Contributors

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GIULIA ANDREONI is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. She obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in Modern Languages and Literatures at the Sapienza University of Rome and received her PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell University. [ga275@cornell.edu]RYAN CALABRETTA-SAJDER is associate professor and section head of Italian and associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he teaches courses in Italian, Film, and Gender Studies. He is the author of Divergenze in celluloide: colore, migrazione e identità sessuale nei film gay di Ferzan Özpetek (Mimesis editore), editor of Pasolini's Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Fairleigh Dickinson UP), and coeditor of Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future (Lexington Books). His research interests include the integration of gender, class, and migration in both Italian and Italian American literature and cinema, as well as teaching Italian language and culture through digital humanities and virtual reality. In Spring 2017, he was a Fulbright Scholar for the Foundation of the South at the University of Calabria, and in Fall 2024, he will be the Tiro a Segno Fellow at NYU. He is currently the president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, president of Gamma Kappa Alpha, and founding editor of Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association. [calabret@uark.edu]PAOLO CHERCHI is professor emeritus of Italian and Spanish literatures at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the literature of the Middle Ages and late Renaissance. His interests include Romance philology, textual criticism, and comparative literature. His books and edited collections include Andreas and the Ambiguity of Courtly Love (University of Toronto Press, 1994); La metamorfosi dell ‘Adone (Longo Editore, Ravenna, 1996); and edited edition of Tomaso Garzoni, La Piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo (Turin: Einaudi, 2 vols., 1996); Polimatia di riuso—Mezzo secolo di plagio (1539–1589) (Bulzoni Editore, “L'Europa delle Corti,” 1998); L'alambicco in biblioteca: distillati rari (Ravenna: Longo, 2000); Ministorie di microgeneri (Ravenna: Longo, 2003); and Il re Adone (Palermo: Sellerio, 1998). He has also edited three volumes of the Susan and Donald Mazzoni Seminar and published 115 essays and book reviews. His memoirs, Maestri. Memorie e racconti di un apprendistato, were published by Longo Editore in 2019. [pcvv@uchicago.edu]SYDNEY CONRAD is assistant professor of teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He teaches courses on Italian language and culture as well as on international and global studies. He is also a founding member of Diversity, Transformation and Italian Studies. His research interests include work on Italian Futurism, propaganda, theater, migration, and postcolonial studies. [skconrad@vcu.edu]CINZIA MARONGIU is the language coordinator of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, where she also teaches Spanish and Italian language and culture specifically aimed at engineering and social science students. She obtained her master's degree in Spanish and English literature from Università degli Studi di Genova in Italy. She holds a master's in Italian Literature from Indiana University, and she is about to discuss her PhD dissertation in Italian American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany, under the supervision Mita Banerjee and Colleen Ryan. She has written on contemporary Italian American women's literature and immigrant writing in Italian and Italian German diasporic culture. She is also interested in Sardinian language and literature and Spanish influence on Sardinian culture. [cinziamarongiu@gmail.com]GIORDANO MAZZA is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Italian at the University of the South. He holds a PhD in Italian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master's degree and a bachelor of arts in English and Spanish literature, both received in Italy. His current research interests include twentieth-century Italian literature, with a focus on Italo Calvino and the fantastic genre, combinatorial literature, and environmental studies. [gimazza@sewanee.edu]MATTEO PACE (PhD, Columbia University) is visiting assistant professor of Italian studies at Connecticut College. In his research, he focuses on the reception of medical and scientific thought in vernacular poetry and on questions of embodiment in medieval literatures. [mpace1@conncoll.edu]ROBIN PICKERING-IAZZI is professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published numerous books and articles on the Italian mafias, focusing on how they operate in Italian literature, film, new media, and daily life. Among her recent publications are Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878–2018, Le geografie della mafia nella vita e nella letteratura dell'Italia contemporanea, The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies. Her English translation of the acclaimed novel Canto al deserto. Storia di Tina, soldato di mafia, by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, is forthcoming from Soho Press. [rpi2@uwm.edu]DAVID WARD is professor of Italian studies at Wellesley College. He is author of five books. His fields of study include the writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini; Italian antifascist culture; and contemporary Italian narrative, especially collective writing. [dward@wellesley.edu]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.