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Johnny L. Bertolio graduated in Classics from the Scuola Normale Superiore (2012), and from the University of Pisa (2011). He is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. His areas of research range from early Humanism to the late Renaissance, and include a particular interest in Leopardi as well as in the reception of the Classics in Italian literature. He has published numerous articles on these topics in several academic journals, and is now collaborating as a reviewer with Renaissance and Reformation and Quaderni d’italianistica. He has delivered papers at several conferences: Leopardi e la traduzione: teoria e prassi (Recanati, 2012), Italian Literature and Religion (Toronto, 2012), The Narrative Fiction of Giovanni Boccaccio: Forms, Themes, and Reception (Toronto, 2013), and Boccaccio in Washington, DC (2013). He was a member of the committee organizing the Graduate Students’ Association of Italian Studies conference in Toronto, dedicated to Philological Concerns: Textual Criticism Throughout the Ages (2013) and he is co-editing its proceedings.
Rita Cavigioli is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Missouri- Columbia. She authored three book-length critical essays: La fatica di iniziare il libro: Problemi di autorità nei diari di Sibilla Aleramo (Edizioni dell’Orso, 1995); Women of a Certain Age: Contemporary Italian Fictions of Female Aging (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005); and I giovani raccontano gli anziani: Il contributo del Video Concorso Francesco Pasinetti alla riflessione su invecchiamento, dialogo intergenerazionale e trasmissione culturale in Italia. She also published a civilization textbook for Italian schools, By Airmail: Testo di letture e civiltà inglese e americana (Società Editrice Internazionale, 1990), and several articles and book chapters in the fields of age and generation studies, women’s writings and historical-pedagogical literature.
Anna Chiafele ha conseguito un Ph.D. in Italian Studies presso la University of Toronto. È Assistant Professor nel Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures presso la Auburn University (Alabama). Ha recentemente completato un manoscritto su Luigi Malerba dal titolo Sfumature di giallo nell’opera di Luigi Malerba: un’indagine insoluta. I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano il giallo e gli studi di ecocritica.
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Matteo Fadini, formatosi a Trento dove ha conseguito il dottorato nel 2014, è assegnista di ricerca di STABAT – Stampe antiche Biblioteca comunale di Trento (www.stabat.it), progetto di digitalizzazione e descrizione analitica di tutte le edizioni trentine stampate nei secoli XV–XVII conservate dalla Biblioteca comunale di Trento, e docente a contratto (a.a. 2014/15) di Filologia ed editoria presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Ha contribuito a fondare la rivista open access Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione (www.ticontre.org), della quale è condirettore e corresponsabile della sezione Saggi.
Emma Grootveld graduated in Italian studies in Leiden (B.A.) and Leuven (M.A.) and is currently accomplishing a Ph.D. at the University of Leuven as a research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Her doctoral thesis focuses on the interaction between different forms of authority in early modern Italian heroic poetry on contemporary wars (1550–1650).
Mahmoud Jaran teaches Italian Literature at European Languages Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Jordan (Amman). Dr. Jaran’s main fields of interest include Comparative Literature, Italian Literature; Intercultural Studies; Italian Migrant Writers; the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini. His articles have appeared in many international journals and edited collections.
Nina Lamal obtained her Ph.D. in History from the university of Leuven and St Andrews in 2014. Her doctoral thesis examined the Italian concerns and attention for the revolt in the Low Countries between 1566 and 1648. Her research focusses on the circulation of news in early modern Europe and the cultural and intellectual exchange between the Low Countries and Italy in sixteenth and seventeenth century.
Stefania Lucamante è professore ordinario di italianistica presso la Catholic University of America, Washington (DC), dove dirige il programma di Italian Studies. Fra i suoi campi di ricerca vi sono il romanzo moderno e contemporaneo (Primo Levi, Carlo Levi, Loy Limentani, Elsa Morante, Mazzuco, Nove, e altri); Women’s Studies e Holocaust Studies. Fra le sue pubblicazioni, Forging Shoah Memories: Women Literary Representations of the Shoah (2014) Quella difficile identità: Ebraismo e rappresentazioni letterarie della Shoah (2012); A Multitude of Women: The Challenges of the Contemporary Italian Novel (2008); Isabella Santacroce
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(2002); Elsa Morante e l’eredità proustiana (1998). Ha curato i volumi Italian Pulp Fiction: The New Narrative of the Giovani Cannibali Writers (2001), Italy and The Bourgeoisie: The Re-thinking of a Class (2009), e con Sharon Wood Under Arturo’s Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante (2005). Sulla Shoah Lucamante ha inoltre curato il volume Memoria collettiva e memoria privata, il ricordo della Shoah come politica sociale (2008). Di recente pubblicazione il volume per la sua curatela Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing: Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art (2014). E’ stata Emilio Goggio Visiting Professor alla University of Toronto (2014–15).
Andrea Malaguti is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Besides articles on André Frénaud and Sebastiano Vassalli, among others, he is the author of a volume on poetry and philosophy in the twentieth century (La svolta di Enea: retorica ed esistenza in Giorgio Caproni, 1932–1956, Genoa, Italy, Il Melangolo, 2008). He is currently working on Michelangelo Antonioni’s work in the 1950s.
Cristina Perissinotto is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Ottawa, where she directs the Italian Program as well as the Medieval Studies Program. She is Vice President of the Canadian Association of Italian Studies and publishes widely on the Italian Renaissance and on contemporary Italy. She is also the author of three poetry collections: Exhale, Exale (Guernica) Tigers and the CEO (Guernica) and Taprobana Tea (Campanotto, Udine).
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