Edvige Giunta è docente di inglese presso la New Jersey City University. È co-curatrice di Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. Tra le sue opere si segnalano Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors (Palgrave 2002), Dire l'indicibile: Il memoir delle autrici italo americane (University of Siena 2002), The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, curato in collaborazione con Louise DeSalvo, (The Feminist Press 2002) e Italian American Writers on New Jersey, curato insieme a Maria Mazziotti Gillan e Jennifer Gillan (Rutgers University Press 2003) e vincitore del New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Award per la Fiction e la Non-Fiction. Ha curato, singolarmente e in collaborazione, numeri speciali delle riviste "VIA" e "TutteStorie" dedicate alle donne italo-americane, e "A Tavola: Food, Tradition and Community Among Italian Americans". Articoli, recensioni, traduzioni, saggi e poesie di Edvige Giunta sono apparsi in numerose riviste e antologie. In qualità di ex curatrice della sezione poetica del "The Women's Studies Quarterly", fa parte del comitato scientifico di tale pubblicazione. Il "New York Times" ha segnalato il suo lavoro nell'ambito degli studi italo-americani e, nel 2003, è stata insignita del Teacher of the Year Award for Higher Education assegnato dalla Association of Italian American Educators. Tiene corsi e laboratori per insegnanti e scrittori, e conferenze negli Stati Uniti e in Italia. Ha appena terminato, in collaborazione con Kathleen Zamboni McCormick,
Edvige Giunta is an associate professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is the coeditor of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. Her books include Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors (Palgrave 2002), Dire l'indicibile: Il memoir delle autrici italo americane (University of Siena 2002), The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, coedited with Louise DeSalvo, (The Feminist Press 2002), and Italian American Writers on New Jersey, coedited with Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan (Rutgers University Press 2003), winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Award for Fiction and Non-Fiction. She has edited/co-edited special issues of the journals VIA and TutteStorie devoted to Italian American women, and A Tavola: Food, Tradition and Community Among Italian Americans. Her articles, reviews, translations, memoir, and poetry have been published in many journals and anthologies. The former poetry editor of The Women's Studies Quarterly, she serves actively on its Board. She has been profiled in The New York Times for her work in Italian American studies and won the 2003 Teacher of the Year Award for Higher Education given by the Association of Italian American Educators. She has lectured and given workshops about the memoir for teachers, writers, and lay audiences in the US and Italy. She has just completed Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture for the Options for Teaching Series of the Modern Language Association, co-edited with Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, and is at work on Cut Threads, Embroidered Lives: Domestic Needlework in the Italian Diaspora, coedited with Joseph Sciorra and Departures: A Memoir of Sicilian People and Places.