Contributors

ROBERTO FERRINI, after graduating from the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa, is currently an advanced PhD candidate in the Department of Italian Studies at Yale University, where he has developed a strong interest in ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. His dissertation explores the relationship between human beings and the natural environment in Sicilian literature on the Risorgimento, with particular attention to the works of Giovanni Verga, Luigi Pirandello, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. His research also engages with early modern women writers and the literary and philosophical production of Giacomo Leopardi. [roberto.ferrini@yale.edu]SIMONA FRABOTTA holds a PhD in linguistics, literature, and translation from the University of Malaga. She has taught Italian as a foreign language since 2004 and is currently faculty at the Universidad de Sevilla. Her research focuses on the analysis of Italian L2/LS teaching materials from a gender perspective, the presence/absence of women in Italian history and culture, and the sexist use of the Italian language. [simonafrabotta@gmail.com]SIMONA FRASCA is associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Naples Federico II. She is a member of the Roberto Murolo Foundation and serves on the scientific and artistic boards of institutions such Centro Studi Canzone Napoletana and Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti. Her research focuses on the Italian diaspora and informal music economies. Her publications include Italian Birds of Passage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Mixed by Erry (Ad est dell'equatore, 2023), the latter adapted into the homonymous film produced by Rai Cinema/Netflix. She is currently working on a project on early Neapolitan silent cinema and regularly contributes as a music critic for several Italian cultural magazines. [simona.frasca@unina.it]ANGELA MARIA FORNARO graduated from Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples with a thesis on landscape in Neapolitan silent cinema. In 2005, she received a PhD from the University of Florence on special effects in Italian silent cinema. She attended the Film Restoration Summer School in Bologna and worked as an archivist at the Cinema Museum in Turin. From 2019 to 2022, she taught the Specialist in Post-Production and Film Restoration course at Suor Orsola in Naples and the History of Animated Cinema course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. In 2023, she was a research fellow at the University of Rome Tor Vergata for the PRIN project “Revisualizing Italian Silentscapes 1896–1922 (RevIS).” [angelamariafornaro@gmail.com]CLAIRE MARRONE is a full professor of French and Italian at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her publications include Female Journeys: Autobiographical Expressions by French and Italian Women (2000) and numerous articles on women writers from the nineteenth century to the present, on autobiography, and on revolutionary Europe. [MarroneC@sacredheart.edu]ALICE PARRINELLO is a postdoctoral fellow in Italian studies at the University of Toronto. She has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Oxford and at the University of Edinburgh. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in medieval and modern languages (Italian). Her doctoral thesis analyzed the films and plays by Sicilian director Emma Dante and argued for a queer Southern epistemology by focusing on specific elements of her works: temporality/haunting, oddkin and queer families, and the Southern cultural archive. It has now been turned into a monograph, forthcoming with Peter Lang. Her published work includes articles that have appeared in gender/sexuality/Italy, IS Med—Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean, and Memory, Mind & Media, among others. She is interested in queer studies, visual media, memory, and ecofeminism. [alice.parrinello@utoronto.ca]CHIARA RICCI was born in Rome in 1984. In 2008, she graduated in DAMS (disciplines of arts, music and entertainment) with a thesis on Anna Magnani. In 2010, she earned a master's degree with honors in cinema, television and multimedia production with a thesis on Elvira Notari, the first female director of Italian cinema, a short version of which was published in the United States. She has published monographs on Anna Magnani, Alberto Lionello, Valeria Moriconi, Monica Vitti, Elvira Notari, Lilla Brignone, Ugo Tognazzi, and an investigative book about the “Montesi case.” In 2017, Roma Tre University appointed her cultore della materia (expert in the history of cinema and filmology). She is president of the “Piazza Navona” Cultural Association and creator of the online column “Piazza Navona” (www.riccichiara.com) and of the National Literary Prize “EquiLibri.” She manages a personal archive dedicated to Anna Magnani, which she wishes to exhibit. She holds lectures and conferences in Italy and abroad on the history of cinema and theater. [chiararicci.nora@gmail.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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