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- Joe Cosco
- Associate Professor
- English
- 425 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-5473
- jcosco@odu.edu
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Education
- College of William & Mary,
1999
- Major: American Studies, with concentration in 19th-century literature and social history
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Columbia University,
1974
- Major: English literature
- Degree: M.A.
- Trinity College,
1973
- Major: Anglo-Irish literature
- Degree: Diploma in Anglo-Irish literature
- Dartmouth College,
1971
- Major: English. Daniel Webster Scholar (college-wide academic scholarship)
- Degree: A.B.
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Expertise
- Journalism
- Journalism / Literature
- Literature
- Journalism / Literature
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Book Chapters
- Cosco, J. P. (2003). Imagining Italians: Race, Romance, and Reality in American Perception, 1880-1910.. State University of New York Press.
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Articles
- Cosco, J. P. ‘I Just Want to Sing Your Names’: Woody Guthrie’s Stuggles with the Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti. Italian American Review, 1 (1),
- Cosco, J. P. (2003). Jacob Riis: Immigrants Old and New, and the Making of American. American Journalism: A Journal of Media History, 20 (3),
- Cosco, J. P. (2002). Lynching Those Magnificently Miserable Italians: Mark Twain Revisits an American Tragedy. Columbia Journal of American Studies, 5 (1),
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Presentations
- The Dead Sang with Dirt in Their Mouths
- Conference Name: John D. Calandra Institute/Queens College
- Sponsoring Organization: John D. Calandra Institute/Queens College
- Location: New York City
- Authors/Presenters:
Cosco, J. P. Presenter & Author
- Three-hour lecture/discussion on British travel accounts of the early American republic and on the “new immigration” in late
nineteenth-century United States
- Conference Name:
- Date: August 16, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Cosco, J. P.
- Lynching Those Magnificently Miserable Italians: Racism, Nativism, and the Twinning of Italianness
- Conference Name: Queens College
- Sponsoring Organization: Queens College
- Location: New York
- Date: May 4, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Cosco, J. P.
- Italian/American: Journeys Personal and Literary
- Conference Name:
- Date: September 14, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Cosco, J. P.
- Westward, the Land Is (Not?) Bright’: British Travelers in the New Republic
- Conference Name:
- Location: England
- Date: November 25, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Cosco, J. P.
- Hang the Dagoes’: Romance, Race, and Italian Immigrants
- Conference Name:
- Date: November 3, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Cosco, J. P.
- All Is (Not) Race: Edward Steiner’s Journey from Alien to Citizen
- Conference Name: Old Dominion University
- Sponsoring Organization: Old Dominion University
- Date: April 9, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Cosco, J. P.
- A Library They Would Not Have’: Stephen Burroughs and the Battle of the Books in Post-Revolutionary Long Island
- Conference Name: Williamsburg, Va.
- Sponsoring Organization: Williamsburg, Va.
- Date: July 21, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Cosco, J. P.
- Department Chair nomination for Stern Award, Old Dominion University College of Arts and Letters teaching award
- Herbert Bayard Swope national writing award
- Multiple Sclerosis Society national writing award
- University nomination for national Arlt Award in the Humanities for best book by a young scholar , The National Council of Graduate Schools)
- Virginia Press Association feature writing award
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research