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Contributors

Contributors Z S Ó F I A B Á N is a writer, literary historian, and critic. She is associate professor of American studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, where her areas of study include literature, visual arts, word and image studies, gender studies, the representation of historical traumas, and collective and individual memory. Her most recent books are Test-Packing, which received the Palladium Prize in 2009, and Exposed Memories: Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory. M A R T H A B A N TA is professor emeritus of English literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has written five books and numerous articles on American literature, art, and culture . A former editor of PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association, she received the J.B. Hubbell Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Modern Language Association and the Carl Bode–Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement and Service from the American Studies Association. V I T T O R I A C . C A R AT O Z Z O L O teaches fashion cultures at Sapienza, University of Rome. Her principal areas of research are Italian fashion of the 1940s and 1950s and the “dressing design” of the 1970s. With Paola Colaiacomo she coauthored La Londra dei Beatles and Cartamodello: Antologia di scrittori e scritture sulla moda and coedited Mercanti di stile: La cultura della moda dagli anni ’20 a oggi. She wrote Irene Brin: Italian Style in Fashion for the Marsilio Mode series and is coauthor of Simonetta: The First Lady of Italian Fashion, a Fondazione Pitti Discovery project that featured an exhibition in collaboration with Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti. PA O L A C O L A I A C O M O was professor of English literature at Sapienza, University of Rome, and at Venice “Ca’ Foscari,” where she taught the theory and culture of fashion. She has written ex- tensively on a wide variety of topics, from Shakespeare and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature, to styles of contemporary metropolitan life, to swinging London, serial television fiction, and fashion. Her most recent book is on Pier Paolo Pasolini. M A R I A D A M O N teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota. She is author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Poetry and Postliteracy America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries; coauthor (with mIEKAL aND) of Literature Nation, pleasureTEXTpossession, and Eros/ion; and coeditor (with Ira Livingston) of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader. She is a textile artist and poet. G I U L I A N A D I F E B O is professor of Spanish history in the Department of Historical, Geographic , and Anthropological Studies at the University of Rome Three. Her research centers on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, especially gender policies, religion, politics, and Fascism compared to Francoism. Her publications include L’altra metá della Spagna, La santa de la Raza, and (with Santos Juliá) Ritos de guerra y de victoria en la España franquista and El franquismo. She serves on the advisory board of Cuadernos republicanos, Arenal, and Hispania. M I C O L F O N TA N A is president of the Fontana Foundation. With her sisters Zoe and Giovanna, she created Sorelle Fontana, which in the 1950s contributed to the prestige of “Made in Italy” throughout the world. The atelier has received national and international recognitions and prizes and has exhibited its models at the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the Hermitage of the Principality of Monaco, the Louvre, and the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris, as well as at important institutions in Italy and abroad. Pope Pius XII donated his skullcap to the Fontana sisters for the fiftieth anniversary of Sorelle Fontana. M A N U E L A F R A I R E is a feminist psychoanalyst in Rome. Since 1975, she has practiced autocoscienza as an analyst within the feminist movement. She writes about the relationship between mothers and daughters and how this relationship leads to the development of female freedom. Her work has been published in many journals, including Memoria, Reti, Lapis, and Sofia; she is also editor of Lessico politico delle donne: Teorie del femminismo. C R I S T I N A G I O R C E L L...