Gianluca Cinelli and patrizia piredda, for the project “The Memory of WWII among Third-Generation Italian-Americans (1965-1985)”. 

Gianluca Cinelli, researcher in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, was a research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2012-2014. His research interests include war memoirs, the relationship between history, literature and myth, and the themes of violence and trauma in literature. He has published numerous articles on Nuto Revelli, Primo Levi, Mario Rigoni Stern, Alessandro Manzoni and Joseph Conrad. His monographs include: Nuto Revelli (Aragno, 2011); La questione del male in Storia della Colonna infame di Alessandro Manzoni (Troubador, 2015); “Viandante giungessi a Sparta…”. Il modo memorialistico nella narrativa contemporanea (Sapienza Universitaria Editrice, 2016); Il Paese dimenticato: Nuto Revelli e la crisi dell’Italia contadina (Franco Angeli, 2020); and Le guerre di Mario Rigoni Stern: trauma, racconto, guarigione (Morlacchi, 2022). Since 2018 he has been one of the editors and founders of the magazine Close Encounters in War (www.closeencountersinwar.org) and in 2024 he co-founded the oral history project MemoGen: The Legacy of the Second World War in the Memory of the Third Generation (1965-1985) (www.memogen3.wordpress.com).

Patrizia Piredda, MA (Literature), MA (Philosophy), MLitt (Philosophy and Literature) and PhD (Philosophy and Literature). In 2018 and 2019 I received the Seal of Excellence Certificate from the European Commission (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020. My research interests include the philosophy of language, with particular attention to the epistemological role of metaphor, and the relationship between ethics and literature. I published scientific articles on Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Pirandello, D’Annunzio, Savinio, Levi, Calvino, utopia and dystopia, on metaphors in the media and political discourse on Covid-19 and Quantum Mechanics. I am currently developing the MemoGen Project in collaboration with the Archivio
Ligure della Scrittura Popolare (University of Genoa) and Centro Studi per la Pace “Sereno Regis”. Among her publications: “L’etico non si può insegnare” (2014); La Grande Guerra in Italia (2013); George Bryan Brummell. Studio estetico della maschera del dandy (2017); Etica e teatro italiano del Novecento (2018) e Vera Amicitia. Nozioni classiche di amicizia nel Rinascimento (2022).