selected publications
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article
- The Shadowed Violence of Culture: Fascism and the Figure of Ulysses in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. Clio: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History. 33:146-161. 2004
- Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives. Annali d'Italianistica. 21:573-575. 2003
- Authoritative Testimony and Authoitarian Discourse in Primo Levi's Se questo e un uomo. Italian Culture: The Journal of the American Association of Italian Studies. 19:41-52. 2001
- Luigi Pirandello: Contemporary Perspectives. Italian Culture: The Journal of the American Association of Italian Studies. 18:208-211. 2000
- Self-estrangement and the Poetics of self-representation in Pirandello's 'L'umorismo'. South Atlantic Review. 63:56-71. 1998
- Primo Levi's Sruvival in Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved: From Testimony to Historical Judgment. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 12:47-58. 1994
- Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journalof Jewish Studies. 10:162-164. 1991
- A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz. Italica. 69:263-264. 1990
- A Rational Humanist Confronts the Holocaust: Teaching Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz
- Ethics and Ontology in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz: A Levianasian Reading. Italica. 83:529-542.
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chapter of book
- 'What Would I Have Done?' Using the Drowned and the Saved to Teach About Moral Ambiguity. Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Primo Levi. New York.
- Jewish Novel: On the Holocaust and After. The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Westport, CT. 165-168.
- La reception de l'ceuvre de Primo Levi aux Etat-Unis. La reception de l'oeuvre de Primo Levi en Europe, aux Etats-Unis, au Canada, en Amerique Latine & en Israel. Brussels.
- Leopardi. The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Westport, CT. 171-172.
- On the Dangers of Reading Suicide into the Works of Primo Levi. The Legacy of Primo Levi. New York. 221-231.
- Pavese. The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Westport, CT. 248-250.
- Renata Vigano. The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Westport, CT. 348-348.
- Strategies for Teaching Wiesel's Night with Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night. New York. 91-98.
- Svevo. The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Westport, CT. 324-325.