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Contributors
Eugenio Bolongaro teaches in the Department of Italian Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His main research interests are contemporary Italian prose fiction from 1945 to the present, Italian film, Italian cultural studies, comparative literature, and literary theory. Bolongaro's book Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature was published in 2003. He has published articles on the British writer John Fowles, on Boccaccio, and on Italo Calvino, as well as on the theory of literary genres. His current research focuses on Pier Vittorio Tondelli, the Italian 'young cannibals', and ethics in literary criticism, as well as on the practice and theory of adaptation in film studies.
Alessandro Carrera is Associate Professor and Director of Italian Studies at the University of Houston in Texas. He previously taught in several North American universities in positions sponsored by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He has published extensively on contemporary Italian philosophy, literary theory, and classical and popular music. He is the author of L'esperienza dell'istante (1995), Il principe e il giurista (2001), and Lo spazio materno dell'ispirazione (2004). Carrera has also edited Giacomo Leopardi poeta e filosofo (1999) and, together with Alessandro Vettori, Binding the Lands (2004).
Benedetto Fontana teaches political philosophy and American political thought at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Hegemony and Power: On the Relation Between Gramsci and Machiavelli (1993). He publishes on Gramsci, Machiavelli, Sallust, and Tacitus, as well as on democratic politics and rhetoric. Recently he edited (with Cary J. Nederman and Gary Remer) Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy (2004). Currently he is working on Gramsci's notions of state and politics, as well as on the influence of the ancient Romans on Machiavelli.
Simon A. Gilson is Reader in Italian at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Medieval Optics and Theories of Light in the Works of Dante (2000) and Dante and Renaissance Florence (2005), and the coeditor of Science and Literature in Italian Culture: From Dante to Calvino (2004).
Max Henninger received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York in 2004. He lives in Berlin, where he coedits the journal arranca! His research interests include German and Italian autonomist Marxism, political currents in French poststructuralism, and the literary and cinematic articulations of sociopolitical conflict in Germany and Italy since the 1970s. He also works on Baroque literature and sixteenth-and seventeenth-century philosophy, in particular Giordano Bruno, Blaise Pascal, and Baruch Spinoza.
Giovanni Mari is Professor of History of Philosophy and Dean of the Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione at the University of Florence, Italy. He is the author of numerous articles on the theory and philosophy of labor, and of the monographs Eternità e tempo nell'opera storica (1997), Postmoderno, democrazia, storia (1998, 2005 [forthcoming in English translation with Davies Publisher]), and I vocabolari di Braudel: Lo spazio come verità della storia (2001). He has also written Libertà, sviluppo, lavoro (2004) and La filosofia e la società della conoscenza (2005). He founded in 1988, and continues to serve as senior editor, the international magazine of philosophical studies Iride: Filosofia e discussione pubblica, published by Il Mulino.
Cristian Muscelli è Adjunct Professor di Letteratura italiana presso la University of New Hampshire e Direttore Amministrativo del programma UNH in Italy. Si è occupato prevalentemente di filosofia del linguaggio con particolare attenzione al problema dell'origine del linguaggio e per i linguaggi dell'arte. Il suo attuale interesse è rivolto alle teorie della psicopatologia ad orientamento fenomenologico ed alla loro utilizzabilità nella critica letteraria.
Anne O'Connor is Lecturer in Italian Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway, specializing in nineteenth-century Italian literature, romanticism, and travel literature. She has published articles on nineteenth-century travel to Italy, literary representations of death and memory in Florence, and the interaction between locals and tourists in nineteenth-century Italy. Her current research interests include the compilation and translation of important texts of Italian romanticism and the study of travel between Ireland and Italy in the nineteenth century.
