Mary Jo Bona, Professor of Italian American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University, is the author of By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistan...view moreMary Jo Bona, Professor of Italian American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University, is the author of By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America (2010) and Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers (1999). She is editor of The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian American Women’s Fiction (1994), co-editor of Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates (2006), and series editor of Multiethnic Literature for SUNY Press.view less