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Nicoletta Vallorani is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. She has published on colonialism and postcolonialism, on urban geographies and on the intersections between Crime Fiction and Migration Studies. She recently contributed to The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2019). With Simona Bertacco, she co-authored The Relocation of Culture: Translations, Migrations, Borders (Bloomsbury, 2021; prefaced by H. K. Bhabha). She is the Head of the School of Journalism Walter Tobagi and co-directs the online journal Altre Modernità. Simona Bertacco is Professor of Postcolonial and Translation Studies at the University of Louisville, USA, where she teaches courses on the global and translational humanities. Her research focuses on Caribbean literatures, gender and translation studies. Her most recent publications include: The Relocation of Culture: Translation, Migration, Borders, co-authored with Nicoletta Vallorani. Foreword by H. Bhabha. (Bloomsbury 2021), Time, Space, Matter in Translation, co-edited with P. Beattie and T. Soldat-Jaffe (Routledge 2022), and is currently is co-editing the second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation (forthcoming in 2027). William Boelhower is Adams Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, USA, and currently Visiting Professor in the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University, Italy.
He is the co-founder and co-editor of the Routledge journal Atlantic Studies; he inaugurated the interdisciplinary center for Atlantic Studies at Louisiana State University, and is one of the founding members of MESEA (Multi-ethnic Studies, Europe and America), an international association for the comparative study of multi-culturalism in in European societies. His books include Atlantic Studies, Prospects and Challenges; New Orleans in the Atlantic World. Between Land and Sea: Through a glass darkly, ethnic semiosis in American Literature; Immigrant Autobiography in the United States: Five Versions of the Italian American Experience (2021). Among his many translations are the cultural writings of Antonio Gramsci and Lucien Goldman's essays on the sociology of literature. |
