Luca Somigli is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. His publications include Per una satira modernista: la narrativa di Wyndham Lewis (Cadmo, 1995); Legitimizing the Artist: Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885–1915 (Toronto, 2003), which was awarded the prize for best book by the American Association for Italian Studies; and Valerio Evangelisti (Cadmo, 2007). He is co-editor (with Mario Moroni) of Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde (Toronto, 2004); and (with Eleonora Conti) of Oltre il canone: problemi, autori, opere del modernismo italiano (Morlacchi, 2018). He has published essays on F.T. Marinetti, Massimo Bontempelli, Primo Conti, Alberto Savinio, Enrico Pea, Antonio Delfini, Ezra Pound, Italian comics, and genre fiction.