About the Contributors

Malcolm Angelucci is a lecturer in Italian Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. He researches in Italian Early Modernist literature, Italian theatre of the second half of the twentieth century (Carmelo Bene), poetics, rhetoric, and stylistics. Parallel to his focus on literature and aesthetics, he pursues his interest in the study of public monuments, focused on the relationships between rhetoric, ideologies, and space. Among Malcolm’s recent publications is the volume Words Against Words: On the Rhetoric of Carlo Michelstaedter (Leicester: Troubador, 2011).

Victoria Belco holds both a JD and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. After practicing as a criminal defense attorney, she is now an associate professor of Modern European History at Portland State University. Her book, War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943–1948, was released by University of Toronto Press in June 2010. She is currently researching crime and criminal justice in Fascist Italy.

Floriana Bernardi is a teacher of English in secondary schools and a PhD candidate in “Theory of Language and Sign Sciences” in the Department of “Lettere, Lingue Arti” of the University of Bari. Her research focuses on social semiotics and cultural studies. Her more recent publications include “Gazes, Targets, (En)Visions: Reading Fatima Mernissi through Rey Chow” in Social Semiotics (Routledge 2010) and Studi culturali: Teoria, Intervento, Cultura Pop, an edited and translated volume of selected essays by Paul Bowman (Progedit 2011).

Emilio G. Berrocal is a PhD student at Durham University in social anthropology. He previously attended the University of Rome “La Sapienza” where he obtained both his first (“Laurea Triennale”) and second (“Laurea Specialistica”) university degrees in anthropology as well. For his PhD research, Berrocal is working on a multi-sited ethnography project about hip hop culture. He is conducting his fieldwork research in London after having completed an ethnographic work on “black Italian hip hoppers” in Rome.

Alberto Bologna, PhD, is a post-doctoral researcher in the history of architecture at Ècole Polytecnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He focuses his research on the design and intellectual activities of Pier Luigi Nervi in the United States between 1952 and 1979. He is author of several articles and editor of books. He works as a freelance architect and is engaged in the presentation of his studies at international conferences in Europe and in the United States.

Paolo Campolonghi graduated with a degree in philosophy of science at the Università Statale degli Studi in Milan and received a master’s degree in Italian Cultural Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Italian Studies at New York University, working primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian and European intellectual history.

Michele Cometa is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Palermo. He is the author of Studi Culturali (Napoli: Guido, 2010) and a cowritten volume with Alain Montandon entitled Vedere. Lo sguardo di E.T.A Hoffman (Palermo: Duepunti, 2009). He has edited the book L’età classico-romantica (Roma: Laterza, 2009).

Maria D’Anniballe holds a PhD degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where she is currently teaching as a visiting lecturer in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Her areas of specialization include architectural history and theory, the avant garde, and modern Italian art and architecture. Her dissertation entitled “Urban Space in Fascist Verona: Contested Grounds for Mass Spectacle, Tourism, and the Architectural Past” focuses on the relationship between mass media, tourism, and architecture in Verona during the Fascist regime. She has published articles on the subject in Italian and English journals.

Alessandro Dal Lago, a former visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and UCLA, is professor of sociology of culture at the University of Genoa, Italy. He has published on sociological theory, sociology of art, and theory of culture. Among his recent books in English are Non-persons: The exclusion of migrants in a global society (Milan: Ipoc Press, 2009) and Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Contemporary Society: The Civilization of War (London: Routledge, 2010) (with S. Palidda). He is also author of two collections of short stories.

Roberto Derobertis completed his PhD in italian studies in 2007 at the University of Bari. His research interests focus on the relationship between migrations, colonialism, postcolonial condition, and Italian literature. He has coedited the volume L’invenzione del Sud. Migrazioni, condizioni postcoloniali, linguaggi letterari (Bari 2009), and has edited Fuori centro. Percorsi postcoloniali nella letteratura italiana (Rome 2010). He teaches English in high schools and currently collaborates with the chair of Italian literature at the faculty of modern languages and literatures at the University of Bari.

Derek Duncan is professor of Italian cultural studies at St. Andrews University, Scotland. He has published extensively on modern Italian literature and film with a particular emphasis on issues of sexuality, gender, and migration. He is author of Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality: a case of possible difference (2006), and has edited a number of publications on Italian colonial and postcolonial culture, including National Belongings (2010). He is editor of the cultural studies issue of the long-established journal Italian Studies. His current research project looks at the intersection of sexual and racial identities in contemporary Italian culture.

David Forgacs is the Guido and Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò Professor of Contemporary Italian Studies at New York University. He formerly held the established chair of Italian at University College London and before that he taught at Royal Holloway University of London, Cambridge and Sussex. Publications include Italy’s Margins (forthcoming), Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War (with Stephen Gundle, 2007), L’industrializzazione della cultura italiana (2nd edition, 2000), and Italian Cultural Studies (ed., with Robert Lumley, 1996).

Eden Knudsen is a historian specializing in modern Italy, comparative fascism, and the politics and culture of nationalism. She received her PhD in history from Yale University in 2010 and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Western Connecticut State University.

Bernadette Luciano is an associate professor of Italian in the School of European Languages and Literatures at the University of Auckland. She has published articles and book chapters on Italian cinema; film adaptation; Italian women’s historical novels; women’s autobiographical writing; and literary translation. She has coedited an interdisciplinary book on NZ/European cross-cultural encounters and has written a book on Italian filmmaker Silvio Soldini, The Cinema of Silvio Soldini: Dream, Image, Voyage. She is currently working with Susanna Scarparo on a book on contemporary Italian women filmmakers.

Elizabeth Mangini is an assistant professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. An art historian specializing in social histories of postwar and contemporary art, her current research projects include a study of Arte povera in Turin c. 1968. She has held curatorial positions and postgraduate fellowships at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and MASS MOCA. She writes for Artforum and is on the editorial board of Palinsesti, Contemporary Italian Art On-Line Journal.

Valerie McGuire is a PhD candidate in Italian studies at New York University. Her dissertation is a cultural history of Italian rule in the Dodecanese archipelago between the wars. She focuses on the creation of a Mediterranean modernity in the urban landscape in the islands, and through the use of oral history, its potential impact on the local community. She is also coeditor of the volume, Power and Image in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).

Toshio Miyake is currently a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University Venice (2011–2013). He received an MA in sociology from Ritsumeikan University Kyoto and a PhD in Japanese literature from Ca’ Foscari University Venice. His revised PhD thesis has been published as Occidentalismi. La narrativa storica giapponese (Cafoscarina, 2010). His main research interests are Occidentalism, Orientalism, and Self-Orientalism in Italy–Japan relations, especially in terms of nation, race/ethnicity, gender-related issues, as well as globalization of Japanese popular cultures (manga, anime, youth subcultures).

Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Literature and Language and a professor of comparative literature and women’s and gender studies at Dartmouth College, NH. She is the author of a number of books, including Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) and a number of edited or coedited volumes: The Cultures of Italian Migration: Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives coedited with Anthony Tamburri (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011) and Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy, coedited with Marie Orton (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007).

Eugenia Paulicelli is a professor of Italian and women’s studies at Queens College and at the CUNY Graduate Center where she codirects the concentration in fashion studies. Among her recent publications as author and editor: Fashion under Fascism. Beyond the Black Shirt (Oxford: Berg, 2004), Moda e Moderno. Dal Medioevo al Rinascimento (Rome: Meltemi, 2006), The Fabric of Cultures. Fashion, Identity, Globalization (London: Routledge, 2008), 1960. Un anno in Italia: Tra cultura e spettacolo (Cesena: Societa’ editrice Il Ponte Vecchio, 2010).

Loredana Polezzi is an associate professor (reader) in Italian studies at the University of Warwick (UK) and director of the Warwick Centre in Venice. Her main research interests are in translation studies and the history of travel writing. Her recent work focuses on how geographical and social mobility are connected to theories and practices of translation and self-translation. She is currently completing a monograph on images of Africa produced by Italian travelers and coediting special issues of the journals Studies in Travel Writing and Textus.

Elena Pulcini is a full professor of social philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, University of Florence. Her main research focuses on the topic of passions in the sphere of a theory of modernity and modern individualism, also paying attention to the problem of female subjectivity. Her current research revolves around the transformation of identity and social bonds in the global age. Among her publications are L’individuo senza passioni. Individualismo moderno e perdita del legame sociale (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2001) and La cura del mondo. Paura e responsabilità in età globale (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2009): English translation forthcoming by Lexington and Springer, 2012.

Krešimir Purgar specializes in visual studies, film, and contemporary Italian literature, as well as the relationship between text and image. He is author of two books: The Neo-Baroque Subject and Surviving Image, and has edited Visual Studies—Art and Media in the Times of Pictorial Turn. He has presented papers in many cities, including Guadalajara (Mexico), Genova, Colorado Springs, Dartmouth College, Manchester, London, Barcelona, and others. He is a researcher and head of the Center for Visual Studies in Zagreb.

Susanna Scarparo is the Cassamarca Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies, Monash University, Australia. She is the author of Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered Metafiction (2005) and has coedited Violent Depictions: Representing Violence Across Cultures (2006), Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives (2005), and Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Italian Culture: Representations and Critical Debates (2010). She has published numerous articles and book chapters on Italian women writers, Italian feminist theory, Italian Australian literature, and Italian cinema. She is currently writing a book with Bernadette Luciano on Italian women filmmakers.

Antonella Sisto is a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Smith College and University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her PhD from Brown University in 2010 and is currently working on a manuscript on the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of the soundtrack in Italy, from its fascist dubbed-coming to the screens, to the audiovisual cinema of poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni. Her research interests include history of ideas and technologies, fascism, cinema and identity, aural and visual studies.

Gabriella Turnaturi is the alma mater professor at University of Bologna, Italy. Her fields of research are sociology of culture, sociology of emotions, sociology of literature, theory of public sphere. She has published many books and articles. Her more recent works are: Betrayals, Chicago University Press, and Signore e Signori d’Italia—una storia delle buone maniere, Feltrinelli.

David Ward is author of four books, three in English—A Poetics of Resistance: Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini; Antifascisms: Cultural Politics in Italy, 1943–46 (both Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995 and 1996 respectively); Piero Gobetti’s New World: Antifascism, Liberalism, Writing (University of Toronto Press, 2010)—and one in Italian, Carlo Levi: Gli italiani e la paura della libertà (Rizzoli/Nuova Italia, 2002). He is a professor of Italian in the Department of Italian Studies, Wellesley College.

Paola Zaccaria is a professor of literary and visual Anglo-American cultures and director of the degree course in communication studies at the University of Bari, Italy. She is an activist in human rights and gender issues. She has published books and essays on twentieth-century Anglo-American avant gardes, women’s poetry, feminist criticism, Chicana and African-American literature, border and diaspora studies, transnationalism, interculturality, translations/transpositions/transcodifications, film theory, public culture, space, and sentiments. She has also translated and edited Borderlands/La frontera, by G. Anzaldúa (Bari: Palomar 2000), and produced a documentary about Anzaldúa’s heritage, ALTAR. Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges (directors Daniele Basilio, P. Zaccaria, 2009).