Contributors

PIERPAOLO ANTONELLO is senior researcher and senior lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies at Yale University. He specializes in contemporary Italian literature, cinema, art, and intellectual history. He also published on French philosophy, with particular reference to the work of René Girard and Michel Serres. His books include Il ménage a quattro. Scienza, filosofia e tecnica nella letteratura italiana del Novecento (Mondadori, 2005); Contro il materialismo. Le “due culture” in Italia: bilancio di un secolo (Aragno, 2012); and Dimenticare Pasolini. Intellettuali e impegno nell'Italia contemporanea (Mimesis, 2012). He is coeditor of the series Italian Modernities for Peter Lang, Oxford. [pierpaolo.antonello@yale.edu]CHARLES BURDETT is professor of Italian and director of the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (School of Advanced Study, University of London). The principal areas of his research are literary culture under Fascism; travel writing; the Italian colonial presence in Libya and East Africa and its legacies; theories of intercultural contact; the representation of Islam and the Islamic world in recent Italian literature and culture. He was principal investigator of the AHRC beacon research project “Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures” (2014–2018). His books include Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars (Berghahn, 2007), Italy, Islam and the Islamic World: Representations and Reflections from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings (Peter Lang, 2016), and the edited volumes Transnational Italian Studies (Liverpool UP, 2020; with Loredana Polezzi) and Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation (Liverpool UP, 2020; with Loredana Polezzi and Barbara Spadaro). He is currently pursuing an AHRC impact and engagement fellowship for “Uncovering the Afterlife of the Italian Empire” (2024–2025). [charles.burdett@sas.ac.uk]CLODAGH BROOK is professor in Italian and fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Publications include four monographs: Intermedia in Italy (Legenda, 2024; coauthored with G. Pieri and F. Mussgnug), Screening Religions in Italy: Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Public Sphere (U of Toronto P, 2019), Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere (U of Toronto P, 2010), The Poetry of Eugenio Montale: Metaphor, Negation and Silence (Oxford UP, 2002). She has published numerous articles on cinema and interdisciplinary practices, as well as several coedited books and special issues, including Cultures of Opposition under Berlusconi (Continuum, 2009; with Albertazzi and Ross), Transmedia: Storia, memoria e narrazioni attraverso i media (Mimesis, 2014; with Patti), a special issue on intermedia in Italian studies (Italian Studies, 2019; with Mussgnug and Pieri). She gave the intellectual leadership, as PI and International Co-I, to the AHRC-funded grant, “Interdisciplinary Italy 1900–2020: Interart/Intermedia.” [brookc@tcd.ie]MONICA JANSEN is a senior lecturer in Italian studies at Utrecht University. Her research interests include modernism and postmodernism studies, cultural memory studies, and, more specifically, new forms of art and activism. She investigates cultural representations of socially relevant topics such as religion, precarity, youth, and migration from an interdisciplinary, transmedial, and transnational perspective. Her recent publications include articles and book chapters, such as “Transnational Subjectivities and Victimhood in Italy after the 2001 Genoa G8 Summit,” in Charles Burdett and Loredana Polezzi, eds., Transnational Italian Studies (Liverpool UP, 2020); and coedited special issues and volumes, such as Futurism and the Sacred: International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (De Gruyter, 2022); “Us” versus “Them”: Exploring Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins (Routledge, forthcoming). She is coeditor in chief of Annali d'italianistica and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies and Bollettino ’900. [monica.jansen@let.uu.nl]MILLICENT MARCUS is Sarai Ribicoff Professor of Italian Studies at Yale University. Her specializations include medieval literature, Italian cinema, interrelationships between literature and film, and representations of the Holocaust in postwar Italian culture. She is the author of An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron (1979), Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (1986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (1993), After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (2003), Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz (2007), and Italian Film in the Present Tense (2023). Her current research interests include neuroaesthetics, and ecocriticism.FLORIAN MUSSGNUG is professor of comparative literature and Italian studies at University College London and vice dean international in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He holds a professorial double appointment at the University of Rome (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) and serves as chair of publications at the British School at Rome and as associated researcher at the University of Heidelberg's Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS). He is working on a book about neo-Malthusian speculative fiction in postwar Italy, Dystopian Intimacies: Italian Literature in the Age of Catastrophic Environmentalism, which will be published by Liverpool University Press. [f.mussgnug@ucl.ac.uk]ENZO PACE is professor emeritus of sociology of religions at the University of Padua and previously served as the head of the Department of Sociology and the head of the Social Sciences Section at the Galilean School of Higher Education of the University of Padua. He was also a directeur d’études invité at the EHESS in Paris and president of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR). Additionally, he is a coeditor of the Annual Review for the Sociology of Religion (Brill) and a member of the editorial boards of Religioni e Società, Religions and the Journal of Islam in Europe and the Mediterranean World. In 2012, he received the Hoffmann Award for Intercultural Competence from the University of Vechta, Germany. His recent publications include Religioni in guerra (Castelvecchi, 2024) and “Radical Buddhism in Sri Lanka” in D. Tonelli and G. Mannion, eds., Exiting Violence: The Role of Religion (De Gruyer, 2024). [vincenzo.pace@unipd.it]MARIA BONARIA URBAN is director of studies in history at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (2021–2026) and senior lecturer in Italian studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her main research interests are the history and legacy of fascism and resistance, (post)colonialism, postsecular religion, protest movements, and migration. She is working on a new book project on (post)colonialism and Catholicism in the former Italian East Africa. Her publications include the monograph Sardinia on Screen: The Construction of the Sardinian Character in Italian Cinema (Brill, 2013); coedited special issues and volumes, such as “Us” versus “Them”: Exploring Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins (Routledge, forthcoming); articles and book chapters on cultural memories of political violence and activism, contemporary Italian cinema, and postsecular religion. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies and editor of the bookshelf of Annali d'italianistica. [m.b.urban@knir.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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