Book Award, for Feeling Italian: the art of ethnicity in America
• 2010, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, Duke's most prestigious undergraduate teaching award
• 2011, Bass Society of Fellows, endowed chair in English for excellence in scholarship and pedagogy

Works

• Book: The Invention of ethnicity. registration. 176. Thomas Ferraro.. Blood in the Marketplace. Werner Sollors. Oxford University Press. 1989. 978-0-19-505047-9 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=d66hajea8wUC&q=Thomas+Ferraro&pg=PA15. Whole Families Shopping at Night!. New essays on White noise. Frank Lentricchia. Cambridge University Press. 1991. 978-0-521-39893-0 .
• Book: Ethnic passages: literary immigrants in twentieth-century America. University of Chicago Press. 1993. 978-0-226-24442-6 .
• Book: Feeling Italian: the art of ethnicity in America. New York University Press. 2005. 978-0-8147-2747-8 .

Editor

• Book: Catholic Lives, Contemporary America . January 1997 . Duke University Press . 978-0-8223-2031-9 . registration .

External links

• "Where We Live: Getting Back to Our Roots", Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, 01/30/2009

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amherst Authors - Non-fiction | Amherst College . 2009-10-23 . dead . https://archive.today/20110605010727/https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/magazine/bookclub/nonfiction/thomasferraro . June 5, 2011 . mdy-all .
2. Web site: Thomas J. Ferraro, Frances Hill Fox Professor and Bass Fellow.