Participants

Gino Agnese is President of the Rome Quadriennale (a historic Italian exhibition institution founded in 1927 and devoted to contemporary art), and the author of Marinetti, una vita esplosiva, Vita di Boccioni, and Boccioni da vicino

Stefano Albertini is Clinical Associate Professor of Italian and Director of Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University. He is a scholar of Machiavelli and church-state relations in Italy

Gian Maria Annovi holds a Doctorate in Contemporary Italian Literature from the University of Bologna, and he is a Ph.D. candidate in Italian Studies at Columbia University. He has published Altri corpi. Poesia e corporalità negli anni Sessanta, and several volumes of poetry

Steve Baker is a Ph.D. candidate in Italian and Comparative Literature at Columbia University with a focus on the Renaissance

Francesca Barbi Marinetti is an art historian and promoter of Futurist events

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Chair of the Department of Italian Studies and Professor of Italian Studies and History of New York University. She is the author of Fascist Modernities: Italy 1922-45, and the editor of Gli imperi: dall’antichità all’età contemporanea. Her book Fascism’s Empire Cinema, will be published by Indiana University Press

Günter Berghaus is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He is the author of numerous books including F. T. Marinetti: Selected Writings. He is the editor of the forthcoming Futurism and the Technological Imagination and International Futurism in Art and Literature: A Bibliographic Reference Shelf

Alberto Bertoni teaches Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Bologna. His publications include Dai simbolisti al Novecento: le origini del verso libero italiano and the edition of the Taccuini (1915-1921) of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Beatrice Buscaroli is the Artistic Director of the Art and History Collections of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna. She co-curated the “Italia” Pavilion at the 53rd “Venice Biennale,” and co-edited Macchina di visione: Futuristi in Biennale

Patrizio Ceccagnoli a Ph.D. candidate in Italian at Columbia University, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature with an emphasis on Modernism

Leonardo Alaeddin Clerici is the Director of ISTITUTO DI SKRIPTURA in Brussels. He is the author of Styx, avantgarde gnostique & islamique, and manages the archives and the library of a gnostic avant-garde inspired by Marinetti

Matteo D’Ambrosio is Professor in History of Literary Criticism at the University of Naples “Federico II.” Among his publications are Le “Commemorazioni in avanti” di F. T. Marinetti, and Roman Jakobson e il Futurismo italiano. His forthcoming collection of essays is Nuovi studi sul Futurismo

Amerigo Fabbri is Dean of Pierson College and Lecturer in Humanities and History of Art, at Yale University. He edited the first chapters of Marinetti’s Venezianella e Studentaccio in the journal Yale Italian Poetry (YIP)

Flora Ghezzo teaches Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at Columbia University. She is completing a book on modernity, women, and Fascism  

Simone Magherini is a member of the board of directors of the “Aldo Palazzeschi” Study Center in Florence and President of the “Vittorio e Piero Alinari” Foundation. His editions include the first volume of the Letters Moretti-Palazzeschi (1904-1925), and the catalogue of the exhibition Dal Vate al Saltimbanco

Andrea Malaguti teaches Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of La svolta di Enea: retorica ed esistenza in Giorgio Caproni

Millicent Marcus is Professor and Chair of the Department of Italian at Yale University.  She is the author of, among other books, An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the 'Decameron', and Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz. She is now working on a study of Italian cinema and collective memory

Renato Miracco is the author of several art-history publications. He also served as a guest curator for the Estorick Collection in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Tate Modern in London. Since November 2007, he is the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York

Marjorie Perloff is is Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at Stanford University and currently teaching as Florence Scott Professor Emerita at the University of Southern California.  She is the author of many books on twentieth-century poetry and poetics, including The Futurist Moment: Avant-garde, Avant-guerre, and the Language of Rupture

Ricciarda Ricorda is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari.” She is the author of, among other publications,  La “Nuova Antologia” 1866-1915, and Dalla parte di Ariele. Angelo Conti nella cultura di fine secolo

Davide Rondoni is the Director of the Centro di Poesia Contemporanea at the University of Bologna, and an editorialist for Italian radio and TV. He has published several books of poetry and criticism

Claudia Salaris is an independent scholar of the history of avant-garde movements and has been consulted on various Futurist exihibitions both in Italy and abroad. She is the author of numerous books on twentieth-century art and literature, from Le futuriste, Donne e letteratura d’avanguardia in Italia (1909-1944) to À la fête de la revolution. Artistes et libertaires avec D’Annunzio à Fiume

Cinzia Sartini Blum is Professor of Italian at The University of Iowa. Her publications include The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti’s Futurist Fiction of Power, and an annotated translation of Carlo Michelstaedter’s Persuasione e rettorica

Paola Sica is Associate Professor of Italian at Connecticut College. She is the author of Modernist Forms of Rejuvenation, and she is now writing a book on Futurist women in Florence during World War I

Graziella Sidoli is the Chair of the Foreign Language Department at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, CT. A trilingual translator (Italian, English, and Spanish), she has published several translations and articles 

Barbara Spackman holds the Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair in Italian Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.  She is the author of Decadent Genealogies and Fascist Virilities. Her current work in progress is Detourism: Traveling Fictions from Italy to Islam

Gino Tellini is Professor of Italian Literature, Director of the “Aldo Palazzeschi” Study Center, and Coordinator of the International Doctoral School in Italian Literature at the University of Florence. His numerous books include Rifare il verso. La parodia nella letteratura italiana, and the editions of, among others, Corrado Govoni and the complete novels by Aldo Palazzeschi

Paolo Valesio is the Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor in Italian Literature at Columbia University and the Director of Italian Poetry Review (IPR). Among his several publications: Gabriele d’Annunzio: The Dark Flame, and a postfatory essay to F. T. Marinetti, Selected Poems and Related Prose. Together with Patrizio Ceccagnoli he is editing Marinetti’s novel Venezianella e Studentaccio

Gianni Eugenio Viola teaches in the Graduate Schools of  the University of Trieste and the University of Siena. Among his books: L'utopia futurista, and the collection of essays by Piero Gobetti under the title of Gobetti and Futurism. Since 2003 Professor Viola has directed the "Library of the Avant-garde"