Deborah Amberson is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Florida. She works on modern Italian literature and cinema, with a particular focus on literary modernism. She recently published the book Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda (2012) and has published articles on Italo Svevo, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Roberto Rossellini.
Elena Past is Associate Professor of Italian at Wayne State University, USA. Her research interests encompass twentieth century Italian literature and film, and in particular crime fiction, the eco-noir, and ecomedia studies. She recently published the book Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction (2012) and has published articles on Dario Argento, Carlo Lucarelli, Gianrico Carofiglio, Wes Anderson, and Emanuele Crialese.
