Italian Studies

Biagio Mazzella holds a B.A. (2021) and an M.A. (2024) in Philosophy from the University of Bologna. He has been a visiting student at the École normale supérieure and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His research centers on queer theory, gender studies, and contemporary Italian literature: he is currently working on Aldo Busi’s public persona and the interplay between his media presence and literary oeuvre, investigating how his public engagements have shaped his intellectual legacy. He is the Italian translator of Christopher Chitty’s Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System (Meltemi, 2023), Dennis Altman’s Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation (Asterisco, 2024), Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner’s Sex in Public (forthcoming in Studi culturali), and, together with Goffredo Polizzi, Leo Bersani’s Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays (forthcoming with Asterisco). His short story Acquamurata was featured in the collection Sciroccate. Storie di traverso da sud (Tamu, 2023), edited by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah and Claudia Durastanti.