Contributors

LUCIA AIELLO (PhD, University of Sheffield) is a senior lecturer at the University of York. She is cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies. Her research interests focus on feminist criticism of women's writing, with particular attention to the relationship with the past, dislocation, language, gender, and trauma. She has published articles on English-speaking and Italian women writers and a monograph on the reception of Dostoevsky in Great Britain. [lucia.aiello@york.ac.uk]ALESSIO ALETTA is a PhD candidate in Italian studies at the University of Toronto, where he is developing a digital map of the places represented in Luigi Pirandello's work. His research interests include Italian modernist literature, literary geography, and contemporary Italian comics. He has published articles on Pirandello, Achille Campanile, Leo Ortolani, and Zerocalcare in Italian and international academic journals and edited volumes. He is one of the cofounders of “TICS” (Toronto Italian Comics Studies), the first study group in North America entirely dedicated to Italian comics. [alessio.aletta@mail.utoronto.ca]KATHLEEN BOYLE received her BA in Latin and Greek from Indiana University at Bloomington. Her study of Italian, which began at IU-Bloomington, continued at the Italian School of Middlebury College, where she studied for four years, completing a MA in Italian literary studies. In 2013, she completed her PhD in Romance philology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught Italian language and culture courses for six years on campus and one year in Florence, Italy, at the Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici (LdM). At Notre Dame, she teaches all levels of Italian language, including intensive language courses, and a course on Italian diaspora studies. Recent projects and presentations include alternative assessment and the use of ePortfolios in language courses, the relations between Italian diaspora studies and Italian studies departments, and creative curriculum development in the twenty-first-century language program. [kboyle6@nd.edu]MARCO CERAVOLO is a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, funded by the Irish Research Council, at University College Cork, with a research project on the encounters between the human and the nonhuman in the works of Federigo Tozzi, Dino Buzzati, and Anna Maria Ortese. His fields of research are ecocriticism, ecofeminism, animal studies and children's studies. In 2022, he was an international visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, where he worked on the writings of Dino Buzzati, under the supervision of Eloisa Morra. He has participated in conferences in Italy and abroad and has published literary criticism essays in scientific and popular magazines (Altre Modernità, altrelettere, Nazione indiana, Aracne Editrice, Italian Studies in Southern Africa, inter alia). In 2022, together with Anna Finozzi, he edited the collection of essays Italian Studies Across Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity, New Approaches, Future Directions (Aracne Editrice). [marcojceravolo@gmail.com]SARA DELMEDICO (PhD, University of Cambridge) is professor on contract at the University of Bologna. Her main research interests include the history of women in the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century with a particular attention to the history of law and literature. She has recently published Opposing Patriarchy: Women and the Law in Action in Pre-Unification Italy (1815–1865) (London: IMLR book series, 2021). [sara.delmedico.2023@gmail.com]MANUELA DI FRANCO is a MSCA Fellow at Ghent University, working on a project on Americanization and gender representation in modern Italian comics. Her research interests include Italian popular culture in Fascist Italy, gender representation in the popular press, and translation practices and censorship of comics in Italy. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where she founded the TICS–Toronto Italian Comics Studies group, recipient of the Goggio research group award in 2022. Her first monograph, Going to the People: Popular Press in Fascist Italy, 1934–43, is under contract for publication in the IMLR book series. [manuela .difranco@protonmail.com]ANNA DI GIUSTO is a teacher and a researcher. Resident in Florence, she holds three master's degrees in philosophy, cultural anthropology, and gender studies, complemented by two postgraduate master's degrees in multicultural diversity management at the University of Siena and management of multicultural educational contexts at the University of Florence. She participated in the prestigious QuaMMELOT—Qualification for Minor Migrants Education and Learning Open Access (Erasmus+) project, organized by the University of Florence. Her involvement in intellectual and cultural activities extends to her role as artistic director of the Middle East Now Film Festival in Florence. She is a member of several academic and social organizations, including Assopace Palestina, the SIS—Società Italiana delle Storiche, the ANPI and Libera, and has participated in numerous international conferences held at the universities of Oxford, Sydney, New Jersey, London, Dublin, Galway, Freiburg, Istanbul, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest, Rome, and others. Her contributions have been recognized and published by several institutions, including the universities of Brussels, Istanbul, Salerno, Reggio Calabria, FrancoAngeli, ISRPt Editore and Russia Pannonica.[anna.digiusto@effethics.org]HÉLOÏSE FAUCHERRE-BURESI is currently completing a doctorate in Italian studies at the Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin (under the direction of Céline Frigau Manning) and in co-supervision with the University of Padua in contemporary history (under the direction of Carlotta Sorba). A former student of the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, she obtained the agrégation (state teaching competition) in 2019 and graduated in 2020 with a specialization on the representations of the Italian nation in the southern protest songs of the post-unification decades. She is currently working on her doctoral research on “Music, Nation and Southern Italy: Songs and Counter Songs of Italian Unification in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century” while teaching as a lecturer at the Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin. In 2022, she organized the international conference Southern Italy and Folklore, between Subalternity and Rebellion from Unification to the 1950s at the ENS in Lyon. A special issue of the Laboratoire italien magazine dedicated to this meeting is being written under her coordination. [heloise.faucherre-buresi@univ-lyon3.fr]JULIET GUZZETTA is associate professor at Michigan State University (USA) where she teaches courses in theater, literature, and cinema. She has written various articles and essays on narrative theater, autobiography, feminism, and performance in magazines and books published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Australia. Her monograph The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy (Northwestern University Press, 2021; translated into Italian by Accademia University Press, 2023) analyzes narrative theater from a historical point of view, both the roots of the form and the historical intervention that the narrators make. Her research was supported by the US Fulbright Program and the Mellon School for Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University. She is currently working on projects on Franca Rame, Giuliana Musso, and Elena Ferrante, and is editing a book that investigates present and future Italian feminism. [guzzetta@msu.edu]VIRGINIA NIRI is research fellow at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, after obtaining a doctorate in contemporary history at the University of Genoa. Her research interests are oral history and the history of sexuality, with particular reference to feminist movements and sexual dissidences. She published Voci d'archivio. La storia pubblica incontra il ’68 (Genoa University Press, 2018); “‘Coming to power’. Appunti per una storia della sottocultura S/M nei movimenti lesbici e omosessuali,” in Diacronie. Studi di storia contemporanea, no. 46, 2021; “Dalla rivoluzione alla liberazione. Autocoscienza femminista e sessualità nel lungo Sessantotto,” in Italia Contemporanea, no. 300, 2022; “Voci d'archivio. Fonti orali e storia pubblica: alienazione, restituzione e accessibilità” in De Martino no. 33, 2022; and “‘Gli anni del 68’: didattica attiva per la comprensione del femminismo,” in Ricerche storiche vol. 49, no. 2, 2019. [virginia.niri@gmail.com]SILVIA PIZZIRANI is an independent researcher. She obtained her PhD in history, cultures and global politics at the University of Bologna, and her research focused on the relationship between politics and consumption in Italy, during the 1970s. She studied history at the University of Bologna, where she graduated cum laude in 2017 with a final dissertation entitled Female Associations and Energy Consumption in England, between the Twenties and the Fifties. She is editorial secretary at Ricerche di Storia Politica, an academic magazine that publishes articles and review essays and has several fora for debates on topical questions of political history. She is also a member of the editorial board of Alea, an independent journal of cultural anthropology—open to interdisciplinary and literary suggestions—founded in 2020. She writes historical books for one of the book series of the Gazzetta dello Sport. [silvia .pizzirani@outlook.com]The views and opinions expressed in Italica are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the editor, editorial board, the American Association of Teachers of Italian, or the publisher.

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