Contributors

GABRIELLA ALFIERI is professor of history of the Italian language at the University of Catania. Since 2011, she has been an academic of the Crusca and chair of the Scientific Council of the Verga Foundation and the Committee for the National Edition of the Works of Verga. She is the author of 150 publications on the history of language, philology, and stylistics, including Lettera e figura nella scrittura de “I Malavoglia” (1983); L’ “Italiano nuovo”. centralismo e marginalità linguistici nell'Italia unificata (1986); La lingua sconciata. espressionismo ed espressivismo in Vittorio Imbriani (1990); with I. Bonomi, Lingua italiana e televisione (2012); I “vestigi dei nomi”. l'identità di Catania tra storia e mito (2016); Verga (2016); and “I suoi begli anni”. Verga tra Milano e Catania (1872–1891) (2020). [alfieri@unict.it]MARCEL DANESI is professor emeritus of linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto. He taught Italian linguistics and Italian language classes at the same university for over thirty years. He has been a visiting professor at various universities, including the University of Rome (La Sapienza), the University of Perugia (per Stranieri), and the University of Lugano. He has authored many works on the Italian language and various textbooks for the teaching of Italian. He has also published in the field of semiotics, including The Semiotics of Emoji (2016), Understanding Nonverbal Communication: A Semiotic Guide (2021), and Warning Signs: The Semiotics of Danger (2022). [marcel.danesi@utoronto.ca]ANTONIO DI SILVESTRO is associate professor of philology of Italian literature in the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania. His interests are mainly directed to nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative, investigated in a critical, textual and semantic perspective, and to the poetry of the fourteenth and seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. In this field, on the basis of a philological, intertextual, and lexicographic methodology, he developed research and analyses on Petrarca, Franco Sacchetti, Parini, Leopardi, Montale, Caproni, Sinisgalli, Pavese. He published, with G. Savoca, the critical and commented edition of Giovanni Verga's Lettere alla famiglia (1851–1880) (2011) and Lettere ai fratelli (1883–1920) (2016). He has also edited, in the national edition of Parini's works, the critical and commented edition of Ascanio in Alba. He is the scientific director, with Antonio Sichera, of the digital edition of Luigi Pirandello's Opera Omnia (www.pirandellonazionale.it). With Sichera he also edited Pavese's Opera poetica (2021). [silvanto@unict.it]ANNE C. LEONE is assistant professor of Italian studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and directs the Medieval and Renaissance Program at Syracuse University. Her first monograph, Dante's Blood, is forthcoming from Legenda; other research projects explore intersections between theological, metaliterary, and scientific concerns in medieval culture. [aleone@syr.edu]GIUSEPPE ANDREA LIBERTI is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II,” where he earned his PhD in philology. He worked on eighteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature and contemporary Italian poetry. He published a critical and commented edition of Michele Sovente's Cumae (2019) and edited, with Salvatore Iacolare, the volume Letteratura dialettale a Napoli. Testi, problemi, prospettive (2020). [giuseppeandrea.liberti@unina.it]ANDREA MANGANARO is professor of Italian literature at the University of Catania. He is vice president of the scientific council of Fondazione Verga, coeditor of “Annali,” and member of the board of the Association of Italianists (ADI). He has worked on short-story (Boccaccio, sixteenth century), Foscolo, Verga, Croce, history of literary criticism. His publications include: La ferinità umana, la guerra, lo spatriare. Riletture verghiane (2021); Storie e leggende napoletane critical edition (national edition of Benedetto Croce's works, 2019); Tra imitatio e mimesis. Novelle e poetiche del Cinquecento (2014); “Jusque datum sceleri”. Foscolo e la memoria dei vinti (2014); Partenze senza ritorno. Interpretare Verga (2014); Il rappezzo ininterrotto. Benedetto Croce tra scritture e riscritture (2012); Verga (2011); and Significati della letteratura. Scritture e idee da Castelvetro a Timpanaro (2007). [a.manganaro@unict.it]ALESSANDRO MASI, writer and journalist, is Segretario Generale della Società Dante Alighieri since 1999. He teaches history of art at the Università Uninettuno di Roma and collaborates with the Master di Beni Culturali dell'Università IULM di Milano. His interests range within the Italian twentieth century, with prestigious publications such as Giuseppe Bottai. La politica delle arti (1992), Zig Zag. Il romanzo futurista (2009), and Idealismo e opportunismo della cultura italiana: 1943–1948 (2018). His most recent publication is his historical novel L'artista dell'anima. Giotto e il suo mondo (2022).JULIANNE VANWAGENEN is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University and managing editor of the Pirandello Society of America's PSA Journal. She has held positions at the University of Southern California, Tsinghua University, and University of Michigan, and her works have been published as book chapters and in articles in the South Central Review, Gradiva, and Forum Italicum. [jvw@g.harvard.edu]The views and opinions expressed in Italica are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Editor, Editorial Board, the American Association of Teachers of Italian, or the Publisher.