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What Does It Take to be an Italian American Woman Writer in Appalachia?

What Does It Take to Be an Italian American Woman Writer in Appalachia?

Pushcart Prize nominated author, scholar, and educator, Dr. Nancy Caronia, will speak at the Folklife Center on Monday, October 25, at 7:00 p.m. about how West Virginia author Denise Giardina seamlessly weaves important discussions of Italian immigration into larger narratives of West Virginia coal mining history. Giardina’s fiction is central to understanding the complexity of Italian immigration beyond the borders of urban areas in the northeast and Chicago. Giardina’s work has not only contributed insights into Italian immigration, but also paved the way for Italian American women writers born in Appalachia like Marie Manilla, Andriana Trigiani, and Diana Pishner Walker.

Caronia is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of English at West Virginia University.. She received a West Virginia Humanities Council grant to work on a chapter about Giardina’s Storming Heaven for her book-in-progress Permeable Boundaries: Intimacy and Activism in the Work of Women Writers of Italian Descent.

This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, call 304-367-4403. A reception will follow. This event will be held at the Frank and Jane Gabor WV Folklife Center 

Date:
Monday, October 25, 2021
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Audience:
  Alumni     Community     Faculty / Staff     Students  

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