Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination

Contributors

Contributors ANTON ELLA ANSANI is Assistant Professor of Italian at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. She specializes in Italian Renaissance literature and is currently working on a manuscript on Italian Renaissance theater. Her previous scholarship includes studies of Pico della Mirandola, Ariosto, Bandello, and Basile. GlNEVRA BOMPIANI is Professor of comparative literature at Siena University, Italy. She is the author of numerous volumes, including Lo spazio narrante:JaneAusten, Emily Bronte) Sylvia Plath (La Tartaruga, 1978), LAttesa (Feltrinelli, 1988), Tempora: Essays on Time (Anabasi, 1993). She has also published an essay on the figure of the chimera in the volume Fragments for a History ofthe Human Body (Zone Books, 1989). Bompiani has published several novels and collections of short stories. NANCY CANEPA is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Dartmouth College and is the author of a book entitled From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basiles "Lo cunto de li cunti" and the Birth ofthe Literary Fairy Tale (Wayne State University Press, 1999). She is editor of Out ofthe Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy andFrance (Wayne State University Press, 1997). GARY CESTARO is Associate Professor of Italian at DePaul University. He has published articles on Dante and cultural constructions of the body in the medieval grammatical tradition. He also works on lesbian and gay issues in Italian literature and is editing a volume of essays, Queer Italia, forthcoming 311 CONTRIBUTORS from St. Martin's Press. He is the author of Dante and the Grammar ofthe Nursing Body, forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press. ROBERT S. DOMBROSKI is Distinguished Professor and Director of Italian Graduate Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of books on Gadda, Pirandello, Manzoni, literary intellectuals and fascism, Gramsci, and, more recently, Properties ofWriting: IdeologicalDiscourse in Modern Italian Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994) and Creative Entanglements: Gadda and the Baroque (University of Toronto Press, 1999). NANCY HARROWITZ is Associate Professor of Italian at Boston University and the author ofAntisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of CulturalDifference: Cesare Lombroso andMatilde Serao (Nebraska University Press, 1993). She has edited a collection of essays, Tainted Greatness:Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes (Temple University Press, 1994), and coedited, with Barbara Hyams, Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (Temple University Press, 1995). She is currently writing a book on Primo Levi and science. KEALA JEWELL is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Studies at Dartmouth College and holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of The Poiesis ofHistory: Experimenting with Genre in Postwar Italy (Cornell University Press, 1992) and is currently preparing a book, Logics ofEnigma in the de Chirico Brothers. VIRGINIA JEWISS received her Ph.D. in Italian literature at Yale University. She now resides in Rome and teaches at Trinity College's Rome Campus. SUZANNE MAGNANINI is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is writing a book on the representation of monsters and monstrous births in Renaissance fairy tales. ELLEN NERENBERG is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Wesleyan University. She holds degrees from Stanford and the University of Chicago. She has published essays on Buzzati, de Cespedes and Pratolini and is currently completing a book on the representation of prisons in Italian prose narratives written between 1930 and 1960. JACQUELINE REICH is Assistant Professor of Italian and comparative literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has published essays on fascism, gender, and film in several anthologies and journals, and is currently working on a project on masculinity and Italian cinema. MASSIMO RlVA is Associate Professor of Italian and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and the author of two books on melancholy in modern literature, Saturno e le Grazie: Malinconici e ipocondriaci nella 312 CONTRIBUTORS Letteratura Italiana del Settecento (Sellerio, 1992), and Genealogia delModerno: Identita nazionale e disagio della civilita nella cultura europea tra Otto e Novecento (forthcoming). He is coeditor of an anthology of contemporary Italian writers, Site Seeing: Mapping Contemporary Italian Fiction, to be published by Yale University Press, and the designer and coeditor of two Internet projects: the Decameron Web (http:// www.brown.edu/Research/Decameron), and the Pico Project (http:// www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_studies/pico), an electronic edition, accessible on-line, of Pico della Mirandolas "Oration on the Dignity of Man." BARBARA SPACKMAN is Professor of Comparative...