Whims of the Wind

Paola Del Zoppo, translator and literary critic, teaches German Literature at the University of Tuscia. She is on the teaching staff of the Master's degree program in Literary Translation and Text Editing at the University of Siena.

Rosanna Gangemi is philosopher of the arts, specialized in modern and contemporary art and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Seha has taught courses in image theory, video art and visual arts at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, as well as disciplinary methodology in contemporary art history at the Université de Lille.

Micaela Latini, Ph.D., has studied in Rome, Urbino and Vienna. She currently teaches German Literature at the University of Cassino. She is mainly interested in German-speaking literary civilization, particularly the relations between philosophy and literature, theories of the image, Jewish-German symbiosis, and Austrian culture. She has published a book on Ernst Bloch (Il possibile e il marginale. Studio su Ernst Bloch, Mimesis, Milan 2005) and several articles in Italian, French and German. For many years he has collaborated with RAI's cultural TV programs.