Contributors

GIAN MARIA ANNOVI is associate professor of Italian and comparative literature and the University of Southern California. He studied philosophy at the University of Bologna, where he graduated with a dissertation on Giacomo Leopardi and Andrea Zanzotto. He then pursued graduate research in the field of contemporary Italian literature under the direction of Niva Lorenzini at the University of Bologna. After studying abroad at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, and at the University of California Los Angeles, he went to Columbia University to pursue a PhD in the field of Italian studies under the direction of Paolo Valesio. In 2011, his Ph.D. dissertation on writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was granted the P. P. Pasolini Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation. He taught at the University of Denver from 2011 to 2013 before joining USC. He has published a book on the relationship between decentered subjectivity and corporeality in the poetry of prominent Italian authors such as Rosselli, Zanzotto, Sanguineti, Porta, and Pasolini. In 2017, he published his second book, Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship (Columbia University Press), which received the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Modern Language Association, and the International Flaiano Prize for Italian studies. He is the editor of four volumes and the author of numerous book chapters and articles on Italian poetry, the Italian neo-avant-garde, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. His main interests include twentieth-century Italian literature, cinema, visual arts and in critical thought, specifically in the areas of psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. In 2015 he received a Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. [annovi@usc.edu]ADELE BARDAZZI is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Prior to this, she was Laming Junior Research Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford, working on a project on the contemporary Italian poet Antonella Anedda. She holds a DPhil in Italian from Christ Church, Oxford. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry, with a series of cross-disciplinary, comparative, and gender-orientated foci. In particular, her research interests are lyric poetry (with an emphasis on elegy), discourses of mourning and loss, issues of translation and self-translation, and the cross-fertilization between the verbal and the visual. Her recent publications include the edited volume Gender and Authority Across Disciplines, Space and Time with Alberica Bazzoni (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), the monograph Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning (Peter Lang, 2022), and the edited volume A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry with Francesco Giusti and Emanuela Tandello (Legenda, 2022). She is cofounder and coordinator of Italian Poetry Today. Together with Jonathan Culler and Roberto Binetti, she is coediting a special issue, “Elegy Today: Rejections, Re-mappings, Rewritings” for the Journal of World Literature (2023). [BARDAZZA@tcd.ie]ROBERTO BINETTI holds a DPhil in medieval and modern languages from the University of Oxford. Between 2018 and 2021, he was graduate development scholar and tutor in Italian at St Anne's College, Oxford. His doctoral project, entitled Voices from a Minor Literature, focuses on Italian women's poetry in the 1970s and aims to reassess this literary phenomenon in the light of its stylistic originality and problematic relationship with contemporary history. More broadly, his research interests include modern and contemporary poetry, literary theory, psychoanalysis, cultural history, ecology, and eco-criticism. He is cofounder and coordinator of Italian Poetry Today. Together with Jonathan Culler and Adele Bardazzi, he is coediting a special issue, “Elegy Today: Rejections, Re-mappings, Rewritings,” for the Journal of World Literature (2023). [roberto.binetti@st-annes.ox.ac.uk]FRANCESCO GIUSTI is Career Development Fellow in Italian at Christ Church and associate lecturer at Worcester College and St John's College, University of Oxford. After completing his PhD at Sapienza University of Rome and the Italian Institute of Human Sciences, he pursued his postdoctoral research on the history and theory of the lyric 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 has published two books devoted respectively to the ethics and poetics of mourning and to creative and cognitive desire in lyric poetry: Canzonieri in morte. Per un'etica poetica del lutto (2015) and Il desiderio della lirica. Poesia, creazione, conoscenza (2016). He coedited, 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) [francesco.giusti@chch.ox.ac.uk]MATILDE MANARA holds a PhD in comparative literature from Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3 University (INSPIRE-Marie Curie Fellowship). Between 2020 and 2022, she has been assistant professor (ATER) at the University of Lille. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Collège de France in Paris. She is the author of Diplopie, sovrimpressioni. Poesia e critica in Andrea Zanzotto (Pacini, 2021) and of L'intelligence du poème. Lyrisme et pensée chez Valéry, Rilke, Stevens et Montale (Classiques Garnier, forthcoming), as well as of a number of other articles on modernism, twentieth-century Italian, French, Anglo-American and German poetry, literary genre theory, and history of ideas. [matilde.manara@college-de-france.fr]ELOISA MORRA is associate professor of Italian at the University of Toronto and a contributing writer at Il Sole 24 ore. She earned a BA and MA from the Scuola Normale Superiore and a PhD from Harvard. She is the author of Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja (Quodlibet, 2014; Edinburgh Gadda Prize 2015), Poetiche della visibilità (Carocci, 2022), the editor of several texts (T. Scialoja, Tre per un topo, Quodlibet; 2014) and volumes (Building the Canon through the Classics [Brill, 2019]; Paesaggi di parole [Carocci, 2019]; Figure dell'artista [Elephant&Castle, 2021]; Retoriche dell'ecfrasi nella letteratura italiana del Novecento [Letteratura&Arte, 2021]; and Dino Buzzati: Critical Genealogies [Quaderni d'Italianistica, 2022]). She coordinates the Sciascia Archive Project. [eloisa.morra@utoronto.ca]CHIARA PORTESINE is completing a PhD at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and her research project is entitled Lo statuto dell'ecfrasi nella poesia sperimentale degli anni Sessanta e Settanta. Her recent publications include ‘“Interdisciplinare per caso” (e per “negazioni”). Elio Pagliarani e le arti figurative (1954–1965)’ (Rossocorpolingua, 2021); ‘“Una febbriciattola di lieve paranoia”. Varianti “novissime” nella Beltà’ (il Verri, 2021) and ‘Una specie di Biennale allargata’. Il giuoco dell'ecfrasi nel secondo romanzo di Edoardo Sanguineti (Fabrizio Serra, 2021). Her principal research interests are the relationship between literature, art and photography, and the impact of new media on the literary domain, in particular Gruppo 63. [chiara.portesine@sns.it]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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