Luca Abbatista (Columbia University), Sara Antonelli (University of Rome III), Iuri Moscardi (CUNY, Graduate Center) for the international conference Between Italy and the U.S.: A New Paradigm for Cultural Exchanges.

Luca Abbatista is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Italian and the Institute fo Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) at Columbia University. In 2018 his master’s thesis on Leonardo Sciascia and French literature was shortlisted for the Giovanni Testori Prize. He received a Fulbright grant in 2019 and has published articles and book reviews on Italian literature. His dissertation entitled “The Reinvention of American Literature in Italy” explores the connections between U.S. and Italy during Fascism.

Sara Antonelli teaches American Literature at the Università Roma Tre and eceived her B.A. in Literature, Master in Literary Translation and Ph.D. in American Literature at the Sapienza Università di Roma. A former Fulbright Scholar, she has been a Visiting Professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. She has written extensively on both
19th-Century and 20th-Century American Literature and Culture, focusing especially on F. Scott Fitzgerald, American fiction, African American Studies, American Photography, and Film. Dr. Antonelli translations into Italian included works by Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Hardy, James Baldwin, Edith
Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sam Shepard. She has also served as curator of photo exhibitions such as the “Freedom Fighters: The Kennedys and the Struggle for the Civil Rights” (Roma – MAXXI, 2013).

Iuri Moscardi (PhD in Comparative Literature – Italian Specialization, Graduate Center, CUNY) has written his dissertation on “Twitteratura: Digital Social Reading and Active Reception of Literary Texts in the Context of Italian Contemporary Literature,” analyzing the critical discussion and comments made on Twitter by readers on canonical authors of Italian literature. Dr. Moscardi has edited two books on Pavese: The Craft of Living: Journals, 1935–1950. Edited, introduced, and annotated by Iuri Moscardi. New translation by Julian Sachs (University of Toronto Press) and Cesare Pavese: Mythographer, Translator, Modernist. A Collection of Studies 70 Years After His Death (Vernon Press, 2023).