Claudio Fogu is Associate professor of Italian Studies and teaches courses on Italian cultural history and memory, with an emphasis on film and visual culture. He is the author of The Historic Imaginary. Politics of History in Fascist Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2003), and co-editor of The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe (Duke UP, 2006), Metahistory’s Fortieth Anniversary (Storia e Storiografia, 2015), and Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture (Harvard UP, 2016). He is also a co-founder of two digital journals: California Italian Studies (CIS) of which he co-edited the inaugural volume in dedicated to “Italy in The Mediterranean,” and ZapruderWorld of which he will co-edit the fourth volume on “Performing Race.” He is currently co-editing a second volume of CIS entitled “Borderless Italy,” while also finishing his second monograph provisionally entitled Making Italians and Mediterranean Imaginaries: The Fishing Net and the Spider Web.