• Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor, Continuing Discussions Editor
• Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor
• Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions Editor
• Alice Parrinello, Guest Editor
• Leonardo Cabrini, Erica Moretti, and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors
• Guido Capaccioli, Lisa Dolasinki, and Samantha Gillen, Managing Editors
• Beatrice Basile, Matthew Guyton-Docherty, Deion Dresser, Mattia Mossali, Francesca Passaseo, Nicolò Salmaso, and Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors
• Sofia-Teresa Di Bacco, Student Assistant

Table of Contents

Journal Editorial

ALICE PARRINELLO, University of Toronto
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College
ELLEN NERENBERG, Wesleyan University

Themed Section: New Queer South

• Genere, sessualità e Meridione: Verso una mappatura politica e teorica del meridionalismo queer  | VALENTINA AMENTA, Sapienza Università di Roma
• Tutto cambia affinché tutto cami: Meridione, politica e nazione ne L’arte della gioia  |  CARLA PANICO, University of Coimbra
  
• Naples, Sexual Diversity and Self-Orientalism: Femminielli as a Case Study  |  MARCO RUGGIERI, University od Edinburgh
• I Femminielli: A Gender Variant Existence Between Sacred and Profane in the City of Naples  |  JULES DE BELLIS, Independent Scholar
• Spiritual Hotbeds: (Counter)Narratives of HIV/AIDS in Sicily  | LEONARDO CAMPAGNA, Sapienza Università di Roma
• The Southern Queer Poetics of June Scialpi: Obliquity, Conflict, Magic | MARZIA D’AMICO, University of Lisboa

Invited Perspectives 

• A Queer Perspective on the Italian South? Some Methodological Notes; or, How to Read as a Southern Queer  |  GOFFREDO POLIZZI, University of Leicester
• Within and Beyond the Queer Italian South: A Conversation with Francesca Romana Ammaturo  |  FRANCESCA ROMANA AMMATURO, London Metropolitan University, PAOLA BONIFAZIO, University of Texas at Austin, ALICE PARRINELLO, University of Toronto
• Southern Speculations on the Mediterranean Beach |  SERGIO RIGOLETTO, University of Groningen
• Postcards from Sicily  | MARTINA MARTONSKY, Artist

Open Contributions

• “Orlando, où es tu?” Paul Beatriz Preciado’s Non-Binary Reading of Virginia Woolf  |  ANDREA RASO, Università di Roma Tre
  
• “The Actress Who Got Slapped the Most”: Monica Vitti’s Body as a Space of Conflict in Italian-Style Comedy (1969-1975)  |  GIULIA SIMI, Università di Sassari

Continuing Discussions

• Una ricerca sul campo: Università, scelte e pregiudizi linguistici |  CATIA LEONETTI, Independent Scholar
• Power and Inclusivity: Bolognesi LGBTQIA+ Activists Reflect on Representation in the Italian Language  |  LAUREN E. DUNCAN, Smith College, BRUNO GRAZIOLI, Dickinson College

Book Reviews

• A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy, by Julia Rombough |
  GIUSEPPE BRUNO-CHOMIN, Pennsylvania State University
• Donne nella storia dei media: Autrici, artiste, influencer, tra ribalta e retroscena,
  by Anna Lucia Natale e Paola Panarese  |  DILETTA PASETTI, Rutgers University 
• Italian Trans Geographies, by Daniela Cannamela, Marzia Mauriello and Summer Minerva  |  GIULIA SBAFFI, Università per Stranieri di Siena

Film, Theater and TV Series Reviews

• The Leopard, by Tom Shankland, Giuseppe Capotondi, and Laura Luchetti  |  MIRIAM BURRASCANO, Indiana University Bloomington
• Queer, by Luca Guadagnino  |  OLIVER BRETT, University of Nottingham. 
• L’arte della gioia, by Valeria Golino and Nicolangelo Gelsomini |  BEATRICE BASILE, University of Pennsylvania
• Fuochi d’artificio, by Susanna Nicchiarelli  |  NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College
• Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa, by Margherita Ferri  |  TRISTAN VENTURI, Università di Bologna