Serena Bassi is assistant professor in Italian Studies at Yale University. Their current book project, titled “Mistranslations: Queer Marxism in Italy after 1968,” is the first study to date of the 1970s Italian Gay Liberation Movement—its history, its politics, and its aesthetics. Serena’s interests are in modern and contemporary Italian cultural studies, translation studies and queer studies. 

Louisa Mackenzie grew up in Scotland, did graduate work in Berkeley, CA, and is Associate Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. They have published and taught on early modern and contemporary French culture, ecocriticism, Animal Studies, and gender studies. Their co-edited volume, “Devenir non-binaire en français contemporain,” was published last year in Paris and is receiving positive press.

The roundtable will be held at the French House, on 33 Dover Rd.