Elena Alexeeva is a Full Professor of French Linguistics at Voronezh State University (Russia), where she heads the Department of French.
She also holds the following positions: Director of the Regional Center for Franco-Russian Cooperation; Director of the Master's program “Linguistic Support of International Projects in Culture, Education, Tourism, and Business”; coordinator of cooperation between Voronezh State University and French Universities; Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (France).
Her main research and interest areas include: Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Studies, Translation/Interpretation, Internationalization of Education, Participation in international projects.
Lorenzo Bagnoli is an associate professor of Geography at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he teaches Tourism Geography in the bachelor’s degree program in “Tourism Sciences and Local Community” and Cartography for Tourism in the master’s degree program in “Tourism, Territory and Local Development.” He is also responsible for international relations for the latter program.
He has also carried out teaching and research activities at various European universities (Spain, France, Finland, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland) and in the 2019-2020 academic year was a visiting scholar at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston (UK).
His main research interests are tourism geography, cartography, and the geography of cultural heritage, especially in their historical, political, and social aspects. Since 2016 he has been vice-president of the “International Tourism Masters Network” and since 2017 he has been qualified as a full professor in the field of Geography (11/B1).
Rita Baleiro holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the New University of Lisbon. She is a senior lecturer at the University of the Algarve (School of Management, Hospitality and Tourism). She is an active member of CITUR - Centre for Research, Development and Innovation in Tourism, and collaborates with the project Litescape.pt - Atlas of the Literary Landscapes of Continental Portugal, as well as with the Tourism, Space and Urbanities Research Group at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She has been co-chief-editor of «Dos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal» since 2007.
Her research interests include literary studies, academic writing, and the intersections between literature and tourism. She has authored, co-authored, and edited various national and international scientific publications. The latest was Global Perspectives on Literary Tourism and Film-Induced Tourism (2022).
Rita Capurro is an art historian and museologist and teaches Tourism and Cultural Heritage at the University of Milan Bicocca. She graduated and specialized in art history at the University of Genoa, and earned her PhD with honors in Design for Cultural Heritage at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
She has participated in various national and international research projects, including FARB DESY—Designing Enhancement Strategies and Exhibit systems for the Italian House Museums and Studios (Polytechnic University of Milan)—and collaborates on teaching activities at the University of Milan-Bicocca, the Catholic University of Milan, and the Polytechnic University of Milan. She is deputy editor of the journal «Arte Cristiana».
Her research interests are mainly focused on museology, cultural tourism, and religious art. Among her publications are: Musei e oggetti religiosi (2013), Designing multivocal museums (edited with E. Lupo, 2016), Milano, ritratto di una città (edited with G. Nuvolati, 2020).
She is an active member of the International Council of Museums (currently on the board of the international committee ICTOP—International Committee for the Training of Personnel, mandate 2019-2022, and a member of the Lombardy regional coordination).
Yannick Gouchan is a full professor at Aix-Marseille University (France), where he teaches Italian Literature. He directs the Master’s program in Foreign Languages and Cultures (LLCER) and the Master’s in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language (MEEF).
He is a member of the Centre Aixois d’Études Romanes (CAER), the editorial board of the journal «Italies», the “Universitaria” series of Stilo publisher, and the “Novecento in versi e in prosa” series of Musicaos publisher. At Aix Marseille, he leads a research seminar on the memory of writers’ places. He is preparing a volume of «Cahiers d’études romanes» for 2023 dedicated to this subject (writers’ places and heritage in Italy, Spain, and Provence).
He has worked on contemporary Italian poetry, mainly on Pascoli, Saba, Penna, Bertolucci, Sereni, Quasimodo, and more recent poets such as Maccari, Simonelli, and Lo Russo. Among other topics, he has studied the relationship between lyricism and narrative in Bertolucci's "Camera da letto" and in Sereni's poetry and prose works.
In 2015, he published, with Luca Bani, The Figure of the Child in the Works of D’Annunzio, Pascoli and the Crepuscolari and, in 2017-2018, the double volume Enfances italiennes. On biographical studies, he published Études biographiques. La biographie au carrefour des Humanités (2018) and La vérité d’une vie, études sur la véridiction en biographie (2019), with Joanny Moulin and Phuong Ngoc Nguyen.
He is currently President of the national competition for teaching Italian in France.
Toni Marino is an associate professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, where he teaches Narrative Techniques, Storytelling Models, and Semiotics.
He is a member of the Board, representing the Associate Professors, of the Committee on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature, and a Reprise evaluator for the ERC SH5_2 and SH5_8 sectors. His research has widely addressed the relationships between literature and visual arts, particularly developing a semiotic approach for the study of the visual-verbal code.
He has also worked on gender and narratology, as well as cognitive studies applied to the study of narrative, dedicating recent years to a deeper exploration of the experimental method in critical analysis and its relationship with the study of cognitive processes involved in reading.
He is the author of Writers and Advertising (2012), Gender in Italy (2015), The Provisional Text (2017), From Narratology to Psychonarratology. The experimental method in the study of narrative (2018), The Visual Writing of Virginia Woolf. Diaries, essays, novels (2019).
Matteo M. Pedroni teaches Italian literature at the University of Lausanne, where he earned his doctorate with a thesis on Vincenzo Riccardi di Lantosca (1829-1887). He mainly focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, with a particular interest in Italian poetry spanning the two centuries (from Carducci to Montale) and in contemporary Swiss-Italian poetry (from Giorgio Orelli to Alborghetti).
He has published the annotated edition of Carducci's Poems (2004, with G.A. Papini), the critical and annotated edition of Lantosca's Poems (2006), and the collection Spunti del moderno (2010), featuring essays on Carducci, Guerrini, Praga, Lantosca, D’Annunzio, and Pirandello.
In recent years he has focused on the work of Swiss poet Federico Hindermann (1921-2012), publishing the proceedings of the 2015 Lausanne conference (2017), the anthology Sempre altrove. Selected Poems 1971-2012 (2018), the collection I sette dormienti (2018), and the monograph The Poet's Intentions. The poetic work of Federico Hindermann. With the Hindermann-Contini correspondence (2021).
He is president of the “Fondazione Margherita per la cultura italiana” (Sion, CH), a member of the executive committee of the series “Testi per la Storia della Cultura della Svizzera italiana,” and of the programming commission at the “Casa della Letteratura per la Svizzera italiana.”
Jordi Arcos-Pumarola. Affiliation: CETT Barcelona School of Tourism, Hospitality and Gastronomy – University of Barcelona. Jordi Arcos-Pumarola holds a PhD in Education and Society from the University of Lleida, a Master's Degree in Innovation in Tourism Management, specializing in Cultural and Natural Heritage Management from Barcelona School of Tourism, Hospitality and Gastronomy CETT – UB, and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona.
He is a member of the Research Group on Tourism, Culture, and Territory at CETT Barcelona School of Tourism, Hospitality and Gastronomy (affiliated with the University of Barcelona), where he also works as a lecturer in cultural and literary tourism and as research coordinator.
His two main lines of research are the dialogue between intangible heritage and tourism, with a particular emphasis on literature and philosophy, and tourism ethics. He has also been the editor of the Tourism and Heritage Journal since 2019 and has participated on the organizing committee of international conferences.
Roberto Ubbidiente obtained his habilitation at the Philosophische Fakultät II of the Humboldt University of Berlin and is currently a lecturer in Italian Literature and Culture at the Institute of Romance Studies at the same university. He graduated with honors in Literary Subjects from the University of Salerno and earned his PhD in Italian Studies at the Institute of Romance Philology of the Alma Mater Rudolphina in Vienna, with a dissertation dedicated to the History of Leopardi Criticism (Frankfurt, 1998), while simultaneously obtaining a degree in Translation and Interpreting Studies from the same university.
He has published numerous works on a variety of topics and Italian authors from the sixteenth to the twentieth century (Ariosto, Alfieri, Leopardi, De Amicis, Svevo, Pirandello, De Filippo, Verdone), as well as edited collections and conference proceedings; the most recent, published by Aracne, is titled Giambattista Marino’s L’Adone: Myth, Movement, Marvel.
His most recent monographs are: L’Officina del poeta. Studi su Edmondo De Amicis (2013) and Eduardo De Filippo’s Theatre Work between the Celebration of Neapolitan Popular Culture and the Dramatization of a War-Induced Family Change (2019), for which he is currently preparing the Italian version.
Walter Zidarič is a full professor of Italian Literature and Civilization at the University of Nantes, with over thirty years of experience teaching the Italian language. He has published several monographs, in both Italian and French, on librettos and on the relationships between music, literature, and society in the 19th and 21st centuries, has edited ten volumes of proceedings of international conferences, and is the author of about a hundred publications.
He was instrumental in the recent rediscovery of Ercole Luigi Morselli, of whom he published "All the Theatre" (2017) and all the Prose Works (2021). He is also a librettist with: "Lars Cleen: The Foreigner" (2011), set to music by Paolo Rosato, a multilingual libretto based on Luigi Pirandello's short story Lontano; "Orione" (2019), based on the play of the same name by E.L. Morselli, and "The Ambassador" (2021), based on Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, both set to music by Simone Fermani. He translated Aleksandr Pushkin's "Rusalka" (2014) and is the author of the play "I, from here, am not leaving (The Life of Ercole Luigi Morselli)" (2019).