Diane Fortuna is a Johns Hopkins Ph.D and published Joyce scholar. She has taught Modern British, Continental and American Literature in Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Californ...view moreDiane Fortuna is a Johns Hopkins Ph.D and published Joyce scholar. She has taught Modern British, Continental and American Literature in Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, California and Suzhou, China.
Since retiring from the Stony Brook University in 1999, she has written two books, Cent Anni, a short story sequence about an Italian family in New York, and They Were Legal: Balzac y Lopez,the History of an Hispanic Family that includes the death of her great aunt, Daisy Lopez Fitze in the Triangle Factory Fire, 1911.
Diane has been an active member in Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and the Triangle Memorial Association serving as the Co-Chair for the first gathering of the Triangle Fire Families and Friends in 2010 and as a representative on the Permanent Memorial Committee.Families and Friends in 2010 and as a representative on the Permanent Memorial Committee.
Having lived in France, Italy and China, she presently is content to reside in Stony Brook with two sons and a grandson in close proximity.view less