Word and Image in Literature and the Visual Art

Carmen Concilio is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Turin. Her research fields include British Modernism, Postcolonial and Environmental Studies. Her most recent publications include, as editor and author, Plots and Plotters (Milan: Mimesis International, 2015); New Critical Patterns in Postcolonial Discourse. Historical Traumas and Environmental Issues (2012). She has also co-edited (with R. Bromley, P. Deandrea) Engaging Wor(l)ds in Postcolonial Studies: Human Rights, Environmental Humanities and Well-being, Ricognizioni, vol. 3, n. 5 (2016); (with R. J. Lane) Image Technologies in Canadian Literature: Narrative, Photography and Film (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009). Maria Festa is completing her MA in English and Postcolonial studies at the University of Turin. Her research fields include Caribbean and Black British Literature (Caryl Phillips) and relationships between Literature and Photography. She has participated in international conferences and published reviews and short articles. Federico Vercellone is Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin. Among his publications, translated into several languages, there are Introduzione a il nichilismo (2009); Pensare per immagini (with O. Breidbach, 2010); Oltre la bellezza (2008)