Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante

Contributors

Contributors Marco Bardini is an associate professor at the University of Pisa. He has published several articles on Morante, and has authored Elsa Morante. Italiana. Di professione, poeta (Pisa: Nistri-Lischi, 1999). Concetta D’Angeli is an assistant professor at the University of Pisa. She is co-editor with Giacomo Magrini of the monographic volume of Studi novecenteschi entitled “Vent’anni dopo la Storia: Omaggio a Elsa Morante,” Studi novecenteschi 21.47–48 (1994), in which are collected all the papers of the homonymous conference D’Angeli organized in Pisa earlier that year. D’Angeli has authored Leggere Elsa Morante: Aracoeli, La Storia e Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini (Rome: Carocci, 2003) and Forme della drammaturgia: definizioni e esempi (Turin: UTET, 2004). With Guido Paduano, D’Angeli is also the author of Il Comico: dalle origini a oggi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1999). Cristina Della Coletta is an associate professor at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Plotting the Past: Metamorphoses of Historical Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1996), as well as articles on a variety of contemporary novelists. Nicoletta Di Ciolla McGowan is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published widely on contemporary women’s fiction and popular culture, and is the editor of Francesca Duranti’s Left-Handed Dreams (Market Harborough: Troubador, 2000). Elisa Gambaro is a researcher at the University of Milan. She has published articles on Franco Fortini, on Elsa Morante and Katherine Mansfield. Her most recent study, “Ragazzi allo schermo,” in Tirature 2005: giovani scrittori e personaggi giovani, ed. Vittorio Spinazzola (Milan: Il Saggiatore, 2005), 36–41, deals with contemporary Italian narrative. Filippo La Porta is a critic for L’Unità, il manifesto and La repubblica. Musica! He is the author of La nuova narrativa 311 312 Contributors italiana: travestimenti e stili di fine secolo (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 1995; 2nd ed. 1998), Non c’è problema: considerazioni morali su modi di dire e frasi fatte (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1997), Manuale di scrittura creatina (Rome: Minimum Fax, 1999), Narratori di un Sud disperso (Naples: L’Ancora del Mediterraneo, 2000), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Florence : Le Lettere, 2001), L’autoreverse dell’esperienza: euforie e inganni della vita flessibile (Milan: Bollati Boringhieri, 2004). Stefania Lucamante is an associate professor at The Catholic University of America. She is the author of Elsa Morante e l’eredità proustiana (Fiesole: Cadmo, 1998), Isabella Santacroce (Fiesole: Cadmo, 2002), and numerous articles on the contemporary Italian novel. Lucamante is also the editor of Italian Pulp Fiction: The New Narrative of the “Giovani Cannibali” Writers (Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001). Enrico Palandri is writer-in-residence in the Italian Department at University College, London. His many novels include Boccalone (1979); Le pietre e il sale (1987), translated as Ages Apart (Vintage/Ebury, 1989), Allegro fantastico (1993), Le colpevoli ambiguità di Herbert Markus (1997), and Angela prende il volo (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2000); La via del ritorno (Milan: Bompiani, 1990), translated as The Way Back (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1993). He has translated Eudora Welty, George Grossmith, and McLiam Wilson. Palandri has also authored La deriva romantica: ipotesi sulla letteratura e la scrittura (Novara: Interlinea, 2002). Hanna Serkowska is an associate professor at the University of Warsaw. She has published Le radici medioevali di Federigo Tozzi (Warsaw: Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1994), “Uscire da una camera delle favole.” I romanzi di Elsa Morante (Cracow: Rabid, 2002), Rzecz o Elsie Morante (Cracow: Universitas, 2004), and several articles on modern and contemporary Italian novelists. She is currently editing a Polish collection of essays, Writing in Progress: Italian Contemporary Writers from A to T, ranging from Alda Merini to Andrea Camilleri. 313 Contributors Walter Siti is a professor of contemporary Italian literature at the University of L’Aquila. He is the author of two novels, Scuola di nudo (Turin: Einaudi, 1994), and Un dolore normale (Turin: Einaudi, 1999). He is also the author of Il neorealismo nella poesia italiana (1941–1956) (Turin: Einaudi, 1980). More recently, Siti has directed the publication of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s collected works in two volumes (Novels and Short Stories) for the Meridiani Mondadori (Milan, 1998) and the short-story collection La magnifica merce (Turin: Einaudi, 2004). Sharon Wood is a professor of modern languages at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Woman as Object: Language and Gender in the Work of Alberto Moravia (London : Pluto, 1990), Italian...