Nicola Guida (University of Pennsylvania): “Liminality in Gothic Italian Literature”
Teresa Valentini (University of Toronto): “Potential Borders. Impotentiality and National Indifference in Svevo, Joyce and Kafka’s works”
Mattia Ragazzoni (University of Toronto): “La coscienza linguistica di Zeno”
Alessio Aletta (University of Toronto): “Real, Fictional Nivolesco. The Liminal Condition of the Self-Aware Character in Luigi Pirandello and Miguel de Unamuno”
Annunziata Zevola (University of Toronto): “May is a girl, May is a boy. On a Case of Non-human Gender in I divoratori by Annie Vivanti”
Michela Bertossa (The Ohio State University): “Disrupting the Narrative. Reimagining Motherhood in The Good Mothers”
Simona Di Martino (University of Toronto): “Navigating Adolescence. Liminal Girlhood in W.I.T.C.H. Magazine”
Sara Galli, Mohammad J. Jamali (University of Toronto): “Porpora Marcasciano’s AntoloGaia. A Preliminary Examination of Inclusive Language in Queer Italian Writing”
Professor Dino S. Cervigni (University of North Carolina): “Dante’s Rites of Passage: From Chaos and Parody to Light and Romance through Sword, Fire, Water, and Gaze”
Giulia Guadagni (University of Toronto): “La lingua dei migranti italiani a Toronto”
Alessandro Minnucci (University of Chicago): “Migrant Authenticity and White Extractivism. Problematizing Antiracist spoken word in contemporary Italy”
Rachel Grasso (University of Toronto): “Liminal Italianità. Discussion and Approaches in the Rap and Trap Music of Second-Generation Italian Artists”
