Gianluca Fantoni is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His work focuses on the public use of history and the relationship between cinema, politics and society. He is the author of Italy Through the Red Lens: Italian Politics and Society in Communist Propaganda Films (2021). He is also General Editor of Modern Italy, the journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI).

Armando Rotondi is Professor of Performance Theory and Storytelling and has led the MA Creative Performance Practice at the Institute of the Arts Barcelona, Spain. His work focuses on performance, translation, and cultural studies. He has published extensively, including La Romania di Ceaüescu tra farsa e tragedia (2020), Eduardo De Filippo tra adattamenti e traduzioni nel mondo anglofono (2012), and Roberto Bracco e gli -ismi del suo tempo (2010). He also serves as convener at the European Journal of Theatre and Performance.