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MARY JO BONA serves as associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences and is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Bona's expertise in feminist literary studies examines the nexus between gender and ethnicity, with transnational migratory identities, material cultures, and Italian diaspora studies as primary intersections. Her authored books include Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary (Lexington Books, 2016); By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America (SUNY Press, 2009); Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers (SIU Press, 1999), and a book of poetry, I Stop Waiting for You (Bordighera Press, 2014). Bona is editor of The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian/American Women's Fiction (Guernica, 1994) and coeditor of Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates (SUNY Press, 2006). Bona is a series editor of multiethnic literatures for SUNY Press and serves on the SUNY editorial board. Bona has completed a monograph that revisits motherhood studies in experimental narratives through the lens of diasporic time and gendered space.