Timothy Campbell,
Associate Professor of Italian Studies

Timothy Campbell is Associate Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies. In addition to his translations of Roberto Esposito's Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Minnesota, 2008) and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Stanford, 2009), he is the author of Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi (Minnesota, 2006), winner of the Media Ecology Association's 2007 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics. He recently completed his second book, Tecnica e biopolitica, which is forthcoming from Guerini. His current projects include a study of biopolitics and post-colonialism and an examination of Italian political cinema and contemporary thought. At Cornell he teaches courses on contemporary Italian philosophy, Italian cinema, and core courses in the Italian major.

Selected curriculum as follows:

Books:

Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi, University of Minnesota Press, 2006. [Media Ecology Association’s Lewis Mumford Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics Award winner]

Tecnica e biopolitica, Guerini, 2009.

Critical Introductions:

"Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito," Introduction to Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy

Translations:

Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy, Roberto Esposito, University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, Roberto Esposito, Stanford University Press, 2009.

Edited Volumes:

"Roberto Esposito and Biopolitics," Special Issue of Diacritics, vol. 36, no.2 (2006).

Co-Edited Volumes:

"Negotiations in Italian Culture," Special Issue of Forum Italicum, co-edited with Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Spring 2006.

Selected Articles:

"The 'Immaginazione Senza Fili' and the Noise of Modern Life: Towards a Media Ecology of Futurism," Forum Italicum 37 (2004), 372-390.

" 'Infinite Remoteness': Marinetti, Bontempelli, and the Birth of Modern Italian Visual Culture," MLN 120 (January 2005), 111-136.

"The Object(s) of Memory: Models of Remembering in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, in The Legacy of Primo Levi," ed. Stanislao Pugliese (New York: Palgrave, 2004), 97-104.

"Violent Cities: Virility and B-Movie Fascism in the Cop Films of Umberto Lenzi," Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 19 (2006). An earlier version is available through Cornell University Library's digital initiative DSpace.

"Re-membering D'Annunzio and Il Duce: Modern Prophecy in Italy," Quaderni d'Italianistica, 2006.

"Scenarios of Poiesis: Italian New Media (1994-2004)," Modern Italy, 2006.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Biopolitics
Fascist Culture
Modern Italian Visual Culture

RECENT COURSES

Biopolitics and Contemporary Italian Thought
Fascist Films, Fascist Bodies
Modern Italian Travel Writing
Perspectives in Italian Culture