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STEVE BAKER is a Ph.D. candidate in Italian and Comparative Literature at Columbia University with a focus on the Renaissance. His interests include early-modern rhetoric, the epic tradition and the evolution of early modern political philosophy. He is currently preparing a dissertation on a political strain of Petrarchism that runs alongside the poet's lyrical influence on court culture in the 16th Century.
PATRIZIO CECCAGNOLi, born in Perugia, Italy, holds a laurea in Classics, with a thesis on Leopardi, from the Università degli Studi di Perugia and is now a Ph.D. candidate in Italian at Columbia University, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature with an emphasis on Modernism. He has co-translated poems by Milo De Angelis, Edoardo Sanguineti, and Paolo Valesio (with Susan Stewart) which appeared in «TriQuarterly», 127 (2007), and in «Poetry»,
(December 2007).
NICOLA DI NINO received a "Laurea in lettere" and a "Dottorato di ricerca" at the University "Ca' Foscari" of Venice in 2001 and 2005. At the University of Venice he has also led seminars and courses on Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature. Furthermore, at the University of Trieste he taught courses on "Didattica della lingua italiana", "Didattica di educazione alla comprensione linguistica (Italian for foreigners)", and "Italian grammar".
His research interests span from the eighteenth and nineteenth century to modern and contemporary Italian literature: "Ermetismo", dialect poetry, women's writings, the Italian theatre of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the presence of biblical echoes and motifs in Italian literature, as well as Gabriele d'Annunzio.
GIUSEPPE GAZZOLA received his laurea in lettere from the University of Genova in 1995, and an MA from the University of Notre Dame in 1997, before completing his Ph.D. in Italian Studies at Yale University in 2008. His research and teaching interests range across the canon of Italian literature, from Petrarch to eighteenth-century literary historiography to contemporary poetry and film in Italy and by Italians abroad. His first book, Le armi della ragione. Contributo allo studio dell'opera teatrale di Vico Faggi (Genova: Microart, 1997), described the theatrical production of Vico Faggi, one of the leading poets and playwrights of the late twentieth century, whose close collaboration with Gazzola enabled a first full-length study of his theatrical corpus. Since then, Gazzola has published articles on Petrarch, Foscolo, and Italian poets of the twentieth century. He is currently working on a book-length project entitled, The Literature of History, which investigates the reciprocal relationship between the construction of an Italian national identity and the development of a national literary canon from about 1790 to 1890. It seeks to demonstrate how scholars, intellectuals and revolutionaries reshaped the past in order to create a cultural mythology for the emerging state; in particular, Gazzola argues that the construction of the new nation-state influenced the creation of a national literary canon, and studies how the development of coherent histories of Italian literature, long before the establishment of the nation, were integral to the creation of a national identity.
Gazzola has also been committed to the task of editing, both for academic journals and for the production of newly edited texts. In 2006, along with Olaf Müller, he published a German edition of Foscolo's Essays on Petrarch (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2005), and is currently working on an edition of Filippo Tomaso Marinetti's translations of the French poet, Stéphane Mallarmé (Versi e prose), forthcoming with Società editrice Fiorentina in 2009. He currently serves as assistant editor for two journals, «Italian Poetry Review» and «Forum Italicum».
Giuseppe Gazzola is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Stony Brook University.
GIUSEPPE EPISCOPO, dottore di ricerca in Filologia Moderna, dal 2002 è redattore della rivista di filosofia «l'espressione». I suoi contributi su Federigo Tozzi, J. Rodolfo Wilcock, William Goyen, Thomas Pynchon, Stefano D'Arrigo e Arno Schmidt sono apparsi in rivista («Strumenti Critici») e in volume. Ha curato e tradotto il saggio di Fredric Jameson Brecht e il metodo (Cronopio, 2008).
AMELIA MOSER received her Ph.D. in Italian from Harvard University in 2004 and has taught Italian Language and Literature at Yale University, Bard College, Iona College, and Columbia University, where she is currently Visiting Scholar in the Department of Italian. She is Co-Managing Editor of the journal «Italian Poetry Review» (Columbia University & The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America). Her research interests concern Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature.
She has published on Anna Maria Ortese and is currently writing a book on the Fantastic in Ortese's writings.
