Notes on the Contributors

Alberica Bazzoni is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford, and then held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Warwick and a Research Fellowship the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. She is the author of Il presente vivo. Temporalità del divenire e del trauma in Lispector, Ortese e Philip (2025) and Writing for Freedom: Body, Identity, and Power in Goliarda Sapienza’s Narrative (2018), and co-editor of ‘The Politics of Translation’, Comparative Critical Studies (2023); Gender and Authority (2020); and Goliarda Sapienza in Context (2016). Her current research explores textual performativity and feminist and decolonial literary imaginaries of trauma and resistance.

Federica Buongiorno is an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Philosophy and Phenomenology of Technology at the University of Florence, Italy. Her research interests include Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology, the philosophy of technology (with a special focus on AI, algorithmic thinking and the digital culture), psychoanalysis, and cyberfeminism. She received her PhD in Philosophy in 2013 from Sapienza University of Rome and has been a post-doctoral researcher at several academic institutions in Italy and Germany, including the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry in 2021–2022. She is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of the philosophical book series Umweg (Inschibboleth editions) and the editor-in-chief of the international journal of philosophy Azimuth. Her latest book is titled Iperindividualità. L’individuazione nel presente tecnologico (Meltemi 2025). She is also a translator from German and collaborates with several Italian publishers.

Ursula Fanning is Professor Emerita of Italian Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics, University College Dublin. She has published extensively in the areas of nineteenth and twentieth-century women’s writing, including a monograph on Matilde Serao (Woman as Subject). Her Italian Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century: Constructing Subjects was published by Fairleigh Dickinson U.P. in 2017. She has co-edited volumes on Serao’s transnational reception with Gabriella Romani and Katharine Mitchell (Matilde Serao: International Profile, Reception and Networks, Classiques Garnier 2022) and most recently on Elsa Morante (‘Fifty Years of La Storia: Elsa Morante Beyond History’, Annali d’Italianistica, 2024).

Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir is a Brussels-based Icelandic choreographer. She was educated at Artez University of Arts Arnhem/Amsterdam (1998–2002). Her performance work and artistic research has been supported by cultural institutions and platforms in Germany, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Holland, Scotland, Iceland, Norway, Belgium, France, and Austria (2005–2026). She has collaborated with the phenomenologist Professor Susan Kozel on artistic research and interdisciplinary art and archival projects from 2017 to 2025.

Lucilla Guidi is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Pegaso University (Naples, Italy) and Guest Lecturer at the University of Potsdam (Germany). Her research focuses on philosophy as a way of life and the performative constitution of aesthetic and everyday practices, drawing on phenomenology, Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, and theories of performativity. Her publications include Il rovescio del performativo (2016), Phenomenology as Performative Exercise (with Thomas Rentsch, 2020), and Wittgensteinian Exercises: Aesthetic and Ethical Transformations (2023). She is co-editor of the book series Aesthetic Practice: Transdisciplinary Perspectives (Brill).

Susan Kozel is Professor at the School of Arts and Communication of Malmö University in Sweden. With a focus on phenomenology, dance, and digital technologies, her research takes the form of both philosophical writing and collaborative artistic productions. Her publications include books Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology (The MIT Press, 2007), and Augmenting Archives and Mediating Memories, co-authored with Maria Engberg, is forthcoming with Routledge in 2027. Her articles include ‘Performing Phenomenology: The Work of Choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir’ (2020), ‘Re-presencing Telematic Dreaming — Awakening a Critical Feminist Phenomenology’ (2024), and ‘The Potential of Passivity Beyond the Intentional Model: Consciousness as Disarticulation in Merleau-Ponty’s Institution and Passivity’ (co-authored with Federica Buongiorno, 2022). She is on the Swedish Research Council’s Committee for Artistic Research and is a collaborating artist for the Mixed Reality choreographic installation CATALYSTS — Somatic Resonance (2022–2024).

Chiara Montalti is a post-doctoral fellow in Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna (Italy) and one of the coordinators of the Master’s programme in Gender Studies and Politics (Roma Tre University). She earned her PhD in Philosophy at the Universities of Florence and Pisa. Her research focuses primarily on Disability Studies with an intersectional approach. On these topics, in 2025 she published the books Introduzione ai Disability Studies (Clueb) and Prospettive cyborg sulla disabilità (DeriveApprodi), and co-edited the Special Issue on Philosophy and Disability with Brunella Casalini for HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies.

Dorothea Olkowski is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emerita at University of Colorado Springs. She is the former Director of Humanities and the former Director of the Cognitive Studies Program. In addition, she has served as Chair of Philosophy and founding Director of Women’s Studies. Olkowski is the author of more than one hundred articles and fourteen books, including her most recent publications: Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of Freedom: Freedom’s Refrains (2019), and Deleuze, Bergson, and Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Affect, Perception, and Creation (2021).

Elisa Virgili is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Milan–Bicocca. Her research focuses on gender, bodies, power, and political discourse. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Social Sciences and has extensive experience in gender and queer studies, sociology of sport, and media analysis. She was a researcher at the Center for Sexology and Sexuality Studies at Malmö University, where she worked on a project on menstruation and female athletes. Her recent publications include Pugili. Storie di rabbia, classe e genere (2025) and articles on menstruation, combat sports, and gendered embodiment in journals such as Eracle.