Chiara MazzucchelliChiara Mazzucchelli is associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of The Heart and the Island: A Critical Study of Sicilian American Literature (SUNY Press, 2015). Her articles have appeared n Nuova Prosa, Forum Italicum, the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, the Journal of Lesbian Studies, and Italian Americana. Since 2009, she has been editor-in-chief of the semiannual peer-reviewed journal VIA: Voices in Italian Americana. Read More Read Less