Francesca Calamita
(fc4j@virginia.edu)
Francesca Calamita is Associate Professor of Italian Studies, General Faculty at the University of Virginia, where she is based in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, affiliated to the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality, and a College of Arts and Sciences Fellow in the Engagements. She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian and the Program Director of UVA in Siena and Florence. She obtained her Ph.D. from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 2013, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing of the ILCS, University of London, as a Visiting Fellow in 2014. Her research interests center on transnational feminist issues in women’s writing, cinema, and pop culture, with a particular focus on food disorders. She is the author of the monographs Linguaggi dell’esperienza femminile: Disturbi alimentari, donne e scrittura dall’Unità al miracolo economico (Il Poligrafo, 2015) and Visibili e influenti (Biblion, 2023), and co-editor of Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women’s Writing (Peter Lang, 2017) and Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society: Eve’s Sinful Bite (Bloomsbury, 2020). She has also published extensively in the area of gender equality in second-language acquisition. She is the creator and co-author of DiversItaly (Kendall, 2022), the first textbook to learn Italian with gender equality and inclusive language.
Giulio Celotto
(gc4fw@virginia.edu)
Giulio Celotto is Assistant Professor of Classics, General Faculty at the University of Virginia. In 2017 he received his Ph.D. in Classics from Florida State University. After spending a research period at the University of California, Irvine, he served one year as Visiting Assistant Professor in Classical Studies at Concordia College, Moorhead. His primary research interests focus on Latin literature of the Early Empire, with especial interest in the correlation between philosophical frameworks and narrative structures in Latin epic, and the intersection of gender and genre in Latin poetry. His first monograph, titled ‘Amor belli’: Love and Strife in Lucan’s ‘Bellum civile’, was published with The University of Michigan Press in 2022. In addition, he has contributed articles and book chapters on a variety of authors, such as Catullus, Vergil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, Persius, Statius, Juvenal, and Tacitus.
Giulia Paoletti
(gp5mt@virginia.edu)
Giulia Paoletti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Virginia. After receiving her Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University in 2015, she has taught and lectured at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, the University of Kansas, and the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on the histories of modern art and photography in Africa. Based on over ten years of research, her book Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press (March, 2024). Her work has appeared in journals including Art History, Cahiers d’études africaines, the Metropolitan Museum Journal, Art in Translation, and Journal of African History. Support for her research include awards and fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Getty; The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA); the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She has co-curated three exhibitions on African photography at the Metropolitan Museum and Dak’art Biennial OFF 2018, and is currently working with Dr. Sandrine Colard on an exhibition project on the relation between photography and textile.