Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies. In addition to authoring Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi (Minnesota, 2006) and Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben (Minnesota, 2011), he has translated Roberto Esposito’s Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Minnesota, 2008) and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Stanford, 2009). 

He also is currently editing a new series from Fordham University Press titled Commonalities. A description of the series can be found here. 

At Cornell he teaches courses on biopolitics, contemporary thought, and Italian cinema and literature. 

Selected publications as follows:

BOOKS 

Authored

Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Tecnica, tanatos, vita, Diotima, 2011.
Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben, University of Minnesota
    Press, 2011. 

Edited

with Adam Sitze, Biopolitics: A Reader, an anthology with introduction, Duke University Press
    (2012).

Critical Introductions 

"Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito," Introduction to Roberto Esposito's
     Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy (expanded version in Termini della politica, Mimesis, 2008).
"Biopolitics: An Encounter," and Adam Sitze, Introduction to Biopolitics: A Reader, Duke
     University Press, 2012.
"Genres of the Political: The Impolitical Comedy of Conflict," Introduction to Roberto Esposito's
     Nine Thoughts of the Political, University of Minnesota Press. 

Translations

Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy, Roberto Esposito, University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 

Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, Roberto Esposito, Stanford University Press,
     2009.

JOURNALS

Edited Volumes

"The Thought of Roberto Esposito," Special Issue of Diacritics, vol. 36, no.2 (2006).

 Co-Edited Volumes

"Negotiations in Italian Culture," Special Issue of Forum Italicum, co-edited with Suzanne
     Stewart-Steinberg, Spring 2006.
"The Thought of Roberto Esposito." Eds. Adam Sitze and Timothy Campbell. Special Issue of
     Law, Culture, Humanities 6, no. 1 (2011).
"Contemporary Italian Thought," co-edited with Sergia Adamo and Lorenzo Fabbri, Special Issue
     of Diacritics, (Spring 2012).

Selected Articles

" 'Infinite Remoteness': Marinetti, Bontempelli, and the Birth of Modern Italian Visual Culture,"
     MLN 120 (January 2005), 111-136.

"Violent Cities: Virility and B-Movie Fascism in the Cop Films of Umberto Lenzi," Paradoxa:
     Studies in World Literary Genres 19 (2006). An earlier version is available through Cornell
     University Library's digital initiative DSpace.

"Re-membering D'Annunzio and Il Duce: Modern Prophecy in Italy," Quaderni d'Italianistica,
     2006.

"Scenarios of Poiesis: Italian New Media (1994-2004)," Modern Italy, 2006.

"The Corrupting Sea, Technology, and Devalued Life in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns,"
     California Italian Studies

" 'Foucault was not a Person': Idolatry and the Impersonal in Roberto Esposito's Terza Persona,"
     The New Centennial Review (2010).