Thomas J. Ferraro,
Professor of English, Duke University Thomas J. Ferraro is Professor of English at Duke University. He writes on literature, film, and the performing arts, and is the author of
Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America (NYU, 2005),
Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in 20th-Century America (University of Chicago Press, 1993), the editor of
Catholic Lives, Contemporary America (Duke University Press, 1997), and a contributor to
The Columbia History of the American Novel,
Scribner's Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, and
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature.