Contributors' Biographical Notes
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Sarah Annunziato is Assistant Professor, General Faculty and Co-Director of the Italian Language Program at The University of Virginia. She also edits La Vendemmia: The Newsletter of the Italian Studies Program at The University of Virginia. Additionally, she is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Her research and teaching interests include Italian children's literature and media, film adaptation, Italian American Studies, and Language Pedagogy. Her articles have appeared in various publications such as Journal of Children and Media, The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, and VIA, among others.
Andrea Baldi is Professor of Italian at Rutgers University. He has published articles on sixteenth-century conduct books and a monograph entitled Tradizione e parodia in Alessandro Piccolomini (Lucca: Pacini Fazzi, 2001). More recently, he has written on contemporary Italian literature, publishing articles on the relationship between literature and cinema (Pirandello/the Tavianis and Calvino/Monicelli) and on women's writing (Matilde Serao, Anna Banti, and Elsa Morante). He has worked extensively on Anna Maria Ortese, editing and prefacing L'Iguana (Milan: Adelphi, 2005) and publishing a book on her short fiction, entitled La meraviglia e il disincanto (Naples: Loffredo, 2010).
Susanna Barsella received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and is Professor of Italian for the Modern Languages and Literatures Department and the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University. Dr. Barsella's main area of research is in Italian medieval literature with a specific interest in the literature of Early Humanism. Her publications range from Dante to Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, and on the idea of work from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Prof. Barsella's interests also embrace twentieth-century literature with publications on Pirandello, Gadda, and twentieth-century poetry. Her book In the Light of the Angels. Angelology and Cosmology in Dante's Divina Commedia was published in 2010 (Florence: Olschki). She co-edited with Francesco Ciabattoni Studia Humanitatis: Essays in Honor of Salvatore Camporeale (Special supp. to MLN Italian Issue 119.1 (2004)). Currently, she is preparing a volume for the series Lectura Boccaccii (Toronto: U of Toronto P) together with Simone Marchesi.
Saverio Bellomo (†) was a Professor of Italian philology at Università Ca' Foscari in Venice. His many publications deal with Dante and particularly the early commentaries on the Commedia. He completed a critical edition of some of these commentaries (Iacopo Alighieri, Filippo Villani, Guglielmo Maramauro) and a Dizionario dei commentatori danteschi (Florence: Olschki, 2004) which addresses exegetes who were active before the invention of printing. Bellomo also authored the university handbook Filologia e critica dantesca (Brescia: La Scuola, 2008) and several studies on Petrarch and Boccaccio. He edited Inferno (Turin: Einaudi, 2013) and with Stefano Carrai Purgatorio (Turin: Einaudi, 2019), and was co-director of the journal L'Alighieri.
Laura Benedetti is the Laura and Gaetano De Sole Professor of Contemporary Italian Culture at Georgetown University. The subjects of her publications span seven hundred years, from Boccaccio to Elena Ferrante, and include La sconfitta di Diana. Un percorso per la Gerusalemme liberata (Ravenna: Longo, 1996); The Tigress in the Snow: Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2006; winner of the 2008 International Flaiano Prize for Italian Studies); the English translation of Lucrezia Marinella's Esortazioni alle donne e agli altri, se a loro saranno a grado (Exhortations to Women and to Others If They Please, Toronto: ITER, 2012); and the novels Un paese di carta (Ospedaletto: Pacini, 2016) and Secondo piano (Ospedaletto: Pacini, 2017).
Renzo Bragantini is Professor Emeritus of Italian Literature at Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza." He has written extensively on medieval and Renaissance literature, in particular Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Tasso and the Renaissance novella, as well as on Manzoni, Pascoli, and the intersection of literature with music and the visual arts. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Filologia e Critica and is currently at work on a book on Boccaccio's Decameron which will be published by Carocci.
Annelise Brody received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and currently is a member of the board of directors of the Italian Cultural Society of Washington...
