Ph. D Buelens - The History of Futurism: The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies

Walter L. Adamson is Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of history at Emory University and the author of four books, most recently Embattled Avant-gardes: Modernisms Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe (2007). In 2011 he was named a John S. Guggenheim Fellow for a project on fascism and religion in Italy. His earlier books include Hegemony and Revolution: A Study of Antonio Gramscis Political and Cultural Theory (1980), which won the Society for Italian Historys Howard Marraro Prize for the best book in Italian history in 1981; and Avant-Garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism (1993), which won the American Historical Associations Marraro Prize for the best book in Italian history in 1995.

Gnter Berghaus was, for many years, a reader in Theatre History and Performance Studies and is now a senior research fellow at the University of Bristol. He has directed numerous plays from the classical and modern repertoire and has been organizer of several international conferences. He has published some twenty books on various aspects of theatre history, performance studies, and the avant-garde. He is a leading expert on Italian Futurism and edits the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. His current project is a bibliographic handbook, International Futurism, 19452009 , which lists some 25,000 studies related to artists who were active in the movement and to aesthetic genres and media in which Futurism exercised a particularly noteworthy influence.

Monica Biasiolo is a lecturer in Italian at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where she earned her PhD with a thesis on the antifascist intellectual Giaime Pintor: Giaime Pintor und die deutsche Kultur (2010). Her research focuses on twentieth-century Italian, French, and German literature, gender studies, and the avant-garde. She is the author of articles and book chapters on Renato Guttuso, Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Paul luard.

Francesca Bravi is a lecturer in Italian at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. She graduated in German and English literature as well as in Intercultural Studies at the University Carlo Bo of Urbino. Her PhD dissertation on the representation of dreams in German and French literature of the 1970s was published as Sogno e romanzo . Tra fisiologia e filologia. La rappresentazione del sogno in romanzi degli anni 70 in DDR e Francia (2011).

Sascha Bru is professor of literary theory at the University of Leuven and codirector opf mdrn, a research scheme that aims to devise new ways of writing the history of modernist literature (www.mdrn.be). His most recent book is Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes. Writing in the State of Exception (2009). Recently coedited books include The Cultural and Critical History of Modernist Magazines, III, Europe 18801940 (2012). With Peter Nicholls he is the editor of the book series European Avant-garde and Modernism Studies.

Geert Buelens is professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Utrecht and guest professor at the University of Stellenbosch. In 2008 he was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. He has published widely on the Flemish avant-garde writer Paul van Ostaijen and on twentieth-century avant-garde poetry, nationalist literature, and poetry of the First World War. He is editor of Avant-Garde Critical Studies .

Silvia Contarini is professor of Italian studies and director of the Centre de Recherches Italiennes at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre. Her work on Italian Futurism, and particularly on futurist women, has made her one of the leading scholars on Futurism. Her publications include Le futurisme et les avant-gardes littraires et artistiques au dbut du XXe sicle (edited with Karine Cardini, 2002), and La Femme futuriste. Mythes, modles et reprsentations de la femme dans la thorie et la litrature futuriste (2006).

Eleonora Conti is a specialist in twentieth-century Italian literature at the University of Bologna, where she co-directs the electronic journal on modern and contemporary Italian literature Bollettino 900 . She completed her PhD at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne with a dissertation on Giuseppe Ungarettis mediation between Italian and French culture in the 1920s. She is the editor of Giuseppe Ungaretti, Lettere a Giuseppe Raimondi ( 19181966 ) (2004), and has authored numerous articles on modern Italian literature published in journals such as Allegoria , Filologia e Critica , Intersezioni , Italianistica , Lingua e stile , Revue des tudes Italiennes , Il verri , and in various edited volumes.

Patricia Gaborik held the Paul Mellon Postdoctoral Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome in 20052006 and is currently based in that city. She has published essays on Italian theatre in translation, Futurism, Massimo Bontempelli, and various aspects of nationalist and fascist performance in edited volumes: Metamorphoses , Modern Drama , National Theatres in a Changing Europe (2012), Il futurismo nelle avanguardie (2010), Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical (2011), and the third volume of Einaudis Atlante della letteratura italiana (2012).

Laura Greco is a PhD student at the University of Palermo, where she is completing a dissertation on the literary works (poetry, novels, essays, and theater) and projects of Federico De Maria.

Kyle Hall is completing the doctoral program in Italian studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on the development of political biographies during the nineteenth century, particularly as they regard the unification of Italy and the formation of a national consciousness.

Harald Hendrix is professor of Italian studies and head of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Utrecht. He has published on the European reception of Italian Renaissance culture, on the early modern aesthetics of the non-beautiful, and on the intersections of literature, memory, and tourism. Amongst his recent books are the edited volumes Writers Houses and the Making of Memory (2008), Officine del nuovo (with Paolo Procaccioli, 2008), Dynamic Translations in the European Renaissance (with Philiep Bossier and Paolo Procaccioli, 2011), The Turn of the Soul (with Lieke Stelling and Todd Richardson, 2012), and Le butin intellectuel de Chypre, 14501600 (with Evelien Chayes and Benjamin Arbel, 2012).

Monica Jansen is a lecturer in Italian studies at the University of Utrecht and editor-in-chief of Incontri . Rivista europea di studi italiani. Her publications include Il dibattito sul postmoderno in Italia (2002), The Value of Literature in and after the Seventies: The Case of Italy and Portugal (coedited with Paula Jordao, 2006), Contemporary Jewish Writers in Italy: A Generational Approach (coedited with Reinier Speelman and Silvia Gaiga, 2007), Noir de noir: unindagine pluridisciplinare (coedited with Dieter Vermandere and Inge Lanslots, 2010), and Memoria in noir: unindagine pluridisciplinare (coedited with Yasmina Khamal, 2010).

Federico Luisetti is associate professor of Italian studies, comparative literature, and communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Una vita. Pensiero selvaggio e filosofia dellintensit (2011), Estetica dellimmanenza. Saggi sulle parole, le immagini e le macchine (2008), and Plus Ultra. Enciclopedismo barocco e modernit (2001). He has edited with Luca Somigli a special issue on Italian Futurism of the journal Annali ditalianistica , 27, 2009: A Century of Futurism: 19092009 and with Giorgio Maragliano two volumes on museum studies: Dopo il museo (2006) and Museo , a special issue of the Rivista di estetica , ns 16, 1/2001.

Stefano Magni lectures on Italian literature at the University of Provence Aix-Marseille. His main field of research is twentieth-century Italian narrative. He has worked on WWI and WWII memoirists, historical avant-garde, late 1960s and 1970s rebellion literature, and postmodernism.