Carol Bonomo Albright

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Carol Bonomo Albright
Born
Carol Bonomo

1938
New York City, U.S.
Other namesCarol Bonomo Ahearn
Alma mater Brown University
Occupation(s)Writer, editor, educator

Carol Bonomo Albright (born 1938) is an American author, editor, and educator in Italian-American studies. She has published many books and articles on the subject and taught classes at the University of Rhode Island and the Harvard University Extension School. She was editor-in-chief of Italian Americana , a peer-reviewed cultural/historical journal, for over 25 years.

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Life

Carol Bonomo Albright was born in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1938. [1] She attended St. Joseph Academy. Her parents were immigrants from the Calabria region of Southern Italy. She earned an M.A. from Brown University and received grants from the Danforth Foundation of Higher Education and the National Science Foundation for Medical Education. [2] [3]

Albright's essays, reviews, and other writings have appeared in many journals, such as PMLA , The Providence Journal , MELUS , and the Journal of American Ethnic Studies; [3] in anthologies, such as Our Roots Are Deep With Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers (2015), [4] Voices of the Daughters (1989), [5] and Helen Barolini's The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (1985); [2] and in other books, such as The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia (2003) [6] and Social Pluralism and Literary History: The Literature of the Italian Emigration (1996). [7] In 2004, she co-edited an annotated edition of two novels by Joseph Rocchietti, one of which, Lorenzo and Oonalaska (1835), is the earliest known novel by an Italian-American. She also published a memoir in 2009. [3]

Albright was editor-in-chief of Italian Americana from 1989 to 2015, [8] and served two terms as vice president of the American Italian Historical Association. [3]

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  1. ↑ "Albright, Carol Bonomo 1938-..." viaf.org. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 Barolini, Helen (1985). "Carol Bonomo Albright". The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women. Syracuse University Press. p. 125. ISBN   9780815606628.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Romano, Anne T. (2010). "Carol Bonomo Albright". Daughters of Italy: The Journey of Italian American Women Writers. XLibris. pp. 38–39. ISBN   9781453547823.
  4. ↑ Gutkind, Lee; Herman, Joanna Clapps, eds. (2015). Our Roots Are Deep With Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers. Other Press, LLC. p. 127. ISBN   9781590517741.
  5. ↑ Maglione, Connie; Fiore, Carmen Anthony, eds. (1989). Voices of the Daughters . Townhouse Publishing. p.  63. ISBN   9780939219056.
  6. ↑ LaGumina, Salvatore J.; et al. (2003). "Contributors". The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 9. ISBN   9781135583330.
  7. ↑ Loriggio, Francesco (1996). "From Sacred to Secular: Umbertina and A Piece of Earth". Social Pluralism and Literary History: The Literature of the Italian Emigration. Guernica Editions. pp. 176–187. ISBN   9781550710182.
  8. ↑ "History of Italian Americana". Italian Americana. May 2017. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
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