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The Academy And The Sopranos

By The Daily Dish
May 15 2008, 10:24 AM ET

Fordham is hosting a conference on the HBO classic. Among the highlights, these papers:

Laura Cook Kenna (George Washington U), “’I can’t turn the other cheek on this . . . My father was a Knight of Columbus’: ‘Christopher’ and the Contested Construction of Italian American Identity”

Matthew Leporati (Fordham U), “’Sometimes what happens in here is like taking a shit’: Confession and Identity in ‘The Test Dream’”

Cynthia Burkhead (U North Alabama), “Fishes and Football Coaches, Oh My! The Narrative Necessity of Dreams in The Sopranos”

Shama Rangwala (McGill U), “Creating a Little Dysentery in the Ranks: Epistemology and Class Relations in The Sopranos”

Sean O’Sullivan (Ohio State U), “Episode Five, or When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?”



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