Notes on Contributors
Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English at Cornell University. His research is in the fields of structuralism, literary theory and literary criticism. He is the author of Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature (Routledge, 1975) and Theory of the Lyric (Harvard University Press, 2015).
Adele Bardazzi DPhil (Oxon) is Assistant Professor in Italian Studies at the University ofUtrecht and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research delves into issues of form and interpretation, poetry and poetics, lyric theory, gender and women’s studies. Among her past and forthcoming publications are: Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning (Peter Lang, 2022); Elegy Today. Resistance, Revision, Re-Mapping (JWL, 2023); Weaving Media in Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry (Italica, 2023); Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetic Clusters (Peter Lang); Textile Poetics of Entanglement (Brill); and The Poetics of Fabric (Bloomsbury Academics). She is founder of the Weaving Media Network, and co-founder of Italian Poetry Today and Non solo muse.
Roberto Binetti DPhil (Oxon), is Research Fellow at the University of Padua, working on a project on nuclear anxiety in 20th-century lyric poetry. His research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry, with an emphasis on the relationship between the lyric and cultural history. Among his past and forthcoming publications are: Elegy Today. Resistance, Revision; Re-Mapping (JWL, 2023); Poetics of Becoming: Women’s Poetry in Italy’s Long Seventies (Peter Lang); Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetic Clusters (Peter Lang); La domanda dell’inconscio: Lingua e vita interiore nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli e Andrea Zanzotto (Mimesis); and Anne Carson: letteratura liquida (Mimesis). He is co-founder of Italian Poetry Today and Non solo muse.
Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature at Cornell University. He is the author of Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry, the poetry collection Stand Back, Don’t Fear the Change, and translator of Ya Shi’s Floral Mutter.
Karen Leeder is the Schwarz-Taylor Chair of German at the University of Oxford and currently an Einstein Visiting fellow at the FU in Berlin. She specialises in modern and contemporary German literature. Her translation of Durs Grünbein’s Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City (Seagull Books 2020) won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2021. Her Durs Grünbein, Psyche Running: Selected Poems 2005–2022 will appear with Seagull Books in 2024.
Ivanna Sang Een Yi is Assistant Professor of Korea Studies at Cornell University. As a scholar of Korean literature, culture, and performance, her research focuses on the performative dimensions of living oral traditions as they interact with written literature and the environment.
Rachel Elizabeth Robinson is Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Galway. Her research interests include Latin American experimental poetry, new materialism and relational aesthetics. She is the author of Visual and Plastic Poetics: From Brazilian Concretism to the Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde (Legenda, 2022).
Emily Drumsta is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, author of Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation, and translator of Revolt Against the Sun: The Selected Poetry of Nazik al-Mala’ika.
David Sherman teaches in the English Department at Brandeis University. He researches modernism and secularization, elegy, and prison literature. His book In a Strange Room: Modernism’s Corpses and Mortal Obligation addresses literary responses to the modernization of mortuary practices.
Roberto Gaudioso works on oral and written verbal art in Kerewe, Shona and Swahili languages. His PhD thesis is on the poetics of Euphrase Kezilahabi. His research interests also include comparative literature, the theories and practices of translation, the aesthetics of literature.
Francesco Giusti is Career Development Fellow and Tutor in Italian at Christ Church, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the Italian poetic tradition and its modern and contemporary ramifications, but my work extends into other genres and media, as well as theoretical dimensions. His current book project focuses on ‘gestural communities’ developed out of my long-term interest in the history and theory of the lyric, which led to my monographs Canzonieri in morte. Per un’etica poetica del lutto (Textus, 2015) and Il desiderio della lirica. Poesia, creazione, conoscenza (Carocci, 2016).
Gail Lillian Holst-Warhaft Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies. She is also Director of the Mediterranean Studies Initiative (Spring 2004–) and Faculty Associate of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future. Her areas of interest include Modern Greek Literature and Music, Greek Literature from Antiquity to the Present, Translation, water and culture. She is also a poet, translator, and musician. She is the author of The Cue for Passion: Grief and its Political Uses (Harvard University Press, 2000), and Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature, Theodorakis: Myth and Politics in Modern Greek Music (Hakkert 1980).
Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books of criticism on poetry, including Poetry in a Global Age (2020), Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (University of Chicago Press, 2014), A Transnational Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (University of Chicago Press, 1994).
Brandon Menke is a poet and assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He teaches and researches American literatures and visual art of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, with a particular focus on poetry and poetics,LGBTQ* studies and queer theory, visual culture, literary space, and transmediation.
His current book project, Slow Tyrannies: Queer Lyricism, Visual Regionalism, and the Transfigured World, examines lyric form, regionalist aesthetics, and networks of queer intimacy in American literature and visual art from the 1920s to the 1970s.