Gilbert L. Gigliotti is a Professor in the Department of English at Central Connecticut State University. A specialist in the classical influences on early American literature, he has taught courses on such Puritan writers as Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and Edward Taylor, as well as on Greek and Roman literature and the literature of Sinatra. He is the author of AVA GARDNER: TOUCHES OF VENUS (Entasis Press, 2010), A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Greenwood Press, 2002) and the editor of Sinatra, but buddy I'm a kind of poem (Entasis Press, 2008). He has mounted several exhibits of his Sinatra memorabilia collection, lectures frequently on the singer, and hosts a weekly radio show on Tuesday mornings on WFCS 107.7 FM (New Britain/Hartford) and at www.wfcsradio.com.
