Publications of Thomas J Ferraro    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

1.  Feeling Italian: the Art of Ethnicity in America. New York UP, May, 2005. (Winner, 2006 American Book Award. Choice, Recommended Book.)  [abs]
2.  Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-Century America. U of Chicago P, 1993. (Chapter I, "Blood in the Marketplace," was originally invited for Werner Sollors, ed., The Invention of Ethnicity [Oxford UP, 1986], and has been reprinted in reference works on Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. The introduction is to be similarly reprinted in August 2008.)

Edited

1.  Catholic Lives, Contemporary America.  Duke UP, 1997.  [abs]

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

1. "Cultural Studies Between Heaven and Earth." A Catholic Studies Reader. Ed. James T. Fisher and Maureen M. McGuinness. Fordham University Press, 2011. 35 ms. pages.  [abs] [author's comments]
2. "Between Women; or, On Our Knees to Don Corleone." VIA Ed. Christian Messenger and JoAnne Ruvoli Gruba. 19.2 (2008--delayed release): 1-20.  released summer 2009  [abs] [author's comments]
3. "Boys to Men (Salvific Masculinity in /Angels with Dirty Faces/)." Catholics in the Movies. Ed. Colleen McDannell. Oxford University Press, 2008. 59-82.  [abs] [author's comments]
4. "Cultural Studies Between Heaven and Earth: Beyond the Puritan Pedagogy of /The Scarlet Letter/." American Catholic Studies. Ed. James T. Fisher and Maureen McGuinness. Fordham University Press, under editorial review: 2010?.  [abs]
5. "Cultural Studies Between Heaven and Earth."    This is an expanded address for the North American Religions Section of the AAR, 2005, taking the work of Robert A. Orsi as a point of departure for querying the religious underpinnings of American Literary Studies, writ large; forthcoming in a volume on U.S. Catholic Studies, ed. James T. Fisher.
6. "Contribution to MLA Roundtable in honor of AL at Seventy-Five." American Literature 77 (September, 2005): 634-36.
7. "Of 'Lascivious Mysticism' and Other Hibernian Matters." U.S. Catholic Historian 23.3 (Summer, 2005): 1-17.
8. "Lorenzo's Chrism." SAQ 103.1 (Winter, 2004): 235-63.
9. "Italian-American Literature." Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Parini. 2Oxford UP, 2004. 275-284.
10. "Urbane Villager." Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture. Ed. Stanislao Pugliese. Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming.
11. "'At Long Last Love'; or, Literary History in the Key of Difference." ALH [American Literary History] 15.1 (2003): 78-86.
12. "Giancarlo and the Border Patrol." (In)Visible Cities: From the Postmodern Metropolis to the Cities of the Future. Ed. P. D'Acierno, J. Ockman, and R. Sargent. Monacelli Press, forthcoming.
13. "Italian Americans." Scribner's Encyclopedia of US Intellectual and Cultural History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams.  2001. 363-73.
14. "'My Way' in 'Our America': Ethnicity, Art, Profession." ALH, History in the Making Symposium Issue 12 (Fall, 2000): 499-522.  [author's comments]
15. "Response to Breitwieser." ALH 12.Fall 2000 (Fall, 2000): 382-385.
16. "Catholic Ethnicity and the Modern American Arts." The Italian American Heritage. Ed. Pellegrino D'Acierno. Garland, 1999. 331-352.
17. "Catholic Ethnicity and the Modern American Arts." The Italian American Heritage: A Companion to the Arts. Ed. P. D'Acierno. Garland, 1998. 331-352.
18. "The Souls of Catholic Folk: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cather." American and European National Identities: Faces in the Mirror. Ed. Stephen Fender. Keele UP, UK, 1996. 73-87.
19. "Catholic Writers." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford University, 1995. 155-57.
20. "Celine's American Genealogy." SAQ Ed. Alica Kaplan and Philippe Roussin. 93 (Spring, 1994): 507-11.
21. "Mario Puzo." The Reference Guide to American Literature. 3d ed.St. James Press, 1994.  [author's comments]
22. "Ethnicity and the Literary Marketplace." The Columbia History of the American Novel. Ed. Emory Ellitt et al.. Columbia UP, 1991. 380-406.
23. "Whole Families Shopping at Night!." New Essays on White Noise. Ed. Frank Lentricchia. Cambridge UP, 1991.  15-38  [author's comments]
24. "'Working Ourselves Up': Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers." SAQ 89 (Summer, 1990): 547-582.
25. "Avant-Garde Ethnics." The Future of Modernism. Ed. William Boelhower. Free UP of Amsterdam, 1990. 1-31.
26. "Blood in the Marketplace: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives." The Invention of Ethnicity. Ed. Werner Sollars. Oxford UP, 1989. 176-207.

Book Reviews

1.  Sopranos on the Couch.  2003.
2.  Review of Beyond The Godfather: Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience. ed. A. Kenneth Ciongoli and J. Parini. Italian-Americana (Jan. 2002).
3.  Review of Jenny Franchot's Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism.  American Literature (Mar. 1995): 148-50.
4.  Review of Bonnie TuSmith's All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures.  American Literature 66 (June, 1994): 407-8.
5.  Review of RSA: Rivista di Studi Nord-Americani.  ItalianAmericana 10 (Fall/Winter 1991): 91-3.

Other

1. "At Long Last Love; or, Literary History in the Key of Difference." ALH (Spring, 2003).  [abs] [author's comments]
2. "Transgression & Redemption." (). There is a different kind of book calling to me that informs the survey courses I teach and that makes itself increasingly explicit in special-interest seminars and a new lecture course, "Transgression & Redemption." This book would render a synthesizing account of the interplay among radical self-transformation, violative love, and redemptive sacrifice in the U.S. literary and cultural imagination at least since the 1890s. Of course I would take advantage of the hugely expanded novelistic canon since postwar consensus but also-- since I intend full-bore engagement with some of the monsters of the older canon--the different reservoirs of knowledge, criteria of evidence, modes of argumentation, and constellations of value these expansions have entailed. I mean our hard-won sophistication in gender and sexuality, beginning with Eve Sedgwick's seminal reading of Billy Budd (and my dissent from Jenny Franchot's reading of The Scarlet Letter); the racialized and ethnic histories of migration, mobility, border-shifts, and diaspora, which are now paramount to U.S. literary studies; the newly emergent interrogation of secularized sacramentality (especially Jewish-Christian-Muslim syncretisms); and, finally, the re- vitalization of sensorially based understanding that comes from immersion in visual, musical, and performing arts, including the sentimental traditions of Hollywood and tin-pan alley once condemned as America's feminization. I realize that synthesis on this scale sounds at once old- fashioned and utopian, but my heroes are Melville and Cather, Dickinson and Stevens, Armstrong and Ellington--all of whom kept working at what they loved until the day they died.
3. "Stella's Atlantic." (). My research into painter and prose-poet Joseph Stella for Feeling Italian cries out for a full-length treatment, Stella's Atlantic, organized as a tightly linked set of scenes of revisionist instruction concerning the interplay, 1906-1926, among modernist urbanity, religious syncretism, and multilingual (trans)national dislocation
4. "The Art of Suspicion." (). In The Art of Suspicion, currently incarnated as a graduate course, I foreground narratives, primarily American, that, in one way or another, seem to have marshalled all the queen's men of Foucauldian suspicion--the sharp, sharp skepticisms of our material-feminist, psychoanalycis, gender-bending, power-sensitive age--as a writerly form of devil's advocacy. What intrigues me is not so much the grounding of faith in radical doubt, as Enlightenment theologians would have it, but rather the erotics of demystification, the subliminity of overdetermination, and the provocation to ultimate indeterminacy--from Billy Budd and Passing's "it takes one to know one" to the multivalence of cultural capital in "our nativist modernists" (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, et al.) and from the freedom-within-paranoia of E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel and The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, dir.) to the electric reciprocities of (dis)trust-and-surprise in Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy and The Stuntman (dir., Richard Rush)