University of Rome Tor Vergata

Marina Ciccarini is Full Professor of Polish Language and Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She is the author of monographs and critical essays. Her research areas include textual criticism and Polish memoir literature of the 16th century; 17th-century Russian–Polish comparative studies; Polish Romanticism; and 20th-century theatre and poetry. She has also translated and edited the following poetry collections: E. Lipska, “L’occhio incrinato del tempo”, Armando Editore, Roma 2013; E. Lipska, “Il lettore di impronte digitali e altre poesie”, Donzelli Editore, Roma 2017; M. Lebda, “La cella reale”, Ensemble, Roma 2018; E. Lipska, “Memoria operativa – L’amore in procedura di emergenza”, Le Lettere, Firenze 2022.

Alessandro Amenta is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he teaches Polish Language and Translation. His main research interests include translation and retranslation, literary onomastics, fantastic literature, ecocriticism, Polish poetry from the interwar and post-1989 periods, and gender and queer studies in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the author of two monographs: Il discorso dell’Altro. La costruzione delle identità omosessuali nella narrativa polacca del Novecento (2008) and Le parole e il silenzio. La poesia di Zuzanna Ginczanka e Krystyna Krahelska (2016). Alessandro Amenta has edited numerous essay collections and anthologies, including Inattese vertigini. Antologia della poesia polacca 1989-2010 (2012), Boginie, bohaterki, syreny, pajęczyce. Polskie pisarki współczesne wobec mitów (2020), Dezorientacje. Antologia polskiej literatury queer (2021), and Retranslation and Socio-Cultural Changes (2025). He has translated into Italian works by some of the most important Polish writers of the 20th century, including Witold Gombrowicz, Wiesław Myśliwski, Adam Zagajewski, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Andrzej Stasiuk, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Izabela Filipiak, Łukasz Jarosz, Piotr Paziński, Magdalena Parys, among others. He is a founding member of the Italian Association of Polish Studies (AIP), where he has also served on the executive board.

Bianca Sulpasso is Associate Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her main research areas include Russian emigration to Italy (historical reconstruction, exploration of cultural relations between Russia and Italy, and cultural mediators); 18th-century literature (particularly satire targeting the Old Believers and libertine literature); and contemporary Russian literature (translation, reception, trauma, and memory). She is the author of essays and monographs in Italian, English, and Russian, including Oskolki russkoj Italii. Issledovanija i materialy (Moscow, 2011, co-authored with S. Garzonio) and Scismatici e crapuloni, le avventure di un vecchio credente nella letteratura licenziosa russa (Salerno, 2019). Bianca Sulpasso has held teaching and research positions abroad at institutions such as Stanford University, Sophia University in Tokyo, the University of Southern California, and Guangdong University for Foreign Studies. In 2022, she was a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (NYC), focusing on contemporary Russian literature.