Massimiliano L. Delfino (Ph.D., Columbia University) has taught Italian language and culture at UNC-Chapel Hill, Columbia University, Ca’ Foscari in Venice, and Northwestern University, where he received the ASG Faculty Honor Roll award (2021–22). He previously earned the Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Award at UNC (2013) and was a finalist for Columbia’s Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching (2018). His pedagogical work centers on intermediality and Intercultural Communicative Competence, and in 2024 he published an article on stereotypes and ICC development (SLRP).
As a researcher, he specializes in post–World War II Italian political cinema and literature, with a focus on the relationship between aesthetics and politics. He is completing a book on representations of terrorism in 1970s Italian film and fiction and their connection to the concept of “civility.” His recent article on polizieschi and random violence appeared in The Italianist (2023). Other publications include essays on Tonino Guerra and Tarkovsky (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming), Pif’s La mafia uccide solo d’estate (Annali d’italianistica, 2017), and Gesualdo Bufalino (Italica, 2021).
As a poet, he is the author of L'apocalisse nuda (Marietti 1820, 2024). His poems have appeared in Italian Poetry Review and received several awards in Italy and the United States, including I Murazzi (2022), Premio Apollo Dionisiaco (2022), and recognition from the Italian Cultural Institute of New York (2023).
