Personal effects: essays on memoir, teaching, and culture in the work of Louise DeSalvo

Introduction : "Habit of Mind" / Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta

Memoir: Louise DeSalvo's "Even in Death, La Bella Figura": A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences that Bind / Margaux Fragoso; The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing / Peter Covino; Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo / Jeana DelRosso; Portrait of the Mother as Writer and Researcher / Julija Šukys; Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir / Joshua Fausty

Teaching: On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo / Kym Ragusa; Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing / Emiy Bernard; Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo's Unlikely Narrative / Kimberly A. Costino; Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got Into Hunter / Lia Ottaviano; Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies / Benjamin D. Hagen

Culture: The Contexts of Louise DeSalvo's Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography / Mark Hussey; "Thirty-seven is the Unraveling Time" and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo / Jenn Brandt; Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self / Amy Jo Burns; The Fruits of Her Labor: DeSalvo's Memoirs of Food and Family / Mary Jo Bona and Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger; Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel / Theodora Patrona; DeSalvo's Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge / Ilaria Serra; The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table / John Gennari; Afterword: Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo's

Accented Writing /

Anthony Julian Tamburri.