Edvige Giunta
Edvige Giunta (1959–) is a writer, scholar, and teacher. She is a founder and significant contributor to the field of Italian American studies, and a Professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is a co-editor of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy and poetry editor of The Women’s Studies Quarterly, part of The Feminist Press.
She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors (Palgrave, 2002) and co-editor of six anthologies, most recently Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Fire (New Village Press, 2022), with Mary Anne Trasciatti. Her essays accompanied reprints of key Italian American women writers including Tina De Rosa, Helen Barolini, and Louise DeSalvo, contributing to their resurgence.
Giunta’s work involves collaboration, community-building, and accessibility. She teaches the craft of memoir as well as a unique course devoted to the study of the Triangle fire. In 2012, she received the NJCU Distinguished Faculty Award, among others. Giunta lives in New Jersey.