Handbook of International Futurism

Ed. by Günter Berghaus
Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2018

XX+964 pp; hardcover RRR € 169,95 / US$ 195.99 / £154.50
ISBN: 978-3-11-027347-2; PDF: 978-3-11-027356-4; EPUB: 978-3-11-039099-5

I. General Aspects of the History and Theory of Futurism

1. Historiography of Studies on Italian Futurism – Günter Berghaus, Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol
2. The Politics of Futurism – Aleš Erjavec, Professor of Visual Culture, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana
3. Women Futurists – Lucia Re, Professor of Italian and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Charlotte Douglas, Professor Emeritus, New York University

II. Reflections of Futurism in Different Artistic Media

4. Architecture – Michelangelo Sabatino, Professor, College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
5. Cinema – Wanda Strauven, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt
6. Cuisine – Cecilia Novero, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago
7. Dance – Patrizia Veroli, Independent Scholar, Rome
8. Ceramics – Matteo Fochessati, Curator, Wolfson Collection, Genoa
9a. Fashion Design – Italy – Franca Zoccoli, Independent Scholar, Rome
9b. Fashion Design – Russia – Ekaterina Lazareva, Senior Research Fellow, State Institute of Art Studies, Moscow
10. Graphic Design, Typography and Artist’s Books – Stephen J. Bury, Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library
11. Interior Design, Furniture, and Decorative Arts – Anna Maria Ruta, Professor emerita, Università degli Studi di Palermo
12. Music – Daniele Lombardi (†), formerly Musician, Author and Professor at “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan
13. Photography – Marta Braun, Director, Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management, Ryerson University, Toronto
14. Radio and Sound Art – Margaret Fisher, Independent Scholar and Performance Artist/Video Director, Emeryville/CA
15a. Theatre – Russia – Edward Braun (†), formerly Professor emeritus in Theatre, Film and Television, University of Bristol
15b. Theatre – Italy – Domenico Pietropaolo, Professor of Drama and Italian Literature, University of Toronto
16. Visual Poetry – Jed Rasula, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Georgia

III. Futurist Traditions in Different Countries

17. Argentina – Rosa Sarabia, Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Toronto
18. Armenia – Krikor Beledian, Maître de Conférences (Langue et littérature arménienne), INALCO, Paris
19. Belgium – Bart van den Bossche, Associate Professor of Italian Literature, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
20. Brazil – João Cezar de Castro Rocha, Professor of Comparative Literature, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
21. Bulgaria – Giuseppe Dell’Agata, Professor Emeritus, University of Pisa
22. Chile – Greg Dawes, Distinguished Professor of Latin American Literature, North Carolina State University
23. China – Man Hu, Researcher, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
24. Czech Republic and Slovakia – Alena Pomajzlová, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno
25. Denmark – Torben Jelsbak, Associate Professor in Danish Literature, University of Copenhagen, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics; Per Stounbjerg, Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, University of Aarhus
26a. Egypt – Literature – Maria Elena Paniconi, Professor of Arab Language and Literature, University of Macerata
26b. Egypt – Fine Arts – Nadia Radwan, Professor of Art History, University of Bern
27. Estonia – Tiit Hennoste, Senior Researcher, Department of Estonian Literature and Language, University of Tartu
28. Finland – Hannu Riikonen, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki
29. France – Willard Bohn, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Illinois State University
30. Georgia – Bela Tsipuria, Professor of Comparative Literature, Ilia State University, Tbilisi
31. Germany – Irene Chytraeus-Auerbach, Research Associate, Internationales Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung, University of Stuttgart
32. Great Britain – Jonathan Black, Research Fellow, Kingston University
33. Greece – Chris Michaelides (†), formerly Curator of Italian and Modern Greek Books, British Library, London
34. Hungary – András Kappanyos, Research Consultant, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, and Professor of Hungarian Literature, University of Miskolc
35. Iceland – Benedikt Hjartarson, Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
36. Ireland – Selena Daly, Lecturer of Modern European History, Royal Holloway, University of London
37a. Italy – Literature – Luca Somigli, Professor of Italian Studies, University of Toronto
37b. Italy – Fine Arts – Giorgio Di Genova, Formerly Professor of Contemporary Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome
38. Japan – Pierantonio Zanotti, Research Fellow in Japanese Studies, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
39. Korea – Kyoo Yun Cho, Assistant Professor, Department of Russian Language and Literature, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
40. Latvia – Aija Brasliņa, Head of Collections and Research Department (Eighteenth to First Half of the Twentieth Century), Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
41. Lithuania – Ramute Rachlevičiūte, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Theory. Lithuanian Academy of Art, Vilnius
42. Mexico – Sergio Delgado, Acting Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University
43. Netherlands – Ton van Kalmthout, Senior Researcher, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam
44. Peru – Carlos García, Freelance researcher and author, Hamburg
45. Poland – Przemysław Strożek, Assistant Professor, Special Collections, Institute of Art at Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
46. Portugal – Nuno Júdice, Professor of Portuguese Literature, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
47. Romania – Irina Cărăbaş, Assistant Professor at National University of Arts, Department of Art History and Theory, Bucharest
48a. Russia – Literature – Henryk Baran, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, University at Albany (SUNY)
48b. Russia – Fine Arts – Christina Lodder, Honorary Professor of Art History, University of Kent
49. Spain – Andrew A. Anderson, Professor of Spanish, University of Virginia
50. Sweden – Jesper Olsson, Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University
51. Ukraine – Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, Professor emeritus of Ukrainian Culture, Language and Literature, University of Alberta
52. Uruguay – Pablo Rocca, Professor of Uruguayan and Latin American Literature, Universidad de la República, Montevideo
53. USA – Ara H. Merjian, Assistant Professor of Italian, New York University; Nicola Lucchi, Substitute Lecturer of Italian, Queens College, City University of New York
54. Venezuela – Giovanna Montenegro, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature & Romance Languages, Binghamton University
55. Yugoslavia and its Republics – Irina Subotić, Professor Emeritus, formerly curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art and National Museum in Belgrade, Professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad; Janez Vrečko, Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia); Sanja Roić, Professor of Italian Literature, University of Zagreb (Croatia) Bojan Jović, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade, and Jasmina Čubrilo, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, University of Belgrade (Serbia)