Contributors

MARGHERITA DI SALVO is associate professor at Federico II University, Naples. One of her main research interests is Italian in the world. She has published contributions about this topic in international journals and monographs. She won the Tartùfari Prize for the Accademia dei Lincei for her volume titled Le mani parlavano inglese. Percorsi linguistici e antropologici tra gli italiani d'Inghilterra. She led the “Transnational Italians” project, financed by the Compagnia di Sanpaolo, and participated in the research project “Italian Global Space: The Case of Ontario.” She has carried out research in England, Belgium, and Canada. She is currently the local PI for the research project “HELLO CAMPANIA,” dedicated to the promotion of bilingualism in the Campania region. [margherita.disalvo@unina.it]ROBERTO DOLCI graduated from Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia in lingue e letterature straniere ad indirizzo linguistico e glottodidattico. He worked at the same University from 1991 to 2006. Since 2006 he has been associate professor of didattica delle lingue moderne at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia. He is permanent visiting scholar at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY, New York, and has held teaching positions at the Autonomous University of Barcelona; Primorska University of Koper; CUNY College of Staten Island, New York; CUNY Queens College, New York; and Middlebury College, Vermont. He is responsible for the website www.usspeaksitalian.org for the promotion of Italian language teaching in the US, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC, and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY, and vice president of the Dante Alighieri Committee from New York. His current research interests focus on language education policies and, in particular, on the promotion of the teaching of Italian language and culture abroad as a tool of cultural diplomacy. [roberto.dolci@unistrapg.it]MONICA FARNETTI was born in Ferrara, has studied in Florence and Paris VII, teaches Italian literature at the University of Sassari, and has been a member of the Italian Society of Letters since the beginning. She has published monographs on ancient and modern authors of Italian literature and on women's writing. Some of her publications are Cristina Campo (Tufani 1996); Anna Maria Ortese (Bruno Mondadori 1998); Il centro della cattedrale. I ricordi d'infanzia nella scrittura femminile (Tre Lune 2001); Tutte signore di mio gusto. Ritratti di scrittrici contemporanee (La Tartaruga 2008); Dolceridente. La scoperta di Gaspara Stampa (Moretti & Vitali 2017); Sorelle. Storia letteraria di una relazione (Carocci 2022); Ritratti del tempo. Virginia Woolf e le scrittrici italiane (Ombre Corte 2023). She has edited editions of texts by Renaissance women writers (Gaspara Stampa, Maria Savorgnan) and contemporary women writers (Cristina Campo, Anna Maria Ortese, Goliarda Sapienza). [monifar@uniss.it]LUIGI FONTANELLA is professor emeritus of Italian and former chair of the Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Stony Brook University. Poet, essayist, novelist, dramatist, and translator, he has published numerous books. His most recent publications include the volumes Migrating Words: Italian Writers in the United States (Bordighera Press, 2012) and Raccontare la poesia 1970–2020 (Moretti and Vitali, 2021). His recent collections of poetry are L'adolescenza e la notte (Passigli, 2015; Pascoli Prize, Viareggio-Giuria Prize), Monte Stella (Passigli, 2020), and Dell'ultimo orizzonte (Interlinea, 2023). A translation of his novel Il dio di New York (Passigli, 2017) by Siân E. Gibbly was recently published by Bordighera Press (2022). His poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, English, German, and Russian. President of Italian Poetry in America, Fontanella is the founder and chief editor of Gradiva Publications. In 2005, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, president of Italy, nominated Luigi Fontanella Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana. [luigifontanella02@gmail.com]SARA GALLI received her master's degree in modern philology in 2013 and a master's in Italian language education for foreigners in 2009 from the University of Genoa. Her University of Toronto doctoral thesis focuses on Dante Alighieri's didactic project and the influence of Augustine of Hippo in his work. In 2019, she began a research project with her colleague, Mohammad Jamali, on neutral language in Italian. In recent years, she has been invited by various Italian teacher associations to hold workshops on equity, diversity, and inclusion in Italian classrooms. She is currently an international visiting scholar at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. [sara.galli@utoronto.ca]CLAUDIA KARAGOZ is associate professor of women's and gender studies at Saint Louis University. Bridging the fields of literary and visual studies, gender studies, motherhood studies, and Mediterranean studies, her research and teaching focus on the work of contemporary Italian women writers, directors, and photographers. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on figures such as Elsa Morante, Rosetta Loy, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Alina Marazzi, Donatella Maiorca, Roberta Torre, and especially Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia. Her articles have appeared in Italian studies journals and special issues and in volumes devoted to Italian writers and filmmakers. Karagoz also coedited a volume titled Sicily and the Mediterranean: Migration, Exchange, Reinvention (with Giovanna Summerfield; Palgrave 2015). Her current book project, Demeter's Journeys: Reimagining Motherhood in Contemporary Italian Women's Writing and Cinema, examines representations of motherhood in Italian women's writing and cinema, particularly how the work of afro-discendenti writers counters conservative discourses on motherhood in today's Italy. [claudia.karagoz@slu.edu]THOMAS E. PETERSON is professor of Italian at the University of Georgia. His essays have appeared in MLN, Romanic Review, Italica, Italian Culture, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Romance Notes, Forum Italicum, Rivista di studi italiani, Annali d'Italianistica, Modern Language Notes, Rivista pascoliana, Symposium, L'Ospite ingrato, Bibliotheca Dantesca, Forum Italicum, Women Language Literature in Italy / Donne Lingua Letteratura in Italia and Quaderni d'Italianistica; in numerous conference proceedings and collections, including Seconda Lettura Pascoliana Urbinate; Il sapere delle parole: Studî sul dialogo latino e italiano del Rinascimento; Dieci inverni senza Fortini: Atti delle giornate di studio nel decennale della scomparsa; and California Lectura Dantis; and in a number of online publications. His books include The Rose in Contemporary Italian Poetry (2000), The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature (2010), Petrarch's Fragmenta: The Narrative and Theological Unity of Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (2016), Modern Mannerism in Italian Poetry (2017), and Epistemology and the Predicates of Education: Building Upon a Process Theory of Learning (2020). [peterson@uga.edu]STEFANIA PORCELLI holds a doctoral degree in English from Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in comparative literature from the City University of New York. She teaches Italian language, culture, and literature in the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College, CUNY. Her research focuses on the intersections between literature, emotions, and history, with a particular emphasis on the works of women writers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She has published on prominent figures such as Hannah Arendt, Elizabeth Bowen, Elsa Morante, Elena Ferrante, and William Shakespeare. Currently, she is coediting a special issue of Annali d'italianistica dedicated to Elsa Morante's La Storia. Moreover, Porcelli's book project, entitled A Theory of Intensity, draws from women's studies, moral philosophy, linguistics, history of emotions, and affect theory to demonstrate the interconnectedness of emotions and narrative form in the works of Elsa Morante, Goliarda Sapienza, and Elena Ferrante. [sp1122@hunter.cuny.edu]ALESSANDRA TREVISAN is a PhD in Italian studies and cultrice della materia at the Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Her research focuses on twentieth-century female authors with a philological and archival perspective. She published the monograph “Nel mio baule mentale”: per una ricerca sugli inediti di Goliarda Sapienza (Aracne, 2020) and essays on Milena Milani, Adele Cambria, Matilde Serao, and other women writers but also on Gabriele d'Annunzio. Since 2017, she has been a member of the editorial team of the Archivio d'Annunzio, which she has coordinated since 2022. Since 2020, she has been a member of the scientific committee of Kepos—Semestrale di biblioteca italiana, of which she has been editorial manager since 2017. [ale.trevisan@unive.it]SILVIA TRIPODI is a research fellow at the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna—Ravenna Campus. She earned a PhD in scienze per il patrimonio e la produzione culturale (XXXIV cycle) from the University of Catania, with a thesis titled L'archivio della gioia: riordino e catalogazione del fondo Sapienza-Pellegrino. [silvia.tripodi2@unibo.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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