Thomas Ferraro
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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. at Yale 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
- Werner Sollors, ed. (1989). "Blood in the Marketplace". The Invention of ethnicity. Oxford University Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-19-505047-9.
Thomas Ferraro.
- Frank Lentricchia, ed. (1991). "Whole Families Shopping at Night!". New essays on White noise. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-39893-0.
- Ethnic passages: literary immigrants in twentieth-century America. University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-226-24442-6.
- Feeling Italian: the art of ethnicity in America. New York University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8147-2747-8.
Editor
- Catholic Lives, Contemporary America. Duke University Press. January 1997. ISBN 978-0-8223-2031-9.
References
- ^ "Amherst Authors - Non-fiction | Amherst College". Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ "Thomas J. Ferraro, Frances Hill Fox Professor and Bass Fellow".