Gina Maria Tomasulo is a Doctoral Student in Comparative Literature and an Adjunct Instructor at Queens College, where she has taught two courses in Comparative Literatureó Great Books I and Great Books IIówith an emphasis on the relationship between the literary text and the social text. She is also enrolled in the Womenís Studies Certificate Program. Her scholarship situates itself on the crossroads of literary criticism, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, history, and narratology. She has presented at the Transformation and Mutations Conference held at Duke University (January 2004),
and at the Conference on Contemporary Poetry at CUNY Graduate Center (November 2005). Her essay, ìArt, Desire and Rage in Alba de CÈspedesí Dalla parte di lei,î which focuses on intertextual relations between Dalla parte di lei, Madame Bovary and La Princesse de ClËves, is pending publication by Cambridge Scholars Press, and will be presented on September 15, 2006 at a postgraduate conference, ëReflections,í sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages at The University of Durham, England.

Areas of concentration

The novel in 19th & 20th century England, France and Italy, particularly the Gothic novel and the Bildungsroman; female-authored texts, fictional and autobiographical; African- American literature.

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