Captivity and Creativity - (World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension) by Giorgia Alù & Elena Bellina

About the Author

Giorgia Alù (Edited By)
Giorgia Alù is Chair of Italian Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on literature and photography, photographic culture, travel writing and women's writing, and on aspects of the cultural history of modern Italy. Her publications include the monograph Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Mobility and Photography (2019) and the co-edited volume Enlightening Encounters: Italian Literature and Photography (2015). She is the Principal Investigator of the Australian Research Council team project on "Mapping Creativity in Captivity during WWII" and Co-Principal Investigator in the large collaborative ARC Discovery Project "Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive". She is also working on a book manuscript on the function and impact of mining in Italy revealing how human and non-human resources became a platform for political, cultural and social practices and discourses throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Elena Bellina (Edited By)
Elena Bellina is Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor in Italian Studies at New York University. Her research and publications focus on war and captivity studies, cultural memory, autobiographical writing, and the performing arts. She is completing two book manuscripts on the literary and artistic production by Italian prisoners of war in Allied hands detained in camps in Africa. She is Co-Principal Investigator in the Australian Research Council funded project "Creativity in Captivity in WWII."