victoria.surliuga@ttu.edu

www.victoriasurliuga.com

Victoria Surliuga is Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Italian Program Coordinator and World Cinema Coordinator at Texas Tech University. She is a scholar of modern and contemporary Italian art, cinema, and literature, as well as a poet and a translator. She was awarded The 1905 Fellowship of the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association for her research on Peggy Guggenheim and art patronage, a grant to the Italian Program at Texas Tech University from the CH Foundation to curate the exhibition “Ezio Gribaudo's Theaters of Memory” at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (2016), Scholarship Catalyst Grants from Texas Tech University, and was Humanities Fellow at the Humanities Center of Texas Tech University.

Her publications include “Homage to Ezio Gribaudo / Omaggio a Ezio Gribaudo” (E-book published in the Texas Tech University DSpace Open Repositories. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Libraries and Venezia: ytali.com, 2020), “Ezio Gribaudo: My Pinocchio” (Pistoia: Edizioni Gli Ori, 2017), “Ezio Gribaudo: The Man in the Middle of Modernism” (New York-London: Glitterati, 2016; First Place President's Faculty Book Award, Texas Tech University, for 2017-2018), a book-length volume of translations of Giampiero Neri's poetry “Natural Theater: Selected Poems (1976-2009)” (Edition and Introduction; New York: Chelsea Editions, 2010), “Nell'epoca del gremito: Conversazioni con Giancarlo Majorino” (Milano: Edizioni Archivi del ‘900, 2008), and “Uno sguardo sulla realtà: L'opera poetica di Giampiero Neri” (Novi Ligure: Joker Edizioni, 2005).

She has also written on poetry and painting in Giambattista Marino, on Federico Fellini, on the poetry of Andrea Zanzotto, Franco Loi, Giancarlo Majorino, and Giampiero Neri. She has authored six books of poems, of which the most recent one is "Shadow" (Las Cruces: Xenos Books, with Chelsea Editions and the Raiziss-Giop Foundation, 2018). www.victoriasurliuga.com/biography