Contributors

ANTONELLO BORRA, professor of Italian at the University of Vermont, is a poet, a translator, and a scholar. He received his Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere moderne (English and Spanish) from the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, in 1988, and both his MA (1993) and his PhD (1998) in Italian studies from Brown University. His most recent scholarly book is Guittone d'Arezzo. Selected Poems and Prose (University of Toronto Press, 2017). He regularly contributes poems, translations, and critical articles to several journals and magazines both in Italy and the United States. His poems have been translated into English, Catalan, and German. [Antonello.Borra@uvm.edu]GUIDO CAPACCIOLI is a PhD student in Italian studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his PhD, he earned an MA in modern literature from the University of Florence. His current research focuses on the relationship between magic and politics in the Florentine Renaissance. [gucapaccioli@utexas.edu]JONATHAN DRUKER is professor of Italian at Illinois State University where he also teaches European studies and Holocaust literature. In 2014, he was a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz: Posthumanist Reflections (Palgrave, 2009). With L. Scott Lerner, he coedited The New Italy and the Jews: From Massimo D'Azeglio to Primo Levi (Annali d'italianistica, 2018). His recent essays include “Ethical Grey Zones: On Coercion and Complicity in the Concentration Camp and Beyond,” in A Companion to the Holocaust (Wiley, 2020), and “Monstrous Births and Mad Scientists: Allegories of Holocaust Trauma in Primo Levi's Natural Histories,” in The Holocaust: Global Perspectives and National Narratives (Northwestern UP, forthcoming). Druker is currently writing a book on the function and representation of Holocaust trauma in Levi's imaginative writing, including his science fiction, historical and autobiographical fiction, and poetry. [j.druker@ilstu.edu]EILIS KIERANS is a PhD candidate in Italian studies at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on contemporary literature, gender/sexuality studies, film, and food studies. She has published articles on the work of Clara Sereni, Dacia Maraini, Grazia Deledda, and Christian Petzold. She is coeditor of the translation series Other Voices of Italy as well as editor of the Creative Reviews section of Italian Quarterly. [emk177@italian.rutgers.edu]IURI MOSCARDI is a PhD Candidate in comparative literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He graduated from Università degli Studi di Milano in Italian literature: his bachelor's degree thesis discussed the end of Cesare Pavese's American myth in his last novel, The Moon and the Bonfires, while his master's degree thesis proved the role of Pavese in editing Pivano's first Italian translation of Spoon River Anthology in 1943 (thesis awarded with Premio Cesare Pavese 2012). He holds a MA in Italian from Indiana University, Bloomington (2016) and a master of philosophy (comparative literature) from the Graduate Center (2019). He is now writing his dissertation, which studies digital social reading projects about Italian contemporary authors as an innovative form of reception of the literary text. He published many articles, in Italian and English, and edited Cesare Pavese Mythographer, Translator, Modernist (2023) and the first complete English translation of Pavese's Mestiere di vivere (forthcoming). He is the editor of Dialogues with Pavese, a bi-monthly column on Fondazione Pavese's website in which he interviews scholars of Pavese. [imoscardi@gradcenter.cuny.edu]FEDERICA SANTINI is a professor of Italian and interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University, where she is serving as interim chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures. She holds a PhD in Italian literature from UCLA and an MA in modern literatures from the University of Siena, Italy. Her scholarly work and literary translations have been published in numerous journals and volumes in the US and Italy. Her own poetry and short fiction have appeared internationally in over fifty journals and anthologies. She has authored or coedited six volumes, among which are her monograph, Io era una bella figura una volta: Viaggio nella poesia di ricerca del secondo Novecento (Scritture, 2013) and the English language, annotated edition of I Novissimi. Poetry for the Sixties, with Luigi Ballerini (Agincourt Press, 2017) as well as a poetry chapbook, Unearthed (Kelsay Books, 2021). [fsantini@kennesaw.edu]ANDREA SCAPOLO holds a PhD from Indiana University and is an associate professor of Italian and the Italian program coordinator at Kennesaw State University. His research focuses on the intersection between social movements, political ideology, and cultural production. His recent publications include the volume Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures (Amsterdam University Press), coedited with Angela Porcarelli, Emory University; book chapters and journal articles on Antonio Gramsci (“Scattered Ashes: The Reception of the Gramscian Legacy in Postwar Italy,” in Gramsci in the World, edited by Roberto Dainotto and Fredric Jameson 2020), and the theater of Dario Fo and Franca Rame (“Maria/Medea/Ulrike: Figures of Destituent Power in the Feminist Theater of Franca Rame,” in K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts, no. 8, 2022, and “Dario Fo and Franca Rame's Politics of Theatre” in Essays on Dario Fo, edited by Antonio Scuderi, 2019). [ascapolo@kennesaw.edu]

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