Institution/Affiliation:

Doctoral student, Università di Bergamo, Italy

Address:

Welschapsedijk, 59
5652XJ Eindhoven - The Netherlands

Telephone:

+31 40 2519506

Fax:

E-mail:

baschirotto@gmail.com

Institution/Affiliation:

Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature, Università Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy

Address:

Dipartimento di Studi Europei e Postcoloniali
Palazzo Cosulich
Dorsoduro 1405, Venice - Italy

Telephone:

+39 0412347865

Fax:

+39 0412347873

Main publications:

"Toronto: le nuove sfide della città globale" (2005, forthcoming).
"Atlantic Passages and (Post) Metropolitan Transitions in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction", in W. Boelhower, R. G. Davis, C. Birkle (eds), Sites of Ethnicity: Europe and the Americas , Winter, Heidelberg, 2004, 45-62.
"Le porte dell'Atlantico", Il Tolomeo , VII, 2002-2003, pp. 21-24.
"Caribbean Passages: Beginnings and Transformations", in P. Deandrea e V. Tchernichova (eds), Roots and Beginnings , Venezia, Ca' Foscarina, 2003, 111-122.
"Bodies, Clothes, Habits: the Dilemma of Difference in E. Carr and A. Cameron", in S. Bassi, S. Bertacco, R. Bonicelli (eds), In That Village of Open Doors. Le Nuove letterature crocevia della cultura moderna , Venezia, Ca' Foscarina, 2002, 151-160.
Jean Rhys e il pensiero del luogo, Venezia, Supernova, 2000, pp. 190.
""Englishness", "West-Indianness" e diasporizzazioni caraibiche", Il Tolomeo , V, 2000, 32-36.
"Little Italy's Eugene Sue: The Novels of B.Ciambelli", in W. Boelhower, R. Pallone (eds), Adjusting Sites. New Essays in Italian American Studies, Stony Brook, New York: Forum Italicum, I999, 3-56.
"La scena della memoria: il Temps Perdi di Jean Rhys", Prospero, I, 1994, 17-40.
La teoria del romanzo americano e la lezione francese , Brescia, Paideia, 1981, pp.144.

Institution/Affiliation:

Assistant Professor of Italian and Film & Video Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan

Address:

2512 Frieze Bldg. 105 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - USA

Telephone:

(734) 763 1144

Fax:

(734) 936 1846

E-mail:

giorgiob@umich.edu

Main publications:

"Divo/Duce: Displaced Rhetorics of Masculinity, Racial Identity, and Politics Among Italian-Americans in 1920’s New York City" Journal of Urban History (2004).
"Black Hands and White Hearts. Italian Immigrants as Urban Racial Types in Early 20th Century American Cinema" Urban History (2004).
"Ethnic Self-Fashioning at the Cafè-Chantant: Italian Immigrants at the Movies in New York, 1906- 1916" in William Boelhower and Anna Scacchi eds., Public Space/Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929 (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004), 39-66.
"Epica spettacolare e splendore del vero. L'influenza del cinema storico italiano in America (1908-1915)" included in Gian Piero Brunetta ed., Storia del cinema mondiale, vol.2 Gli Stati Uniti, tomo I (Torino: Einaudi, 1999), 227-265.
"Italian Imageries, Historical Feature Films, and the Fabrication of Italy's Spectators in Early 1900s New York" (in English) in Comunicazioni Sociali (Milan), vol.23, no.2, Special Issue "Al Cinema: Spettatore, Spettatori e Pubblico" (May/August 2001): 152-168. A longer version has appeared in The Italian American Review vol.7, no.1 (Spring/Summer 1999): 27-62.
"Shipwrecked Spectators: Italy's Immigrants at the Movies in New York, 1906-1916" The Velvet Light Trap #44, Fall 1999 (Special Issue on "Beyond the Image: Race and Ethnicity in the Media"): 39-53.

Institution/Affiliation:

Doctoral student, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Università di Padova

Address:

via Vittorio Veneto, 120
36035 Marano Vicentino (VI) - Italy

Telephone:

+39 0445 621468

Fax:

+39 049 8274955

E-mail:

giuliano.bettanin@unipd.it

Institution/Affiliation:

Associate Professor of American Literature, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Università di Padova

Address:

Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave
via Beato Pellegrino, 26
35137 Padova - Italy

Telephone:

+39 049 8274951

Fax:

+39 049 8274955

E-mail:

berboelh@unive.it

Main publications:

Ed. with Rocio Davis and Carmen Birkle, Sites of Ethnicity, Europe and America (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2004).
Ed. with John Leo, Working Sites: Text, Territory and Cultural Capital (Amsterdam: VU Press, 2004).
Ed. with Anna Scacchi, Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class, and Citizenship in New York 1890 - 1929 (Amsterdam: VU Press, 2004).
Ed. with Alfred Hornung, Multiculturalism and the American Self, (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2000).
Ed. and translator, with closing essay, of Carmine Biagio Iannace, La scoperta dell'America, Un'autobiografia / The Discovery of America, An Autobiography. A Bilingual Edition (West Lafayette, Indiana: Bordighera Press, Purdue University, 2000).
Ed. with Rocco Pallone, Adjusting Sites, New Essays in Italian American Studies (Stony Brook, New York: Filibrary Series, Forum Italicum, 1999).
Ed., with Afterword, of Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave / Lo schiavo eroico. Bilingual edition. (Venezia: Supernova, 1999).
Autobiographical Transactions in Modernist America. The Immigrant, The Architect, The Artist, The Citizen (Udine, Italy: Del Bianco Editore, 1992).
Ed., with introductory essay, The Future of American Modernism, Ethnic Writing Between the Wars (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1991).
Through a glass darkly, ethnic semiosis in american literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, 1993). Helvetia Press, Venice, 1984.
Translation of Antonio Gramsci, Selections from Cultural Writings, editors Geoffrey Nowell-Smith & David Forgacs (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1985; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985, 1992).
"'I'll teach you how to flow': On Figuring Out Atlantic Studies," Atlantic Studies, Vol. 1, No.1, April 2004, 28-48.
"Pushcart Economics, The Italians in New York," Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929, eds. Wm Boelhower and Anna Scacchi (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004), 97-110.
"Mapping the Gift Path: Exchange and Rivalry in John Smith's A True Relation, American Literary History, Vol. 15, No.4, Winter, 2003, 655-682.
"Reading Transatlantic Sites: The Italians in New York," 49th Parallel. An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies, Issue 8, Summer 2001, special number: Transatlantic Perspectives on Postnational American Studies), http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/49thparallel/.

Institution/Affiliation:

Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Department of English, University of Minnesota

Address:

350 Folwell Hall, University of Minnesota,
9 Pleasant Street, S. E.
Minneapolis , MN 55455

Telephone:

612 626 1638

Fax:

612 626 0228

E-mail:

brenn032@umn.edu

Main publications:

Cultures of Belief (forthcoming).
Music in Cuba ( Introduced and Edited Alejo Carpentier's La música en Cuba ) . Co-translated with Alan West and Richard Schwartz (U of Minnesota Press, 2001).
At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1997).
(Ed.) "The Writing of Black Britain ," Special Issue of The Literary Review (Fall 1990).
Salman Rushdie and the Third World : Myths of the Nation (London: Macmillan, 1989).
(Ed.) "Narratives of Colonial Resistance," Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies , 35, 1 (Spring 1989).
The Empire's New Clothes," Critical Inquiry , December 2002.
"Surrealismo y Son," Guaraguao: Revista de Cultura Latinoamericana , January 2003, 48 pp.
"Postcolonial Studies Between the European Wars: An Intellectual History." Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies , Crystal Bartolovich and Neil Lazarus, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2002, 185-203.
"Antonio Gramsci and Postcolonial Theory," Diaspora 10:2 (Fall 2001), 143-187.
"Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism," New Left Review 7 (Jan/Feb 2001), 75-84.
"Cosmo-Theory" South Atlantic Quarterly (Special Issue on "Anglophone Literatures and Globalization"), Winter 2002, 659-689.
"World Music Does not Exist," Discourse (Special Issue on "Imperial Disclosures"), Winter 2001, 144-162.
"The Cuts of Language: The North/South of East/West," Public Culture (Special issue "Translation"), (Spring 2001), 39-63.
"The Illusion of a Future: Orientalism as Traveling Theory," Critical Inquiry (Spring 2000), 558-83.
"The Organizational Imaginary," Cultural Critique 43 (Spring 2000), 79-104.
"The Latin Sound," Transition 81/82 (Spring 2000), Special Section, 162-230 (with accompanying translation).
"Poetry and Polemic," Race & Class 41 (July-December 1999), "A World to Win: Essays in Honor of A. Sivanandan, 23-34.
"The Cultural Politics of Rushdie Criticism: All or Nothing," in Critical Essays on Salman Rushdie, Keith Booker, ed. (New York: G.K. Hall, 1999), 107-128.

Institution/Affiliation:

Professor in International Cultural Studies, School of Arts, Communication and Culture, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Address:

20 Elm Avenue,
Nottingham, NG3 4GF - UK

Telephone:

+44 115 9241714 (home)
+44 115 8486343 (work)

Fax:

+44 115 8486321

E-mail:

roger.bromley@ntu.ac.uk

Main publications:

Lost Narratives (1988).
Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions (2000).
From Alice to Buena Vista (2001).

Institution/Affiliation:

Associate Professor of English, Dipartimento di Anglistica, Università di Verona

Address:

Dipartimento di Anglistica, Università di Verona
37129 Verona - Italy

Telephone:

+39 045 8028316

Fax:

+39 045 8028729

E-mail:

robertocagliero@libero.it

Main publications:

Dizionario di slang americano, Milano, Mondadori 1999 (with C. Spallino).
R. Cagliero, F. Ronzon (eds.), Spettri di Haiti. Dal colonialismo francese all’imperialismo americano, Verona: Ombre Corte, 2002.
R. Cagliero (ed.), Fantastico Poe, Verona: Ombre Corte, 2004.

Institution/Affiliation:

Department of history of visual arts and music, Università di Padova

Address:

Piazza Capitaniato, 7 35139 Padova - Italy (work)
Piazza Lima, 1 20124 Milano - Italy (home).

Telephone:

+39 338508696
+39 02 2043559 (office)

Fax:

+39 02 29512877

E-mail:

lucacerc@tin.it

Main publications:

Dal ragtime a Wagner. Treemonisha di Scott Joplin (Ragtime to Wagner. Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha) L’Epos, 2002.
Il disco. Musica, tecnologia, mercato (On record. Music, technology, marketing) Sansoni, 2001.
Miles Davis. Dal bebop al jazz-rock, 1945-1991 (Miles Davis.Bebop to jazz-rock, 1945-1991) Mondadori, 2001.
Il jazz. Una civiltà musicale afro-americana ed europea (Jazz. An Afro-American and European Musical Civilization) Bompiani, 2001.

Institution/Affiliation:

Doctoral student, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Università di Padova

Address:

Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave
via Beato Pellegrino, 26
35137 Padova - Italy

Telephone:

+39 049 8274951

Fax:

+39 049 8274955

E-mail:

marianna.fiocco@unipd.it

Main publications:

"A Monster Great Deformed: Richard III on Screen", in M. Melchionda & M. Santini (eds.), Carte d'occasione, vol.2, Padova, Unipress (forthcoming).

Institution/Affiliation:

Professor of American Literature, English Department, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Address:

Anglistisches Seminar Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg
Kettengasse, 12
69117 Heidelberg - Germany

Telephone:

+49 6221 5880597

Fax:

+49 6221 542877

E-mail:

dfh@uni-hd.de

Main publications:

Sleuthing Ethnicity: The Detective in Multi-Ethnic Crime Fiction (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003), co-edited with Monika Mueller.
EmBODYing Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance (Lit Verlag, 2001), co-edited with Alison Goeller.
Holding Their Own: Perspectives on the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000), co-edited with Heike Raphael-Hernandez.
Women and War (Berg, 1991), co-edited with Maria Diedrich.
Women in the United States (Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, 1990).

Institution/Affiliation:

University of Sussex

Address:

Department of American Studies, University of Sussex

Brighton BN1 9QN, UK

Telephone:

+44 1273 877365

Fax:

E-mail:

r.follett@sussex.ac.uk

Main publications:

"Slavery and Plantation Capitalism in Louisiana 's Sugar Country," American Nineteenth Century History 1 (Autumn 2000), 1-27.
"On the Edge of Modernity: Louisiana 's Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century Sugar Country," in The American South and Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History , ed. Enrico Dal Lago and Rick Halpern ( London : Palgrave, 2002), 73-94.
"Heat, Sex, and Sugar: Childbearing in the Slave Quarters," Journal of Family History , October 2003, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 510-539. Special Issue of JFH: "William Faulkner Meets Ntozake Shange: A Special Issue on the American South," ed., Joan Cashin.
With Rick Halpern, "From Slavery to Freedom in Louisiana 's Sugar Country: Changing Labour Systems and Workers' Power" in Bernard Moitt, ed., Sugar, Slavery, and Society (Forthcoming, University of Florida Press, December 2004).
"'Give to the Labor of America, the Market of America': Marketing the Old South's Sugar Crop, 1800-1860," Revista de Indias LXV, 233 (January-April 2005).
The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana 's Cane World, 1820-1860, (Forthcoming, Louisiana State University Press, Spring 2005).
"Gloomy Melancholy: The Sexual Lives of American Slaves," in Joseph Miller, Gwyn Campbell, and Suzanne Miers, eds., Women in Slavery (Forthcoming, London : Frank Cass).

Institution/Affiliation:

Doctoral student, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Università di Padova

Address:

Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave
via Beato Pellegrino, 26
35137 Padova - Italy

Telephone:

+39 049 8274951

Fax:

+39 049 8274955

E-mail:

anna.fornari@unipd.it

Institution/Affiliation:

Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham

Address:

Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT - UK

Telephone:

+44 121 414 5509

Fax:

+44 121 414 6866

E-mail:

w.g.kennedy@bham.ac.uk

Main publications:

Race and Urban Space in American Culture (2000).
City Sites (2000).

Institution/Affiliation:

Address:

Telephone:

Fax:

E-mail:

Institution/Affiliation:

Full Professor of American Literature, Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin

Address:

Institut fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universitaet
Unter den Linden, 6
D-10099 Berlin - Germany

Telephone:

+49 30 2093-2312, Secr. -2313

Fax:

+49 30 2093 2244

E-mail:

guenter.lenz@rz.hu-berlin.de

Main publications:

Postmodern New York City: Transfiguring Spaces - Raum-Transformationen (Heidelberg: Winter, 2003), co-ed. Utz Riese, my essay: “Mapping Postmodern New York City: Reconfiguring Urban Space, Metropolitan Culture, and Urban Fiction - An Introduction,” pp. 11-32.
“The Transfiguring Imagination of a Black Urban Modernism: Recodifying Public Space and Cultural Rituals in the Harlem Renaissance,” in William Boelhower, Anna Scacchi, eds., Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929 (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004), 67-96.

Institution/Affiliation:

Associate Professor of German Language and Literature, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Università di Padova

Address:

Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave
via Beato Pellegrino, 26
35137 Padova - Italy

Telephone:

+39 348 8710112 (cell.)

Fax:

+39 049 8274955

E-mail:

roberta.malagoli@libero.it

Main publications:

Interpretando Kafka: scrittura, memoria e redenzione (on the German-Jewish reception of Franz Kafka’s work in the Thirties) Pisa: ETS 2001.

Institution/Affiliation:

Address:

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E-mail:

Institution/Affiliation:

Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature in Trinity College of Arts and Science at Duke University

Address:

Duke University
115 Art Museum Building
Durham NC 27708 - USA

Telephone:

919 684 4240

Fax:

919 684 3598

E-mail:

vmudimbe@duke.edu

Main publications:

Co-editor of Philosophy and Postcoloniality, Duke University Press (2002-).
Editor of Mestizo Spaces, Stanford University Press (Until 2002).
Cheminements, extraits. April through May 1999. Berlin , Germany (2004).
Various articles, including “ Une Genèse africaine ” and “ De la cosmologie dogon ” (2004).
Encyclopedia of African Philosophy and Religion, Editor (in progress).

Institution/Affiliation:

Associate Professor of English, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Università di Padova

Address:

Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave
via Beato Pellegrino, 26
35137 Padova - Italy

Telephone:

+39 049 8274968

Fax:

+39 049 8274955

E-mail:

annalisa.oboe@unipd.it

Main publications:

Ed., with introductory essay, Mongrel Signatures. Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo, Cross/Cultures 64, Amsterdam-New York, Rodopi, 2003.
"Doctor Wooreddy's War Against Time", in Mongrel Signatures. Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo, Cross/Cultures 64, Amsterdam-New York, Rodopi, 2003, 83-105.
"Beginning with/out Identity: A Reflection on Subjectivity and Culture", in Roots and Beginnings, Venezia, Cafosarina, 2003, 123-131.
"Eroi eccentrici: l’esploratore nel romanzo postcoloniale" in Imperi moderni: l’eroe tra apoteosi e parodia, eds. A. Petrina & M. Melchionda, Padova, Unipress, 2002, 131-142.
“Il nome del padre e la ricerca della voce in Country of My Skull di Antjie Krog”, in Grafie del sé. Le fuorilegge del testo, ed. I. Vivan, Bari: Adriatica Editrice, 2002, 79-85.
“Of books and the Book: the evangelic mission in South African literature”, in Colonies, Missions, Cultures in the English Speaking World: General and Comparative Studies, ed. Gerhard Stilz, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001, 235-246.
“Percorsi gotici nella Master series di Mudrooroo”, Culture, 2000, 39-47.
“Translating Genres: Mudrooroo and the Historical Novel”, in Translating Cultures, eds. I. Carrera Suarez, A. Garcia Fernandez & M. S. Suarez Lafuente, Hebden Bridge, UK: Dangaroo Press, 1999, 179-187.
Athol Fugard, Trilogia della famiglia, ed. A. Oboe, Venezia, Supernova, 1999.
“Teatro sudafricano: verso l'ibridizzazione di generi e modelli”, Africa, America, Asia, Australia, 21, 1998, 233-242.
"Sketching the Cape: Thomas Pringle's Poems Illustrative of South Africa", in Routes of the Roots. Geography and Literature in the English-Speaking Countries, ed. I.M. Zoppi, Roma: Bulzoni, 1998, 685-695.
"Storie postcoloniali", Bollettino della Società Letteraria, Verona, December 1996, 165-172.
"South African Historical Fiction and Nationalism", in Nationalism vs. Internationalism. (Inter)National Dimensions of Literatures in English, ed. W. Zach & K.L. Goodwin, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1996, 229-23.
"Da margine a margine: traduzione e testi postcoloniali", Culture, 8, 1994, 127-132.
Fiction, History and Nation in South Africa, Venezia, Supernova, 1994.

Institution/Affiliation:

Postgraduate student, Humboldt University, Berlin

Address:

Chodowieckistr. 15/II,
10405 Berlin - Germany

Telephone:

Fax:

E-mail:

sozretic@web.de

Institution/Affiliation:

Professor of English at the University of Minnesota

Address:

207 Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis , MN USA 55455

Telephone:

612 625 2063

Fax:

612 624 8228

E-mail:

rabin001@umn.edu

Main publications:

Black and White and Noir: America 's Pulp Modernism, New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.
They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary , Haymarket Series. London : Verso, 1994, Chinese translation: Taiwan : Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd., 1999. Electro nic reprint: Questia.com (2002).
Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America , Gender and American Culture Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press , 1991, xii, 225 pp. Digital Reprint: netLibrary.com (1999).
Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 , edited with Charlotte Nekola. N.Y.: The Feminist Press, 1987.

Institution/Affiliation:

Assistant Professor of American Literature, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Università di Padova

Address:

Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave
via Beato Pellegrino, 26
35137 Padova - Italy

Telephone:

+39 049 827498

Fax:

+39 049 8274955

E-mail:

ascacchi@alphanet.it

Main publications:

A una voce sola. Il racconto della storia in Benito Cereno di Herman Melville, Roma, Lozzi e Rossi, 2000.
Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Class, Gender and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929, eds. William Boelhower and Anna Scacchi, Amsterdam, VU University Press, 2004.
"La lingua del Mondo Nuovo. L’inglese americano tra utopia e mito,” in La formazione di una cultura nazionale. La letteratura degli Stati Uniti dall’Indipendenza all’età di Jackson, a cura di Alessandro Portelli, Roma, Carocci, 1999.
“The Southern Belle as Depression Hero: Re-Reading Gone with the Wind,” in Brave New Words: Strategies of Language and Communication in the United States of the 1930s, a cura di Biancamaria Tedeschini Lalli e Maurizio Vaudagna, VU University Press, 1999.
"Esuli, principesse e maragià: orientalismo e cosmopolitismo in Dark Princess di W.E.B. Du Bois”, Letterature d’America XXII, 93-94 (2002).
“‘Sensitive as Any Woman’: Nineteenth-Century American Women and Mediterranean Masculinities. Introduction”, in America and the Mediterranean: Proceedings of the 2001 AISNA Conference, ed. Massimo Bacigalupo, Torino, Otto, 2003.
"Born beneath a Tropic Sun’: Shades of Brown and Masculinity in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Agnes of Sorrento”, in America and the Mediterranean: Proceedings of the 2001 AISNA Conference, ed. Massimo Bacigalupo, Torino, Otto, 2003.
“American Interiors: Redesigning the Home in Turn-of-the-Century New York”, in Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929, eds. William Boelhower and Anna Scacchi, Amsterdam, VU University Press, 2004.
"Give Me the Democracy of Beauty’: lo scialle e le nuove americane”, in Abito e identità, 5° vol., a cura di Cristina Giorcelli, Palermo, Ila Palma, 2004.

Institution/Affiliation:

Professor of History and Art History, George Mason University

Address:

4400 University Dr.
Fairfax, VA - USA (permanent address)

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Barker Center
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138 - USA (on-leave Sept. 11 - June 30, 2005)

Telephone:

202 285 1793

Fax:

E-mail:

jstewar4@gmu.edu

Main publications:

1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History.
Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen.
Race Contacts and Inter-racial Relations: Lectures by Alain Locke.
To Color America: Portraits by Alain Locke.
The Critical Temper of Alain Locke.

Institution/Affiliation:

Doctoral student, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Università di Padova

Address:

via Torricella, 8
36028 Rossano Veneto (VI) - Italy

Telephone:

+39 0424 540310

Fax:

+39 049 8274955

E-mail:

maria.taglioli@unipd.it

Institution/Affiliation:

Università di Padova

Address:

via Del Santo, 28
35123 Padova - Italy

Telephone:

+39 328 7443308

Fax:

E-mail:

fabrizio.tonello@unipd.it

Main publications:

Il giornalismo americano (Carocci, forthcoming).
La politica come azione simbolica (Franco Angeli, 2003).
La nuova macchina dell'informazione (Feltrinelli 1999).

Institution/Affiliation:

Professor of American History, Dipartimento di Storia e Storia dell'Arte, Università di Trieste

Address:

Dipartimento di Storia e Storia dell’Arte
via Economo, 4
34124 Trieste - Italy

Telephone:

+39 055 621143
+39 335 5364336 (cell.)

Fax:

+39 040 5587508
+39 040 310304

E-mail:

vezzosi@univ.trieste.it

Main publications:

Institution/Affiliation:

Professor of English, Dipartimento di Lingue e Culture Contemporanee, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Milano

Address:

via Renato Serra, 14
20148 Milano - Italy

Telephone:

+39 02 3300 1273 (home)
+39 02 503 21613 (office)

Fax:

+39 02 3300 5763 (home)
+39 02 50321640 (office)

E-mail:

itala.vivan@unimi.it

Main publications:

“Hybridity and Aesthetics in the Era of Postcolonial Literatures”, in Crossover. Cultural Hybridity in Ethnicity, Gender, Ethics, a cura di Therese Steffen, Tuebingen: Stauffenberg Verlag, 2000, pp.3-13.
“Geography, Literature and the African Territory. Some Observations on the Western Map and the Representation of Territory in the South African Literary Imagination”, in Remembering Africa, ed. Elizabeth Muydimbe Boyi, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000, pp. 74-100.
“The Italian Territory of Nuruddin Farah’s Fiction”, in Perspectives on Post-Colonial Literature, ed. by D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke, London: Skoob, 2001, pp.125-138.
“Ibridismi postcoloniali e valenze estetiche”, in Estetica e differenza, a cura di P. Zaccaria, Bari: Palomar, 2002, pp.137-153.
“The Impact of Postcolonial Hybridisation on the Britishness of British Literature”, in In That Village of Open Doors. Le nuove letterature crocevia della cultura moderna, a cura di S. Bassi, S. Bertacco e R. Bonicelli, Venezia: Cafoscarina, 2002, pp. 27-47.
“The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness and the Invention of Miscegenation in South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930s”, Culture 16, 2002, pp.23-42.

Institution/Affiliation:

Full Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies, Nottingham Trent University

Address:

Department of English and Media Studies, Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8 NS - UK

Telephone:

0115 848 3041

Fax:

+ 39 049 8274955

E-mail:

patrick.williams@ntu.ac.uk

Main publications:

Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory (Harvester, 1993).
Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory (1996).
Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Manchester University Press, 1999).
Edward Said (Sage, 2001).
Post-Colonial African Cinemas (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2005).