Curriculum Vitae
Thomas J. Ferraro
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Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015 +1 919 684 2741 (office)
(email)
- Education
Ph.D. Yale University 1988 M. Phil. Yale University (with distinction) 1983 M.A. Yale University 1983 B.A. Amherst College 1979
- Areas of Research
American Literature and Culture, with special expertise in the novel and in the interplay of religion, ethnicity, and the media arts
- Professional Experience / Employment History
- Duke University
- Frances Hill Fox Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, English Dept., 2011 - present
- Professor, English Dept., 2005 - present
- Associate Professor with tenure, English, 1995-present
- Assistant Professor, English, 1988-1995
- University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Assistant (teaching fellowship), English, 1986-1988
Awards:
- Fulbright Lectureship (Teaching/Research) in the Graduate Program at the University of Venice Ca' Foscari,
February 1-May 30, 2013
US-Italian Fulbright Commission - Bass Professorship,
July, 2011
Duke University
For Excellence in Teaching and Research - Alumni Association Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award,
October, 2010
Unknown
The major undergraduate teaching award; 179 nominations for 128 different faculty members. Anonymous vetting by an undergraduate panel randomly generated by registrar's office. One time only. - Introduction to Ethnic Passages,
1 2009
Unknown - American Book Award,
0 2006
Before Columbus Foundation
The award recognizes Feeling Italian: the Art of Ethnicity in America for its "outstanding contribution to American literature." - H.O.P.E. Award for ExemplaryTeaching,
April, 2006
Duke University Residential Life - Robert B. Cox Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching,
May 2001
Duke University - Summer Stipends Awards,
0 1998
National Endowment for the Humanities - Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professorship,
1991-1992
Duke University - Duke Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award Nominee, 1990, 1991, 1994-6, 1998, and others
- USIA Teaching Fellow,
5 1990
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain - Theron Rockwell Field Prize,
5 1989
Yale University
awarded to the outstanding dissertation in "Poetry, Literature, or Religion" by university-wide committee - Garner Fellowship in the Humanities,
1979-1984
Yale University - George A. Plimpton Postgraduate Fellowship,
1979
Amherst College
presented to the senior demonstrating the greatest promise for professional scholarship - George Rogers Taylor Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis,
1979
Amherst College
"The Eye of Eternity Under the Touch of Time: The Life and Vision of Ralph Waldo Emerson" - Marshall Scholarship Finalist, 1979
- Valedictorian,
1979
Amherst College - Phi Beta Kappa,
1978
Amherst College
(junior) - The Knox Cup,
1975
St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
(Valedictorian)
- "Introduction" to Ethnic Passages, 1 2009
- Sabbatical Research Leave,
Fall 1996; Spring 2001
Duke University - Junior Faculty Research Leave,
Fall 1991
Duke University
- 2018, Thinking with Billie: A Roundtable on Billie Holiday, Denver, CO
- 2018, Memory, History, and Accountability: A Roundtable on Catholic Universities’ Struggle to Come to Terms with Painful Pasts, Denver, CO
- 2013, "Beyond Hypocrisy" (Keynote for Annual Symposium), Centro di Studi Americani, Rome
- 2013, Beyond Hypocrisy (Keynote for Annual Symposium), Centro di Studi Americani, Rome
- 2013, "An American Paseo" (Keynote for Spanish Association for American Studies), University of La Laguna, Tenerife, CI
- 2013, An American Paseo (Keynote for Spanish Association for American Studies), University of La Laguna, Tenerife, CI
- 2011, Respondent, "Humor in Discomforting Places", ASA, Baltimore
- 2011, "Theory-Work: Italianizing the Curriculum", Columbia/Hofstra/NYU
- 2011, "La Cosa Nostra Americana"
- 2011, Week Long Distinguished Professor's Course (DECLINED), Santiago Chile
- 2011, La Cosa Nostra Americana
- 2010, Theory-Work: Italianizing the Curriculum, Columbia/Hofstra/NYU
- 2010, La Cosa Nostra Americana, Elon College
- 2009, "Re-envisioning 'Angels' as the Devil Gets His Due", Cushwa Center, University of Notre Dame
- 2009, Re-envisioning 'Angels' as the Devil Gets His Due, Cushwa Center, University of Notre Dame
- 2008, New Perspectives on Italian-American Popular Culture, American Studies Association, Alburquerque
- 2008, Cultural Studies Between Heaven and Earth, UC/Berkeley
- 2008, Cultural Studies Between Heaven and Earth, Fordam University
- 2007, Mario Puzo Reconsidered: a Roundtable, Annual Meeting of the AIHA, Denver
- 2007, On the Virtues of Forgetting: a response to Gorman, Chu, and Besteman, American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
- 2006, Sacraments of Genre, American Studies Association, Washington DC
- 2006, Love & Death in "The Scarlet Letter": A Response to Robert A. Orsi's "Between Heaven and Earth", American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia PA
- 2005, Meeting the Author of "Feeling Italian", Calandra Institute, CUNY; also Coccia Institutute, Montclair State
- 2005, "The Future of Catholic Studies", Curran Center, Fordham University
- 2004, "Our Lady the Dominatrix of Pop", University of Miami at Ohio
- 2003, "Friday Bloody Friday", ASA Annual Meeting, Hartford CT
- 2003, "Starbucked," Panel on Performing Ethnicity, MELUS, Boca Raton
- 2001, Stella's New York Skyline, Panel on the Multilingual Literatures of the United States, MLA, New Orleans
- 2001, "Joseph Stella's Visual Poliphony", American Italian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas
- 2001, "Cine Cucina:, Panel on Religion and the Arts, ASA, Washington, DC
- 2000, Giancarlo and the Border Patrol, ASA 2000 for a panel on "Spike's Italians" with John Gennari, Jennifer Scappettone, Carlo Rotella, and Gerald Early
- 1999, Ethnic 1950s (Panel Chair and Respondent), American Studies Association, Montreal
- 1998, Urbane Villager, Frank Sinatra: the Conference, Hofstra University, SUNY Stony Brook, Sept. 1997., to be published in Conference Proceedings.
- 1997, If Reindeer Know How to Fly, MLA, Washington DC
- 1996, A Triptych for the Catholic Atlantic, keynote, Association Francaise d'Etudes Americaines, Lyon, France
- 1995, Mariette in Ecstasy: a Transfigurative (Not Reproductive) Female Sexuality?, Facilitator and Presenter, Symposium on Engendering American Catholicism, Cushwa Center, University of Notre Dame
- 1995, Doctorow's Book of Daniel: A Passion Play for American Judaism?, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Park City, Utah
- 1994, Gatsby the Great, Mystic Martyr, European Association for American Studies, Luxembourg
- 1993, Who Prays for Don Corleone?, American Studies Association
- 1993, Tradition and the Minority Talent, Symposium on Political Correctness and Higher Education, Performing Arts and Forum Series, Appalachian State University
- 1992, Italian Americans and the Arts, Respondent, American Italian Historical Association, Washington
- 1992, Confessing Modern American Literature, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- 1992, Doubly Cursed: Introducing American Ethnic Literature, Commonwealth Center for Cultural Change, University of Virginia
- 1991, Revisiting an Italian-American Risorgimento, MLA, San Francisco
- 1990, Postmodernism and Ethnic Literature, MELUS, Chicago
- 1989, Call it Ethnic Modernism, ASA/CAAS, Toronto
- 1987, Reconstructing Ethnic Literature: Werner Sollars' Critique of Pure Pluralism, Swiss Association for North American Studies, Bern, Switzerland
- 1985, Ethnic Literature and Literary Evaluation, MLA, Chicago
- 0, "Cultural Studies Between Heaven and Earth", University of California at Berkeley
- Professional Service
- DGS Advisory Committee, 2008 - 09, 2009-10
- Editorial Board and Referee, American Literary History, 2002-present
- Consultant, Misc, ongoing
- Tenure and Promotion Referee, Misc., ongoing
- Task Force on Undergraduate Education, 2021-23
- Academic Program, Chair, 2020-22
- Academic Program, Member, 2017-22
- 2030 Task Force: Faculty Advisory Group, 2020-21
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, July 2011-June 2014
- University Leadership Group in Teaching Innovation, 2011 - 2012
- External Review Team, External Review Team. December, 2011, December, 2011
- Series Board, Critical Studies in Italian Americana, Series Board, Critical Studies in Italian Americana. January 02, 2011, January 2011
- Director, Graduate Placement, January 2011
- member, Ad Hoc APT Committee, 2010
- Chair, Ad Hoc Promotion Committee, 2010-11
- Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, 2008 - 2009
- Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Council, 2004 - 2008
- Chair, Ad Hoc Tenure Committee, Fall 2008
- Duke Endowment Fellowship Committee, 2007
- Chair's Advisory Committee, 2006 - 2007
- CoConvener, Working Group on Early Cinema, 2006 - 2007
- Committee Member (also defacto steering committee, Dec 07), Quality Enhancement Plan for Trinity, Pratt, and Duke, 2007-08
- Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, 2007-2010
- Graduate Advisory Committee (including Grad Admissions), 2007-present
- Senior Americanist Hire Tenure Review Committee (David Eng), Fall 2006
- Search Committee, American Literature, 2005 - 2006
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 2005 - 2006
- Duke Endowment Fellowship Committee, 2006
- Director of Graduate Students, 2006
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 2005-2006
- Americanist Search Committee, 2005
- Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2004
- Director of Graduate Studies, 2005
- Member, Arts & Sciences Research Committee, 2004-07
- Member, Asian-Americanist Search Committee, 2003-04
- Ad Hoc Committee on the Tenure and Promotion of Maurice Wallace, 2002
- Americanist Search Committee, 2001 - 02
- Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Awards, 2000-01
- chair, Academic Priorities Committee (app. by Provost), 1997-2000
- chair, Working Group on Drama: Review Teams for Task Force on the Arts Report, Academic Priorities Committee, 1997 - 2000
- Undergraduate Placement Committee, English Department, 1989-91, 2000-
- Senior Americanist Search Committee, 1998-1999
- Senior Americanist Search Committee, 1998 - 99
- Acting Co-Editor, American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, 1997-98
- Target of Opportunity Hiring Committee, 1997-98
- Delegate, Ethnic Studies Division, 1996 - 1998
- Evaluator, Misc. Journals, 1996 - 1998
- Editorial Board and Referee, MELUS: the Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1994 - 1998
- Juror, (with Fred Gardaphe and Edvige Giunta), First Annual Gay Talese Prize in Literature ($10,000), Spring 1997
- -, Ad-Hoc Renewal Committee, Women's Studies and Public Policy, 1997
- (elected), Academic Council, 1995 - 1997
- Fellowship Evaluation, Group 3 Preliminary, 1994 - 1997
- Chair's Advisory Committee, 1995 - 96; 1997-98
- Graduate Admissions, English Department, 1991-93, 1995-96
- Medieval Search Committee, 1995 - 96
- Consultant on Hiring in Ethnic Literature, Smith College Department of English, 1995
- (elected), Arts & Sciences Council, 1993 - 1995
- Consulting Scholar, Documentary Film Series on 20th Cent American Authors, 1994
- Faculty-Mentor, Dana Foundation Fellowships for Prospective Doctoral Students, 1993 - 1994
- Scholar-Consultant, National Humanities Center Seminar in Race and Ethnicity, 1993 - 1994
- (elected), Advisory Committee, 1993- 94; 1999-01
- Panelist, Round Table on Graduate Education in American Studies, April, 1994
- Faculty Advisor, Workshop in Comparative InterAmerican Studies, Duke-UNC Graduate Programs, 1992-93
- -, Advisory Committee, 1992-93
- Graduate Placement Committee, English Department, 1988-91, 1992-93, 2004
- Outside Examiner, Senior Honors Program, English and Religion, 1992
- Panel Chair, Multiculturalism, Trinity College Board of Visitors, 1991
- Consultant and Guest Lecturer, Diversity Media, 1990-91
- Chair, Senior Honors Committee, English Department, 1989-91
- Curriculum Review Committee, English Department, 1989-90
- Doctoral Theses Directed
- Adam A Haile, (0000)
- Kinohi Nishikawa, (2000 to 2010)
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