Delegates' Bios

Agbamu, Sam is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading. His work foregrounds the Roman Empire’s conception of itself and its Others, and how these dynamics of representation have been received in post-classical periods. His Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project (started at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2022) homes in on a particular moment in the development of such discourses of self and Otherness by looking at a fourteenth-century Latin epic about the Second Punic War: Petrarch’s Africa. He is currently writing a book for Bloomsbury Press’ Neo-Latin Studies series on the role of Petrarch’s Africa in reshaping and transmitting ideas about Africa and Africans, as well as empire and ‘nationality’, drawn from classical Latin literature. Sam gained his PhD in Classics from King’s College London in 2019, with a thesis looking at how modern Italian imperialism in North and East Africa, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, used the history of Roman imperialism in Africa to promote itself. Before his PhD, Sam studied for his BA and MPhil in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.  

Aghelu, Marialaura obtained the title of PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2019. In 2021 she was Post- Doc at the Department of Italian under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Borsa. In 2022 she was a scholarship holder at the Fondation Barbier-Mueller, in Geneva. She currently collaborates with the Department of Classical and Italian Philology of the University of Bologna. Her main interests deal with medieval lyric poetry (she is completing a monograph on Simone Serdini da Siena, il Saviozzo) and with 18th and 18th century literature, in particular with the figure of Ugo Foscolo and the relations between Italy and Greece between the 18th and 19th centuries.  

Alvino, Giuseppe si è laureato a Napoli (Federico II) e ha conseguito il dottorato in filologia italiana all’Università di Genova, con una tesi sulla seconda redazione del Comentum di Pietro Alighieri, la cui edizione critica è stata recentemente pubblicata per l’Edizione Nazionale dei commenti danteschi. È stato assegnista a Genova per due anni, e da tre anni lavora alla Scuola Superiore Meridionale con la stessa qualifica. Si è occupato di antica esegesi a Dante, filologia e critica dantesca e, infine, filologia d’autore, con una monografia sugli inediti teatrali di Remigio Zena (Genova, GUP, 2021). Ha pubblicato anche in prestigiose riviste di settore, e ha partecipato a numerosi convegni di rilevanza nazionale e internazionale, in qualità di relatore o di organizzatore. Dal 2022 è abilitato alle funzioni di professore di seconda fascia per il settore 10/F3 (Linguistica e Filologia italiana).  

Amaduri, Agnese insegna Letteratura italiana presso l’Università di Catania dal 2019. Ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in Filologia Moderna nel 2008 e un secondo dottorato in Studi sul Patrimonio culturale nel 2018; dal 2007 al 2011 è stata assegnista di ricerca (2007-2011) presso l’Università di Catania. Nell’a.a. 2022-2023 le è stata assegnata l’Ermete Fellowship della Universität Stuttgart per lo svolgimento di attività didattica e di ricerca presso l'Institut für Literaturwissenschaft. Nell’a.a. 2016-2017 è stata Visiting scholar presso l'università di Oxford, per un semestre, sotto la supervisione di Martin McLaughlin. Si è dedicata allo studio della novellistica, della poesia comico-burlesca e satirica, dell’epistolografia, della trattatistica e della lirica nel Cinquecento; ha affrontato il movimento verista attraverso l’opera di Federico De Roberto e ha compiuto studi specifici su Leonardo Sciascia. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Anton Francesco Grazzini e le ombre del Rinascimento (Cesati, 2023), Una ragnatela di fili d’oro. Poteri, inquisizioni, eresie nell’opera di Leonardo Sciascia (Marsilio, 2021), L’officina de I Viceré. La genesi del romanzo attraverso l’epistolario di Federico De Roberto (Rubbettino, 2017), Carteggio De Roberto-Treves (Biblioteca della Fondazione Verga, 2017). Ha partecipato a numerosi congressi nazionali e internazionali ed è stata proponente e coordinatrice del panel: Retorica del conflitto: costruzione epica e demistificazione nelle narrazioni belliche tra Otto e Novecento, per il XXV Congresso Nazionale dell’ADI - Associazione degli Italianisti (Foggia 2022); ideatrice e organizzatrice della Giornata di Studi: Il contagio del potere. Riflessioni su scrittori e fascismo (Catania 2023) e parte del comitato organizzativo del XXIV Congresso dell’ADI: Letteratura e Potere/Poteri (Catania 2021).  

Ambrosino, Gennaro is a PhD student in Italian Studies at the University of Warwick. His project focuses on the intersections between archaeology and theories of the ‘unconscious’ in Italian culture from the late eighteenth century through the mid nineteenth century. He completed a BA in Modern Literature at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, an MA in Modern Philology at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and an MA in Western Literature at KU Leuven. He worked on the Mesmeric imaginary in Italian literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with a particular focus on the figure of Francesco Orioli: contributions were published on the journals Enthymema and Incontri.  

Anelotti, Ambra is an early career researcher in Italian Studies and an experienced and enthusiastic language teacher. Her main scholarly interests lie firmly in the field of Renaissance literature and culture. Her doctoral research investigates the reception of Orlando furioso in the sixteenth century by focussing on marginalised literary productions in Southern Italy, and she has presented and published conference papers on early modern adaptations and rewritings of Ariosto’s romance. As an Associate Lecturer in Italian at Birkbeck University and a Language tutor at Royal Holloway, University of London, she has developed excellent expertise in teaching, convening and co-ordinating Italian language and culture modules at all levels. As a teacher of Italian, she views language and culture as inextricably intertwined and favours a student-centred approach. She is particularly interested in diversity in its many facets and how to integrate them within the language curriculum for a more inclusive pedagogical approach. 

Armstrong, Guyda is the Director of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library at the University of Manchester, and a book historian and early modern literary scholar, who works at the intersection of languages, information design, and the digital. She formerly led the Faculty of Humanities H-SIF-funded Digital Humanities initiative, DH@Manchester, from 2014 until 2020. Her current AHRC-funded research project, Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page is deeply situated in the Rylands’ world-leading early print collections and uses cutting-edge machine vision technologies to explore the evolution of the graphic design of Dante’s Divine Comedy through time and across different languages and reading communities.  

Azzarone, Annamaria completed her PhD in Italian Studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in joint supervision with Sorbonne Université (Paris IV) in March 2023: for her PhD thesis she prepared the critical and annotated edition of La Turca comedia boschereccia et maritima by Giovan Battista Andreini (supervised by Prof. Luca D’Onghia and Prof. Andrea Fabiano). She is currently Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche at Sorbonne Université where she teaches courses in Italian Language, Culture, and Literature. She is continuing her research on commedia dell’arte in Paris and also as a Visiting Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London. In 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 she was Lettrice di italiano at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, where she taught Italian Language, History of Italian Language, and Literary Translation. She has published essays on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian literature and has edited the correspondence between Gianfranco Contini and Luciano Erba.  

Baldaro, Michele is a Ph.D. candidate at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and Alpen Adria University in Klagenfurt. He earned his bachelor's degree in 2018 and his master's degree in 2021 from the University of Bologna. His master's thesis, titled «Eppure ci furono anche in Libia gli eroi». Stereotipi, rimozioni e assoluzioni del passato fascista e coloniale sullo sfondo della Libia tobiniana, was conducted under the supervision of Professor Colangelo and Professor Italia. He previously attended the third Mediterranean Studies Symposium held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 29-July 1, 2023, as a panelist. His contribution was titled «Tra me e loro c'era Maometto». Italian encounter and clash with colonial Otherness in the setting of Mario Tobino's Libya. Currently, he is engaged in his doctoral project titled Literary ambivalence about Africa and colonialism within Italian cultural consciousness at its imperial decline, under the supervision of Professors Cangiano (Ca' Foscari of Venice), Fabris (Alpen Adria of Klagenfurt), and Jansen (Utrecht). His research interests encompass 20th-century Italian literature, the relationship between literature, politics, and society, Italian colonial history, and the representation of the colonial past in post-war Italian literature.  

Baldinotti, Fiorella is a teacher of Italian and Latin language and literature; she has also been involved in poetry and non-fiction for years. She is part of American Association for Italian Studies and the Canadian Association for Italian Studies. Among her publications, we can remember: La Deianira ovidiana (2009), Di quei giorni mi ricorderò semore: desideri e lontananza in Cesare Pavese (2016), Antonia Pozzi e Giovanni Pascoli. Suggestioni (2020), Ugo Foscolo: il segreto di un amore fiorentino (2021). She curated the literature review "Why poets in times of poverty", participating in the activities promoted by the Oblate Library of Florence. He has collaborated with the publishing house Lorenzo De' Medici Press for reviews of books and authors. He participated in various editions of the International Summer School in Manzonian and Dante's Studies.  

Baldo, Michela is a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her research revolves around two strands. One is the translation into Italian of Italian-Canadian writing. On the topic, she has authored a book, Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return: Analysing Cultural Translation in Diasporic Writing (2019), and has been collaborating on a research project on “Italian-Canadian Queer Artists” based at the Frank Iacobucci Centre of the University of Toronto. Her second strand of research concerns the role of translation in Italian queer transfeminist activism, with a focus on the translation into Italian of inclusive language. On this topic, she has published various articles; she has co-edited a special issue of TIS (Translation and Interpreting Studies, 2021) on translation and LGBTQ+ activism and a special issue of Perspectives (2023) on translating queer popular culture. She has also co-translated into English with Elena Basile the book Queer Theories (2020), by Italian scholar Lorenzo Bernini, and co-translated into Italian with feminoska an anthology of writing by Sara Ahmed entitled Un’altra cena rovinata (Fandango 2023) and The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed with the title Il manuale della femminista guastafeste (Fandango 2024). She is currently participating in the international research network activities based at Queen Mary University called: “Language and Gender: Academic Research and Practical Implementation”. 

Bambozzi, Camilla I’m PhD candidate in Italian at the University of Leeds (UK), where I work under the supervision of Professor Matthew Treherne and Professor Emma Cayley. My project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, through the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH) and the University of Leeds. My research engages with the relationship between Dante Alighieri and Cino da Pistoia. I am the Associate Director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, under which I co-organise the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies “Lunch Series”. During my doctoral path, I presented my research at many Conferences in Italy, in the UK and in Ireland, such as the International Medieval Congress, the International Dantean Congress, and the Society for Italian Studies Conference. My publications include "Riletture e riscritture dantesche: la ricezione della 'Commedia' in contesti di emarginazione sociale’, in L’altro Dante. Processi di attualizzazione della ‘Commedia’. Atti del Seminario Internazionale di Studi 24–25 novembre 2021, ed. by Mario Cimini (Lanciano: Carabba srl), 2022, pp. 139-151, and several review articles for «L’Alighieri. Rassegna dantesca», «Lettere italiane» and «Reading Religion». Furthermore, I have experience in teaching at school and university and in organising cultural events, and I collaborated extensively with the Italian Cultural Institutes in London and in New York.  

Banella, Laura is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Notre Dame. She studied at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore, and she earned a PhD in Romance Studies from Duke University (2018) and a doctorate in Italian Literature from the University of Padova (2014). Her research interests lie in medieval Italian literature. She has focused on Dante and Boccaccio and on the ways in which the books transmitting their works construct 'authority' and 'canonicity' (13th-16th c.). She has also worked on reception, the history of literary criticism, Renaissance literature, and the female auctor. Professor Banella is a Research Fellow of the University of Oxford, and before Notre Dame she pursued her postdoctoral research and taught in Italy (University of Padua, University of Milan) and the UK (University of Oxford). She is the author of Rime e libri delle rime di Dante tra Medioevo e primo Rinascimento (Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2020) and La ‘Vita nuova’ del Boccaccio. Fortuna e tradizione (Antenore, 2017).  

Barański, Zygmunt is Serena Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and Emeritus R.L. Canala Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on Dante, on Dante's fourteenth- and twentieth-century reception, on medieval Italian literature (in particular Cavalcanti, Petrarch, and Boccaccio), and on modern Italian literature, film, and culture. He was senior editor of The Italianist and of Le tre corone, and has been appointed to many visiting positions and academic boards.  

Barbarino, Liborio Pietro Ricercatore di Filologia della letteratura italiana presso l’Università di Catania, insegna Modelli di scrittura e lettura del testo digitale. Collabora con l’Università Lumsa di Roma, dove gli è affidato l’insegnamento (nella sede di Palermo) di Didattica della Letteratura italiana contemporanea. È membro del CINUM, il Centro di Informatica Umanistica dell’Università di Catania, e in questo contesto partecipa ai lavori dell’Edizione nazionale dell’Opera Omnia di Luigi Pirandello: in particolare, ha co-curato un volume di Maschere nude che sarà pubblicato nel corso dell'anno. Si occupa attualmente dei Malavoglia di Giovanni Verga all’interno di un progetto PNRR (CHANGES, Spoke 3), dedicato al Verismo Digitale. Oltre ai due autori siciliani, ha dedicato molte attenzioni a un classico del 900 come Cesare Pavese. Vanno ricordati almeno: l’edizione critica di Lavorare stanca (1936), prima edizione critica del poeta, la partecipazione alla curatela dell’Opera poetica (Mondadori, Milano 2021) e un profilo complessivo dell’autore per la collana «Biblioteca letteraria dell’Italia unita» (Pavese diverso, Interlinea Novara 2022).  

Bardazzi, Adele works on issues of form and interpretation, poetry and poetics, lyric theory, gender and women’s studies, verbal-visual glitches. She joined the University of Utrecht as Assistant Professor in September 2023 and is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford since September 2021. She completed her DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages from Christ Church, Oxford, in 2018 and holds a BA in English and Italian from Royal Holloway, University of London. At present, she is working on A Textile Poetics of Entanglements, her second monograph expanding questions of poetic theory raised in her first book, Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning (Peter Lang, 2022).  

Barracco, Giovanni is a three-year Research Fellow in Letteratura italiana at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He participates at the project Osservatorio-Laboratorio sul romanzo di formazione in Italia. He is a Professor of Letteratura itlaiana contemporanea and Laboratorio di Didattica della Letterautra at the Università “LUMSA”, Palermo and Rome. He is editor-in-chief of the Literature and Philosophy section of the review «Il Veltro» and is part of the editorial staff of the magazine «Testo e senso». He published Vocazioni irresistibili, vuoti vertiginosi. Il romanzo di formazione negli anni Ottanta del Novecento (Studium, 2019). His interests focus on the Twentieth-century novel, the Bildungsroman, the fiction of the Thirties and Forties and the fiction of the Seventies and Eighties. He participated in national and international conferences, publishing essays on various authors including Romano Bilenchi, Aldo Busi, Dino Buzzati, Andrea De Carlo, Antonio Delfini, I Franchi Narratori, Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Franco Vegliani.  

Bartolini, Guido is a FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University where he works on the cultural memory of Fascism in Italian literature and the idea of responsibility for the past. He is the author of the The Italian Literature of the Axis War: Memories of Self-Absolution and the Quest for Responsibility (Palgrave Macmillan: 2021) and the co-editor of Fascism in Italian Culture: 1945-2023 (Annali d’Italianistcia, 2023). He worked at University College Cork and Royal Holloway University of London. Between 2020 and 2022, he curated the online seminar series ‘Mediated Memories of Responsibility’ (hosted at the IMLR) and the conference ‘Cultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective’ (hosted at UCC).  

Basile, Beatrice I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; I am currently ABD and working on my thesis on Goliarda Sapienza. At the moment, I am a Visiting Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Bologna (where I also obtained my BA and MA).  

Basilone, Linetto holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Auckland and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Naples «L’Orientale». He teaches Global Studies at the University of Auckland and is affiliated with the Centro Studi Fortini Masi. He specializes in the study of cross-cultural encounters, identity construction, and political discourse in 20th C. Italian literature. He is the author of The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriotism, Commitment and Disillusion 1898- 1985 (Peter Lang, 2022), which was awarded the Jo-Anne Duggan Prize 2021-2022.  

Bellia, Erica is currently a Rome Awardee at the British School at Rome and from January 2024 she will be a Gulbenkian Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, working on a three-year project on anthologies of Black Literature published in Italy from 1945 to the present (Anthologising Blackness in Post-Fascist Italy). This project has received funding offers from several bodies, including The Leverhulme Trust and the Irish Research Council. She obtained her PhD in Italian from Cambridge in 2021, with a thesis on industrial writing and anticolonial discourse in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s, which she is currently reworking to publish it as a monograph (Legenda). Between 2021 and 2023, she collaborated with the Italian Section at Cambridge as an affiliated lecturer and as MHRA-funded postdoctoral affiliate. In all these roles, she has contributed to running several research events, ranging from the coorganization of departmental seminar series (2018-2019 and 2019-2020), to international conferences (Defining the Italian Neomodernist Novel, in 2021, with Michele Maiolani; Narrating Labour: Posture and Positionality, 2023, with Carlo Baghetti, Marzia Beltrami and others), SIS postgraduate Colloquium (Italy at Work, 2020), with Bianca Rita Cataldi, roundtable series (OBERT Migration and Labour: A Series of Six Roundtables, 2022, with Bianca Rita Cataldi and others) and panels (roundtable on Migration and Labour, SIS conference 2022, online, with Bianca R. Cataldi; Il saggismo degli scrittori: forme letterarie dell’intervento storico in Italia dal 1945 a oggi, Congresso ADI 2021, with Massimiliano Cappello and Lara Toffoli).  

Bellin, Stefano is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where he is working on a project on ‘Literature and Global Responsibility’ and completing a monograph, The Shame of Being Human: A Philosophical Reading of Primo Levi (under contract). He has co-edited five special issues (with Paragraph, Literature Compass, Parallax (2x), and Italian Culture), and published articles and book chapters on several subjects, including Primo Levi, Italian culture and literature, international migration, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He is also currently co-editing a volume entitled Levi Beyond Levi: Postcritical Engagements with Primo Levi’s Works (under contract with Liverpool University Press). He has organised /co-organised 3 international conferences and several conference panels, including a panel for the 2022 SIS conference.  

Belmonte, Carmen is Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Roma Tre University, and 2019 Italian Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.  She coordinates the research unit Decolonizing Italian Visual and Material Culture at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome within the interdisciplinary research network SPAZIDENTITÀ, co-funded by the École Française de Rome (2022–2026). Her research on the visual culture of Italian colonialism and on the legacy and memory of fascism has been supported by several academic institutions including the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York. Among her recent publication, the monograph Arte e colonialismo in Italia. Oggetti, immagini, migrazioni (1882-1906) (Venice: Marsilio, 2021) and the edited volume A Difficult Heritage: The Afterlives of Fascist-Era Art and Architecture (Silvana Editoriale, 2024).    

Beltrami, Marzia is Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She completed her Ph.D. at Durham University in 2018, and was Visiting Research Fellow at the Medical Humanities in Context Lab (MHiC-Lab) at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Sorbonne Alliance. Her research interests lie in contemporary literature and narrative studies, with a particular focus on cognitive narratology, narrative ethics, and the relationship between narrative and science. Her monograph Spatial Plots. Virtuality and the Embodied Mind in Baricco, Camilleri and Calvino was published by Legenda (Cambridge, 2021).  

Benucci, Elisabetta is a scholar of Italian literature and archivist (funzionaria at the Archive of Accademia della Crusca. Her research and publications span from Cantari novellistici dal Tre al Cinquecento (Roma 2002); Galileo e l’universo dei suoi libri (con alii, Firenze 2008); Letterati alla Crusca nell’Ottocento (Firenze 2016). She edited the critical edition of Leopardi’s letters (Carteggio Leopardi-Colletta, Firenze 2003), of his work Martirio de’ Santi Padri (Bologna 2006) and she wrote a commentary of Operette morali (Firenze 2017). She is editorial assistant of«Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana». Elisabetta Benucci is also interested in gender studies and likes bringing back to light stories of forgotten women. In 2019 her book Lettere di Paolina Leopardi won the prise “Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj” (Magione sul Trasimeno). In 2022 her Vita e letteratura di Paolina Leopardi won the first edition of Premio internazionale letterario “Città di Montevarchi” e il Premio della Giuria letteraria della XXXIX Edizione del “Premio Firenze”. In 2023 she published a anthology of fenimine writings, Leggere Dante: donne dell’Ottocento.  

Bergel, Giles is Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Visual Geometry Group, and a member of the Oxford e-Research Centre. Trained originally in the humanities as a book historian, his research focuses on the computational analysis of books and other cultural heritage collections. At VGG, he serves as a Research Ambassador for the Visual AI project, in which capacity he engages with digital humanities researchers and teaches computer vision. He is a regular instructor at the Digital Humanities as Oxford Summer School.  

Biasini, Rosalba is a Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Liverpool (UK) where she teaches Italian language and culture at all levels. She graduated in Lettere Classiche (L’Aquila, Italy, 2004), and completed an MA in Translation Studies (Manchester, UK, 2005) and a Master ITALS (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy, 2013). She holds a PhD/D.Phil. in Italian literature (Oxford, UK, 2010). Her research interests and publications span from the works of Beppe Fenoglio (1922-1963) to the didactics of Italian as a FL, and especially the use of translation in language learning. Panel co-organiser for SIS 2015, 2017, 2019. Panel chair for SIS 2015 and 2017. Conference co-organiser of InnoConf18, Innovative Language Teaching and Learning Conference, titled “New Trends in Language Teaching and Learning at University” (2018) and of the Literature in Language Learning conference (2019), both held at the University of Liverpool.  

Billiani, Francesca is Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester where she teaches contemporary Italian literature and culture. Her research focuses on the Fascist period, censorship, literary journals, modernism, history of publishing, and intellectual history. She is the author of a monograph on the politics of translation in Italy (Culture nazionali e narrazioni straniere, Italia 1903-1943, translated into English), co-author of a monograph on architecture and the novel during the Fascist regime (Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime, 2019), editor of a collection of essays on translations and censorship, and co-editor of a volume on the Italian Gothic and Fantastic and of three special issues of scholarly journals. Her new monograph Fascist Modernism in Italy. Arts and Regimes came out with I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury in 2021. She is currently writing a short monograph on the geographies and histories of Public art in Italy in the 20th century.  

Binetti, Roberto is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is working on his next monograph, Italian Poetry in the Age of Nuclear Anxiety. He earned his DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford in 2022 with a thesis on representations of gender, history, and politics in twentieth-century Italian lyric poetry. He is the co-founder of “Non solo muse” and “Italian Poetry Today”, research platforms that promote and engage the broader public with Italian culture and literature. Experience of conference and panel organisation includes: “These Lovely Sheaves of Poetry. A Conference-Tribute to Patrizia Cavalli”, Italian Cultural Institute London (2023), co-organised with Professor Adele Bardazzi; conference “Text and Techne”, University College Dublin (2023); conference panel “Contemporary Italian Poetry In Between and Across Media”, within “In Between and Across: New Directions, Mappings and Contact Zones”: The 6th International Society for Intermedial Studies Conference, Trinity College Dublin (2022); conference roundtable “Non solo muse: Contemporary Italian Women Poets in Dialogue” within the SIS Biennial Conference, University of Warwick (2022); conference “Conglomerati. Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetic Clusters”, University of Oxford (2021); conference panel “Writing from Afar: The Poetry of Antonella Anedda” within the conference “Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression”, University of Cambridge (2021); conference “Contaminations – Leopardi and the Modern Self from Romanticism to Modernism”, University of Oxford (2021); conference panel “Elegy Today: Revisions, Rejections, ReMappings”, within the American Association of Comparative Literature (ACLA) Annual Conference (2021).  

Boaretto, Emilio is a PhD student on the International PhD Course in Forms of Cultural Exchange at the Universities of Trento and Augsburg. He graduated in Tradizione e interpretazione dei testi letterari/Europäische Kommunikationskulturen at the University of Verona and the University of Augsburg. His research interests mainly focus on the epistolary relations between Italian and foreign scholars in the 18th century. He is now editing a critically annotated edition of the correspondence between Angelo Calogerà, Angelo Maria Querini and Giammaria Mazzuchelli with their mutual correspondents from beyond the Alps. He is also interested in the early 20th century with a particular focus on the writer Giovanni Comisso, on whom he recently published an article entitled Comisso editore: percorsi nel Settecento veneziano.   

Boezio, Sara (B.A.-M.A. Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa) is an Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, she was a Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick, where she completed her PhD in Italian Studies. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and in Lyon, at the University of Toronto, at CUNY, and at Harvard. She is interested in the comparative history of ideas, literature and culture of the late 19th century and early 20th century, and is working on the book manuscript Century’s Turn: Italy and the European Fin de Siècle. She is a member of the Ottocentismi network (INNCIS: Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth-Century Italian Studies). She is also a specialist of Periodical Studies: she has co-organised the HRC conference Literary Journalism in Times of Crisis and Transition, 1870-1970 and is a co-founder of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit). Her contributions have appeared in journals and in the following edited volumes: Figure, temi e politiche del giornalismo italiano dell’Ottocento; The Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-siècle Italy; The Archaeology of the Unconscious, among others. She has convened several panels and presented at international conferences, such as the AAIS, CAIS, MLA, NeMLA, and SIS conventions; she also co-organised the conference Milan: Crossroad of Cultures (a University of Warwick-University of Birmingham-University of Milan joint venture). She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE).

Bond, Emma joined the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages in Oxford as Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies in 2022. She is Tutorial Fellow of Italian at St Hugh’s College, and Lecturer at New College and Oriel College. She studied at Edinburgh and Oxford and, following postdoctoral positions at Oxford and Warwick, taught at the University of St Andrews between 2013 and 2022. She is particularly interested in studying Italian cultures from transnational and comparative perspectives, and in interrogating the legacies of empire and colonialism in contemporary literary and visual cultures. She has published widely on border and migration literatures and transnational studies. Her first monograph, Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Morandini and Pressburger (2012) used psychoanalytic literary models to examine the unique narrative function of illness in Triestine literature. Her second monograph, Writing Migration through the Body (2018), brought together body studies, mobility studies, memory studies and critical theories of migration and diaspora to shed new theoretical light on corpus of recent migration stories in Italian. Her third monograph, Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature is under contract with Northwestern University Press and will be published in 2024. She co-edits the ‘Transnational Italian Cultures’ book series for Liverpool University Press, and edits the Comparative Literature section of the open access digital journal Modern Languages Open. She holds the Research Portfolio for the Society for Italian Studies (2019-2024).  

Bongiorno, Andrea obtained a PhD in Italian Studies (Aix-Marseille Université and Università di Siena, funded by the Italian-French University) and is University Language Teacher of Italian (Aix-Marseille Université) and a professor in the French secondary school. His research focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary Italian poetry, in particular on topics of poetic theory and criticism (metapoetry, construction of the subject, stylistics) and on spatial representation in poetry (geocriticism, ecocriticism). He presented his research in numerous seminars, conferences and summer schools, the results of which have been published in various European scientific journals, some of which are classified by Anvur as category A. He is a member of the scientific journal “Polisemie”. He organised several academic events on his own research topics, often chairing their sessions, including (in relation to the panel proposed): a conference at the intersection of ecocriticism and decolonial studies (as part of the activities of the journal “Les chantiers de la creation”, 2022); a seminar series at Aix-Marseille Université on geology and literature (2024); a conference on the theme of the apocalypse (Università di Siena, 2021). He also contributed to the editing of two volumes (Testimoni di se stessi, “L’ospite ingrato”, 11, 2022 and Création d’espaces et espaces de la creation, “Cahiers d’études romanes”, 43, 2023). He is currently editing a monographic issue on Antonella Anedda (“Polisemie”, IV, 2023) and a book about the themes of Italian metapoetry.  

Borghi, Martina received her PhD in Italian at Royal Holloway University of London in 2022 with a thesis entitled “Arte Programmata”. The Role of Programming and Observer Engagement in 1960s Italian Programmed and Kinetic Art. Her thesis is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach that strengthens the link between arts, technology, and science, as well as arts, semiotics, and aesthetics by promoting an innovative concept of programming as a form of ‘correality’ following Max Bense’s aesthetic lessons. Her main fields of research are Italian art in the 1960s and the relationship between scientific research and art in the same period. In recent years at Royal Holloway, she has also focused on the development of new teaching methodologies for A-level and university students for the learning of Italian language and history that involve a student’s active approach through curatorial workshops and the use of galleries or museums spaces.  

Bowen, Rebecca is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Oxford, working on ‘Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page’, a project partnered with the John Rylands Research Institute and Library at the University of Manchester and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Rebecca is also an Associate Scholar at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz — Max-Planck-Institut. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford and her doctoral thesis, ‘Figures of Love: Amor from Antiquity to the Italian Middle Ages’—the basis of her first monograph—won the Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Prize in 2020. Rebecca has taught Italian literature at Oxford with a focus on Dante and Medieval lyric since 2017, been a Lecturer at Pembroke College, and a teaching fellow at the Ashmolean Museum. Her work has been published by the Modern Humanities Research Association, Italian Studies, and Filologia Antica e Moderna. Her research focuses on the visual, literary, and material culture of the Italian peninsula in the late medieval and early modern periods. Her specialisms include the works of Dante, the iconology of love, and the Renaissance history of the book.  

Brioni, Cecilia is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Aberdeen. Her research explores the history of representations of Italian youth in the 20th and 21st centuries in a variety of popular media, including film, television, print media and social media. Her current research focuses on self-representations of youth, ethnicity, gender and sexuality on the video sharing platform YouTube Italia. Her most recent publications include the monograph Fashioning Italian youth: young people's style and identity in Italian popular media, 1958-75 (Manchester University Press, 2023). In 2016, she organised the panel ‘Troubling Generations: Youth Cultures in Postwar Italy’ for the International Society for Cultural History Annual Conference at the Università di Trieste. She has acted as co-organiser in a variety of Conferences and Summer Schools, including the 2017 SIS Biennial Conference (University of Hull, 2017), the 3rd Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School (Trinity College Dublin, 2021) and the 6th International Society for Intermedial Studies conference (Trinity College Dublin, 2021).  

Brondino, Andrea is a Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Studies at the University of Reading. He holds a PhD (2023) at the University of Warwick, where he is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. He published articles on journals such as Pirandello Studies, Contemporanea, Forum for Modern Language Studies, CoSMo: Comparative Studies in Modernism. At the moment, he is adapting his doctoral thesis into a monograph with the support of an MHRA Research Scholarship in Modern European Languages.  

Brook, Clodagh is Professor in Italian and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. For many years, her research has had two principal foci: intermediality and identity/political voice. Publications include four monographs: Intermedia in Italy (2024, coauthored with G. Pieri and F. Mussgnug), Screening Religions in Italy: Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Public Sphere (University of Toronto Press, 2019), Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere (University of Toronto Press, 2010), The Poetry of Eugenio Montale: Metaphor, Negation and Silence (Oxford University Press, 2002). She has published numerous articles on cinema and interdisciplinary practices, as well as several co-edited books and special issues, including Cultures of Opposition under Berlusconi (Continuum, 2009, with Albertazzi and Ross), Transmedia: Storia, memoria e narrazioni attraverso i media (Mimesis: 2014, with Patti), a special issue on intermedia in Italian Studies (Italian Studies, 2019, with Mussgnug and Pieri). She gave the intellectual leadership, as PI and International Co-I, to the AHRC-funded grant, Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia (www.interdisciplinaryitaly.org), which has produced edited books and monographs as well as numerous articles, pedagogical materials, an annual Interdisciplinary Italy summer schools, and an exhibition in London. 

Bruno, Denise Laureata in Filologia Moderna con il voto di 110/110 e lode presso l’Università degli Studi di Catania, con una tesi dal titolo Storia e genesi della narrativa per l’infanzia di Maria Messina, relatore prof. Antonio Di Silvestro. Collabora con la Fondazione Verga al progetto VIVer: Vocabolario reticolare dell’Italiano Veristico e con l’équipe di ricerca del CINUM (Centro di Informatica Umanistica dell’Università degli Studi di Catania). Ha collaborato altresì con il Comitato per l’Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giovanni Verga alla ricognizione descrittiva degli autografi verghiani e all’Edizione Nazionale Digitale dell’Opera Omnia di Luigi Pirandello, curandone il controllo dei testi e parte delle risorse multimediali e del commento dell’Hyperedizione de Il fu Mattia Pascal (consultabile al sito https://www.pirandellonazionale.it/hyperedizione-il-fu-mattia-pascal/). Attualmente è dottoranda presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche dell’Università degli Studi di Catania, con un progetto volto alla creazione di un portale dedicato alla letteratura per l’infanzia tra Ottocento e Novecento.  

Burdett, Charles is Professor of Italian and Director of the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS). The principal areas of his research are cultural production under Fascism, Italian expansionism and its legacies, theories of inter-cultural and transnational contact, the representation of Islam and the Islamic world in contemporary culture. He is a leading scholar on the colonial presence in Libya and East Africa and is currently pursuing an impact and engagement fellowship on uncovering the afterlife of the Italian Empire. His recent publications include, Transnational Italian Studies (2020) and Transcultural Italies (2020). He was Principal Investigator of the beacon project Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures (2014-2018). The project exhibition, Beyond Borders, first shown in Rome and London, was also shown to New York, Melbourne, and Addis Ababa. The project led to three follow-on projects funded by the AHRC, and played a significant part in the conceptualisation of the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative (OWRI).  

Caccialupi, Gianluca is a Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin. He is in the process of submitting his doctoral thesis, entitled Dante and the Arthurian literature: contexts, reception and critical perspectives, supervised by Dr Igor Candido and funded by the Irish Research Council (2019-2023). Gianluca holds a Master’s degree in Italian Studies from the University of Bologna (2018). He is also working on transforming his Master’s thesis into a monograph, tentatively entitled Militia Christi e crociata nella Commedia di Dante. He has published an article on Dante and the idea of crusade in L’Alighieri (2022), and another article on crusade theology in Paradiso XIV-XV is forthcoming in Italian Studies (2024).  

Caiola, Sabrina is a PhD student with a scholarship in the third year of the Doctorate Course in Philology, Literature and Performing Arts (cycle XXXVII) at the University of Verona, in co-tutorship with Nantes Université. The research project in Italian Literature on which she is working is: «Il Conciliatore: foglio scientifico-letterario». Una nuova edizione commentata.  

Calamita, Francesca is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese  and affiliate faculty of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. She works in the area of women, gender and sexuality in European and global contexts, and she is internationally recognised for her publications on the fictional depiction of eating disorders and other complex relationships with body and food in Italian literature and culture. Author of two monographs in Italian (Linguaggi dell'esperienza femminile - 2015; Visibili e influenti - 2023), co-editor of Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity (2017) and Eve Sinful's Bite (2020), she is also the ideator and co-author of DiversITALY (2022 and 2023), the first textbook series around the world to learn Italian with gender equality. 

Camboni, Maria Clotilde is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She studied at the University of Pisa (laurea and PhD in Italian Studies). Her research interests include the tradition of vernacular medieval Italian literature, the circulation of knowledge during the Middle Ages, Renaissance reception of the medieval Italian vernacular tradition and Renaissance intellectual history. She has published several articles, and two research monographs: Contesti. Intertestualità e interdiscorsività nella letteratura italiana del Medioevo (ETS, 2011); Fine musica. Percezione e concezione delle forme della poesia, dai Siciliani a Petrarca (Edizioni del Galluzzo per la Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, 2017). Between 2019 and 2021 she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford for the project Between rediscovery and recreation: Renaissance accounts of medieval Italian vernacular literary tradition (1476-1530), aiming to provide the first historical reconstruction of the evolution of views on the medieval Italian vernacular literary tradition in Italy during the period that leads to the formation of an established canon of vernacular literary authors. She was previously awarded the 2013-2015 “Marco Praloran” postdoctoral fellowship at the Franceschini Foundation (Florence) and Lausanne University and the Le Studium-Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance of Tours (2016-2017).  

Camilletti, Fabio, joined Warwick in 2010. He studied in Pisa (University of Pisa, BA, MA in Modern Literary Studies, 1998-2002; Scuola Normale Superiore, diploma in Philology and Modern Literary Studies, 1998-2003), Oxford (visiting student, 2001-2002), and Paris (Paris Sorbonne, DEA in French and Comparative Literature; École Normale Supérieure, visiting student 2002-2003). He holds a PhD in Philology and Modern Literary Studies from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Paris Sorbonne (2003-2006) and a second PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Birmingham (2007-2011); in 2008-2010 he was Postdoctoral Fellow in Literature, Art History and Psychoanalysis at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He held visiting positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (visiting scholar, Fall term 2012-13), IULM Milan (Visiting Professor, first semester 2021-22), and the Università del Piemonte Orientale (Visiting Professor, second semester 2021-22).  

Camozzi Pistoja, Ambrogio is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He received his B.A. in Medieval and Humanist Philology from the University of Milan (Italy), his M.Phil. in European Literatures and Cultures, and his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Cambridge.  

Cantoni, Luca studied History of the Italian language at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and at the University of Pisa, where he graduated in Italian Studies (Modern Philology) in 2023. His thesis was dedicated to the critical edition, commentary, and linguistic analysis of the vernacular ‘Batrachomyomachia’ in ottava rima (1456), written by Aurelio Simmaco de’ Iacobiti da Tossicia (a poet from Abruzzo associated with the court of Naples and in relations with the Prince of Taranto). His primary research interests focus on medieval vernaculars, texts of dialectal literature up to the 17th century, and lexicography. Currently, he is a PhD student at the Scuola Normale Superiore, and for his research project, he aims to linguistically examine the oldest texts from the area of Vicenza (from the 14th to the early 15th century), to define the main characteristics of the medieval scripta in that region.  

Carnazzi, Francesca is a PhD student at the University of Verona and a research fellow at the University of Florence. Her research focuses mainly on Medieval and Humanistic Philology, with particular attention to Veronese Humanism and Domizio Calderini’s commentaries on the Classics. Her dissertation, which she is about to submit, draws on the interpretatio super Svetonium by Domizio Calderini, as attested by a manuscript preserved in the Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona. She also studies Dante’s language for lexicographical purposes, and she has focused on courtly-Petrarchan poetry and the vernacular Boccaccio. She has published some articles in prestigious journals, and she regularly participates to national and international conferences.  

Carnevale, Davide si è laureato nel 2016 in Critica letteraria e letterature comparate presso l'Università di Roma "La Sapienza", dove nel 2021 ha conseguito il dottorato in Italianistica. È autore della monografia Narrare l'invasione: Traiettorie e rinnovamento del fantastico novecentesco (Peter Lang, 2022). Si è occupato della narrativa fantastica dell'italiano Tommaso Landolfi e dell'argentino Adolfo Bioy Casares, nonché delle pratiche di trasposizione delle modalità narrative del fantastico in forme diverse di linguaggio, interesse culminato con la pubblicazione nel 2017 degli articoli «“A Ghastly and Inappropriate Splendour”: the Fantastic in Dino Battaglia’s Comic Adaptation» e «“In My Restless Dreams, I See That Town”: A Narratological Perspective on the Fantastic City of Silent Hill». Dal 2021 è membro del GEF - Grupo de estudio sobre lo Fantástico, mentre dal 2022 fa parte dell’ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative.  

Carocci, Anna è ricercatrice di Letteratura Italiana presso l'Università degli Studi di Roma Tre. Si occupa soprattutto di letteratura cavalleresca, editoria popolare e, nell'ambito del Novecento, di Cesare Pavese. Tra i suoi lavori: La lezione di Boiardo: il poema cavalleresco dopo l'Inamoramento de Orlando (1483-1521) (Vecchiarelli 2018), Il poema che cammina. La letteratura cavalleresca nell'opera dei pupi (Edizioni Pasqualino 2019), Stile d'autore: forme e funzioni nel Mambriano (Viella 2021), Cesare Pavese, La bella estate, introduzione e commento (Garzanti 2022). Sta preparando, insieme a Jane E. Everson e Annalisa Perrotta, l’edizione critica e commentata del Mambriano. Recentemente, insieme ad Annalisa Perrotta, ha organizzato panel all’interno dei Congressi Adi (Associazione degli Italianisti) Foggia 2022 e Napoli 2023 e sta collaborando all’organizzazione delle lecturae dell’Inamoramento de Orlando di Boiardo (libri II e III).  

Carrai, Alessia after graduating from the University of Florence (BA) and Bologna (MA), Alessia moved to Cambridge to complete an MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, funded by the Keith Sykes Postgraduate Scholarship. In 2022, she obtained her PhD in Dante Studies at the University of Cambridge, with a thesis entitled ‘Forse in Parnaso esto loco sognaro’. Parnassian Imagery and Dante’s Earthly Paradise.’ Her project, fully funded by the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities and supervised by Prof. Heather Webb, investigated Dante’s reception of myths and themes connected to Parnassus in the Commedia. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Padua, where she is working on an ERC-funded project on the interactions between Arabic, Byzantine, Latin, Hebrew and Italian lyric in medieval Sicily. Her research interests include Dante Studies, reception of classical imagery, medieval landscapes and spatiality, Mediterranean studies, and the poetry of the Scuola Siciliana.  

Cecconi, Enrico is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies (PoLIS) at the University of Bath where he has been working since 2014. He is also Section Convenor and Language Coordinator for Italian and Director of Outreach for Modern Languages in the department. In July 2023 he was awarded the prize in Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Bath. Enrico Cecconi teaching methods have transformed the language learning experience of his students, integrating drama methods and theatre improvisation activities into his pedagogy has resulted in authentic communication between the students in the target language, improving student learning experience, confidence, and motivation. He has taught international students for twenty years. He worked for the University of Cardiff, New York University and other American programs in Florence. His research interests are in Language Education, Methodology and Didactics of Foreign Language Teaching, Language Learning and Teacher reflection, Language & Intercultural communication in educational contexts and Drama in Education. He has a master's in teaching Italian as a Foreign Language at Ca’Foscari University (Master Itals, Venice 2012). In 2013 he achieved the recognition for a course of high quality in Cross-cultural Communication within LabCom (Laboratorio di Comunicazione interculturale e didattica) at Ca’ Foscari. He also works as a teacher trainer and he is involved in workshops in Italy and abroad, contributing to sharing and disseminating knowledge of language pedagogy. 

Ceravolo, Marco is a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, conducting research funded by the Irish Research Council at University College Cork. His project focuses on the encounters between the human and the non-human in the works of Federigo Tozzi, Dino Buzzati, and Anna Maria Ortese. His research areas encompass ecofeminism, animal studies, and children's studies. In 2022, he served as an International Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto, where he presented his chapter on Dino Buzzati under the supervision of Eloisa Morra. He has actively participated in conferences both in Italy and abroad and has published contributions on Contemporary Italian Literature in peer-reviewed journals and online magazines such as Altre Modernità, Altrelettere, Nazione Indiana, Aracne, Italian Studies in Southern Africa, among others. In 2022, he co-edited the volume "Italian Studies Across Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity, New Approaches, Future Directions" with Anna Finozzi. 

Chiafele, Anna is an Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Auburn University, in Alabama. Chiafele has published scholarly articles on Italian writers, such as Luigi Malerba, Massimo Carlotto, Elisabetta Bucciarelli, Ugo Riccarelli, Francesco Aloe, and Antonio Scurati. Her latest essay “Carlotto’s Perdas de Fogu: Toxicity and National Security in the Mediterranean Basin” is forthcoming in Waste and Discard Studies in the Humanities: Italy and the Mediterranean (Routledge, 2024). Her most recent interests focus on Italian climate fiction in conjunction with material ecocriticism. Two of her recent articles on Italian cli-fi are: “Francesco Aloe’s Climate Fiction: Ruins, Bodies and Memories from the Future in L’ultima bambina d’Europa” and  “Climate Change: Eco-Dystopia in Antonio Scurati’s La seconda mezzanotte.” Finally, she is the recipient of the 2022 ALTA Italian Prose in Translation Award for her co-translation of Silvana La Spina’s novel, Penelope. Currently, she is working on a monograph on Italian cli-fi.  

Ciccarella, Erica after obtaining a Master's degree at the University of Pisa (thesis title: "The Blessed Matter of the New World: Alessandro Tassoni and the Epic of Discovery," supervised by Sergio Zatti and Maria Cristina Cabani) and a Ph.D. at the University of Trento in 2019 (thesis title: "French Disease and Italian Renaissance: Between Medicine and Literature," supervised by Claudio Giunta), from 2020 to 2022 I worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Italian Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. At present, I am a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liège for the project "The Female Anatomists. A Gendered Perspective of Sensory Expertise in Northern Italian Cities (1550-1700)" (FNRS/MIS Mission d'impulsion scientifique n° F.4544.23) directed by Viktoria Von Hoffman. My research interests focus on Italian Renaissance. Specifically, I study the relationships between literature and scientific knowledge, satirical and burlesque literature, heroic-chivalric tradition, and 'ephemeral' prints. In the last years, I have developed an interest in women's history and have published several articles and contributions on misogynistic literature, women's scientific knowledge and the work of Moderata Fonte. I am leading the research project "Antiputtanesca: Towards a Catalog of Satirical Texts Against Prostitutes (Italy, 16th-17th centuries)" alongside Fabien Coletti from the University of Toulouse. I also lead the new research axis of CIRRI (Centre Interuniversitaire sur la Renaissance italienne) at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, dedicated to the study of 'collections' as composite editorial objects, in collaboration with Fiona Lejosne, Carlo Alberto Girotto and Matteo Residori. 

Cittadini, Lorenzo è un cantautore, scrittore, traduttore, docente e dottorando presso la Universidad de Málaga, in Spagna. Si dedica alla letteratura di viaggio, soprattutto nella relazione Italia-Spagna, e più in generale nei racconti di viaggio nel Mediterraneo, i reportage narrativi, diari e romanzi, con particolare attenzione alle pubblicazioni del XIX e XX secolo. Tiene corsi di Letteratura e Viaggio, collabora con magazine di viaggio e riviste accademiche nelle quali pubblica saggi e traduzioni. Cura la rivista indipendente Quaderni Mediterranei, patrocinata dall’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia e dalla Universidad de Málaga, insieme ai poeti Silvestro Neri e Pedro J. Plaza González. Ha pubblicato, inoltre, due dischi musicali, La Rosa Corsara (Artevoce 2017) e 22.12 (Artevoce 2018). Ha pubblicato la raccolta di racconti Viaggi e altre nostalgie per La Piave Editore. Nel 2021 ha pubblicato, insieme a Giovanni Caprara, la prima traduzione in spagnolo di Sicilia, su corazón di Leonardo Sciascia, per la casa editrice El Toro Celeste di Málaga. Ha musicato inoltre alcune delle poesie contenute nello stesso volume di poesie sciasciane, con l’intenzione di pubblicarle.  

Colleluori, Tylar is a postdoctoral Core Lecturer of Literature Humanities at Columbia University. Tylar received her PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2023. Her dissertation research is devoted to an exploration of the political and historiographical motivations behind Moderata Fonte’s chivalric epic poem the Tredici canti del Floridoro (1581). Her broader research interests include literary academies in Renaissance Venice, historiography and geography in fiction, and political literature written by women, especially texts concerned with Venetian-Ottoman relations in the late Renaissance.  

Colombo, Paolo is research fellow at the Dipartimento di Culture e Civiltà of the University of Verona. His studies favor the investigation of nineteenth and eighteenth-century authors (Leopardi, Foscolo, Scalvini, Arici, Giordani, Pellico, Baretti, Casti, Parini, Frisi, Rezzonico), with some incursions in the works of Tomasi di Lampedusa. He is part of the editorial staff of the journals “Ticontre”, “Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Literaria”, “Scritture e linguaggi dello sport”, and collaborates with the Edizione Nazionale degli Scritti di Giovita Scalvini, for which he edited the critical text of the poem Il Fuoruscito. He also published the volume Il poema desiderato. Avventure di una forma nell’Italia di primo Ottocento (1814-1850).  

Coluzzi, Federica is Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. Prior to that she was Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork. She is the author of Dante Beyond Influence: Rethinking Reception in Literary Culture (Manchester University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Afterlife of Dante’s Vita Nova in the Anglophone World with Jacob Blakesley for Routledge (September 2022). She is an active member of the Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland and SIS ECA representative. Her research encompasses reception theory and Dante studies, nineteenth-century periodicals, and the history of publishing and reading. Her work is published in Dante Studies, Bibliotheca Dantesca, Tre Corone, Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing, Nineteenth Century Prose, Studium, CoSMO, and Strumenti Critici.  

Combina, Alessandro is a Teaching Fellow and a Master's student at the University of Pittsburgh in the Italian Studies program. He also holds a master's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Turin. With his strong interests in non-realistic literature, his thesis focused on the ambiguous relationship between fantastic literature and the concept of identity. Later, he worked on the “New Weird,” a literary genre akin to speculative fiction that arose in the 1990s in the U.S. but soon landed in Italy as well. His studies have also focused on uchrony and the fantastic in Italo Calvino. His current interests include the links between non-realistic literature and the tools of ecological criticism developed in recent years.  

Contin, Filippo is currently a PhD student at the University of Salerno, within the course 'Research and Studies on Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance'. He has taken part in several conferences, such as the International Dante Congress (Ravenna 2017 and 2021) and the XXV conference of the Italian Society for the Study of Medieval Thought, dedicated to Dante and philosophy (Udine 2021). Also in 2021, he published an article in the journal 'Medioevo. Rivista di storia della filosofia medievale', in a monographic issue devoted to Dante's philosophical thought. His research focuses mainly on Dante's use of images and argumentative schemes found in the philosophical literature of his time.  

Corazza, Giovanna I studied at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice from which I received a Master’s degree in Italian Philology and Literature (2015, Geografie e paesaggi reali nella «Divina Commedia» dantesca. Fonti, percorsi, problemi, 110 cum laude) and a PhD in Italian Studies (2019, Dante cosmographus. Indagini sulla ricezione della geografia reale della «Commedia» nell’esegesi dei primi secoli e nella letteratura geografica trecentesca, excellent with honors). My education as an Italianist has focused on the geographic component in Dante and early literature, exploring the text’s relationship with the physical and anthropic environment undertaken by the authors and developing the ability to analyse iconographic and cartographic documents. In my PhD dissertation, for which I received an academic prize, as in other academic articles and both national and international conferences, I presented the hypothesis that Dante’s example of the Comedy might have played a specific role in the development of Italian geographic literature from the 14th to the 16th century. In my current MSCA research project I aim to examine the geography and cartography in Dante’s poem both as sources and as poetry structures and rhetorical strategies. I recently published in «L’Alighieri» (Dante cosmografo: sensibilità territoriale e coscienza geografica, 56, 2020; Topografie bolognesi nel «De vulgari eloquentia», 57, 2021), «Studi petrarcheschi» (Geografia mediterranea nell’«Itinerarium» di Petrarca: presenze medievali e dantesche, in two parts, 34, 2021, and 35, 2022), «Dante Studies» («Per universa mundi climata», o quasi, 140, 2022), «Tenzone» (Percorrere le geografie della «Commedia» sulle strade dell’Italia (sempre più) Unita, 22, 2023).  

Corbett, George is Professor of Theology, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. He has two principal areas of research and teaching: theology and the arts (with specialisms in Dante studies, sacred music, and theological aesthetics) and historical and systematic theology (with specialisms in medieval theology, Aquinas’s theology and its influence, and Catholic theology). Prof. Corbett directs CEPHAS, a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology; TheoArtistry, a project bringing together theologians and artists for creative collaborations; and he co-directs the MLitt in Sacred Music (a collaboration between ITIA and the Music Centre). Prior to joining the School of Divinity in 2015, Prof. Corbett held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge, where he taught English literature, Italian literature, and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He also studied in Pisa (as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore), Rome (Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis), and Montella (Vivarium Novum).  

Corradi, Morena is an Associate Professor of Italian at Queens College and at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Italian literature and print media, fantastic and gothic literature, nation building. Among her publications, articles on the fantastic and the gothic, and on 19th-century Italian political and literary journals. She has published the monograph Spettri d’Italia: scenari del fantastico nella pubblicistica postunitaria milanese (Longo Editore, 2016), and more recently, with Silvia Valisa, she co-edited the volume La carta veloce. Figure, temi e politiche del giornalismo italiano dell’Ottocento (FrancoAngeli, 2021).  She has presented at several international conferences (AAIS, NeMla, SIS, AdI) and has co-organized panels at the AAIS (2017, 2018), AdI (2023), as well as lecture series and two symposiums of Ottocentismi ((INNICS: Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth-Century Italian Studies), one in 2021 (online) and one at Seton Hall, NJ (30-31 March 2023)).  

Costa, Luca is a DPhil student in Italian at the University of Oxford. His research, supported by AHRC and Clarendon, focusses on Giacomo Leopardi and European existentialism. He obtained his BA in Italian Studies at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, CH), and his MSt in Italian at the University of Oxford. He published a review of Leopardi e la cultura del Novecento. Modi e forme di una presenza (Firenze, Olschki, 2020) on Modern Language Review (DOI: 10.1353/mlr.2023.a901142). Forthcoming publications are the analysis of a Latin translation of Leopardi’s Inno ai patriarchi; a study of Emanuele Severino and Luigi Capitano’s interpretations of Leopardi; and a comparative study on Leopardi and Dostoevsky.  

D’Agata, Christian Dottore di ricerca in Scienze dell’Interpretazione presso l’Università di Catania con una tesi dal titolo «I nomi della rosa». Studi computazionali di lessicografia, filologia e critica su Il nome della rosa, si occupa principalmente del rapporto tra letteratura e digitale. Attualmente è assegnista di ricerca su un progetto PNRR (CHANGES, Spoke 3), dedicato al Verismo Digitale per cui sta allestendo in particolare l’edizione scientifica digitale de I Viceré. Collabora con il Centro di Informatica Umanistica di Catania per Pirandello nazionale, il portale online dell’Edizione nazionale dell’Opera Omnia di Luigi Pirandello, per cui ha curato lo sviluppo dell’Hyperedizione de Il fu Mattia Pascal e ha collaborato alla curatela de L’opera poetica di Cesare Pavese (Mondadori, 2021). Fa inoltre parte dell'unità di ricerca del Prin 2022 PAVES-e Per un’edizione-archivio digitale dell’opera di Pavese. È membro delle associazioni ADI e MOD e fa parte del direttivo dell’Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD). Ha scritto su Eco, Buzzati, Morselli, Verga e Pirandello in una prospettiva che unisce filologia, lessicografia, ermeneutica e digital humanities.  

Dal Maso, Ottavia is a Master’s degree holder with a dual master’s degree in Government Sciences from the University of Turin and in Theories and History of Economics in Society from the Lumière Lyon 2 University. Between 2020 and 2021, she attended the Advanced Course in Critical Theory of Society at the University of Milano-Bicocca. In 2021, she started collaborating with Fondazione Istituto piemontese Antonio Gramsci in Turin as part of the project “Recognizable Places and Heritage” promoted by the Universal Civil Service. Between March 2022 and November 2022, she collaborated with Centro Studi Piero Gobetti as a researcher and speaker for the “Polis” project. Between September 2022 and October 2022, she received a research grant under the supervision of Professor Barbara Meazzi for EUR-CREATS - Center for Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Studies at the University of Côte d'Azur. She is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. in Social Sciences – curriculum: Political Sciences (XXXVIII cycle) at the University of Genoa, in co-supervision with the University of Côte d'Azur in Nice, with a research project titled “We Do Not Have Our Own History: History of Ideas and Forms of Struggle of Socialist and Communist Women, 1911-1925”.  

Danelon, Fabio is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Verona. His scientific interests mainly focus on Italian literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For the eighteenth century, he has dealt and continues to deal with erudition and literary historiography, with special regard to the work and relations of Giammaria Mazzuchelli in the context of the Republic of Letters; of Alfieri, with a focus on comic theatre. For the nineteenth century, he dealt and still deals with literary criticism and historiography, with works dedicated to Giovita Scalvini, Paolo Emiliani Giudici, Cesare Cantù, Luigi Settembrini); of fiction, with particular attention to Manzoni and Tommaseo, writers whose texts he has edited several editions of (of particular note are the critical edition of Fede e bellezza, and those of Due baci and Il supplizio d'un italiano in Corfù, and the editing, for the Edizione nazionale ed europea manzoniana, of the appendix to the volume Del romanzo storico and the Epistolario by Enrichetta Blondel); he has devoted attention to Foscolo’s Ortis and Sepolcri. For the twentieth century, he has dealt and continues to deal with the fiction of Pirandello, Svevo, Luciano Bianciardi, the migrant writers, and the poetry of Saba, and devotes attention to scholars (Gallarati Scotti) and critics (Emilio Bigi, Luigi Baldacci) of the second half of the twentieth century. A particular historical-stylistic and thematological interest is reserved for the motif of the representation of marriage in the Italian literary tradition, documented by specific volumes and articles in books or journals, including the recent monograph for Marsilio Il nodo, il nido. Il romanzo matrimoniale dopo l’Unità d’Italia.  

De Biase, Federica si è laureata in Paleografica e Codicologia latina presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”. È una dottoranda di ricerca del 38°ciclo in Testi, Traduzioni e Cultura del Libro. Studi Italiani e Romanzi presso la Scuola Superiore Meridionale di Napoli. Le sue ricerche vertono sulla codicologia e la paleografia dei manoscritti della Divina Commedia con una particolare attenzione ai manoscritti trascritti in mercantesca.  

De Blasio, Antonella is a research fellow at eCampus University, where she teaches Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature. Her areas of scientific interest and research focus primarily on literary theory, cognitive narratology, and the semiotics of text. Currently, she is engaged in studying identity narratives in contemporary global fiction through the lens of cognitive narratology and sociopsychological research on narrative identity. Key publications include Gli autori (The Authors), in S. Calabrese (ed.), Narrating in the Age of Globalization, Rome, Carocci, 2016; and Sulla Sinestesia. Passato e futuro (On Synesthesia. Past and Future), Bologna, Archetipolibri, 2011.  

Dell’Oso, Lorenzo is a Teaching Fellow in Italian Studies at Durham University (UK). He earned a PhD in Italian from the University of Notre Dame (2020) and has held postdoctoral positions at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Göttingen (as a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow). Specialising in Dante and the medieval history of ideas, his first monograph, Dante e “le scuole delli religiosi”: Poesia, filosofia e teologia nella Firenze tardomedievale is due to be published by Carocci Editore in 2024. He has organised several panels in the AAIS, SIS, and RSA conferences.  

Di Martino, Simona holds a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Warwick. She is currently MHRA fellow at the University of Warwick, working on her first monograph for the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool University Press). She was Visiting Research Fellow al Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing, University of London, Jeffs Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bortherton Library, University of Leeds, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Book Culture and Publishing, University of Reading. Her interests encompass the Gothic, female writing, the representation of maternity and female adolescence in literature, the witch, children’s literature, and comics. She participated in several international conferences and published on peer-reviewed journals and volumes.  

Di Rosa, Domenico (he/she/they) is a doctoral researcher in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. His main research explores both characterisations and literary forms around queer love, kinship, and selfhood by queer writers in 20th and 21st century Scottish Literature. The thesis examines narrative and stylistic strategies in queer writing that challenge cisheteronormative literary conventions, further strengthening public awareness around queer histories in Scottish literature. His latest article titled 'Naomi Mitchison's Revision of "Pure" Science and Phallic Utopias in Solution Three' has been published in the 2024 Spring issue of Foundation.  

Dorigatti, Marco graduated from Florence and then obtained a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he is now a lecturer in Italian literature at Brasenose College. He has edited various digital texts for the Oxford Text Archive and has published numerous articles on Boiardo, Ariosto and the chivalric literary tradition of the Renaissance, G. B. Giraldi Cinthio, and female lyric poets, with studies also on the modern period (Grazia Deledda, Sibilla Aleramo, Giuseppe Dessì) and on cinema (Bergman and Antonioni). He is above all a philologist, and in this capacity he has published the first-ever critical edition of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso secondo la princeps del 1516 (Florence: Olschki, 2006) and, jointly with Carla Molinari, Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinthio, Note critiche all’Orlando furioso (Classe I 377 e Classe I 406 della BCAFe) (Ferrara: Edisai, 2018). He has been a member of the National Committee for the Celebrations of the 5th Anniversary of the Publication of Orlando furioso and, with Maria Pavlova, he has edited the volume ‘Dreaming again on things already dreamed’. 500 years of Orlando furioso (1516-2016) (Oxford-New York: Peter Lang, 2019).  

Evangelista, Stefano Assegnista di ricerca at DiLASS, G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara. He was a research fellow (borsista) at DiLASS, G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara. Previously, he was the recipient of a Benno Geiger scholarship at Giorgio Cini Foundation – Venice (Centro Vittore Branca). He holds a Ph.D. in Italian Literature from the University of Durham (UK). During his doctorate, he was a Visiting Fellow in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and a visiting Ph.D. student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His publications include articles and conference proceedings papers on the literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and in particular Ugo Foscolo, Luigi Capuana, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Antonio Fogazzaro, Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D'Annunzio. He is contributing editor of The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (Brill). He is the co-editor of the book The Poetics of Decadence – Degeneration and Regeneration in Literature and the Arts (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2018). The monograph Antonio Fogazzaro: elaborazione della poetica e ricezione internazionale (Florence, Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2022) figures among his most recent publications.

Everson, Jane is Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature at Royal Holloway University of London. She is the author of The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism. The matter of Italy and the world of Rome (2001); Bibliografia delle edizioni del ‘Mambriano’ di Francesco Cieco da Ferrara (1994); and co-editor of The Italian Academies 1525-1700. Networks of Culture, Innovation and Dissent (2016) and Ariosto, the ‘Orlando Furioso’ and English Culture (2019). Recent studies on the chivalric epic include ‘“E più e men che re”: Carlo Magno nel Mambriano’, in Carlo Magno in Italia e la Fortuna dei Libri di Cavalleria, (2016); ‘Pulci e il Morgante nel Mambriano di Francesco Cieco’, in Luigi Pulci, la Firenze laurenziana e il ‘Morgante’, (2019),  Together with Annalisa Perrotta and Anna Carocci, she is currently completing a critical edition of Il Mambriano of Francesco Cieco da Ferrara. From 2006 to 2014 she directed the AHRC-funded projects The Italian Academies 1525-1700. A themed collection database and The Italian Academies 1525-1700. The first intellectual networks of early modern Europe.  

Falduto, Alessandra ha conseguito la laurea triennale in Lettere e Beni Culturali presso l’Università della Calabria con una tesi sulla novella I, 3 del Decameron di Giovanni Boccaccio, in rapporto a fonti e riscritture di questo racconto. Ha proseguito il proprio percorso di studi presso lo stesso ateneo, conseguendo la laurea magistrale in Filologia Moderna con una tesi sul mito dell’età dell’oro nelle opere di Giordano Bruno e di Tommaso Campanella. Attualmente è dottoranda in Studi Umanistici presso l’Università della Calabria, con una tesi sull’apporto del Decameron alla formazione del teatro comico italiano del Cinquecento e del primo Seicento. È cultore della materia nel settore scientifico-disciplinare L-FILLET/10 e collabora con «La Rassegna della letteratura italiana» per la sezione dedicata al Cinquecento, a cura di Floriana Calitti e Maria Cristina Figorilli.  

Feriozzi, Francesco is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame (Rome Global Gateway). He has achieved his DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford (St Catherine’s College) with a thesis on the reception of troubadour poetry in the Italian Renaissance, supervised by Simon Gilson. He is currently working within a project co-ordinated by Laura Banella and Theodore J. Cachey on Dante’s canon between 1300 and 1600, with a special attention for the reception of Dante’s Latin works and for the perception of Dante as an author in the late middle ages and Renaissance. He has collaborated to the English edition of Paola Italia and Giulia Raboni's What Is Authorial Philology? (Cambridge, OBP, 2021) and to the ManzoniOnline project. While he has presented at a variety of conferences and colloquia in and outside the UK, this is his first time organising a panel.  

Filippone, Iris holds a degree in Italian Studies from the University of Pisa. She studied at the University of Enna 'Kore' graduating in Modern Literature with honours with a thesis on Dante's intertextuality in Francesco Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. She is currently studying the reception of Francesco Petrarch in Humanism for her master's thesis and has a publication in progress for the journal 'Una / Κοινῇ' entitled Città morta: il trionfo della borghesia sulla ricerca del bello classico nella tragedia di D’Annunzio.  

Finozzi, Anna PhD, works as an assistant professor at the University of Bergen. Her main area of research is Italian Postcolonial Studies. Under this theoretical umbrella, she has explored children’s literature, multilingualism, podcasts, and knowledge-production of Italian Studies as a field of research. Her monograph La letteratura italiana postcoloniale per l'infanzia (2010-2022). Lingua, spazio, colore (2023) analyses a corpus of children’s books written by migrants uncovering how they de-establish Italian collective memory on colonialism and migration. Of recent publication: “Podcasting the Italian postcolonial” (2023) and Italian Studies across disciplines (2022, with Marco Ceravolo).  

Fokianos, Petros is a history PhD candidate at the École des Hautes Études de Sciences Sociales of Paris (EHESS). His doctoral dissertation concerns the Redifinition of hellenity in the philosophical, identity and literary debates of humanistic Italy. In 2023 he was awarded a Master’s degree from the École des Hautes Études de Sciences Sociales of Paris, carrying out his Master’s thesis on the subject of the Greek humanist Janus Lascaris (1445-1534). He is also a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens. In the course of his studies, he has been awarded scholarships for excellence and mobility by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and the French School of Rome (EfR).  

Forner, Fabio is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Verona. His studies mainly focus on the epistle as a literary genre and as a means of communication. Within this framework, he has devoted himself both to the production of annotated critical editions of epistolary exchanges and to theoretical work on the epistolary genre. He dealt with the dissemination of the works of Francesco Petrarch and Italian Humanism in German-speaking areas. With regard to the history of European culture, he has mainly devoted himself to the critical and annotated edition of the letters of the cardinalate of Enea Silvio Piccolomini and to the study of 16th-century religious literature with a focus on the literary debate at the origins of the Protestant Reformation, starting with a key figure such as Erasmus of Rotterdam. His most recent monographs include at least Scrivere lettere nel XVIII secolo: precettistica, prassi e letteratura, with a foreword by Amedeo Quondam. He also organised several national and international conferences and panels at: AdI (Associazione degli Italianisti); SISSD (Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo Diciottesimo); ISECS (International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies).  

Frau, Ombretta is the Dorothy Rooke McCulloch Professor of Italian at Mount Holyoke College. Her scholarly interests include nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian public intellectuals, Luigi Pirandello, and the material culture of literature. She has published extensively on Pirandello, Jolanda, Mantea, Sfinge, Mara Antelling, Annie Vivanti, Flavia Steno, Contessa Lara, Marchesa Colombi, Dacia Maraini, Aldo Palazzeschi, Vincenzo Cerami, Italian fascism, motherhood, and language, gender and violence on the internet. Her most recent publications include articles on Serao, Calvino, Pirandello, and on the Giamatti Dante Collection at Mount Holyoke.   

Gaimari, Giulia is Assistant Professor of Dante and Italian Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies. Currently devoted to exploring Dante Alighieri’s reuses of Cicero’s Laelius de Amicitia, her research interests encompass the reception of classical moral philosophy within Dante’s Italy and oeuvre, the lively interactions between medieval encyclopaedic culture, civic rhetoric, and vernacular literature, and the intertwining of these areas within the history of emotions in the medieval period. Her first monograph Per amore di giustizia. Dante fra diritto, politica e teologia has been published in 2022 by Angelo Longo Editore. Experience of conference and panel organisation includes ISCAD 5 “Emotions and Communities in Dante”, University of Toronto (2023), an international conference co-organised with Professor Elisa Brilli. In addition, Gaimari collaborated with Professor Giuseppe Ledda (leader of the initiative) and Dr Alessandra Forte to organise the postgraduate conferences “Alma Dante. Seminario Dantesco”, University of Bologna (2022; 2020; 2018); and she co-organised with Professor Catherine Keen the international conference “The Importance of Being Earnest. Ethics, Politics, and Law in Relation to Dante”, University College London (2016). Further contributions include: “‘Sì come vedere si può che scrive Tulio in quello De amicitia…’: Cicerone, Brunetto e la formazione intellettuale di Dante nella Firenze del Duecento”, a panel within the Congresso 2 Dantesco Internazionale Alma Dante (2017); and three panels in Dante Studies co-organized with Professor Catherine Keen for the SIS Biennial Conference 2015 (“The Diffusion of Philosophy in Dante’s Florence”; “Current Trends in the Study of Dante’s Minor Works”; “Studies in Dante’s Monarchia and Epistles”).  

Galassini, Dario after receiving his BA and MA in Italian from the Università di Bologna and an additional BA in Music from the Conservatorio di Musica di Bologna, Dario is now a final-year PhD student at University College Cork. His research project on Dantean afterlives in contemporary Italian poetry is funded by the Irish Research Council and supervised by Dr Daragh O’Connell. He is an active member of the Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland, based at UCC, and has published on Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, and new Dante brandings.  

García, Javier Jurado is a graduate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid with a Master’s Degree in Research in Art and Creation, and is currently studying for his PhD at the same University, enjoying a Predoctoral fellowship from the Complutense University of Madrid. His training is halfway between the academic and artistic fields, working as assistant student from 2019 to 2021 in the Print Cabinet of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Complutense, being from 2021 until now assistant curator of these collections. He worked as Cultural manager for the Madrid Community region financed with funds by European Young Next Generation. Complementary with these works developed an extension of studies at the "Prentenkabinet'' of the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and in the Albertina Museum and the Akademie der Bildenden künste both in Vienna. He has participated in numerous university research projects, including Among artists and restorers. New formats of interaction and exchange of knowledge. In addition to the aforementioned, he has numerous publications, presentations and conferences, both national and international.  

Genovese, Giulio is a Ph.D candidate in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr College. His main academic interests include Dante, and especially on Dante’s reception in the 20th and 21st centuries, adaptation studies and literary theory. He has also focused on contemporary Italian women writers. Giulio has served as Graduate Assistant for the American Association of Italian Studies and is currently co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal “Bibliotheca Dantesca”.  

Geri, Valentina (Lecturer in Italian Studies Smith College) has taught courses on Italian language at all levels (beginning, intermediate, intensive, conversation), testimonies and witnesses of Italian culture, fascism and cinema, and Primo Levi. During and after obtaining her Ph.D., Valentina has pursued a number of additional research projects, among which is the creation of an international network of Levi scholars (2021 Summer School Primo Levi. Transnational Perspectives). Valentina’s primary research intersects with several fields of study and her interests also include Italian contemporary literature, comparative literatures, Italian Jewish and Holocaust studies, fascism and cinema, literature and science, animal studies, Anthropocene and ecocriticism, and second language acquisition.She has published on Primo Levi and William Shakespeare, Primo Levi and Franz Kafka, the non-professional actor child in neorealism, the representations of Italians and italianità during fascism, and the British Bildungsroman.  

Ghelli, Simone is a post-doctoral research fellow in political philosophy at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy). In 2021, he obtained his PhD in Political Philosophy at the University of Genoa. His research interests concern political philosophy, history of political thought, ethics, and anthropology. In particular, he worked and he is currently working on Primo Levi’s thought, to which he devoted several publications on journals and volumes. He is the author of The Suffering Animal. Life Between Weakness and Power (Palgrave, 2023), La vita è ingiusta. Il doloroso darwinismo di Primo Levi (IISF Press, 2024) and, with Stefano Bellin, Levi Beyond Levi. Post-critical engagements with Primo Levi’s Works (Liverpool University Press, 2024).  

Giallombardo, Federica Maria è dottoranda del XXXVIII ciclo in Medium e Medialità (Filologia e Iconologia dantesca del Cinquecento - tutor Prof.sa Tonello, tutor esterno Prof. Perna) presso l’Università eCampus (Novedrate, Como). Collabora con il gruppo ferrarese per la realizzazione dell’edizione critica della Commedia a cura di Elisabetta Tonello e Paolo Trovato.  

Gilson, Simon is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian and Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. He studied Italian and French at Leeds University and took his PhD in Italian Literature at Cambridge University. He was lecturer in Italian at Leeds University (1998-99), and at Warwick University was Professor of Italian (2010-17) where he served as Chair of Italian (2006-09), Chair of the Sub-Faculty of Modern Languages (2012-14) and Chair of the Arts Faculty (2015-17). He has also taught at the Universities of Birmingham, Royal Holloway and at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. He was the joint Senior Editor of the journal Italian Studies (2011-16) and has been an elected council member of the Dante Society of America, Harvard (2005-07). He is currently the General Editor of the monograph series 'Italian Perspectives' (Legenda, 2011-), a nominated honorary member of the Italian Dante Society in Florence (2008-) and is the Chair of the Society for Italian Studies (2018-23). He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.  

Giola, Marco laureato presso l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano nel 2003, ha conseguito il Dottorato di Ricerca presso l’Università degli Studi di Ferrara nel 2008. Ha insegnato Filologia italiana presso la sede bresciana dell’Università Cattolica dal 2011 al 2016 e Storia della lingua italiana presso la Katholieke Universiteit di Leuven (Belgio) tra il 2009 e il 2010 e presso la sede milanese dell’Università Cattolica nell’A.A. 2014-2015. Dal 2019 è Professore Associato di Linguistica italiana [SSD: L-FIL-LET/12] presso l’Università Telematica e-Campus di Novedrate (Como). È membro del Comitato scientifico del Centro di Ricerca Edizione di testi e Lingua (LI&TE) e del comitato editoriale dell’Almanacco bibliografico. Tra i suoi volumi: La tradizione dei volgarizzamenti toscani del «Tresor» di Brunetto Latini. Con edizione critica della redazione α (I.1-129); Il «Fiore novello». Storia della tradizione ed edizione (Libri I-III) (2018). Sta curando, entro l’équipe di lavoro guidata da Paolo Trovato, una nuova edizione del Paradiso dantesco.   

Giuffrida, Milena è ricercatrice di Filologia della Letteratura italiana all’Università di Catania. Si è occupata di letteratura dell’Otto-Novecento, con studi su Verga e Capuana (dei quali sta curando il carteggio per l’Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Verga), Pirandello e Gadda. Ha dedicato i suoi lavori alle applicazioni del digitale alla filologia e alla didattica, prendendo parte a progetti come Wiki Gadda e Leopardi Ecdosys. Fa parte dell’équipe del Centro d’Informatica Umanistica (CINUM) dell’Università di Catania e collabora al portale dell’Edizione Nazionale dell’Opera Omnia di Luigi Pirandello (pirandellonazionale.it).  

Giuliani, Chiara is a lecturer in the Department of Italian at University College Cork. Her main research interests comprise questions of home, memory and material culture in postcolonial narratives. Her first monograph Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature was published by Palgrave in 2021. She also works on the cultural representation of the Chinese community in Italy, especially on the role played by second generations. With Kate Hodgson she co-edited the volume Memory, Mobility and Material Culture which came out in 2023 with Routledge.  

Giusti, Francesco is Career Development Fellow and Tutor in Italian at Christ Church and Lecturer at Worcester College and St John’s College, University of Oxford. After completing his PhD at the Italian Institute of Human Sciences in 2012, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of York (2013), the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (2014-2015), and the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (2016-2018). From 2019 to 2021, he taught comparative literature at Bard College Berlin. He published two books devoted respectively to the ethics of mourning and to creative desire in lyric poetry: Canzonieri in morte. Per un’etica poetica del lutto (2015) and Il desiderio della lirica. Poesia, creazione, conoscenza (2016). He co-edited, with Christine Ott and Damiano Frasca, the volume Poesia e nuovi media (2018); with Benjamin Lewis Robinson, The Work of World Literature (2021); and with Adele Bardazzi and Emanuela Tandello, A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry (2022). At Oxford he devised and now coordinates the interdisciplinary research project Rethinking Lyric Communities, which brings historical poetic practices into dialogue with recent developments in the theory of the lyric and contemporary debates on community formation. In addition to several conferences, he organised panels at the conferences of the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL), the International Network for the Study of Lyric (INSL), and the Italian Association for the Study of Theory and Comparative History of Literature (Compalit).   

Glynn, Ruth is Professor of Modern Italian Culture at the University of Bristol. Her research addresses modern and contemporary Italian culture. Her current project, 'Naples and the Nation: Image, Media and Culture' (funded by an AHRC Leadership Fellowship, 2018-20) interrogates how cultural products addressing Naples represent the city and its relationship with Italy, and asks what the view from Naples - a city often marginalised in discussion of 'national' culture but central to state-of-the-nation discourses - reveals about the nation-state, its workings and its discourses. Publications on Naples include articles on critical theorizations of the city, from the 1920s to the present; the gendering of city and nation in representations of the Allied Occupation (1943-44); and the Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. Previous research was dedicated to cultural representations of Italy’s experience of political violence in the anni di piombo. Her monograph, Women, Terrorism and Trauma (2013), pioneers the application of a trauma studies approach to the anni di piombo and to cultural constructions of women's participation in terrorist violence. Associated publications include a series of articles addressing women and terrorism through the prism of trauma theory, and co-edited volumes on cinematic representations of Italian terrorism (Terrorism, Italian Style, 2012) and the cultural legacy of the 1978 kidnapping and murder of statesman, Aldo Moro (Remembering Aldo Moro, 2012).  

Gordon, Robert (Serena Professor of Italian) works on modern literature, cinema and cultural history, focussing in particular on Italy. He is the author or editor of fifteen volumes, including a book on the writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pasolini. Forms of Subjectivity), several volumes on the work of Primo Levi (e.g. Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues, Auschwitz Report, The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi, Innesti), and a major study of the wider field of postwar cultural responses to the Holocaust (The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010). He is also the co-editor of the collection Holocaust Intersections, a special issue of the Jewish history journal Quest, and the volume Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th-Century Italy.  

Grandi, Tommaso I’m a research fellow in Filologia Classica e Italianistica at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. I received my PhD in Literary and Philological Cultures at Alma Mater Studiorum University in Bologna, in co-tutorship with Sorbonne Université in Paris. During my PhD I studied Leopardi's work, focusing on its relationship with Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries' philosophy. I’m interested in contemporary and romantic Italian literature, in the relationship between literature and philosophy, and in the connections between literature and visual arts. My research is mainly focused on works and thoughts of Giacomo Leopardi and Pier Paolo Pasolini.  

Gronchi, Gianmarco I am a PhD student at University of Genova. I previously gained a Bachelor's degree in Modern Literature at the University of Pavia, where I was also an alumnus of the Almo Collegio Borromeo. I achieved a Master's degree in History and Criticism of Art at the University of Milan. My research thesis about fashion designer Elio Fiorucci was honored with the V Fondazione Prada Degree Award. Currently, besides my research, I am pursuing a Master's degree in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London. My interests focus on the 1970s and 1980s Italian culture with a strongly interdisciplinary perspective. More specifically, I am interested in graphics, visual and pop culture, fashion, theater and performance, and contaminations with the art avant-garde of these years. In addition, I am particularly interested in radical publishing, underground fanzines, and editorial practice between the 1970s and 1980s.  

Guaraldo, Emiliano is a postdoctoral research fellow at NICHE, THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2019 with a dissertation focused on the visual and literary representations of petroleum in the Italian context. His work seeks to understand the historical, aesthetic, and political dimensions of extractivism, planetarity, and toxicity within the transmedial imaginations of the Anthropocene. With Marco Malvestio and Daniel A. Finch-Race, he is the editor of the volume Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities (Liverpool University Press, 2023); and with Cristina Baldacci he is curating the special double issue of Holotipus journal “Archiving the Anthropocene: New Taxonomies Between Art and Science” (2023, 2024). He has also edited the volume “Building Common Ground: Ecological Art Practices and Human-Nonhuman Knowledges” (Venice University Press, 2023). He is a member of the research collective Unruly Natures (Switzerland) and of the Ecological Art Practices research cluster at NICHE.  

Hughes, Lachlan is a Teaching Fellow in Modern Languages at Durham University (UK), where he teaches a broad range of topics across Italian Studies and Comparative Literature. Following degrees in Music (Sydney, 2009–2012) and Modern Languages (Oxford, 2014–19), he obtained his doctorate at Oxford (2019–2023) with a thesis on ‘Vernacular Song in Dante’s Florence’, co-supervised between the Faculties of Modern Languages and Music. His research interests lie in the literary and musical traditions of medieval and early modern Italy, with a particular focus to date on Dante’s lyric poetry. Recent publications include an article on ‘Music and Metapoesis in Inferno 16’ (Annali d’Italianistica, 2021), an article on ‘Dante’s Arethusa and the Art of Transition’ (Modern Language Review, 2023), and a book chapter in Dante’s ‘Vita nova’: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Barański and Webb (Notre Dame University Press, 2023). With T. E. Franklinos (Oxford), he is currently co-editing a book on The Latin Works of Piccolomini (PP Pius II).  

Iaria, Simona (Ph.D. in ‘Humanism and Renaissance Civilization’, University of Florence) at present is Marie Skłodowska-Curie - IF- Global Fellow between the University of Turin and Toronto. She has carried out postdoctoral research in Italy and in Germany and she has contributed to a large number of international conferences in Italy and abroad. She also has taught ‘Medieval and Humanistic Philology’ at the University of Pavia and she has been coadvisor of several M.A dissertations in Italian literature. Her research mainly concerns the 15th century with particular regard to the diffusion of Humanism in Europe. She has published several articles about Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini and his legacy outside Italy, his library and his Commentaries; and she has also published the critical edition of his Libellus dialogorum with introduction and commentary (honourable mention at the ‘Certamen capitolinum’, Rome 2017). Two other books are dedicated to the documents about the history of the University of Pavia in 15th century and another to the monastery of Rodengo near Brescia. Finally, she has published numerous contributions on the monk and humanist Ambrogio Traversari and his relationship with the Medici’s family in Florence, his disciples and his Hodoeporicon; and she has taken an interest in the dissemination of Petrarch's Latin works in the German territories. She has organized panels for the Renaissance Society of America (2022 and 2024) and for the Society of Renaissance Studies (2023).  

Impellizzeri, Nancy Mariarita having obtained the classical high school diploma in 2013, in 2017 she completed a three-year course of studies in Modern Humanities with highest honors and, in 2019, a course of studies at the master's level in Modern Philology by discussing a thesis on the language and style of Maria Messina (1887-1944) with a grade of 110/110 cum laude at the University of Catania. She is currently a doctoral student in "Educational Processes in Heterogeneous and Multicultural Contexts" at the Kore University of Enna under the auspices of Prof. Rodney Lokaj with whom she is joined in philological studies in Latin and vernacular focusing on late Roman humanism in the person of Fabio Vigili, as well as the practical codicological exercise of fragments and archival papers. She has participated as a speaker at several national and international conferences such as AdI 2021 and 2023; 75th Edition of The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference at the University of Kentucky; 68th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Dublin and the 154th Annual Meeting of the Society For Classical Studies in New Orleans.  

Jermini, Fabio (Lugano, 1988) is a doctor in Italian philology from the University of Geneva and researcher of the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research at the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano in Florence. From 2013 to 2018 he was Assistant of Italian Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance at the University of Geneva. His research interests concern poetry, both ancient and contemporary. He has published a volume of commentary on a section of the collection Somiglianze by Milo De Angelis (Pensa MultiMedia, Lecce-Brescia, 2015) and several essays: on Cecco Angiolieri and comic-realistic poetry (La configurazione metrica dei sonetti di Cecco Angiolieri, in Otto studi sul sonetto, libreriauniversitaria.it, Padova, 2017; Sulle definizioni del realismo nella poesia del Due-Trecento, in Aldo Francesco Massèra. Tra Scuola Storica e Nuova Filologia, «Quaderni ginevrini d’italianistica», 5, 2018); on Milo De Angelis (Il fatto inessenziale e necessario. Lettura di La posizione, «Rassegna europea di letteratura italiana», 45-46, 2015; «Millimetri» di Milo De Angelis (1983) in La poesia degli anni Ottanta, «Quaderni Per Leggere», 21, 2019); and on Alessandro Manzoni (Il ritorno alla Casa del Padre. La dottrina della penitenza nelle «Osservazioni sulla morale cattolica» (1819), in Miscellanea di studi in onore di Giovanni Bardazzi, Genève, 2018). He participated in the Atlante dei canzonieri in volgare del Quattrocento edited by A. Comboni and T. Zanato (SISMEL, Florence, 2017) drafting the profile of the Petrarchist poet Rosello Roselli. He is currently preparing the critical and commented edition of Cecco Angiolieri’s sonnets.  

Josi, Mara obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Before joining Ghent University as an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow, she was an IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin and a lecturer at the University of Manchester. Mara’s first monograph, Rome, 16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature, is devoted to the literary production of the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy and explore how literary narratives influence individual and collective memory (Legenda, 2023). She also published peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Italian Holocaust literature, female diaristic writing, the cultural memory of women’s participation in the Resistance, and the years of Lead in Italy. Her main area of interest spans from Italian and Comparative Literature to Narratology, from Holocaust Studies to Cultural Memory Studies, and from Gender Studies to Cognitive Literary Studies.  

Kane, Noreen is a PhD researcher at University College Cork. Her thesis, entitled “Trauma and the Gendered Body in Postcolonial Women’s Writing in Italy”, is funded by the Irish Research Council and an NUI Travelling Doctoral Scholarship, and explores how women writers with origins in the Horn of Africa portray the intergenerational legacy of Italian colonial trauma on a familial, institutional, and transnational level. She has lectured on several BA and MA modules dealing with Italian women’s writing and postcolonial themes, and received a UCC Teaching Excellence Award in 2023. She is coconvenor of the Violence, Conflict, and Gender research cluster at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures and editor of UCC’s postgraduate journal for the Humanities, Aigne. Her research interests are trauma theories, African feminist scholarship, postcolonial/decolonial Italy, and contemporary women’s writing in Ireland.  

Kay, Tristan is Associate Professor (Reader) in Italian Studies at the University of Bristol. His early research, culminating in the monograph Dante’s Lyric Redemption: Eros, Salvation, Vernacular Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2016), focused on Dante’s conception of love and his dialogue with the vernacular lyric poets of his time. While he has continued to publish on Dante and medieval literary and political cultures, his recent work has also focused on the modern reception of the poet. His current book project, which has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, interrogates the longstanding ‘national’ appropriation of Dante. In so doing, it reflects upon the problems and distortions associated with viewing Dante (and medieval culture more broadly) through a national lens. He has participated in and organized panels and roundtables at numerous national and international conferences, including at previous SIS biennials. He is the Treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Italian Studies.  

Keen, Catherine is Professor of Dante Studies at University College London, and Visiting Professor in the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia in Spring 2024. Her research focuses on Dante, and on the literature and cultural history of medieval Italy. 

Kiltinavičiūtė, Aistė after studying for her BA (English, 2017) and her MPhil (European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, 2018) at the University of Cambridge, Aistė completed her PhD in Italian at Cambridge under the direction of Prof. Heather Webb in 2022. In 2022, she was Research Fellow at Vilnius University and Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Aistė is currently IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork, where she is working on her first monograph, based on her PhD research on sensation in Dante’s dreams and visions. Her research interests include dream and visionary literature, the illuminations and illustrations of Dante’s Comedy, and the interconnections between English and Italian literary traditions.  

Kroonenberg, Saskia is a lecturer in literary and cultural studies at Radboud University (the Netherlands). Her research interests include Antonio Gramsci, postcolonial theory, and Italian literature. She is currently finalising her monograph Rethinking the Mother Tongue in Contemporary Italy: On Gramsci, Postcolonial Literature, and Immanent Grammar, which is to be published next winter at Amsterdam University Press. Saskia wrote her Marie-Curie-funded PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Cologne, and has been a guest researcher at Utrecht University, the University of Zurich, and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.

Laiena, Serena is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Italian and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on early modern Italian theatre, especially commedia dell’arte. Most of her time is devoted to understanding the social and cultural role of the first professional actresses in modern history. She is the author of The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing (University of Delaware Press, 2023), which investigates the birth of a phenomenon – the couple in show business – in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italy, and she is the co-editor of ‘Il teatro di Giovan Battista Andreini. Nuovi studi e ricerche’ (Nuova Rivista di Letteratura Italiana, 2022). She has published articles and book chapters on several subjects, including 16th and 17th-century professional actresses, early modern drama, and Italian academies. She was the organizer of a panel for the SIS 2019 conference in Edinburgh and the co-organiser of a panel at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Dublin 2022. After completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Serena has been an IRC postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin and an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University.  

Lattarulo, Salvatore Francesco holds a PhD in Contemporary Italian Philology. He has dealt with Italian poetry of the twentieth century (Risi, Sereni, Montale, Ungaretti, Campana, Pasolini, Penna, Bodini) publishing volumes on the subject and essays in specialized and miscellaneous journals. In the field of fiction, he has written articles on Svevo, Fenoglio, Malaparte, Brancati, Bassani. He is an expert in the subject at the LELIA Department of the University of Bari. He has taught as a visiting professor in the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Szczecin (Poland). He was editor-in-chief of the literary periodicals "Marsia" and "Incroci". He is a professional journalist and has published numerous articles on the cultural pages of newspapers and periodicals. He has participated as a speaker at conferences in Italy and abroad.  

Leavitt IV, Charles is Associate Professor of Italian and Film and Associate Director of the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. A Faculty Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and a Research Fellow of the University of Reading, UK, Leavitt studies modern and contemporary Italian culture in a comparative context. He is the author of Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), which won the 2020 Book Prize in Visual Studies, Film and Media from the American Association for Italian Studies and was shortlisted for the Bridge Literary Prize in North American non-fiction. 

Ledda, Giuseppe is Full Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Bologna. Professor Ledda’s main research field is Dante and medieval literature. His recent works in Dante studies explore: the relationships with the classical culture; the use of biblical and hagiographical models; the animal similes in comparison with the medieval bestiary; ineffability in its rhetorical and theological aspects; Dante in Boccaccio and Petrarch. He also works on Renaissance literature (Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto) and on the literature of Italian Novecento (Montale, Atzeni). He has published several articles and some books on Dante. He is an editor of the peer-reviewed journal L’Alighieri and a senior member of the committee of Studi Danteschi. He is also a member of the Committee of the Italian Dante Society and of several committees of research centres in Italy and abroad.  

Leta, Matteo è Teaching Fellow in Italian allo University College Dublin. Dopo il dottorato, conseguito nel 2019 alla Sorbonne Université, ha ottenuto diverse borse postdottorali in Europa e Nord America (Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici di Napoli, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science di Berlino, University of Toronto), con progetti dedicati alla rappresentazione dell’alterità e, in particolar modo, alle immagini zingaresche nella letteratura italiana tra Cinque e Seicento. I suoi interessi di ricerca si concentrano, prevalentemente, sulla letteratura del Rinascimento italiano e francese e ha pubblicato svariati articoli sul teatro rinascimentale, pubblicati, tra gli altri, da La rassegna della letteratura italiana, Lettere italiane e Quaderni d’Italianistica. Recentemente, è stato pubblicato un suo volume monografico dedicato alle figure di ciarlatani e impostori nella letteratura italiana e francese del Cinquecento (Le trompeur trompé: représentations littéraires des charlatans à la Renaissance, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2023).  

Leydi, Enrica is a first-year PhD student in Italian Studies at the University of Warwick, under the supervision of Professor Fabio Camilletti. Her project addresses the role played by visual and material culture in the oeuvre of Giacomo Leopardi, particularly in relation to his aesthetic theory and discussion of both traditional artworks and artifacts. She is currently working on anatomical models, automata and puppets in Leopardi’s theoretical and poetic works. She has presented at international and national conferences about landscape, anatomy and Dante's reception in Leopardi (Northumbria, 2022; Cork, 2023; Oxford, 2023; Naples, 2023; Leeds, 2023; Oxford, 2023).  

Li Mandri, Chiara is a PhD student in the Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo, Italy. She earned her master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Palermo, focusing on the ethical projects of Baruch Spinoza and Giacomo Leopardi in her thesis. Her current research explores the intersection of poetry and environmental studies, presenting poetry as a meaningful tool for fostering awareness of climate change through the works of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837).  

Lima, Eleonora is Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, where she is part of the EU-funded project Knowledge Technologies for Democracy (KT4D). She has published on the interconnection between literature, science, and technology, as well as on Italian cinema, and arts and literature. Her contribution to scholarship on Primo Levi includes the conference Primo Levi and Science Fiction (London ICI), which she co-organised in 2022, as well as special issue of Enthymema, La fantascienza di Primo Levi (2023), which she co-edited and contributed to. She also took part in the project Primo Levi: A Digital Commentary (Cambridge University-University of Notre Dame). Currently, she is working on the first comprehensive history of computing in Italian literature. In 2020 she published with Firenze University Press a monograph dedicated to the impact of information technology on the work of Italo Calvino and Paolo Volponi. Eleonora is also the blog editor and website manager for the AHRC-funded project Interdisciplinary Italy and Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD). She holds a PhD in Italian and Media Studies (UW-Madison, 2015) and was previously an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2020) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto (2017-2018).  

Lo Castro, Giuseppe insegna letteratura italiana all’Università della Calabria. Ha studiato in particolare l’opera di Verga – cui ha dedicato alcuni lavori, tra i quali La verità difficile. Indagini su Verga (Napoli, Liguori, 2012) –, e la narrativa siciliana (Costellazioni siciliane. Undici visioni da Verga a Camilleri (Pisa, Ets, 2018). Si è inoltre dedicato al racconto fantastico dell’Ottocento, alla narrativa breve tra Novecento e anni Zero, al romanzo del Settecento e alla letteratura della Sardegna. Ha scritto anche su Boccaccio, Nievo e il pensiero di Leopardi. L’ultimo suo lavoro è la cura con Gianfranco Ferraro del volume «Pupara sono». Per la poesia di Jolanda Insana. Con inediti e rari, Cosenza, Falco, 2019.  

Lokaj, Rodney is full professor of Italian philology at the University of Enna “Kore”, Sicily. He has mainly worked and published on late-medieval and early-modern Italy with learned essays and monographs on Franciscanism, Dante, Petrarch, classical reception, Castiglione, Falcone, Vigili, Bembo, Garcilaso de la Vega, Manzoni, and Verga.  

Lorenzin, Bruna is a PhD student in Italian Literature at the University of Turin. Her main field of research is Philology and Dantean Critique, with particular regard to the Commedia, the study of which she has deepened during her university BA degree with a final paper based on Paradiso XXV. She also dedicated her MA degree’s thesis to the critical edition of the only complete vernacular translation of the first draft of Pietro Alighieri’s Comentum. For her doctoral thesis, she is currently working on the relationship between Dante and the Dominican preacher William Peraldus, aiming to offer the first systematic study of the Summa virtutum ac vitiorum as a source for Dante’s poem. She has participated as a speaker in several conferences in Italy and abroad and since 2018 has been coordinating the annual series of Dante public lectures in Turin. Starting in January 2024, she will undertake a six-month research period at University College Cork as a Visiting PhD, actively collaborating with the Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland.  

Maiolani, Michele recently obtained his PhD in Italian at the University of Cambridge, where he investigated the relationship between anthropology and literature in the novels of Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Gianni Celati. He is currently an MHRA Research Scholar in the Modern European Languages at the MMLL Department of the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow at the ILCS (University of London). He has written extensively on the Italian post-war novel, publishing several articles and book chapters on Calvino, Sciascia, Celati, Bianciardi, Camilleri, Fo, and Primo Levi. Over the past few years, he organised the first summer school dedicated to Primo Levi and four international conferences (Defining the Italian Neomodernist Novel, Twice-Told Stories in Contemporary Italian Literature (1980-2020), Il Semplice: Vite e voci di una rivista, Primo Levi and Science Fiction). He also co-organised the panels ‘Strategie del potere in Primo Levi’ (ADI conference, University of Catania, 23-25 September 2021) and Forms of Community and Collective Storytelling in Italian Contemporary Literature (1980-2020) (SIS Biennial Conference, University of Warwick, 20-22 April 2022).  

Malatesta, Serena si è laureata in Filologia, letterature e storia dell'antichità presso l’Università degli studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Frequenta il XXXIX ciclo del dottorato in Scienze Linguistiche, Filologiche e Letterarie presso l’Università degli Studi di Padova. Si occupa di ricezione dantesca, filologia digitale e italianistica. Ha partecipato a convegni nazionali e internazionali. Tra i suoi lavori si menziona l'articolo in Storie e Linguaggi 9 (2023): Soglie del testo, note dei lettori ed esegesi liminare in un manoscritto trecentesco della Commedia.  

Malvestio, Marco is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Padua. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His publications include The Conflict Revisited: The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction (Peter Lang, 2021) and Raccontare la fine del mondo: Fantascienza e Antropocene (nottetempo, 2021), as well as the edited volumes Vecchi maestri e nuovi mostri: Tendenze e prospettive della letteratura horror all’inizio del nuovo millennio (Mimesis, 2019; with Valentina Sturli), Italian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh University Press, 2023; with Stefano Serafini), and Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities (Liverpool University Press, 2023; with Emiliano Guaraldo and Daniel A. Finch-Race). He has organised several conferences, most recently La fantascienza italiana nell’Antropocene (May 2023) and the annual conference of the Associazione di Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura (December 2023, as co-organizer), both at the University of Padua. He co-organized a panel and a roundtable at the 2022 annual conference of the American Association for Italian Studies (topic: Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities), and two panels at the 2021 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Italian Studies (topic: Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Science Fiction).  

Mancosu, Gianmarco is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London (Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies), and teaching fellow of Contemporary History at the University of Sassari. He is 2023 CIRN-CRASSH Intesa San Paolo Fellow at the University of Cambridge (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities). He has work experience in academic and diplomatic institutions in Italy, England, and Ethiopia. His research focuses on the history of colonial and post-colonial Italy, media history, memories of colonialism in modern and contemporary Italy, and Italian communities in former colonies. He has published extensively on these topics, including the monograph Vedere l’impero. L’Istituto Luce e il colonialismo fascista (Mimesis, 2022), winner of the Opera Prima award from the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (SISSCO).  

Marchetti, Filippo studied at the University of Pisa (B.A. and M.A.), where he worked on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British philosophy, in particular the genesis and reception of Newtonian natural philosophy. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Philosophy, University of Roma – La Sapienza. His doctoral research was on Natural religion and society in John Toland’s thought, aiming at determining the relationship between republicanism (in particular John Milton and James Harrington) and deism. In particular, he tried to clarify how natural religion and civic religion are intertwined in his thought. He is now working on the use made by Toland of Giordano Bruno’s philosophical legacy, on Anglo-Holland intellectual networks and on the historical and philosophical culture of Alberto Radicati of Passeran.  

Marinetti, Cristina is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at Cardiff University and Chair of the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS). Her research combines translation and theatre and performance studies. She is currently writing a monograph for the Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies Series which examines the impact of globalization and mass tourism on Venice's culture, language, and community. The book explores how global and local narratives about the world most visited city have been shaped through translational practices in writing, citizen performance, and digital spaces. Cristina has also written extensively on translation theory in relation to identity and performance, on the history of translation and reception of drama and on translation activism through the arts and she frequently collaborates with community groups, the theatre and the arts world.  

Marini, Maria Silvia graduated in History of Linguistic Thought at La Sapienza University in Rome with a thesis on Leopardi's linguistic thought. In December 2021, she obtained her PhD in Linguistic Theory and Education at the same university, with a thesis on the semantic analysis of the lexeme imagination in the Leopardian idiolect; she has participated in conferences on the philosophy of language and literature and published articles on Leopardian thought. Her research interests mainly concern the study of Leopardi's semantics and philosophical thought, with a focus on the relationship between poetic expression and philosophical thought. She is currently honorary research fellow (cultore della materia) at the Philosophy of Language course at La Sapienza University in Rome.  

Marston, John Colin is a 3rd year PhD student in the Italian section of the European Languages and Transcultural Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests include the censorship of post-war Italian and French novels and films, Italian-Jewish history, and the relationship between history, culture, and memory. He recently presented a paper at the "Curzio Malaparte and the Visual Arts" conference in New York and attended the summer school program "The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism" at La Sapienza in 2022.  

Mazzoni, Luca graduated at the Catholic University of Milan (1999), where he obtained a PhD in Italian Studies (2009); he obtained a second PhD in Italian Studies in the University of Verona (2014). After receiving a fellowship from the Fondazione Confalonieri (Milan), he taught Italian Philology at the University of Verona (2020-2022) and since 2021 he has also taught Italian Literature at the University of Milan. Since 2022 he is fixed-term researcher (RTD-A) in Italian Literature at E-Campus University of Novedrate (CO). His main fields of research are Dante’s Fortleben over the centuries, and the literature of 15th and 18th century. He has published several articles and books; among the latter Dante a Verona nel Settecento: studi su Giovanni Iacopo Dionisi (2012) and Fra Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio e studi eruditi: carteggio Giovanni Iacopo Dionisi - Bartolomeo Perazzini (1772-1800) (2015). He has edited Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Storie di Hester and Vita di Tubia (2020).  

Meazzi, Barbara Full Professor, Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France. 

Medaglia, Francesca è attualmente Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo B di “Critica letteraria e Letterature comparate” presso il Dipartimento di Lettere e Culture Moderne di Sapienza – Università di Roma. Ha conseguito il Dottorato di ricerca nel 2013 presso la stessa Università. Nel 2015/2016 con una borsa di studio Postdottorato “British Academy” dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ha svolto presso University College London la ricerca “Forme e significati della scrittura a quattro mani”. Nel 2016 con una borsa di studio “Benno Geiger” ha svolto presso il Centro Branca – Fondazione Giorgio Cini la ricerca “Le possibili collaborazioni tra artisti ed il dibattito letterario durante il Futurismo attraverso lo studio dei documenti del Fondo Botta”. È autrice, tra l’altro, di quattro volumi: La scrittura a quattro mani (Pensa MultiMedia, 2014), Asimmetrie ibride nella critica di Antonino Contiliano (CFR, 2014), Il ritmo dei tempi in Antonino Contiliano (Empirìa, 2014) e Autore/personaggio: interferenze, complicazioni e scambi di ruolo. Autori e personaggi complessi nella contemporaneità letteraria e transmediale (Lithos, 2020).  

Medugno, Marco teaches as an Associate Lecturer at Newcastle University and has previously taught at the University of Glasgow. His area of research includes Anglophone and Italian Postcolonial Studies, Literary Geography, Comparative and World Literature, Diaspora Studies and Afropean/Black Italian Literature. His forthcoming monograph, Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language, and Resistance in English and Italian Novels (Bloomsbury, 2024), offers insights into the connections between Somali authors and texts produced outside Somalia in English and Italian. His articles appeared in From the European South, Italian Studies in Southern Africa and Il Tolomeo. He collaborated on the special issue of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde celebrating Nuruddin Farah’s 50-year-long career. He has also worked on Dante and the adaptations of the Comedy, authoring a chapter in A South African Convivio with Dante (Firenze University Press, 2021) and the article “Dante in Mogadishu: The Role of Dante’s Divine Comedy in Nuruddin Farah’s Links” (2020). He is currently working on a collaborative project about the narratives about the Battle of Adwa (1896) and the event’s lasting impact on Ethiopia, global diasporic Black communities, the European public sphere, and colonial geo-politics was shaped and mediated by the print cultures that proliferated around the world in the wake of the invasion, with a specific focus on Ethiopia, Italy, Britain, the Caribbean and the United States. He is a member of the Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group (NPRG). 

Mele, Valentina is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds, where she is currently working on the reception of Dante and the Duecento poetry and culture in the poets of the Berkeley Renaissance. She was previously IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UCC. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge (2020), after obtaining a Mst at the University of Oxford and a BA and MA at the Università degli Studi di Padova. She is the coDirector of the Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland and Associate Director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies.  

Mereu Keating, Carla (PhD, University of Reading) is a Research Associate in the Department of Film and Television of the University of Bristol working on the ERC-funded project STUDIOTEC. From 2016 to 2019 Carla was British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Modern Languages. Before moving to Bristol, she held a number of teaching and research posts including a visiting Research Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, SAS, University of London in 2015. She is the author of The Politics of Dubbing (2016) and is currently at work on the co-authored book Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy (1930-60). She is interested in the industrial, socio-political, and material issues which underpin the production and circulation of film and media across national boundaries.  

Miglianti, Giovanni is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Wesleyan University. He holds a Laurea in Lettere (University of Udine), an MPhil in Comparative Literature (University of Cambridge), and an MPhil and a PhD in Italian Studies (Yale University). His main research interests lie in modern Italian literature and cultural history, with a special focus on affect theory, biopolitics, and Holocaust studies. His articles on Italian Holocaust literature have appeared in the Journal of War and Culture Studies and California Italian Studies. His first book project, Affect and the Holocaust: Rethinking Representation in Italian Culture (1944-2022), investigates Holocaust memory through the lenses of emotion and sexuality, providing the first affective history of cultural representations of the Shoah in Italy.  

Milner, Stephen is Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester and a cultural historian who works across the fields of modern languages, literary studies, communication studies, political thought and urban/architectural history. His research specialisms are in classical reception; Italian late medieval and Renaissance literature, social and political history; the history of rhetoric and humanism; Machiavelli and European political thought; and the history of manuscript production and printing. He is currently working on the implication of late medieval and Renaissance Italian cultural forms and authors in the multiple discourses that emerged with the Industrial Revolution in Britain, seeking to recover the radicalism of such translations in the specific regional context of North West England during the long nineteenth century. The aim of the work is to add complexity to the benign identification of Italian Renaissance culture as an instrument of civilization in the hands of the new mercantile elite for the articulation of discrete urban identities. Publications include the edited and co-edited volumes Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City (2004); At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy (2005); The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in the Middle Ages (2008); The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio (2015); and the Everyman edition of Machiavelli’s Prince and Other Political Writings (1995).   

Minnucci, Alessandro Ludovico I am a graduate student at the University of Chicago, pursuing Italian Studies and Theatre and Performance Studies. I earned a Laurea Triennale (BA) in Classics from the University of Bologna in 2015, with a focus on the play 'I Menechini,' a Renaissance translation of Plautus’ 'Menaechmi.' In 2018, I achieved a Laurea Magistrale (MA) with honors in Modern Philology from the University of Bologna. My thesis explored the history of poetry slam in Italy. My current project investigates contemporary Italian spoken word, emphasizing its role in amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities. It also explores new scholarly communication methods by establishing a collective archive of performances for both academic and local use. I am a part of Zoopalco, a collective of performance poetry based in Bologna. My other research interests include the presence of orality in the history of Italian literature, Italian Renaissance theatre, Gruppo 63, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Ecopoetics.  

Mitchell, Kate is Senior Lecturer in Italian Culture, Media and Gender at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where she teaches gender, media studies and modern celebrity culture. She is author of Gender, Writing, Spectatorships: Evenings at the Theatre, Opera and Silent Screen in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy and Beyond (Routledge, 2022), Italian Women Writers: Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910 (Toronto University Press, 2014), and among her co-edited volumes are Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy: Between Private and Public Spheres (Peter Lang, 2013) and Matilde Serao: International Profile, Reception, and Networks (Classiques Garnier, 2022).   

Monaco, Giulia received her Master’s degree in Italian Philology from the Roma TRE University (Rome, Italy). Her MA thesis focused on the manuscript tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron. Some of the results were presented at the 2020’s edition of the International Seminar Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni (Certaldo, Italy, 10th-11th September 2020) and published in the Proceedings. She is currently in the final year of a PhD program in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples L’Orientale (Naples, Italy), where she is writing a thesis in Italian Literature under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Vecce. Her research interests are devoted to the printed illustrated tradition of Dante’s Commedia and to Landino’s commentary. In the year 2023, Giulia delivered papers at the International Congress of Dante Studies (Ravenna, Italy, 17th-20th May) and at the National Congress of the Italian Studies Association (ADI, XXVI edition, Naples, Italy, 14th-16th September 2023). She is the author of a contribution in press in the journal «Annali-sezione romanza», printed by the University of Naples L’Orientale (AION). Between October and November 2023 Giulia was a visiting doctoral student at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the Oxford University, under the supervision of Prof. Simon Gilson. 

Montalto, Riccardo è Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo a) dal 2023 in Paleografia presso il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’. Le sue ricerche si soffermano in particolare sui sistemi di produzione e sui circuiti di fruizione dei manoscritti greci e latini in epoca bassomedievale e rinascimentale. È altresì incaricato della redazione del Catalogo dei manoscritti greci della Biblioteca Vallicelliana per la Commissione «Indici e Cataloghi» della Direzione Generale Educazione, ricerca e istituti culturali del Ministero della Cultura.  

Montemaggi, Vittorio is the Academic Director at the Notre Dame London Global Gateway and the Director of the Von Hugel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry at St. Edmund's College Cambridge. Vittorio previously served on the faculty at Notre Dame between 2009 and 2017, and most recently as a Lecturer in Religion at King's College London. His interests include the relationship between literary and theological reflection, the relationship between language, truth and love, and the interconnections between the question of the relationship between theism and atheism and that of the relationship between tragedy and comedy. His research to date has focused primarily on the works of Dante and Primo Levi, while his comparative interests also entail exploration of the works Augustine, Gregory the Great, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Roberto Benigni.  

Moorman, Gloria is a postdoctoral research associate working on the AHRC-funded project ‘Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page,’ based at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. She is also a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (CSR), University of Warwick, where she received her PhD. Gloria adopts book- and art-historical approaches to investigate the cultural agency of early modern printed artefacts. She takes a special interest in Renaissance geography and the representation of cities in word and image. Gloria was the first recipient of the Elsevier Prize (2014) and a finalist for the biennial prize in Italian Studies of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (2020). Based on her doctoral dissertation, Gloria's first monograph, The Power and Politics of the City Book (under contract with Brill’s Library of the Written Word series), will reveal how Jo[h]an Blaeu’s Theatrum Italiae (c. 1660s-1680s) artfully accommodated the making of golden age narratives on a modernized footing, proclaiming the past and present splendour of Italian cities and states, from Medici Tuscany to Turin and the Italo-French Savoyard State.  

Moro, Carlotta is a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant in Italian at the University of St Andrews. Her thesis, titled Gender and Faith: Feminism, Mysticism, and the Bible in the Works of Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella, considers the role of religion, the Bible, and a lineage of female saints and mystics in these early modern women’s writings and in the development of their feminist ideas. Carlotta’s research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, in conjunction with a St Leonard’s European Doctoral Award. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Renaissance Quarterly, The Italianist, and Romance Studies, and she has contributed a chapter in the collection Early Modern Voices in Contemporary Literature and on Screen (2024), edited by Ambra Moroncini and Aaron Khan. Carlotta is the founder of Genealogia Femminile, an online platform aimed at the promotion and dissemination of early modern women’s writing. Conference organisation: PGRNS (Postgraduate Gender Research Network of Scotland) Gendering 2020(+1) Conference (February 2021, held on Zoom).  

Moroncini, Ambra is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex. Her main fields of research are on early modern culture; the concept of resistance in Italian culture; women’s writing. She is the author of Michelangelo’s Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation (Routledge, 2017), and has co-edited several books and published several articles and book chapters in relation to her fields of research. She has co-organised two major International Conferences at the University of Sussex (SIS Themed Conference in 2018 included) and several Conference Panels, among which, ‘Michelangelo's Poetry: a Reappraisal’, for the SIS Themed Conference (2016), and two panels on ‘Comedy, Burlesque and the Plurality of Discourses in Early Modern Italy’, co-organised with Prof. Stefano Jossa for the ACSI (2015).  

Morone, Antonio is Associate Professor of Contemporary African History and Coordinator of the M.A. in African and Asian Studies at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, Pavia University. He has been a visiting professor at Tripoli University, La Manuba University in Tunis, the University Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah in Fes, the National University of Tres Febrero and Cordoba in Argentina, the American University in Cairo, Northwestern University, and Harvard University. His research interests focus on colonial and postcolonial societies of North Africa and the Horn of Africa. Among his recent publications are Histories of Nationalism beyond Europe: Myths, Elitism, and Transnational Connections (Palgrave Macmillan: 2022, edited with Jan Záhořík) and Gli ultimi ascari d’Italia: Il colonialismo repubblicano, le migrazioni dall’Africa e le discriminazioni razziali (1943-1960) (Le Monnier: 2022). He served as the Chairperson of the Italian Association for African Studies from 2012 to 2014.  

Mosca, Beatrice è una dottoranda del XXXVIII ciclo del dottorato di Medium e Medialità (Filologia dantesca e Traduzioni) presso l’Università eCampus (Novedrate, Como), avente come docente- tutor la Prof.ssa Elisabetta Tonello. La sua ricerca verte sulla filologia dantesca nell’ambito della quale studia i rapporti tra i manoscritti all’interno della famiglia mad della Commedia e sulle sue prime traduzioni in Spagna. Attualmente collabora per la nuova edizione critica della Commedia del Prof. Paolo Trovato (Università di Ferrara) e della Prof.ssa Elisabetta Tonello (Università eCampus).  

Moscarda Mirković, Eliana holds the position of Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula in Croatia. She graduated with honours (summa cum laude) from the University of Trieste in Italy and obtained her MSc from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia. Her master's thesis focused on "The role of memory in the prose of Italian authors of Istria and Kvarner." She earned her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb with a doctoral thesis titled "Multilingual, intercultural, and intertextual polyphony in the literary production of Carolus. L. Cergoly." She has authored numerous scientific articles published in academic journals worldwide. Additionally, she has written three monographs exploring Istrian writers who compose and publish in Italian, multilingualism in literature and linguistic constructions of the Istriot language. Her academic engagements extend to delivering conference presentations at both national and international levels. Actively involved in academic communities, she serves as a member of several associations and university boards. As the principal investigator, Dr. Moscarda Mirković leads the international research project "Linguistic and Cultural Memory Archive of Istria." Moreover, she assumes the role of chief editor for the scientific journal Studia Polensia and directs the Graduate Double Degree Diploma (ITALI) program in collaboration with the University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy. Her comprehensive expertise in Italian literature and linguistic studies has solidified her position as a distinguished academic figure with a notable impact on the field.  

Murphy, Ruth is a final-year PhD student at St John's College, University of Cambridge. Her thesis, supervised by Professor Robert Gordon, examines the ethical thought of a group of 20th-century writers who have become 'secular prophets' – writers to whom we continue to turn in order to understand past and present injustices; in particular, Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, and James Baldwin. She is especially interested in non-fiction writing that combines aspects of moral philosophy, literature, and journalism. Forthcoming publications include articles for New Literary History, 'Let me look again. The Moral Philosophy and Literature Debate at 40' (NLH Vol. 55., No. 1, spring 2024) and, for a special issue of Annali d'Italianistica, 'The Child in Adult Fiction. Useppe and the ethical vision of Elsa Morante's La Storia' (autumn 2024). In January 2024, Ruth will begin a post-doctoral post at the University of Sheffield, as part of the Life Worth Living project.   

Mussgnung, Florian is Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at University College London and Vice Dean International in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He also holds a fixed-term professorial double appointment in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Rome / Università degli Studi Roma Tre. He has published widely on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century literature, theory and culture, with a focus on the environmental humanities, creative critical practice, and narratives of apocalyptic world-making, catastrophe and radical change. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes Dwelling on Grief: Narratives of Mourning across Time and Forms (Legenda, 2022); Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing (Peter Lang, 2021); Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative Approaches and Questions of Genre (UCL Press, 2021). He is currently working on a book about neo-Malthusian speculative fiction in post-war Italy, Dystopian Intimacies: Italian Literature in the Age of Catastrophic Environmentalism, which will be published by Liverpool University Press. Mussgnug is co-director of UCL Anthropocene, a multidisciplinary research hub which brings together specialists from the social sciences, arts and humanities, life sciences, and environmental and health sciences. In July 2021, he organised four pre-COP26 events with scholars and activists, “Sustainability as Cultural Practice: Verbal and Visual Art, History and the Environmental Humanities”, which were hosted by the BSR and the British Embassy in Italy, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry for Ecological Transition and Sapienza University Rome, and which saw the participation of ninety-four student delegates from twenty-four universities in twelve countries. He is the founding editor of two book series, New Comparative Criticism (Peter Lang) and Comparative Literature and Culture (UCL Press, with Timothy Mathews). He has held visiting and honorary positions at Sapienza University Rome, the Universities of Siena, Oxford, and Cagliari, and the BSR, and was a Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg’s Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS). In spring 2022, he was elected to a life membership of Academia Europaea. 

Natale, Massimo teaches Italian Literature at the University of Verona. He has spent periods of study and research in Paris (Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle) and New York (NYU), and he taught as Visiting Professor at the University of Fribourg (CH). His scholarly interests include, in addition to Leopardi (with Franco D’Intino he edited Leopardi, Carocci, 2018) and his reception in Italy and the world; tragic theater; the fortunes of the ancient among moderns (with Giuseppe Sandrini he edited Gli antichi dei moderni. Dodici letture da Leopardi a Zanzotto, Fiorini 2010) and twentieth-century poetry (his essays are dedicated to Sereni, Luzi, Raboni, Bandini). As for Zanzotto, he has edited a book of readings (“A foglia ed a gemma”. Letture dall’opera poetica di Andrea Zanzotto, edited by M. Natale and G. Sandrini, Carocci 2016) and written on his poetry (Il sorriso di lei. Studi su Zanzotto, Scripta 2016). More recently, he has been interested in the prose of Claudio Magris (Com’è fatto Danubio di Claudio Magris, Stilistica e metrica italiana, 19, 2019) and Walter Siti. His most recent monograph is devoted to contemporary poetry: Corpo a corpo. Sulla poesia contemporanea: sette letture (Quodlibet 2023). A member of the scientific committee of the National Center for Leopardi Studies, he is National Coordinator of PRIN 2020 Leopardi and the Ancient: a digital archive and directs the Research Center L’eredità di Leopardi. He collaborates with “Alias” – cultural supplement of “Il Manifesto”, for which he runs the column “Italian Poets”.   

O’Connell, Daragh (PhD 2006), Senior Lecturer and Head of Department in Italian and Director of the Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland at University College Cork. I am the Head of the Department of Italian, UCC and Director of the CDSI (Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland). I previously held the position of Head of Research in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Director of CASiLaC (Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures). I research across three distinct areas: Dante Studies; Modern and Contemporary Sicilian Literature; 18th Century Neapolitan Autobiography. My main field of interest is Dante, in particular Dante and 13th and 14th Century Court Culture. I have published widely on Dante, including Art and Nature in Dante (with Jennifer Petrie, 2013), War and Peace in Dante (2015) and Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins (both with John C. Barnes, 2017). I am currently editing the volume Luoghi e spazi reali e ideali nell’opera e nella vita di Dante (Cesati, 2024). I have also published extensively on modern and contemporary Sicilian literature (writers on which I have published include Verga, De Roberto, Pirandello, Sciascia, Tomasi di Lampedusa), and on the narrative poetics of Vincenzo Consolo in particular. My monograph, La trilogia dell Trinacria: polifonia e palinsesti nella narrativa di Vincenzo Consolo (Milan: Mimesis) will be published later this year. I also work on autobiographical writing in Naples in the Eighteenth-century, with a particular focus on Giambattista Vico and Pietro Giannone and the History of Ideas. In 2014 I co-edited (with D. Trapassi) the volume: L'arte della scrittura delle vite: Contesti auto-biografici e autobiografismo nella letteratura italiana (Florence: Cesati, 2014). My undergraduate teaching covers some of these areas, especially Dante and the literature of the Early Modern period. I also set up with colleagues in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures the Masters in Translation Studies.  

Paino, Marina insegna Letteratura italiana contemporanea presso l’Università di Catania, dove dirige attualmente il Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche. Avviatasi alla ricerca negli anni 90 con un dottorato in Lessicografia e semantica dell’italiano letterario, negli anni dottorali ha avuto modo di approfondire questioni relative al trattamento digitale dei testi poetici, anche con soggiorni di studio negli Stati Uniti (Università di Chicago e Università di Washington), per seminari di indirizzo metodologico con linguisti e storici letterari specialisti nei settori della lessicografia e dell'informatica umanistica. Nel corso della carriera ha preso parte ad una ventina di progetti CNR e PRIN sulla letteratura dell’Otto-Novecento, e ha avuto modo di presentare i propri studi in numerosi convegni nazionali ed internazionali, in diverse sedi italiane ed europee. Questo originario versante della formazione alla ricerca ha trovato esito ultimo nell’apporto dato come cofondatrice al Centro di informatica umanistica dell’Università di Catania. Nel 2020 è stata nominata dal Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca nel pool di esperti incaricati della redazione del Piano Nazionale della Ricerca 2021-2027, con riferimento alle Discipline storiche, letterarie ed artistiche. Si è occupata di autori rappresentativi della contemporaneità letteraria, secondo prospettive di tipo filologico, intertestuale, concordanziale (come coautrice ha firmato le edizioni delle concordanze di Saba e di Rebora). È autrice di saggi e libri sulla poesia e la narrativa italiana dell’ultimo secolo, editi in sedi nazionali e internazionali.  

Paltrinieri, Carlotta is Lecturer of Early Modern Italian studies at Royal Holloway. Before joining Royal Holloway, she was Assistant Director of the Medici Archive Project, and Senior Researcher in the programme ‘Towards a National Collection’. She has held research fellowships at the University College Cork, the Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max Planck Institute for Art History, and at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London. Her research interests lie at the intersection of intellectual and social history, and artistic literature. Her most recent publications focus on the sociological analysis of art academies, and on the study of the rhetoric of early modern newsletters. 

Parisi, Luciano is associate professor of Italian literature at the University of Exeter, in the UK. He studied at the universities of Genoa and Bologna, in Italy, and at Boston College (PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures) in the US. Before moving to Exeter, he taught at Boston University, Oxford Brookes, Royal Holloway University of London, and Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Borgese (Turin, Tirrenia, 2000), Manzoni e Bossuet (Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2003), Come abbiamo letto Manzoni (Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2008), Uno specchio infranto. Adolescenti e abuso sessuale nell'opera di Alberto Moravia (Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2013), and Giovani e abuso sessuale nella letteratura italiana, 1902-2018 (Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2021). His latest article, ‘Le forme dell’immaginazione nei romanzi di Domenico Starnone ed Elena Ferrante’ was published in Modern Language Notes, vol. 138 (2023), no. 1, pp. 191-214.  

Parisi, Sara is a Teaching Fellow in Italian Studies at the University of Warwick. She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where she also taught Italian language and culture to undergraduates and postgraduates. Her doctoral research project explored the use of ekphrasis in the works of the Italian author Leonardo Sciascia. Her current research investigates the intersections between images and words, with a particular focus on the ontological meaning of ekphrasis, on the role it has in producing a viewing subject and on the different ekphrastic strategies and functions that authors have adopted throughout the ages. She is also one of the editors of Kepos, a peer reviewed Academic Journal of Italian Literature.  

Parodi, Jacopo si è formato all’Università di Pisa. Nel 2021 ha conseguito la laurea triennale in Lettere, con una tesi intitolata «Pietà, dove si ascolta / L’uomo che è solo con sé». La presenza di Agostino nella poesia italiana del Novecento (relatore: prof. M. Ciccuto). Nel 2023, invece, si è laureato in Italianistica con una tesi dedicata a Giulio Bollati: L’umanista dietro le quinte. Per una biografia intellettuale di Giulio Bollati (relatore: prof. M. Zaccarello; correlatore: prof.ssa C. Savettieri). Dal 2018 al 2023 è stato anche allievo ordinario della Scuola Normale. Attualmente è dottorando in Italianistica dell’Università di Pisa, sotto la guida del prof. M. Zaccarello e del prof. N. Scaffai, con un progetto di ricerca volto alla ricostruzione di alcuni momenti cruciali del percorso narrativo di Daniele Del Giudice, sulla base dell’archivio lasciato dall’autore.  

Patti, Emanuela is Lecturer in Italian and Director of EDI at the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in the circulation of themes, stories, and characters across arts and media from the Middle Ages to the present, with a special focus on phenomena of reception, appropriation, representation, fictionalisation across time and cultures. She has recently been awarded a RSE Personal Research Fellowship for the project 'David Rizzio: History and Myth Across Arts and Media' (2024-2025). Her methodology thus draws upon theories of intermediality and  transmediality which she has contributed to develop. Patti has published extensively on Pier Paolo Pasolini, including the monograph Pasolini after Dante. The Divine Mimesis and the politics of representation (Legenda, 2016). In 2022, she organised the distinguished lectures series Pasolini and the classics for Pasolini 100th anniversary. She has also published widely on the Italian Neoavanguardia, experimental literature developed at the intersection between literary forms and digital media, and digital humanities, including the co-edited volume, with C. Brook, Transmedia. Storia, memoria e narrazioni attraverso i media (Mimesis, 2014), and her second monograph Opera aperta. Italian electronic literature from the 1960s to the present (Peter Lang, 2022) - which is the runner-up of the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism in Electronic Literature 2023. As part of her ongoing research on Italian Studies and the digital, she is currently co-editing, with Massimo Riva, the volume The digital turn in Italian Studies (forthcoming with Peter Lang, 2026). 

Pavan, Emma is enrolled in the International Doctorate Studi Filologici-Letterari e Storico-Culturali at the University of Cagliari, and in the Doctorat Lettres et arts spécialité Littérature générale et comparée at the University of Grenoble Alpes. With her research project Dopo il paesaggio? Il paesaggio letterario nel secondo Novecento (After the Landscape? Literary Landscape in the second half of the 20th Century) she studies landscape forms and functions in contemporary Italian poetry. She graduated in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics at the University of Bologna (a.y. 2018/19) with a thesis in theatre literature entitled Il mito nella poetica di Giuliano Scabia (Myth in the poetics of Giuliano Scabia). Her most recent publications are E. Pavan, Un poeta del vedere? Hypothèses sur d’autres formes de perception dans l’œuvre de Giorgio Orelli, in F. Pisanelli (ed.), Natura, sensi, sentimenti. Prospettive critiche sulla poesia italiana del XX e del XXI secolo, Florence, Franco Cesati, 2023, forthcoming; E. Pavan «Osservando dall’altro…»: storicità dello sguardo in Zanzotto, in G. Bongiorno, A. Cortellessa, L. Toppan (ed.), Zanzotto europeo. La sua poesia di movimento, Florence, Franco Cesati, 2023, pp. 95-102; E. Pavan, «Qualche cosa che non si stanca mai di lasciarsi definire». Il paesaggio tra arte e natura in Andrea Zanzotto, in G. Carrara e L. Neri (ed.), Con i buoni sentimenti si fanno brutti libri? Etiche, estetiche e problemi della rappresentazione, COMPALIT 2021 conference proceedings, Milan, Ledizioni, 2022, pp. 183-194; E. Pavan, Dire il paesaggio in Pusterla, in «L’Ulisse», XXIV, 2021, pp. 166-173.  

Peerawat Chiaranunt is a doctoral candidate in Medieval & Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, where with the support of the Clarendon Fund, he is disserting on Dante Alighieri’s philosophical conception of celestial causality and the related notion of Universal Nature. Beyond Dante studies, his research interest is in the premodern history of ideas and the role of literature therein.  

Pellerito, James Born and raised in Italy, James Pellerito is an award-winning fiction and documentary filmmaker whose work has screened at over 200 festivals worldwide, won over thirty awards, aired on HBO Latino, Sundance TV, Logo TV and PBS America, and been reviewed in Variety, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter. Pellerito is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Film and Media Production at Emory University and a PhD candidate in Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University. His research centers on audience reception and race and sexuality in contemporary Italian film and media. He holds a BA in Film Studies from Columbia University, an MA in Humanities from NYU and an MFA in Directing and Screenwriting from the Columbia University School of the Arts. He is the cofounding director of the New York City Short Film Festival (NYC Shorts), now in its 20th year.  

Pepin, Ryan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York. After completing his PhD on Dante at Cambridge (2020), he was a postdoc at the Medieval Latin Institute, University of Vienna, and Marco Praloran Fellow at the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini in Florence. Just prior to coming to York, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame.  

Perna, Ciro è professore associato di letteratura italiana all’Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. È stato visiting professor all’Università Ritsumeikan di Kyoto (giugno 2023), dirige diversi progetti di respiro internazionale (IDP2.0, D.A.N.T.E., LiMINA), ha pubblicato saggi sulla ricezione dantesca, su autori come Tasso, Pellegrino, Giambullari, Jaccarino e sulla musica degli Almamegretta, anticipati in numerosi convegni nazionali e internazionali  

Perosa, Giulia is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a research project on Federigo Tozzi and the paradigms of the ‘non-conscious’. She completed her doctoral studies at the universities of Verona and Geneva under the supervision of G. Sandrini and C.E. Roggia. Subsequently, she was a fellow at the Cini Foundation in Venice and, from 2021 to 2023, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Udine, working on a project about Svevo under the guidance of S. Contarini. In November 2023, she obtained the national scientific qualification as an associate professor for the field of contemporary Italian literature. Her research interests include the works of Gadda, tuparich, and Svevo, with a particular focus on philology and the history of ideas. She has published the monograph Gadda e il paesaggio: modi, funzioni, prospettive (Mimesis, 2023), and also a few articles concerning Gadda (the last one has appeared in «Strumenti critici» 2023). In addition she edited the correspondence between Giani and Carlo Stuparich (EUT, 2019) and co-edited the edition of Stuparich’s diary with S. Contarini and B. Del Buono (EUT, 2023). She also authored several contributions, including articles and book chapters on Svevo, Stuparich, and the translator Olga Resnevič Signorelli (published in «Studi Novecenteschi» in 2018 and 2022, «Lingue antiche e moderne» in 2022, and «PEML» in 2023).   

Perpetuini, Stefano Sono un dottorando in Studi Umanistici Transculturali presso l’Università degli studi di Bergamo e in Romance Studies presso la Hebrew University of Jerusalem, dove ho insegnato Lingua Italiana e Letteratura Italiana Contemporanea. I miei interessi di ricerca riguardano prevalentemente quest’ultima e, nello specifico, mi occupo dell’opera di Stefano D’Arrigo, che ho indagato nei suoi rapporti intertestuali in generale, e con l’opera dantesca in particolare. Ho pubblicato a riguardo un saggio dal titolo Il corpo ‘scodato’. Corporeità umana e non nell’inferno di Horcynus Orca di Stefano D’Arrigo, che analizza l’uso del corpo nel romanzo orcinuso e la sua analogia con quello dantesco. Attualmente, nel mio progetto di ricerca, mi sto concentrando sul legame delle opere dello scrittore con i testi sacri. Mi interesso, inoltre, di letteratura della resistenza e di letteratura abruzzese.  

Perrotta, Annalisa è professoressa associata di Letteratura italiana alla Sapienza Università di Roma, dove insegna anche Studi delle donne e di genere. Si interessa di letteratura del Rinascimento italiano ed europeo e in particolare di poema cavalleresco e di teatro. Ha scritto sui poemi anonimi e popolari a stampa (monografia: I cristiani e gli Altri. Guerre di religione, politica e propaganda nel poema cavalleresco di fine Quattrocento, Roma 2017) e sui poemi Altobello, Persiano di Francesco Cieco da Firenze, Trabisonda, Rovenza, Ancroia, Falconetto, il Morgante, l’Inamoramento de Orlando, il Mambriano e l’Orlando furioso. Sta preparando, insieme a Jane E. Everson e Anna Carocci, l’edizione critica e commentata del Mambriano. Si occupa inoltre di scrittura delle donne tra Ottocento e Novecento e dell’organizzazione dei cicli di seminari annuali del Laboratorio di Studi femministi Sguardi sulle differenze della Sapienza. Recentemente, insieme ad Anna Carocci, ha organizzato panel all’interno dei Congressi Adi (Associazione degli Italianisti) Foggia 2022 e Napoli 2023 e sta collaborando all’organizzazione delle lecturae dell’Inamoramento de Orlando di Boiardo (libri II e III).  

Pesarini, Angelica is an Assistant Professor in Race and Cultural Studies/Race and Diaspora and Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. Her work seeks to expand the field of Black Italia focusing on dynamics of race, gender, identity, and citizenship. She is interested in the racialization of the political discourse on immigration, and she is among the co-founders of The Black Mediterranean Collective, which published The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). She wrote several essays, peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and delivered numerous talks and public lectures internationally. She is the author of a short story in Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi (Future. Tomorrow narrated by today’s voices, 2019), an anthology written by eleven Italian women of African descent, and she co-translated into Italian Undercommons. Fugitive Planning and Black Study by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, and Blues Legacies and Black feminism by Angela Y. Davis. Angelica is currently writing a book on the lived experience of Black “mixed race” Italian women during the (post)colonial fascist period in East Africa, and the use of oral sources as counternarratives. As a scholar- activist, she is engaged in the Italian anti-racist movement, and she is investigating the impacts of BLM in Italy.  

Piantanida, Cecilia is Assistant Professor of Italian at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Warwick. She previously taught at Durham University and the University of Oxford, where she also obtained her doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages. Her publications explore narratives of individual and cultural origins from the nineteenth century to the present from comparative and transnational perspectives; key areas of interest include classical reception in modern and contemporary poetry, and transnational identities and migration in contemporary visual culture and literature in Italian. She is also very much invested in pedagogical scholarship and practice related to the teaching and learning of modern languages. Her work in this field focuses on transnational and intercultural approaches to teaching Italian language and literature, the role of creativity in the language class, and issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education. Recent contributions include the article ‘Transnational Perspectives in the Italian Language Class: The Uses of Non-Native Literature to Develop Intercultural Competence’ (2020) and the conference paper ‘Hybridity and Transnationalism in the Modern Language Class’ (IMLR 2021).  She is also currently coediting a volume on Transnational Language Teaching.  

Pieri, Giuliana (Dott. Lett. Pavia; MA Kent; DPhil Oxon) is Professor of Italian and the Visual Arts, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International), and Executive Dean of the School of Humanities at Royal Holloway University of London. She has published widely on 19th- and 20th-century visual culture, cultural history, and popular literature. Her research interests are comparative and interdisciplinary, combining a focus on the intersection of the verbal and the visual with curatorial practice and its pedagogical applications. In 2010 she co-curated the exhibition Against Mussolini. Art and the Fall of a Dictator (London, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art). She returned to curatorial practice in 2019 with the exhibition The Making of Modern Italy: Art and Design in the early 1960s (Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London) as part of the AHRC funded research project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia: www.interdisciplinaryitaly.org . 

Polanowska, Patrycja è docente presso il Dipartimento d’Italianistica dell’Università di Varsavia. Negli ultimi anni si è occupata principalmente del tema della memoria nella poesia italiana contemporanea, completando il dottorato di ricerca con una tesi intitolata Milo De Angelis e la memoria dell’eterno ritorno. Ha partecipato ad una serie di convegni internazionali e ha pubblicato articoli su varie riviste, tra cui «Quaderni d’Italianistica», «Polisemie», «L’ospite ingrato», «Tekstualia», « Philological Studies UJK».  

Portesine, Chiara è assegnista di ricerca presso la Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Dopo aver svolto un percorso legato prevalentemente ai poeti sperimentali del secondo Novecento e alle relazioni interdisciplinari tra poesia e arte (libri illustrati, cataloghi d’arte e, soprattutto, scritture ecfrastiche), ha avviato un progetto di edizione critica del primo romanzo di Gian Pietro Lucini (Gian Pietro da Core, 1895). Ha pubblicato articoli su Alberto Arbasino, Gianfranco Baruchello, Umberto Fiori, Giorgio Manganelli, Edoardo Sanguineti, Emilio Villa, Andrea Zanzotto e Corrado Costa, di cui ha curato i due volumi di Poesie pubblicati da Argolibri (il terzo, sul teatro, è in uscita nel 2024). Nel 2021 è uscita per Fabrizio Serra una monografia dal titolo «Una specie di Biennale allargata». Il giuoco dell’ecfrasi nel secondo romanzo di Edoardo Sanguineti. È in corso di pubblicazione una seconda monografia intitolata La continuazione degli occhi. Ecfrasi e forma-Galeria nelle poesie della Neoavanguardia (1956-1979) (Edizioni della Scuola Normale, 2024).  

Powell, Céline is a PhD student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich (Germany) and teaching assistant at the same university (starting in January 2024) through the Marianne-Plehn-Programme. Since February 2021 she prepares a dissertation on female translators active in 18th century Italy. Her project was awarded a One-Year-Research-Grant issued by the DAAD in 2021 and in 2022 she won a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In autumn 2022 she was Visiting PhD at the University of Verona (Italy), where she conducted archive research in cooperation with its Centre C.R.E.S. and during spring 2023 she held a Visiting PhD position at the University of Vienna (Austria). She took part in international conferences as speaker and panel organiser (CAIS 2021 and 2022, ANZAMEMS 2022, SIS 2023 interim conference) and presented her research in several seminars such as ISIH’s 2022 edition of Women in Intellectual History. She also published articles addressing women’s literature in Italy, ("Ritratti di uomini illustri sotto la penna di Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi e Silvia Curtoni Verza” on Kepos rivista (2/2021, pp. 48-73); “Gli Epicedi di Francesca Roberti Franco. Un percorso emozionale al crocevia delle tradizioni”, Editions Spartacus, forthcoming) and translating issues. SIS member since July 2023.  

Powlesland, Katherine (Associate Consultant SUMS Consulting) has worked extensively to support coordinated EDI planning in the highly devolved postgraduate research space, including across doctoral training partnerships. She is also equally at home with strategy development and bespoke problem-solving in the taught postgraduate and undergraduate spaces, including student recruitment and widening participation, the student journey, teaching and learning, portfolio review, competitive positioning, and institutional strategic vision and planning. She returned to academia as a mature student to undertake a PhD in Italian and the Digital Humanities at Cambridge, going on to teach undergraduates in the Italian Section and the Faculty of English. She continues to write and publish on her principal academic interest – reading the medieval poet Dante through a lens of video game critical theory.  

Protani, Chiara graduated in 2022 in modern philology from Sapienza University of Rome, earning a joint degree with Sorbonne University, Paris. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in the XXXVIII cycle at the University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum, specializing in languages, literatures, and modern cultures with a curriculum in Dese (Les Littératures de l’Europe Unie / European Literatures). Her doctoral thesis is conducted in collaboration with the French University Clermont-Auvergne. Her primary research interests are in comparative literature, with a specific focus on myth criticism and trauma studies. Her research project centers on the study of reinterpretations of the myth of Antigone in the European literary landscape (Italy, France, Spain), analyzing the significance that the character assumes in light of historical situations and traumatic experiences of the 20th century.  

Puddu, Mauro is Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, specialising in the archaeology of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. His research focuses on the material aspects of power dynamics, delving into the history of marginalised and subaltern individuals in Roman Sardinia and the Roman Empire at large. To accomplish this, he draws inspiration from postcolonial theory, archaeogenetic analyses, and semiotics, employing these frameworks to reconstruct and provide context to the archaeological narratives and identities of those historically excluded from positions of power. After studying archaeology in Cagliari (BA, MA 2002-2009), Mauro moved to UCL for my second MA in Theoretical Archaeology (EU-funded, 2010-2011), after which he began a PhD in Classics at the University of Cambridge (funded, 2012-2017). His research is expanded and informed by his years working as a field archaeologist in commercial archaeology in the UK (with PCA, CAU, MOLA 2014-2019).     

Puglisi, Alessandro has been involved in research on the relationships between digital technologies and learning for many years. He received his PhD in Linguistics and Teaching Italian to Foreigners from University for Foreigners of Siena in 2021 with a dissertation on social networks within massive online language learning contexts. As a teacher of Italian to foreigners and a researcher at the same time, he had the opportunity to explore some of the major issues related to language learning in relation to technological development. His research interests include social learning networks analysis, sociolinguistics in digital media, artificial intelligence in language education.  

Raffini, Daniel è assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale di Sapienza Università di Roma, dove si occupa di rapporti tra letteratura e intelligenza artificiale da un punto di vista teorico e storico-letterario. È docente a contratto di Letteratura Italiana Contemporanea presso l’Università dell’Aquila e di Informatica applicata ai beni culturali presso Sapienza. Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Italianistica presso Sapienza ed è stato visiting fellow al gruppo di studi ’Escritoras y Escrituras dell’Università di Siviglia. Ha pubblicato la monografia «Trovare nuove terre o affogare». Europeismi, letterature straniere e potere nelle riviste italiane tra le due guerre (Sapienza Editrice, 2021) e articoli in riviste scientifiche su vari autori e autrici, tra cui Vincenzo Consolo, Lalla Romano, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Gianni Celati, Luciano Bianciardi, Pier Paolo Pasolini.  

Rayson, George is a third-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge, where he co-organised the Centenary Celebration of New Voices in UK and Irish Dante Studies conference (2021), the SIS Themed Conference ‘Affect, Emotion, Sensation’ (2023), and the workshop ‘Working with OVI’s Textual Corpora’ (2023). Having completed his BA in English at the University of York, and his MPhil at Cambridge in European Literatures, he is about to submit his PhD thesis entitled ‘Dante’s hapax legomena in the Commedia: A Study of Poetic Singularity’.  

Rea, Elisabetta è dottoranda presso l’Università dell’Aquila. Si è laureata in Lettere moderne presso l’Università di Napoli Federico II, con una tesi sulle “Continuazioni” sveviane. Ha conseguito il titolo magistrale in Italianistica, culture letterarie europee e scienze linguistiche all’Università di Bologna, con uno studio sulla novellistica di Gianni Celati. Ha pubblicato contributi sulle riviste Status Quaestionis e Aura, e partecipato come relatrice a vari convegni. Fa parte dei gruppi di ricerca Osservatorio sul romanzo contemporaneo e Escritoras y escrituras. I suoi interessi di ricerca si concentrano sulla letteratura delle donne, i cultural studies e la critica ecologica e di genere, e più in generale sull’emergenza delle nuove epistemologie, nel solco di quell’area di studi interessata ad elaborare strategie di lettura e di condivisione che riconoscano le assiologie operanti nei discorsi egemoni. Lavora attualmente ad una proposta teorica per l’analisi delle scritture femminili, concentrando la sua ricerca sul contesto italiano a partire dalla fine del regime fascista.  

Rebaudengo, Maurizio graduated from the University of Turin with a degree in Italian Theatre Literature from Professor Guido Davico Bonino (thesis on the theatre of Giovan Battista Andreini, from which the monograph G.B. Andreini tra poetica e drammaturgia, Rosenberg&Sellier, Turin 1993). He obtained his PhD in Italian Language and Literature at the University of Connecticut with the thesis Landscapes in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s works under the supervision of Prof. Robert S. Dombroski. He has lectured at the University of Connecticut, the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester - MA), the University of Turin and in high schools, as well as working as an editor at the EdT publishing house in the field of musicology. He has continued to work publishing both on the history of theatre (the pastoral fable in Europe between 1500 and 1600; vol. IV of the Storia del teatro moderno e contemporaneo, Giulio Einaudi Editore) and militant theatre (Stefano Massini and his Lehman Trilogy), as well as on Italian literature (essays on Alfieri, Carducci, Collodi, Gadda, Eco, Lowenthal; currently working on Guido Cavalcanti in the Counter-Reformation period), with an excursion into the history of cinema (Luchino Visconti’s Senso). His interests currently focus on regietheater in its applications to theatre for music, the papers of the Einaudi Fund (Turin State Archives), and the narratives of organised crime in theatre, in collaboration with the Observatoire du Récit criminel (Université Côte d'Azur, Nice), under the coordination of Professors Bertone and Masoni. He regularly participates in national and international conferences.  

Risi, Alessia is a Lecturer in Italian and Film at the University of Exeter. Before joining Exeter, she worked at University College Cork and Dublin Institute of Technology. She completed a PhD in Italian at University College Cork (Ireland, 2013) and specializes in contemporary Italian literature (19th-20st century), film and screen studies. Her research interests are particularly concerned with questions of women's writing, (female) character-making in crime narratives, cinematic precarity, and unresolved girlhood. She focuses on shifts in representational and storytelling modes across different media, placing a significant emphasis on feminist and gender politics. Her published articles cover Italian crime and noir fiction, women’s writing, Elena Ferrante, reader response, and experimental narratives. She has extensive experience in organizing cultural events and conference panels since 2004. This includes having been a member of the Organizing Committee for the Annual Academic Conference 'Roma Noir' (Sapienza, 2004-2007); and for the third interdisciplinary conference of the Atlantic University Alliance, 'Con(tra)vention: Crime and the Boundaries of Genre' (UCC, 2009). She was conference organizer for the '5th Graduate Conference in Italian Studies' (UCC, 2012); and panel organiser for the sessions: 'Contemporary Crime Narratives: Transnational and Transmedial Aspects of a Popular Genre' (AAIS, Zurich, 2014); ‘Italian Feminist Popular Fiction’ (SIS, Oxford, 2015); and ‘Frammento e desiderio di unità: la sintesi narrativa di Elena Ferrante come alternativa all’impasse postmoderno’ (SIS, TCD, 2016). She was also Exhibition Curator for 'Gates No Frontiers' (UCC, 2017), for which she organized the Symposium 'Feminist Insights of Europe Building' (UCC, 2017).  

Robarts, Julie is a literary and cultural historian of Renaissance and Baroque Italy, researching gender in the production and performance of poetry and music. She holds an MA and PhD from the University of Melbourne, where she is an Honorary (Fellow) in Italian Studies. In Semester 1 2024 she held the AEUIFAI Postdoctoral Fellowship, in the History Department, European University Institute, Fiesole. In 2023 she was Redmond Barry Fellow at State Library Victoria and the University of Melbourne. In 2019 she received a Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation Commonwealth grant for research in Venice for research on Barbara Strozzi. Forthcoming publications include Challenging Male Authored Poetry: Margherita Costa’s Marinst Corpus, University of Delaware Press, a translation of Galileo’s treatise Le mechaniche, and a chapter on “Barbarba Strozzi (1619-1677) and the Academia degli Unisoni,” in Barbara Stozzi in Context, edited by Wendy Heller and Beth Glixon, University of Cambridge Press.  

Romanzi, Andrea is a postdoctoral researcher at Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici in Rome and teaches Scandinavian languages and literatures at Università degli Studi in Milan. He obtained his PhD from the Universities of Reading and Bristol through the SWW-DTP, with a thesis on the agency of Italian translator and cultural mediator Fernanda Pivano in the diffusion of American counter-culture literature in Italy after WWII. His main research interests lie in the fields of comparative literature, translation (with a particular interest in translator studies and sociology of translation), and publishing history with a focus on Scandinavian and American literature. He translates literature from the Scandinavian languages and from English into Italian and co-directs the magazine for creative writing, translation, and visual arts LONGITŪDINĖS.   

Rorato, Laura  is Senior Teaching Associate in Italian at Lancaster University.

Rubinacci, Emanuele currently pursuing a second-level Master's in Dramaturgy and Cinematography at the University of Naples Federico II. My academic journey revolves around intensive literature research, having earned both my bachelor's and master's degrees at Federico II University. In 2020, I graduated summa cum laude in Modern Literature with a thesis titled '’Il codice di Palazzeschi: Perelà o la leggerezza della libertà'’, guided by Professor Francesco Paolo Botti. Subsequently, in 2023, I completed my Master's in Modern Philology with top honors (110/110 cum laude), presenting ‘'Il deserto dei Tartari e la spazializzazione del tempo'’, integrating diverse perspectives from physics, sociology, and psychology. My contributions extend beyond academia. At the International Conference ‘'Buzzati, cinquant’anni dopo+1’’, hosted by the University of Salamanca in October 2023, I presented an independent research project titled ‘’Le sabbie mobile di Buzzati’’. Delving into Buzzati's worldview, I used critical tools to reveal his fascination with reality representation and the intricacies of the human condition. Additionally, my passion for writing led me to become a film critic for ‘'La Cooltura'’ online magazine in 2017. My literary endeavors have received recognition, including first place in the literary competition at Liceo Classico Vittorio Emanuele II di Napoli (2013-2014) and notable mentions in subsequent years. I also clinched the top spot in the ‘'ParoleInGiallo'’ Prize's high school category, organized by NapoliNoir in 2014.  

Ruggieri, Marco is a Tutor in Italian and a MHRA Research Associate (Project: Edinburgh Gadda Encyclopedia; PI: Federica Pedriali). He holds a PhD in Italian Studies from The University of Edinburgh (2023). His doctoral thesis, entitled 'The Young Eco's Library: Mass Culture and Interpretive Freedom in the Fascist Period', obtained the John Orr Award in 2018 and will be published by Italian Modernities (Peter Lang) in 2024. He has also published on Umberto Eco and Antonio Gramsci. Marco's current research has two main strands. The first strand investigates the media's representations and self-representations of non-cisgender subjects in the area of Naples (Italy) and explores questions of intersectionality and media visibility. The second strand examines the use of intermediality made by the fascist regime and its impact on the creation of the Italian national identity. These two strands offer different and yet intertwined contributions to Marco's long-standing interdisciplinary research on how the media represent and shape identities, and on the interpretative mechanics underlying the audience’s different responses to mass culture and its underlying ideology. At the 2019 SIS Biennial Conference at The University of Edinburgh, Marco acted as a ‘conference helper’ and co-organised the panel ‘Hegemony in Italian Literature’. At the 2022 SIS Biennial Conference (Warwick), Marco co-organised and chaired the panel ‘Remembering and Forgetting Inter Media: Re-presentations of Italian Collective Memories’.  

Saldutti, Vittorio is Assistant Professor (RTDB) of Greek history at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He completed his PhD in Ancient History at the University of Bari in 2011. His main field of research is Athenian social and political history and its reception in ancient and contemporary historiography.  

Salvadè, Anna Maria is lecturer (RTDb) of Italian Literature at the University of Verona; previously she was a research fellow at the University of Milan (2010-2014; 2015-2019) and at the University of Turin (2021). Her studies focus on currents and authors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular attention to the relationships between science, literature, arts and geography. Among her publications: Imitar gli antichi. Appunti sul Castiglione (Milano, Unicopli, 2006); three critically commented editions (Francesco Algarotti, Poesie, Torino, Aragno, 2009; Carlo Botta, Le vestigia del terrore, Milano, Led, 2011; Francesco Algarotti, Giornale del viaggio da Londra a Petersbourg, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2015).  

Santarelli, Clara after obtaining her BA and MA degrees at the University of Bologna, Clara is now a PhD student at University of Genoa. The focus of her PhD research project is Dante’s influence on Amelia Rosselli’s poetic production.  

Santovetti, Olivia is an Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Leeds. She has written articles on Ferrante, Calvino, Gadda, Pirandello, De Roberto, and others, as well as on the reception of Laurence Sterne in Italy. Among her publications: Digression: A Narrative Strategy in the Italian Novel (2007), Self-reflection in Italian Literature (special issue of The Italianist, 2015), and Lettrici italiane tra arte e letteratura. Dall’Ottocento al modernismo (2021, co-edited with Giovanna Capitelli).   

Saroldi, Anna is Stipendiary Lecturer in Italian at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. Her research looks at collaborative practices in translation and editing across Italian, English, and French in the 20th century. In 2023 she completed her PhD thesis, titled ‘Italian Literature in the US and UK since 1945: Translation and Interaction’ (funded by the AHRC) at the University of Oxford. She has published peer-reviewed contributions in English, French, and Italian on self-translation, heteroglossia, and genetic translation studies, on writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Jacqueline Risset, Vittorio Sereni and Charles Tomlinson, for journals such as Ticontre and Translation in Society. Moreover, Anna has previously organised the panel ‘Translation archives: discovery, engagement, presentation’ for the inaugural conference of the History and Translation Network, held at the University of Tallinn in May 2022. The panel involved three speakers, of different career stage and background, who addressed the archival turn in Translation Studies from different angles. Anna has also organised an international conference (Fictions of Retranslations, 11-12 March 2021, University of Oxford), and convened the Discussion Group in Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford (2020- 21).  

Scandella, Stefano holds a Bachelor’s degree in Italian Literature and Philosophy from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and a Master’s degree with honors in Italian Literature from the same university. He wrote his memoir on Ugo Foscolo's introduction to his commentary on the Divine Comedy, entitled ‘Analytical study of the Discorso sul testo della Commedia’: argumentative structure, outmoded assumptions and admissible results. He is currently in the second year of his doctoral program at New York University (Italian Studies).  

Scialanga, Giulia is an Italian student graduated with a BA in Lettere Moderne (2020) and an MA in Filologia Moderna (2022), both achieved at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. She is currently undertaking an MA in Western Literature at KU Leuven and is an offer-holder for a PhD in Italian at the University of Warwick. Her MA dissertation on the semantics of ‘fear’ in Giacomo Leopardi’s works is part of the forthcoming volume Lessico leopardiano. La paura (Sapienza University Press), edited by Fabio Camilletti and Giulia Scialanga. In May 2023, she presented this research at the conference Leopardi in the UK, held at the University of Oxford (Christ Church College).  

Scriva, Simone graduated in “Lettere moderne” at “Sapienza” University of Rome in 2021 (grade: 109/110), with a thesis in Italian Literature entitled “Il tema della violenza nell’opera di Ugo Foscolo” (supervisor: Prof. Sonia Gentili). In 2023, he obtained a master’s degree (co-degree) in “Filologia moderna” in the same university, with Sorbonne Université (Master Recherche LLCE - Études Italiennes) (grade: 110/110 cum laude) with a thesis in Italian Literature entitled “Il riuso foscoliano dell’opera dantesca” (supervisor: Sonia Gentili, external co-supervisor: Manuele Gragnolati). He is currently a PhD student in “Italianistica” at “Sapienza” University of Rome (XXIX cycle), in joint supervision with Sorbonne Nouvelle (supervisor: Sonia Gentili, co-supervisor: Maria Silvia Tatti, external co-supervisor: Laurent Baggioni), with a research project that aims to provide an initial exhaustive examination of Dante’s presences in Foscolo’s work, as well as a thematic analysis of the above-mentioned presences.  

Serafini, Stefano is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Padua, Italy. He received a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Toronto and the University of Warwick. He is the co-editor, with Marco Malvestio, of Italian Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). His contributions have appeared in journals such as Italian Studies, The Italianist, Quaderni del 900, Transalpina, Clues: A Journal of Detection, and the Revue des littératures européennes. He has organized and co-organized several conferences, most recently one on Agatha Christie (University of Exeter, 2023) and two on interwar crime writing (University of Bournemouth, 2022; University of Chester, 2021).  

Sereni, Michela is a PhD candidate in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Galway, under the guidance of Professor Paolo Bartoloni. Her doctoral r search delves into the intersection of literature, gender, and national identity during the Italian Risorgimento. Michela’s work explores how the poetess Giannina Milli played a pivotal role in shaping a national identity during the Italian Risorgimento and shifting the role of women from mere objects to active subjects of propaganda. This contribution, in turn, aided in the awakening of consciousness, laying the groundwork for 20th century women’s movements. Michela holds an M.A. in Modern Philology and a B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from the Università degli Studi di Bergamo in Italy. In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Michela recently coordinated the "Annual Conference for Italian Studies in Ireland 2023," a national event supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Dublin and the Italian Embassy of Dublin. Her most recent publications include a study that explores the exportation of Italian Commedia dell’Arte to England and its influence on William Shakespeare’s theatre, published in "Commedia dell’arte: studi storici (nuova serie, 3)," and a book review in the journal Italian Americana where she examines "Tina, Mafia Soldier" by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli.  

Shalom Vagata, Daniela is currently assistant professor of Italian literature at Masaryk University. She has previously been associate professor (non-tenured) of Italian Language and Literature at Kyoto University. She is an expert of modern and contemporary Italian literature, in particular of Ugo Foscolo’s Inni alle Grazie. She is the author of L’Inno alle Grazie di Ugo Foscolo (Olschki 2023). Beyond her interest on Foscolo’s work, Daniela Shalom Vagata has published on Eugenio Montale’s narrative work, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel, Dante’s Vita nuova and on Luchino Visconti’s and Federico Fellini’s cinema. She also writes about Japanese contemporary arts. She has organized several panels, such as Armonia e disarmonia della natura nella letteratura italiana del lungo Ottocento, XXVI Congresso nazionale dell’Associazione degli Italianisti ADI (Napoli 2023); Foscolo Reloaded: New Perspectives on Ugo Foscolo’s Work, AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies) Conference 2022; Altro per me. Tecnologie e scienze umane: prospettive dal Giappone e dall’Asia orientale, XXIII Congresso Nazionale degli Italianisti, ADI (Pisa 2019); Arti e scritture sull’Estremo Oriente, XXII Congresso Nazionale degli Italianisti, ADI (Bologna 2018).  

Sideri, Cecilia is currently Marie Curie-UKRI Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. After graduating in Italian Philology at Cattolica University in Milan (2015), she obtained her PhD in Italian Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (2020). Prior to taking the current position at Warwick, she was Junior Researcher (‘rtd-a’) of Italian Philology at the University of Verona (01/2022-08/2023) and held a number of short-term/visiting fellowships in several countries. She was Short-term fellow of the Bibliographical Society of America (02 – 12/2021) and of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck (06–08/2021); DAAD fellow at the Freie Universität of Berlin (10/2021–01/2022) and visiting fellow of the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (06–08/2022). She taught courses of Mediaeval and Humanistic Philology and of Italian Linguistics at the University of Verona (2020-2023) and was adjunct professor of Italian for Communication at Cattolica University of Milan (2021-2023). Her main areas of expertise – on which she has published extensively (see here) – are the reception of Classics in Renaissance Italy, 15th-16th century translations of Greek texts into Italian vernacular and the history of manuscript circulation and collecting in the Renaissance. She has recently published a monograph on the reception of Diodorus in the 15th and 16th centuries (De Gruyter, 2022). She has co-organized two national conferences and three international conferences (the more recent in December 2023, at the University of Innsbruck, dedicated to the humanist Cristoforo Landino).  

Sinclair, Terence researches the history of opera at the University of Cambridge, focusing on nineteenth century Italy after unification. He is currently looking at musicians active in Naples in the 1860s and 1870s when Milan’s competition for talent strengthened. This project examines how local composers competed with Verdi, the efforts different institutions made to command the attention of the national government, how audiences perceived Neapolitan composers of a previous generation such as Donizetti or Rossini and the way that ancient Naples and Pompeii were portrayed onstage. Terence Sinclair is a director of two classical music record companies: NMC Records which records contemporary art music and Opera Rara, which makes full-length studio recordings of rediscoveries. He was Chair of the Academy of Ancient Music and a director of the Hay Literature Festival. 

Sorrentino, Chiara graduated in Literature at the University of Verona, where she then continued with the master’s course in Tradition and Interpretation of Literary Texts with a thesis on the Italian translations of Of Mice and Men by Cesare Pavese and Michele Mari respectively. She is currently a PhD student in Philology, Literature and Performing Arts at the University of Verona on the project Lingua e malattia mentale (dalle cartelle dell’archivio dell’ospedale San Giacomo a Verona), which focuses on the study and analysis of linguistic patterns present in the private letters written by patients of the former psychiatric hospital of Verona.   

Spampinato, Daria researcher at the CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) in Catania, Italy, is a computer science expert in DH. Currently, her main interests cover Text encoding, Digital epigraphy and Semantic Web. She has taken part in various DH projects for enhancement and promotion of cultural sphere and literary studies, including the digital collection of the epigraphs of the Castello Ursino Museum of Catania, through the project EpiCUM, and the BellinInRete project, concerning the semantic organization of the heritage of the Belliniano Museum. In addition, she is recently responsible of the CNR units of two projects on computational modelling in the Italian literary studies: PAVES-e, concerning the creation of an Archive-Edition of Pavese’s work, designed according to FAIR principles, and to the Linked Open Data paradigm; and COVerLeSS, in which the CNR Unit is responsible for the digital ecosystem of the secondary literature to the literary production of the Italian Verismo. She is affiliate to the Italian Association for Humanities and Digital Cultures (AIUCD), of which she is a member of the National Executive Board (since 2014) with the position of Secretary since 2021. Since 2021 she is also a member of the Scientific Council of Centro di Informatica Umanistica of the University of Catania as an expert scholar. She is the Chair of the Programme Committee and proceedings editor of the AIUCD2018 and AIUCD2024 conferences. She is a paper reviewer for several international conferences and journals. She is author of several publications in conferences and journals.  

Stifano, Sara ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca nel maggio 2023 presso l’Università Federico II di Napoli con una tesi dal titolo: «Come col sangue fu, fia con l’inchiostro». L’estetica della pietà e della violenza nell’Adone di Giovan Battista Marino e nella pittura del Seicento ed è cultrice della materia presso il medesimo ateneo. Oltre il Marino – per il quale ricordiamo il saggio Errare heroicum est: l’eroe ne Gli errori del canto XIV dell’Adone (2021) –, i suoi studi riguardano soprattutto le biografie d’artisti cinque-secentesche. Ha curato il commento alla biografia michelangiolesca per la nuova edizione della Giuntina a cura di Enrico Mattioda, pubblicato nel 2021 da Edizioni dell’Orso (Alessandria). Ha partecipato con interventi su Vasari, Condivi, Bellori, Cellini e Leonardo da Vinci a convegni internazionali (Napoli, 2022; Zurigo, 2022; Napoli, 2023) e fa parte della redazione scientifica di numerose riviste internazionali («Studi rinascimentali»; «Generi»; «Leonardiana»; «Lingue e interculturalità»).  

Storchi, Simona is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Leicester. She has published extensively on early 20th century literature, art and culture, on Modernism and the Avant-Garde, on World War I literature, and on Fascism and its post-war legacy. Among her recent publications, Massimo Bontempelli e la cultura italiana fra le due guerre. L’intellettuale, il fascismo, la modernità (Milan: Mimesis, 2024); ‘The ex Casa del Fascio in Predappio and the question of the “difficult heritage” of Fascism in contemporary Italy’, Modern Italy (2019), Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy. Essays for Sharon Wood, ed. with Marina Spunta and Maria Morelli (Troubador, 2017). She has extensive experience of organising conferences, seminars, public lectures and talks.    

Sturani, Federica is Lecturer of Italian at the University of Liverpool. Her main interest is the practice of language teaching and learning, focussing on new approaches and material development. She has published grammar workbooks for students in both secondary schools and higher education.  

Taddei, Valeria is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at UCD. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford with a study of literary epiphany in Italian and Anglophone modernist short fiction. The resulting monograph, Epiphanies in the modernist short story: Italian and English Perspectives, is forthcoming with Routledge in April 2024. Valeria's current research project focuses on the handling of ‘self’ in writers' diaries written in Italian, English, and French at the beginning of the 20th century. She is a member of the Society for Pirandello Studies in the UK and Ireland and Book Reviews Editor for the journal Pirandello Studies. Her main research field is literary criticism, with a particular interest in comparative studies, twentieth-century fiction, and European modernism.  

Tonello, Elisabetta è prof.ssa associata in Letteratura italiana presso l’università e.Campus. Si occupa principalmente della storia della tradizione del testo della Commedia ma ha lavorato anche su Boccaccio, Monteverdi, Gozzano e sulla giulleria medievale. Dirige un centro di ricerca presso eCampus, è membro del comitato scientifico di IDP-Illuminated Dante Project2.0 e condirige il progetto LiMINA sulle tracce marginali nei manoscritti medievali. Ha vinto numerose borse di ricerca presso enti e università straniere (Oxford/Londra, Madrid, Berlino, Parigi…).  

Travers, Katherine is Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Languages at University of Oxford (PhD New York University 2021). Dr Travers studies the literatures of medieval Italy, and their reception. They are interested in what medieval literatures and book cultures can tell us about broader political questions. Dr Travers is currently finishing a book project on how gender operates within Italy’s medieval poetry books, examining how representations of women, as poets and speakers, shape the development of the poetry collection. Their second book project, Fantasies of Empire in Medieval Italy, focusses on how Italy’s medieval literatures conceptualized “empire” and the ways these literatures were then used to support modern colonial projects. Dr Travers’ work has appeared in The Italianist and NeMLA Italian Studies. They are an Assistant Editor for gender/sexuality/italy.  

Turini, Jacopo is a final-stage PhD researcher in Italian Studies at University College Cork. He has received an IRC Government of Ireland scholarship for his research on contemporary Italian literature in the Alpine frontier areas, focusing on how geography, space, and place are used in identity narratives. He completed his undergraduate studies and his MA at the University of Turin, graduating respectively in Irish literature and Italian literature. His research interests involve the relationships between Literature and Geography, along with Geocriticism, Ecocriticism, Spatial Studies, and Border Studies. He has worked on identity narratives within the context of environmental activism, and he is also working on the connections between Literature and Geology in the Anthropocene. He has organized events and panels on space and place, including one at the 2022 SIS Biennial meeting (Disappearing Lands. Reflections on Anthropocenic Italy) and one at the 2022 AAIS Conference (Identity, Space, and Place in Contemporary Italian Literature). He has also co-organized and spearheaded a conference in UCC on the Anthropocene (Geographies of the Present. Spaces and Places of the Anthropocene in Italy), in February 2023. He is currently co-editing a special issue of Italian Studies, partly informed by this conference (forthcoming in 2025).  

Vacalebre, Natale is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, where he works on a project about the dispersed books of popular Mediterranean literature formerly held in Hernando Colón's Universal Library. He is also the Managing Editor of the international journal 'Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies,' which he founded in 2018. A scholar of the circulation of written culture and the postmedieval reception of Italian literature, Vacalebre has authored numerous articles in international academic journals, as well as the monograph 'Come le armadure e l’armi. Per una storia delle antiche biblioteche della Compagnia di Gesù' (Florence, Olschki, 2016). He is currently completing his second monograph on the early modern reception and audience of Dante's Comedy, tentatively titled 'Undivine Readers: Dante’s Fortunes in the Early Modern Age.'  

Valcelli, Chiara is a PhD student at University College Cork, and her project is funded by the Irish Research Council. She is working on the presence of Dante Alighieri in the works of James Joyce, with a focus on the language. In 2022 she won a research grant at Università per Stranieri di Perugia with a project entitled: “Dante’s path in Umbria: following Dante’s steps in Paradiso XI”. She is a member of the Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland, the Italian James Joyce Foundation and the International James Joyce Foundation.  

Vandi, Serena is Lecturer in Italian Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester and Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. After graduating in Italian Studies as a student of the Collegio Superiore at the University of Bologna, she obtained her PhD in Italian at the University of Leeds (2019). She then was LAHRI Postdoctoral Fellow at the same university (2019) and Powys Roberts Research Fellow in European Literature at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford (2019- 2023). She is specialised in the study of Dante Alighieri and Carlo Emilio Gadda, and she has published the first comparative monograph on the two authors, Satura. Varietà per verità in Dante e Gadda (Mimesis, 2021), as well as journal articles and book chapters. Her research interests include: Dante, Gadda, the contemporary reception of Dante, 20th- and 21st-century literature, stylistics and literary theory, satire and humour studies, media studies, reception studies. She is co-editor of «L’ombra sua torna»: Dante, il Novecento e oltre, special issue of Tenzone, 22 (2023), and of Cinquant’anni dalla morte: Carlo Emilio Gadda (1973-2023). Gadda Transmissions, special issue of Strumenti critici, 163/3 (2023). She is a member of the editorial board of The Italianist.  

Vari, Silvia is a PhD student in Italian at the University of Warwick. Her previous work focused on narrations of youth precarity in Italian comics and appeared in peer-reviewed journals Studi Culturali (3/2021) and Ticontre (15/2021). Her current research focuses on the experience of (forced) migration in the Mediterranean area narrated in Italian comics from the past two decades, where she specifically investigates how the medium’s formal hybridity and fragmentary aesthetics may embody and convey the transitional experience of migrant subjects. Aiming attention at different forms of migrant storytelling in comics (such as autobiography, reportage, and fiction) and the relative narrative framing strategies, her research analyses through a Rancièrian lens the potential of comics to challenge mainstream discourses about (forced) migration and displacement.  

Ventura, Sara Lis received a Ph.D. in the Department of Italian at University College Cork in 2020, with a thesis that investigates the impact on Foreign Language Learning (FLL) of a pedagogical approach that combines literary text analysis and digital storytelling. In 2008, she received a Master's Degree in 'Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language' from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. For over 17 years, she has been working as an Italian Language Teacher in Ireland, India, and South Korea. She is currently working as University Language Teacher in Italian at University College Cork.  

Venturi, Tristan is a PhD student in Visual, Performative, and Media Arts at the University of Bologna. After graduating from John Cabot University with a BA in Communications and minors in Psychology and Creative Writing, he went on to pursue his Film Studies MA (Dist.) at King’s College London. His main research interests fall at the intersection of queer theory and media studies, and include critical theory, transgender media studies, feminist film theory, and critical sexuality studies. His current research project explores the unattended virtues of seemingly ‘bad’ transgender figurations populating Italian genre films throughout the late twentieth century. Recently, his work has appeared in the international journal Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press) and in the collective volume Queer Pandèmia (TLON).  

Verdone, Alessio è dottorando di ricerca presso l’Università IULM (Milano) e l’Universiteit Gent (Belgio). Il suo principale interesse di ricerca riguarda il rapporto tra immagine e parola nella letteratura italiana contemporanea. Tra le sue ultime pubblicazioni: Il caso Mauritshuis. Ekphrasis e soggetto nella poesia neofigurativa di Edoardo Sanguineti (Allegoria, 84), Scrivere e descrivere: La pervasività dell’ekphrasis nella poesia di Edoardo Sanguineti (Italianistica Debreceniensis, 27), La poesia italiana del Novecento e la funzione d’Annunzio: ipotesi di lavoro (Archivio D’Annunzio, 8, 2021).  

Vitagliano, Daniela is “professeur agrégée” and a researcher fellow (Idex excellence grant - Agence Nationale de la Recherche) at the Université Côte d'Azur (research laboratory: Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine - CMMC). In 2019, she won a postdoctoral fellowship from the Franco-Italian University and worked as a researcher at the “Ecole Normale Supérieure” in Paris. She has organized several panels at international symposium: • 28-30 June 2023 « Narrating Naples. Representations and imaginaries of the proletariat and sub-proletariat (1934-today) » / Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France International symposium « Narrating Labour: Posture and Positionality (Obert – Observatoire Européen des Récits du Travail) », • 14 au 16 mars 2019 Co-organizer (70%) “Digital Humanities” of AAIS conference: « Ipermedialità e cultura italiana : opportunità e limiti » (14-16 March 2019) / Wake Forest University, Caroline du Nord, USA In collaboration with Antonio MARVASI (Indiana University (Bloomington) (30%) She also organized several international symposiums and summer school: 10-13 June 2024 • Summer School – “Les Penelopes” women’s writing / Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain In the framework of “Les Penelopes” research project which includes three universities: Sevilla University, Genoa University, Côte d’Azur University gathered under the patronage of the federation of Ulysseus European University • 2023 – 2024 Co-organizer (50%) of a double symposium on “Narrating Naples” / Côte d’Azur University, Nice, France and L’Orientale University of Naples In collaboration with Laura Cannavacciuolo (50%) (Assistant Professor of Italian Literature at Università l’Orientale de Naples) • 30/09/2021-01/10/2021 Co-organizer (60%) International symposium « Cesare Pavese. L’écriture, la langue, le style » / Sorbonne Nouvelle, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France In collaboration with Christian Del Vento (40%) (Full Professor, Sorbonne Nouvelle/ENS). Her main interests are 20th century Italian literature and culture and possible digital applications (digital editions, digital cartography).  

Vitale, Eliana Dottoressa di ricerca in Scienze dell’Interpretazione presso l’Università di Catania con una tesi dal titolo Dalla parola al cuore del testo: per un vocabolario della poesia italiana dal 1976 al 2005, è attualmente assegnista di ricerca su un progetto PNRR (CHANGES, Spoke 3), dedicato al Verismo Digitale per cui sta allestendo in particolare l’edizione scientifica digitale de I Viceré di Federico De Roberto. È membro del CINUM (Centro di Informatica Umanistica di Catania) con cui collabora all’allestimento di Pirandello nazionale, portale online dell’Edizione Nazionale Digitale dell’Opera Omnia di Luigi Pirandello. Sempre con il CINUM e con la casa editrice Mondadori ha collaborato alla realizzazione dell’edizione de L’Opera poetica. Testi editi, inediti e traduzioni di Cesare Pavese, per la quale ha curato la sezione dedicata alle traduzioni dell’Iliade e dell’Odissea. Ha collaborato alla curatela delle edizioni mondadoriane dei romanzi pavesiani Paesi tuoi, La casa in collina, La luna e i falò e dei Dialoghi con Leucò. Per quest’ultima opera ha curato un glossario dei miti greci. Collabora con l’unità di ricerca del Prin 2022 PAVES-e Per un’edizione-archivio digitale dell’opera di Pavese (P.I. Antonio Sichera). È membro delle associazioni ADI (Associazione degli Italianisti) e MOD (Società italiana per lo studio della modernità letteraria).  

Vivaldi, Elisa I am a current PhD candidate and tutor in Italian at the University of Edinburgh, working in co-supervision (Joint Degree/cotutelle) with KU Leuven, Cultural Studies Research Unit, under the supervision of prof. Federica Pedriali (University of Edinburgh) and prof. Sascha Bru (KU Leuven). I graduated from both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Pisa, where I specialized in Contemporary Italian Literature and still serve as assistant examiner (culture della materia) for the same subject. My current research interests are concerned with the production of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses on European cultural heritage and the relationship between crisis and avant-garde aesthetic practices in 20th century. My PhD research proposal was awarded the prestigious College Research Award by the University of Edinburgh, which will fund my work for the duration of the programme. I am a member of the executive committee of the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) serving as postgraduate representative for the UK and Northern Ireland.  

Walker, Rebecca is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian at Trinity College Dublin. Her current research focusses on the diverse ways in which Italian women writers in the twentieth and twenty-first century have responded to the image of Catholic Italy, from a range of secular and religiously engaged perspectives. She received her PhD in Italian from the University of St Andrews in 2022. From 2021-2022 she was Associate Lecturer in Italian at the University of St Andrews, then from 2022-2023 an MHRA Research Scholar in the Modern European Languages and a Research Associate with the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. She has published articles in Italian Studies, Modern Language Notes, Contemporary Women’s Writing, and Textual Practice, and a chapter for the volume Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing (2022), edited by Tiziana de Rogatis and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi. Conference organisation: SIS PG Colloquium (2018); the workshop Covid and the Woman Writer (ILCS, 2021); the Sixth Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion (St Andrews, 2023). Panel chair: SIS PG Colloquium (2018); Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe (ILCS, 2021). Seminar chair: Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts Seminar (St Andrews, 2023).   

Webb, Heather (PhD Stanford 2004) specialises in medieval Italian literature and culture with a particular interest in poetry, theology, philosophy, and visual culture. She is the author of The Medieval Heart (Yale, 2010), Dante’s Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Dante, Artist of Gesture (Oxford University Press, September 2022). With George Corbett, she is editor of Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy, 3 vols (Open Book Publishers, 2015, 2016, 2017). With Pierpaolo Antonello, she is editor of Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism (Michigan State Press, 2015). She is Senior Editor of Italian Studies for pre-1700 material. 

Wilson, Samantha is a third-year PhD Candidate in History at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research focuses on the evolution of political ideas among republicans in nineteenth-century Italy (c.1830–1882) and the extent to which this was inspired by a changed appreciation for the Florentine republicanism of the period 1494–1532. Through her research, Samantha’s overarching goal is to provide insight into the nature of nineteenth-century Italian republicanism in the context of the republican tradition and nineteenth-century Europe more broadly. Samantha is supervised by Dr Fernanda Gallo and Dr Simone Maghenzani. As part of her PhD research, Samantha has conducted archival research across the United Kingdom (Cambridge, Oxford, and UCL), United States (Harvard), and Italy (state and national archives in Firenze, Milano, Napoli, and Roma). She was also a visiting postgraduate researcher at the European University Institute in Fiesole between January and May 2023 under the supervision of Prof Lucy Riall. In October 2023, Samantha also participated in the Institut für Zeitgeschichte Autumn School on the History of Democracy in München, where she took part in panel discussions with German scholars on the history of democracy in modern Europe. In addition to her research, Samantha assists in organising the Cambridge Modern European History Workshop and the Cambridge Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar and is also a postgraduate member of the Royal Historical Society. Samantha previously completed a History BA at the University of York (2016–2019) and a History MA at the University of Nottingham (2019–2020).  

Witkowski, Victoria is a postdoctoral fellow in the Italian Studies Department at the University of Toronto where she is turning her PhD thesis into a monograph and expanding her research on western twentieth century concepts of fascist masculinity, imperial heroism and their public legacies. Her doctorate, which she conducted at the European University Institute in Florence, analysed the life, mythmaking, and collective remembrance of Fascist Italy’s most prominent colonial general, Rodolfo Graziani. She has conducted research fellowships at Florida-International University, the British School at Rome and New York University. She is an active participant in public history projects which critically raise awareness about Fascist colonialism and her work has recently been published in the journal, Interventions: the international journal of postcolonial studies.  

Wren-Owens, Liz I am a Reader in Italian Studies and Translation Studies at Cardiff University, where I am especially interested in building postgraduate research culture through my role as Dean of Postgraduate Education in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and as ViceChair (Research) of the University Council For Languages (UCFL). My current research project is the monograph Translating Sicily, Adapting Sicily. Previous publications address translation and world literature, the international receptions of Italian writers, the ItalianScottish and Italian-Welsh diasporas and cultural production, Italian-American and AfricanItalian migrant narrative, race and ethnic identity in Italian narrative, socio-political engagement through literature, postcolonial writing, and detective fiction.  

Wyer, Sean is a PhD Candidate in Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Italian at Balliol College, Oxford. His research interests include anthropology in the Mediterranean; regional and hyper-local food traditions in Italy; cultural memory; and Sicilian identity.   

Zaccarello, Michelangelo is Professor of Italian Philology at the University of Pisa. He specializes in, and has widely published on, Renaissance studies, with particular attention to authors such as Burchiello, Luigi Pulci, Torquato Tasso. In recent years, his research and publications have also focussed on linguistic and philological issues relating to Dante’s Commedia and to other fourteenth-century texts, such as Boccaccio’s Decameron and Franco Sacchetti’s Trecento novelle. Among his latest monographs and edited volumes, Leggere senza libri. Conoscere gli e-book di letteratura italiana (Cesati, 2020); Teoria e Forme del testo digitale (Carocci, 2019); L’edizione critica del testo letterario (Mondadori, 2017); Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003 (Legenda, 2013); etc. He has organised countless cultural events.   

Zammataro, Alessandro is a third-year D.Phil. student in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. He received his first doctoral degree in “Lessicografia e semantica del linguaggio letterario europeo” at the University of Catania. His research interest lies at the intersection of philology, lexicography, and the digital humanities, with a focus on both medieval culture and twentieth-century Italian literature. He is expert in the digital restoration and improvement of Medieval and Modern manuscripts. He serves as International Consultant of the Centro di Informatica Umanistica in the department of Scienze Umanistiche at the University of Catania. Recently, he has been working on the National Digital Edition of the complete works of Pirandello in collaboration with Mondadori and the National Committee of Pirandello’s work. His current research focuses on Petrarch’s philology and the relationship between text and figurative arts with emphasis on the material history of literature and how books and illuminations can shape the audience’s perception of a literary text.  

Zamperini, Alessandra received her Postgraduate Degree in Art History at the University of Padova and her PhD in History of Art at the University of Verona, where she is currently an Associate Professor of History of Modern Art. She teaches Introduction to Art History, Geography and Art History, History of Fashion, and Iconography of Fashion. Her research interests are at the intersection of Art History, Iconography, History of Fashion, and Women’s Studies. In the field of Art History, she has specifically examined the relationship between Iconography and the Recovery of Antiquity in - Ornament and the Grotesque, 2007; - Grotesques and the Antique. Raphael’s Discovery of the Fourth Style, in Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques, ed. Damiano Acciarino, 2019; - Il Purgatorio di Dante e le grottesche nella cappella di San Brizio a Orvieto, in Studi e percorsi danteschi 1321-2021, ed. Mario Allegri, 2021. Regarding History of Fashion and Women’s Studies, she curated the volume Questioni di moda. Iconografia, fonti e storia dal XIV al XX secolo, 2021, and is the author of Moda nel Rinascimento europeo. Tre abiti e tre storie, 2023; I colori di Mary Stuart: vesti e politica nell’iconografia di una regina, in “In my End is my Beginning”: Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia tra storia e mito”, ed. Valeria Averoldi, 2023; La moda femminile a Venezia nel Seicento: l’ultimo secolo di indipendenza, in Textile and Fashion Venice Etc. Rintracciare studiare divulgare. Per Doretta Davanzo Poli, ed. P. Venturelli, 2023. 

Zangrandi, Alessandra is Associate Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Verona and teaches in the Humanities degree course and in the master’s degree courses in Tradition and Interpretation of Literary Texts and in Publishing and Journalism. His research interests concern the language and style of 19th and 20th century Italian authors: Manzoni, Nievo, Tommaseo, De Roberto, d’Annunzio, Rebora, Ungaretti, Sbarbaro, Montale, Banti, Morante, Levi, Calvino. In recent years, the focus of his research has been on Ippolito Nievo: she edited his first novel, Angelo di Bontà (Marsilio 2008), and she is currently editing the critical edition of the epistolary; to Nievo she has dedicated the monograph Lingua e stile nelle lettere di Ippolito Nievo (Libreriauniversitaria.it 2016).  

Zappalà, Emiliano ha recentemente completato il suo dottorato di ricerca in Italian Studies presso l'Università di Warwick, sotto la supervisione della professoressa Jennifer Burns, con una tesi intitolata Post-Truth Narrative: Narrative Trends, Cultural Agency, and Political Commitment in Italian Literature, in the Age of Post-Truth. In precedenza, ha conseguito un master presso l'University College di Londra, lavorando – sotto la supervisione del dottor Florian Mussgnug – a una tesi intitolata In Minor-key: Sociopolitical Commitment in Contemporary Italian Literature. In questi anni, ha pubblicato articoli su riviste accademiche e tenuto relazioni in diverse conferenze, occupandosi principalmente dei temi dell'impegno letterario, della cultural agency, della narrativa italiana ipercontemporanea e delle trasformazioni politiche e culturali legate alla post-verità. 

Zucchetti, Emilio is Lecturer in Roman History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He received his PhD from Newcastle University in 2021 with a thesis titled “DISCORDIA, Hegemony, and Popular Subjectivities: towards a Model for the Analysis of Social Conflict”, which he is now in the process of turning into a monograph. He is interested in theoretical and methodological questions around the study of ancient social conflict, riots, protests, and civil war; crowds and people, and history from below. He has worked on Frank Walbank and British 20th-century historiography as a Germanicus Scholar of the Roman Society. He has chaired the Gramsci Research Network since 2017 and he edited, with Anna Maria Cimino, Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World (Routledge, 2021). He is currently co-editing for De Gruyter, along with Michele Bellomo, a volume on Power, Coercion, and Consent. Gramsci’s Hegemony and the Roman Republic; with Vittorio Saldutti, Bellomo, and Cimino, Class and Classics. The Subaltern and the Production of Classical Knowledge; with Andrea Avalli and Nicoló Bettegazzi, Nationalism, Racism, and Ancient History. Historiography and Uses of the Past in Interwar Europe (1919-1938).