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Thomas J. Ferraro

Thomas J. Ferraro

Professor of English
English
ferraro@duke.edu
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
421 Chapel Dr., Dept of English, Durham, NC 27708-0015
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Featured Works

No forgiveness in heaven, no forgetting in hell

Journal article American Literary History · January 1, 2014 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Boys to Men (Salvific Masculinity in /Angels with Dirty Faces/)

Book section · 2008 Featured Publication "Boys to Men" examines the redemptive force of street Catholicism–the salvific masculinity of Irish American violence, courage, and love–as enacted in the interplay between the social-work priest (Pat O’Brien) and his boyhood buddy (James Cagney) turned no ... Cite

Feeling Italian: the Art of Ethnicity in America

Book · May 2005 Featured Publication Feeling Italian: the Art of Ethnicity in America (NYU, December ’04?) explores the Italian Catholic aesthetic seduction of the United States– from the once-infamous trials of murderess Maria Barbella and the eerily prescient city paintings of Josep ... Cite

Of ’Lascivious Mysticism’ and Other Hibernian Matters

Journal article U.S. Catholic Historian · 2005 Featured Publication Cite

Lorenzo’s Chrism

Journal article SAQ · 2004 Featured Publication Cite

At long last love; Or, literary history in the key of difference

Journal article American Literary History · December 1, 2003 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Whole Families Shopping at Night!

Book section · 1991 Featured Publication Cite