Biography on edvige giuntar

Edvige Giunta (born 1959) is a Sicilian-American writer, educator, and literary critic.

Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent and coeditor of several anthologies, including Talking to the Girls: Intimate and.

Edvige Giunta is a Sicilian-American writer, educator, and literary critic.

Edvige Giunta was born and raised in Sicily, Italy, where she studied at the University of Catania.

A regular contributor to Italian American studies and a founder of the field, Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian.

Edvige Giunta is a New-Jersey based writer, scholar, and teacher.

Biography

She was born in Gela, Sicily, in 1959, the second of four children of Vincenzo and Cettina Giunta, both schoolteachers. After earning a degree in foreign languages and literature at the University of Catania in 1983, she moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of Miami.

She received a master's degree in English in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1989.

Over the years, she has been a witness to and enthusiastic supporter of NJCU student writers.

She wrote her dissertation on James Joyce^[1] and her first book was titled A Raven Like a Writing-Desk: Lewis Carroll through James Joyce's Looking Glass.^[2]

In 1991 she moved to New York.

She taught for a time at Union College, later becoming a Professor of English at New Jersey City University. She organized a program on female Italian-American writers at the City University of New York in 1995, and co-founded the Collective of Italian American Women in 1998.^[1]