Out of Deadlock

Enrico Minardi teaches Italian and French at Arizona State University. His publications include two books on the contemporary Italian writers Pier Vittorio Tondelli (2003) and Enrico Palandri (2010, in collaboration with Monica Francioso), on whom he also edited a collection of essays (2010, in collaboration with Monica Francioso). With Cristina Caracchini, he is currently editing a collection of essays on Italian modern poetry and cognitivist thought, titled Il Pensiero della Poesia. His current research interests are focused particularly on modern female authorship in Italian poetry, and he has published a series of essays on Annie Vivanti, Antonia Pozzi, and Vivien Lamarque, amongst others. He has also written articles on some of the major poetic figures of the Italian twentieth century, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Raboni. With Taylor Corse, he has recently published the English translation of a collection of poems by the contemporary Italian poet Ferruccio Benzoni.

Jennifer Byron is a doctoral candidate in the Spanish Department at Arizona State University. Her current research interests include the digital humanities, media studies, gender and women’s studies, contemporary peninsular literature, crime fiction, and transatlantic studies. Her most recent publications include “Construcciones de la identidad femenina en el espacio virtual: el caso de la blogósfera española y la literatura digital del blook” (published in the University of Kentucky’s academic journal Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos) and “Wordtoys: La colección de poesía digital de Belén Gacheque desmantela la noción de ‘literatura tradicional’ y la etiqueta de escritura femenina” (published in the academic journal Letras Femeninas).