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Professor Lucia Re earned her B.A. in English at Smith College and her laurea in Languages and Literatures at the University of Rome. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She also studied Spanish and Latin-American literature at the University of Puerto Rico. Her translation into Italian of Borges: A Literary Biography by Emìr Rodriguez Monegal received the 1982 Comisso Prize. Professor Re’s book Calvino and the Age of Neorealism: Fables of Estrangement (Stanford 1990) was awarded the MLA Marraro prize for the best book in Italian studies in 1990-92. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Getty Senior Research Grant. She was appointed by the President of the University of California to be Director of the Education Abroad Program in Italy for 1994-96. In 1996 she was the organizer of an international conference on Gender in Critical Studies held at the University of Bologna. She is a member of the advisory committee of the UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies. Professor Re specializes in 19th and 20th-century Italian, with an emphasis on the fin-de-siècle, early modernism and avant-garde, and the cultural history of Italy under Fascism and during the Reconstruction. Her current research and scholarly interests include the relationship between Futurism, Fascism and feminism, gender issues in 19th-century and 20th century literature and art, and comparative theories of gender and feminism, with an emphasis on contemporary Italian feminist thought. She has recently completed a book entitled Women and the Avant-Garde: Experimentalism, Gender and Politics in Modern Italian Culture. Her translation into English (with Paul Vangelisti) of Amelia Rosselli’s first book of avant-garde poems, War Variations (1964) is forthcoming in a bilingual edition with a critical introduction.