Ian Ward - Literature and Human Rights

Valentina Adami is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Verona and at the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen. Her research interests include trauma studies, law and literature, bioethics, medicine and literature, ecolinguistics and ecocriticism. Her publications include Trauma Studies and Literature: Martin Amiss Times Arrow (Peter Lang, 2008), and Bioethics through Literature: Margaret Atwoods Cautionary Tales (WVT, 2011).

Maria Aristodemou is Professor of Law at Birkbeck College London. Her research interests move around the relation of law and psychoanalysis in legal and cultural texts. Her publications include Law and Literature: From Her to Eternity (Oxford UP, 2000). Her Law, Psychoanalysis, Society: Taking the Unconscious Seriously will be published by Routledge in 2014.

Riccardo Baldissone is an honorary fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in the University of London and an adjunct researcher at the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Perth. His current research addresses the denial of multiplicity in western political thought.

Charia Battisti is Researcher in English literature in the Department of Foreign Literature at the University of Verona. Her research interests include literature and the visual arts, with a particular focus on literature and cinema, literature and science, literature and law, gender studies and the study of fashion. Her publications include La traduzione filmico: il romanzo e la sua trasposizione cinematografica (Ombre Corte, 2008) and Civilit come manipulazione: cultura come redenzione in Brave New World e Metropolis (Longo, 2004).

Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at IULM Milan. Her research interests include the history of the novel, eighteenth century British literature and art, new communication technologies and visual arts, and literature and law. She is presently director of the Tristram Shandy web ( http://www.tristramshandyweb.it/ ) and is a member of the editorial board of Polemos.

Paola Carbone is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM Milan. Her fields of research include narrative theory, contemporary British culture and the novel, and the relationship between literature and new communication technologies. She has published several works on postmodern literature and digital art. In 2008 she published La lanterna magica di Tristram Shandy: Visualit e informazione, ordine ed entropia, paradossi e trompe-loeil nel romanzo di Laurence Sterne (Ombre Corte).

Daniela Carpi is Professor of English Literature at the University of Verona. Her research interests include Renaissance theatre, critical theory, postmodernism, law and literature, law and science, and literature and the visual arts. She is a founder member of AIDEL and is managing director of Polemos. She has edited a number of books including The Concept of Equity: an interdisciplinary Assessment (Winter, 2007), Practising Equity, Addressing Law (Winter, 2008), Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature (De Gruyter, 2011) and, with Jeanne Gaakeer, Liminal Discourses: Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature (De Gruyter, 2013).

Carla Dente is Professor of English Literature and Theatre Studies at the University of Pisa. Her research interests are focussed on conversation and rhetorical argumentation in dramatic text, migrant theatre, theatre and reception, Shakespearian re-writings and anti-theatrical discourse in the Restoration. She has edited a number of volumes including Proteus: the Languages of Metamorphism (Ashgate, 2005) and Marginal Textualities: Shakespeare in Conflict (Palgrave, 2013). She is co-founder and former president of the Italian Association of Shakespearian and Early Modern Studies.

Roxanne Barbara Doerr is Adjunct Professor of English Literature at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and of English Language at the Universities of Milan, Verona and Padua and Doctor Europaeus. She holds a Phd from the University of Verona and the title of Dr.Phil from the University of Cologne. Her research interests include literature and visual arts, law and literature, law and culture, language and the new media, the legal thriller, postmodern literature and multiculturalism.

Sidia Fiorato is Researcher in English Literature in the Department of Foreign Literature at the University of Verona. Her research interests include the postmodern novel, detective fiction, law and literature, and literature and dance. Her publications include Il Gioco con lOmbra: Ambiguit e metanarrazione nella narrativa di Peter Ackroyd (Fiorini, 2003) and The Relationship between Literature and Science in John Banvilles Scientific Tetralogy (Peter Lang, 2007).

Jeanne Gaakeer is endowed Professor of Legal Theory and Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research interests are focussed on interdisciplinary legal studies, specifically law and literature and law and the humanities. She currently serves as a justice in the criminal law section of the Appellate Court of The Hague having previously served as a judge in the Regional Court of Middelburg. She is the co-founder of the European Network for Law and Literature ( http://www.eurnll.org ). She is editor, with Daniela Carpi, of Liminal Discourses: Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature (De Gruyter, 2013).

Lisa Lanzoni is Adjunct Professor of Public Law in the Department of Economic Science at the University of Verona. She holds a Phd and Doctor Europaeus in Italian and European Constitutional Law at the University of Verona. In 2007 she was visiting Professor at UNED University Madrid. Her research interests are focussed on fundamental human rights, and regional development. Her publications include Il territorio tra diritto nazionale ed europeo. Contesto instituzionale e politiche di sviluppo regionale (ESI, 2013).

Mara Logaldo is Assistant Professor of English at IUML Milan. Her research interests are focussed on rhetoric and multimodality in literature and media discourse. Her publications include Figura e Rappresentazione in Henry James 18961901 (Edizioni DellOrso, 2000), Writing for the Media (Arcipelago, 2003), Cronaca come romano: Truman Capote e il New Journalism (Arcipelago, 2003), and Augmented Linguistics (Arcipelago, 2012).

Richard Mullender is Professor of Law and Legal Theory at Newcastle University. His research interests are concentrated in the areas of legal philosophy, tort, law human rights and public law.

Matteo Nicolini is Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Verona and Senior Researcher in the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism at EURAC of Bozen. His research interests are focussed on comparative Italian and European Constitutional law, participatory and deliberative democracy, judicial review and territorial demarcation. His publications include Partecipazione regionale e norme di procedura: Profili di diritto costituzionale italiano ed europeo (ESI, 2009) and (with F.Palermo) Il Bicamer-alismo: Pluralismo e limiti della rappresentanza in prospettiva comparata (ESI, 2013).

Lino Panzeri is Researcher at the Insubria University where he teaches Elements of Public Law. He is the co-author of Lo Statuto Giuridico della Lingua Italiana in Europa: I casi di Croazia, Slovenia e Svizzera a Confronto (Giuffre, 2011) and Statuti Ordinari e Legge Regionale. Contributo allo Studio del Giusto Procedimento Legislativo (Franco Angeli, 2012).

Helle Porsdam is Professor of American Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a Phd from Yale University and Dr.Phil. from the University of Southern Denmark. She has held fellowships at Harvard Law School, Wolfson College Cambridge, and the Centre for Advanced Studies Munich and is currently a Global Ethics Fellow with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Her publications include Legally Speaking: Contemporary American Culture and the Law (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999) and From Civil to Human Rights: Dialogues in Law and Humanities in the United States and Europe (Edward Elgar, 2009).