Photography in Fiction

“The Not-so-hard Truths of Photography, or, Exposing the Untruths of Photography.” Co-author Agnes Neier. Un-Truths of Photography in Fiction. Eds. Agnes Neier and Nancy Pedri. Spec. issue of Image [&] Narrative, vol. 21, no. 2, 2020; pp. 1-10.

“Narrated Photographs and the Collapse of Time and Space in Erri de Luca’s Non ora, non qui.” Enlightening Encounters: Photography in Italian Literature. Eds. Giorgia Alù and Nancy Pedri. University of Toronto Press, 2015; pp. 122-140.

“Photo-Literary Encounters in Italy” (with Giorgia Alù). Enlightening Encounters: Photography in Italian Literature. Eds. Giorgia Alù and Nancy Pedri. University of Toronto Press, 2015; pp. 3-25.

“Thinking about Photography in Comics.” The Narrative Functions of Photography in Comics. Ed. Nancy Pedri. Special issue of Image & Narrative, vol. 16, no.2, Spring 2015; pp. 1-13.

“Disenchanted with the Referent: Photography in Emanuele Martino’s Cara fotografia: Racconti.” Italica, vol. 91, no. 2, Summer 2014; pp. 203-218.

“Empty Photographic Frames: Punctuating the Narrative.” Image & Narrative, vol. 15, no.4, 2014; pp. 60-76. http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/538/391

“Failing the Feminine: Photographed Words in Lincoln Clarkes’ Heroines.” Debating the Difference: Gender, Representation and Self Representation. Eds. Rachel Jones, Hamid van Koten, Chris Murray, and Keith Williams. University of Dundee Press, 2010; 11 pages (PDF file). http://www.scottishwordimage.org/debatingdifference/abstracts.html

  • Reprinted in Debating the Difference: Gender, Representation and Self-Representation. Eds. Rachel Jones, Hamid van Koten, Chris Murray, and Keith Williams. University of Dundee, 2010; pp. 1-11.

“The Forbidden Narratives of Looking: Photography and the Anxiety of Self-Representation.” Rewriting Texts, Remaking Images: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Leslie Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici, and Ernesto Virgulti. Peter Lang, 2010; pp. 261-268.

“Snapshots and Other Forms of Dailiness in Three Newfoundland Memoirs." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, Fall 2010; pp. 156-162.

“Le silence photographique, un geste provocateur.” Littérature et photographie. Eds. Jean-Pierre Montier, Liliane Louvel, Danièle Méaux, and Philippe Ortel. Presse Universitaire Rennes, 2008, pp. 391-397.

“Documenting the Fictions of Reality.” Photography in Fiction. Ed. Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri. Special issue of Poetics Today, vol. 29, no.1, Spring 2008; pp. 155-173.

“Introduction: Photographic Interventions.” Co-author: Silke Horstkotte. Photography in Fiction. Ed. Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri. Special issue of Poetics Today, vol. 29, no.1, Spring 2008; pp. 1-29.

“Portraiture’s Unruly Faces: Beauty in Jo Spence’s Putting Myself in the Picture.” Beauty and the Abject: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Leslie Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici, and Ernesto Virgulti. Lang, 2007; pp. 131-145.

“Here’s Looking at Me: Exposing Gender in Gender Outlaw and The Last Time I Wore a Dress.” Texte, vol. 39/40, 2006; pp. 277-294.

“Critical Encounters with Gender: Photography in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.” In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism, vol. 14, no. 2, 2005; pp. 167-176.

“Reading the Photographic Text with Lalla Romano.” Literary Texts and the Arts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Corrado Federici and Esther Raventós-Pons. Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory 18, Lang, 2003; pp. 99-116.

“From Photographic Product to Photographic Text: Lalla Romano’s Movement Away from Ekphrasis.” Rivista di studi italiani, vol. 19, no. 2, Dec. 2001; pp. 141-161.