Giuseppe Previtali is Associate Professor of Film and Visual Studies at the University of Bergamo. His main research interests deal with the extreme forms of contemporary visuality, with a specific focus on political conflicts (e.g. war, terrorism, uprisings) and on perpetrator-produced images. He published extensively on these topics, and he is the author of the books L’ultimo tabù (Meltemi 2020), Postmedia Education (McGraw-Hill 2025, with R. Nardone and G. Grossi), Che cos’è il trash (Carocci 2025), and Africa segreta (Marsilio 2026).

Paolo Barcella is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bergamo. His research has focused on the history of Italian emigration, particularly to Switzerland and the United States, which he has examined from different perspectives. In recent years, he has worked on the history of conservative movements and political parties that have been notable for their particularly hostile attitudes towards international migrations. He is the author of: Scolari ospiti. Italiani a scuola in Svizzera, Biblion, Milan, 2024; La Lega. Una storia, Carocci, Rome, 2022; I frontalieri in Europa. Un quadro storico, Biblion, Milan, 2019; Per cercare lavoro. Donne e uomini dell’emigrazione italiana in Svizzera, Donzelli, Rome, 2018.

Martina Censi is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Bergamo. She is research associate at ERIMIT (University of Rennes 2), at CEFREPA Kuwait and at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO). She holds a joint Italian-French PhD. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Arabic literature, particularly from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Oman. Her main interests include women’s writing, representations of the body, individual and collective identity formation, migration, ecocriticism in Gulf literature, and the relationship between trauma and contemporary artistic production in Arab countries. Among her publications: Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines: Dire, écrire, inscrire la différence (Brill, 2016), M. Censi e M. E. Paniconi (eds) (2023). The Migrant in Arab Literature: Displacement, Self-Discovery and Nostalgia, New York & London, Routledge.

Michela Gardini is Full Professor of French Literature at the University of Bergamo. She is a specialist in the Nineteenth and Twentieth-century French Literature. Her research focuses on the intersection between Literature and Religion; on the rewriting processes of Myths and in particular of Antigone; on the dialogue between word and image starting from the motif of the picture; on the interculturality and metatextuality; on the women’s writing of the Maghreb. Among her books: Nei frammenti della modernità (Sestante 2006); Giovanna d’Arco e i suoi doppi (Sestante 2009); Joséphin Péladan. Esthétique, magie et politique (Classiques Garnier 2015), Il ritratto e l’assenza (Mimesis 2019), Nelle trame del mito.  (Mimesis 2021); Il traduttore come personaggio di finzione (FrancoAngeli 2023).