Gianluca Rizzo is the Paganucci Assistant Professor of Italian at Colby College. His research focuses on modern and contemporary macaronic writing, contemporary poetry, theater, and aesthetics. He published numerous articles, poems, and translations, both from English to Italian and vice-versa (in Or, Chicago Review, l'immaginazione, il Verri, Autografo, etc.). With Luigi Ballerini and Paul Vangelisti he edited an anthology of American poetry in translation entitled Nuova Poesia Americana, New York (Mondadori, 2009). With Massimo Ciavolella he edited the volumes LIKE DOVES SUMMONED BY DESIRE: DANTE'S NEW LIFE IN 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE AND CINEMA (Agincourt Press, 2013), and SAVAGE WORDS: INVECTIVES AS A LITERARY GENRE (Agincourt Press, 2016). With Michael Hackett he edited Carlo Godoni's Five Comedies (University of Toronto Press, 2016). He also edited and wrote the introduction to Tutto il teatro by Elio Pagliarani (Marsilio, 2013). Oèdipus printed his first collection of verse entitled Il lavoro meccanico: Un'apocalisse in quattro tempi (2016).