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Dr. Rocco Marinaccio Chairperson Associate Professor of English

 

Education:

• B.A., Manhattan College
• M.A., University of Missouri
• Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin

Research and Scholarly Interests:

American literature, especially modern and contemporary; poetry; cultural studies, particularly the political contexts of literature; Italian-American literature and culture; food studies.

Publications and Scholarly Activity:

Publications: “’The sight to see and the will to do’:  Charles Reznikoff and the Poetics of Exposure” (LIT:  Literature Interpretation Theory, June 2006); "I Get No Kick Out of Assimilation; or, My  Frank Sinatra Problem" in Frank Sinatra:  History, Identity, and Italian-American Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004);  "George Oppen's '"I've Seen America" Book':  Discrete Series and the Thirties Road Narrative" (American Literature, September 2002); "Charles Bernstein:  An Interview" (Contemporary Literature, Spring 2000): and  "Dago Christs or Hometown Heroes?:  Proletarian Representations of Sacco and Vanzetti" (Centennial Review, Fall 1997).  Many conference papers include presentations on Objectivist poetry; Frank Sinatra and Italian-American culture; poetry and radical politics in the 1930s. 

Current Research: American literature and culture in the Depression; the Italian-American cultural tradition; food studies.

Forthcoming Publications: “’Tea and cookies. Diavolo!’: Italian American Masculinity and John Fante’s Wait Until Spring, Bandini” (MELUS).

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• ENGL 110: College Writing
• ENGL 211: Written Communication
• ENGL 253: Masterworks of American Literature
• ENGL 306: Introduction to Literary Study
• ENGL 348: Contemporary Fiction (World Literature)
• ENGL 372: American Literature to 1914
• ENGL 376: Early American Literature
• ENGL 378: American Literature: The Modern Age
• ENGL 379: Contemporary American Literature
• ENGL 392: Topics in Literature:  The Immigrant Experience in American Literature
• LLRN 204: Roots of the Modern Age: Literature

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7503
• Office: Miguel 404
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail: rocco.marinaccio@manhattan.edu

 

"always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space.  That
is your inclination, known in the heavens
and you should follow it to hell, if
necessary, which I doubt."
--Frank O'Hara, "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island"

 

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