Notes on Contributors

Fabio Andreazza

is associate professor in Film History at the University G. D’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara. He works mainly on the social history of Italian cinema during the first half of the 20th century. His publications include: Identificazione di un’arte. Scrittori e cinema nel primo Novecento italiano (2008); Ettore M. Margadonna ed., Il cinema negli anni Trenta. Saggi, articoli, racconti (2013); Canudo et le cinéma (2018).

Antonio Bibbò

is an Honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester where he has worked on a Marie Curie funded project on the reception of Irish literature in Italy during the first half of the 20th Century. He has a strong interest in modern and contemporary Irish, English and Italian literature, with a particular focus on modernism, the politics of translation during fascism and the relationship between Irish and Italian literature, as well as issues of literary canon and censorship. He has published on James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, Flann O’Brien and others. He also works as a literary translator (Woolf, DeFoe, Wilde and others).

Sarah Bonciarelli

is an Italian postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University. She holds a PhD in Textual Criticism and is a member of the Permanent European Observatory on Reading (Siena University). Her main interests are Italian literature, semiotics and book history. She lectured at the universities of Cantabria, Viterbo, Siena and Perugia.

Achille Castaldo

is a PhD student in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University, US. He has a strong interest in Avant-garde, Modernism, and Critical Theory. His current project focuses on representations of social conflict in Italian and French literature and cinema.

Remo Ceserani († 2016)

before becoming professor of Comparative Literature at Bologna in 1996, he taught comparative literature, theory of literature, Italian literature and History of literary criticism at Berkeley, Milan, Genoa and Pisa (Scuola normale and University of Pisa). He was a visiting professor at Brown University, Berkeley, Melbourne, Harvard, Tübingen, Aarhus, São Paulo. In 2007–2008 he held the Francesco De Sanctis Chair of Italian Literature at eth Zürich. From 2007 he was a visiting professor for a quarter every year at Stanford University. He has lectured in many universities throughout the world.

Piet Devos

(1983) is affiliated with the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montreal (Canada). His research is mainly concerned with the history of the senses and the (disabled) body, and more particularly with their representation in French and Latin American literature form the Modernist period. Devos holds a PhD in Modern Romance Literature from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). In his PhD thesis Talend lichaam (Groningen 2013), Devos argues that the early 20th-century innovations of avant-garde poetry were strongly inspired by a new subjectified understanding of sense perception. In his postdoctoral research project, he currently focuses on the unsettling aesthetics and ethics of disability in Modernist prose and autobiographies.

Toni Marino

works at University for Foreigners of Perugia in Italy, where he is fellow of research. Toni Marino has a strong interest in Visual Semiotics, Narratology, and Theory of Literature, with a specific focus on relationships between visual and verbal codes. He has recently edited a monograph on Visual Culture (Saggi di cultura visuale). His current research focuses on Women’s Fiction, Advertising, and Journalistic texts.

Among his publications Scrittori e pubblicità (2011), Gender in Italy (2014), Women’s writing women’s reading (2014).

Nadja Cohen

is a French fwo postdoctoral researcher. Her current project focuses on the impact of cinema on the notion of literature that French writers advocated, as well as on their actual writing practices, from the end of World War I to the post-World War ii era. Previously, she completed a PhD dissertation which dealt with the relationship between silent cinema and French modernist poetry in the 1910s and 1920s at Grenoble iii-Stendhal University where she also taught French literature.

Stijn De Cauwer

is a post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven. His current research project focuses on the problem of ‘immunity’ in German literature between the world wars. Previously, he completed a PhD at the Research Center for History and Culture at the University of Utrecht. He is the author of A Diagnosis of Modern Life: Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften as a Critical-Utopian Project (2014).

Sven Fabré

holds MAs in Linguistics, Literature and Economic Policy from KU Leuven. He wrote a PhD dissertation on the aesthetics of commercial and economic knowledge in 19th-century prose. His main interests include the German literature of the long nineteenth century, the history of economics and economic transformations, and the aesthetics and epistemology of historical knowledge configurations in the humanities and the natural sciences.

Thijs Festjens

is affiliated with the Literature Department at Ghent University (Belgium). He is a researcher within the bof-funded project “New documentary forms in recent German literature since 2000 and its relation to the documentary avant-garde”.

Gunther Martens

is a research professor of German literature and a member of the Literature Department at Ghent University. In the period 2006–2010 he was professor of literary theory at the Free University of Brussels and professor of German literature at Antwerp University. Gunther Martens is the author of a widely noted monograph on rhetorical and narratological aspects of German literary modernism. He is the editor of several other books and published widely in collections. He has written articles that have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Style, Modern Austrian Literature, Recherches Germaniques, Orbis Litterarum, Neophilologus, Language and Literature and others. In 2005, he was visiting scholar at the University of Hamburg, working under the auspices of the Research Group Narratology. In 2007–2008, he was a visiting professor at vub and at ucl (Louvain-la-Neuve). He is vice-president of the European Narratology Network and executive committee member of the Internationale Robert Musil Gesellschaft. He is co-director of the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities.

Anne Reverseau

is a researcher at the FNRS (UC Louvain). While she was a FWO postdoc at KU Leuven, she focused on the document and the documentary aesthetic in modernist and avant-garde francophone descriptive poetry (1900–1950). Previously, she completed a PhD dissertation on the photographic imaginary of modernist poetry at Paris-Sorbonne University, where she also taught French literature.

Carmen Van den Bergh

is a postdoctoral research fellow of the fwo (Flemish Research Fund) at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and assistant professor Italian literature at Leiden University. She has published widely on authors such as Moravia, Vittorini, Malaparte, on issues such as the autonomous and heteronomous status of literature, on anthologies and canon-formation within the Italian Novecento. She has co-organized conferences and exhibitions on Italian 20th-century literature, futurism, and the notion of ‘document’.

Gys-Walt van Egdom

holds an MA in Translation Studies and a PhD in Linguistics and Literary Studies. As a member of the research units clic and CLiV he is currently affiliated to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He also teaches Translation Studies at the School of Translation and Interpreting and contributes to expertise development at the irm research centre at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. His research interests include ethics of translation, literary translation, poetics and didactics.

Robin Vogelzang

is an American visiting scholar at KU Leuven. Her current research focuses on transnational poetry and media networks in the modernist period. She completed the PhD with a dissertation entitled International Spanish Civil War Poetry on and off the Page at Indiana University, where she also taught composition and literature. She also received her mfa in creative writing from Indiana University and is a poet and translator.