Filippo Petricca (Indiana University – Bloomington) and Esther Schomacher (Zeppelin Universität, Germany) for the project Literary Economic: Practices, Actors, Knowledge. 

Filippo Petricca is Assistant Professor of medieval Italian literature at Indiana University Bloomington and a scholar of the literary imagination. His main research examines how medieval fiction absorbs and transforms economic theories and practices. His publications, which bridge the medieval and early modern Romance literatures, include contributions on debt, gratitude, usury, and the conceptualization of money.

Esther Schomacher currently holds the position of Associate Professor for cultural theory and cultural analysis at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen; previous posts include a guest professorship for Italian Literature at the Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures at
Humboldt University of Berlin, and an associate professorship Italian Literature at RuhrUniversität Bochum. Her research focuses on relations between literature and sciences, especially economics, media theory, political theory, and historical Gender Studies. Previous publications on economics and literature include Emotion and Calculation. Marriage Markets and Match Making from Early Modernity to the Present (edited with Annika Nickenig, Fink/Brill, 2025); The Culture of Money (edited with Jan Söffner, Routledge, 2024), and Schrift und Geld um 1900. Italo Svevo’s Medien (Writing and Money around 1900. Italo Svevo’s Media, Fink, 2021).