Death in Venice

Joan Ramon Resina is Professor in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he directs the Iberian Studies Program at the Europe Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Barcelona. Some of his awards include the Donald Andrews Whittier Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Fulbright fellowship, the Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship, a Wien International Scholarship, a DAAD grant, fellowships at the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig and at the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata in Cologne, and the Serra d’Or prize for literary criticism. He has published one hundred and seventy-five essays in professional journals and collective volumes while contributing regularly to the Catalan press. Between 1998 and 2004 he was general editor of Diacritics. Some of his recent books include Luchino Visconti: Filmmaker and Philosopher (Bloomsbury 2022), Catalunya amb ulls estranyats (Comanegra 2020), and The Ghost in the Constitution: Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society (Liverpool UP, 2017). He has also edited twelve volumes, including Cultures of Currencies (Routledge 2022), Iberian Modalities (Liverpool UP, 2013), Inscribed Identities (Routledge, 2019) and Repetition, Recurrence, Returns (Lexington Books, 2019) with Christoph Wulf.

Stephanie Malia Hom is Assistant Professor of Transnational Italian Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She writes and lectures on modern Italy and the Mediterranean, mobility studies, colonialism and imperialism, migration and detention, and tourism history and practice. She is the author of Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention (Cornell, 2019) and The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy (Toronto, 2015). Her essays and articles have been published in a wide range of venues, including the leading journals in the fields of Italian studies, tourism history, urban studies, and folklore. She has also worked as a journalist in the U.S. and Europe.