Early Representations of Organized Crime and Issues of Identity in the Italian American Press (1890–1910)

MARINA CACIOPPO is a tenured researcher at the University of Palermo where she teaches American Literature. She has a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a DPhil from the University of Sussex, UK. She works on ethnic identity in American literature and culture, focusing especially on immigrant writings between the 1890s and the 1930s. She has published on Italian-American detective fiction and autobiography, and her current work, based on archival research conducted while a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, concentrates on the Italian-language press in New York during the period of mass migration.