Whims of the Wind: Weightlessness and Thought in Contemporary Literature and Visual Arts (Atmospheric Spaces) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

Paola Del Zoppo is a scholar of German literature, teaches at the University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", and works at the crossroads of literary theory, aesthetics, and cultural/ transcultural critique. Her research explores modern and contemporary German-language literature through the lenses of liminality, myth, perception, memory, vulnerability, and marginality, as well as narratology and theories of reading. She is the author of "Faust in Italy: Reception, Adaptation, Translation of Goethe's Masterpiece and A Dialogue at the End of the World: Liminality, Generativity, and Memory in the Poetics of Hilde Domin", and has published essays in Italian, English, and German. She is also a curator of various volumes of contemporary German poetry in Italian translation, and translates poetry, prose literature and critical prose.. Rosanna Gangemi is a philosopher of art, an art critic, and a lecturer. Her research focuses on areas of indistinctness in aesthetic forms and the construction of knowledge between the humanities and the artistic practices. She holds a double PhD in Philosophy and German Studies (ULB / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle). Her published works include numerous papers on Günther Anders, Marlen Haushofer, and Ketty La Rocca. She has taught contemporary arts at Université de Lille as well as in universities in Paris and has co-edited, among the others, the volume "HOME. Les sens d'une maison" (2023). Her upcoming publication will be the translation in French of two collection of poems by Alda Merini for BSN Press.. Micaela Latini teaches German Literature at the University of Ferrara, after completing her training in aesthetics and German literature in Italy and Austria. She has published numerous works (monographs and articles), translated into several languages, with a primary focus on Austrian culture and on the intersections between philosophy and narrative. Among her most recent publications are "Philosophy of Literature" (2026) and "Anselm Kiefer: The Alchemy of Opposites" (2026, forthcoming).