Thomas J. Ferraro is an American non-fiction writer, and Frances Hill Fox Professor of English at Duke University.

Life

He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College,^[1] and earned his Ph.D. at Yale University, where he took the Theron Rockwell Field Prize for Distinguished Humanities Dissertation. He teaches American literature and cultural studies at Duke University, with a special emphasis on Catholicity, immigrant literature, and visual media.^[2]

Awards

• 2006 American Book Award, for Feeling Italian: the art of ethnicity in America
• 2010, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, Duke's most prestigious undergraduate teaching award
• 2011, Bass Society of Fellows, endowed chair in English for excellence in scholarship and pedagogy

Works

• Werner Sollors, ed. (1989). "Blood in the Marketplace". The Invention of ethnicity. Oxford University Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-19-505047-9. Thomas Ferraro.
• Frank Lentricchia, ed. (1991). "Whole Families Shopping at Night!". New essays on White noise. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-39893-0.
• Ethnic passages: literary immigrants in twentieth-century America. University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-226-24442-6.
• Feeling Italian: the art of ethnicity in America. New York University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8147-2747-8.

Editor

• Catholic Lives, Contemporary America. Duke University Press. January 1997. ISBN 978-0-8223-2031-9.