The two editors and eighteen scholars and creative nonfiction writers offer a lucid view of a writer who has produced one of the most provocative bodies of memoir writing in contemporary US literature, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives.

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: "Habit of Mind" 1Nancy Caronia and Edvige GiuntaMemoirLouise DeSalvo's "Even in Death, La Bella Figura": A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind 37Margaux FragosoThe Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing 50Peter CovinoFixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo 62Jeana DelrossoPortrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher 75Julija SukysLouise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir 86Joshua FaustyTeachingOn Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo 105Kym RagusaFixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing 111Emily BernardDark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo's Unlikely Narrative 117Kimberly A. CostinoMixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter 130Lia OttavianoFurthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies 140Benjamin D. HagenCultureThe Context of Louise DeSalvo's Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography 155Mark Hussey"Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time" and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo 169Jenn BrandtLife Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self 179Amy Jo BurnsThe Fruits of Her Labor: Louise DeSalvo's Memoirs of Food and Family 189Mary Jo Bona and Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio KightlingerMapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel 210Theodora PatronaDeSalvo's Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge 222Ilaria SerraThe Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table 233John GennariAfterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo's Accented Writing 251Anthony Julian TamburriList of Contributors 261Index 265