Victoria Surliuga is Associate Professor of Italian Studies, World Cinema, and Italian Program Coordinator at Texas Tech University. She has studied Comparative Literature at Mount Holyoke College and holds an M.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Italian Studies.

Victoria Surliuga 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 twice (for her research on Marc Balet, 2023; and Peggy Guggenheim and art patronage, 2015); a CH Foundation grant to the Italian Program at Texas Tech University to curate the exhibition Ezio Gribaudo’s Theaters of Memory at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (2016); Scholarship Catalyst Program grants from Texas Tech University (for her research on Peggy Guggenheim; Ezio Gribaudo; LGBTQIA+ activism in Italy since the 70s and the journal and grassroots movement Fuori! Fronte Unitario di Liberazione Omosessuale); and was Humanities Fellow at the Humanities Center of Texas Tech University twice (for her research on Fran Lebowitz, 2023; and Peggy Guggenheim and art patronage, 2016). She has also curated the exhibitions Ezio Gribaudo: Life and Art at the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University (2019) and Ezio Gribaudo: A Lifetime in Art at the Texas Tech University Libraries (2018).

Victoria Surliuga has also written on poetry and painting in Federico Fellini and Gianbattista Marino, the poetry of Andrea Zanzotto, Franco Loi, Giancarlo Majorino, and Giampiero Neri. She has authored six books of poems that include Shadow (Xenos Books, with Chelsea Editions and the Raiziss-Giop Foundation, 2018). She has published book reviews in Annali d’italianistica, Carte Allineate, l’immaginazione, Forum Italicum, Gradiva, Qui Libri, Hebenon, Italica, Italian Culture, Italian Poetry Review, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, La Provincia di Como, Rivista di Studi Italiani, Critica Impura online, Sinestesie online, Succedeoggi online, ytali.com.

Selected Publications (2002-2024) - **Links in the titles:

**Victoria Surliuga. “An Interview with Sandy Linter: Beautifying life through makeup, on celebrity culture and Studio 54.” ytali.com / ytali.com/ytaliglobal, February 7, 2024.

**Victoria Surliuga. “An interview with Marc Balet on his work in architecture, design, publishing, and with celebrity culture.” ytali.com/ytali.com/ytaliglobal, November 11, 2023.

**Victoria Surliuga. "An interview with Marc Balet on his life in architecture, fashion, and film." ytali.com, April 21, 2023.

**Victoria Surliuga. “An Interview with Marc Balet: A Lifetime in Design, Fashion, and Film, from Warhol to Scorsese.” The Journal of American Culture, vol. 46, issue 1, March 2023, pp. 77-93.

**Victoria Surliuga. “An Interview with Fran Lebowitz: Reflections on Film, Warhol’s Legacy, Public Persona, and American Culture.” The Journal of American Culture, vol. 46, issue 1, March 2023, pp. 68-76.

Victoria Surliuga. “Intervista con Franco Loi, 7 settembre 2001, seconda parte.” Gradiva, n. 63, Spring 2023, pp.11-34.

**Victoria Surliuga. “The Fran Lebowitz Series in Scorsese’s Pretend It’s a City and Public Speaking.” Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives (Universitat Politècnica de València and Università di Bologna), vol. 8, n. 1, 2022, pp. 33-43.

**Victoria Surliuga. “The Art of Fran Lebowitz's Public Persona.” The Journal of American Culture, vol. 45, issue 5, March 2022, pp. 3-17.

**Victoria Surliuga. “L’icona di New York fenomeno Lebowitz.” L’Ordine – La Provincia (Como), March 13, 2022, p. IV. https://ordine.laprovinciadicomo.it/

Victoria Surliuga. “Intervista con Franco Loi, 7 settembre 2001.” Gradiva, n. 61, Spring 2022, pp. 23-58.

Victoria Surliuga. “Exclusive Interview with Ezio Gribaudo: Ezio Gribaudo e il suo incontro con Pier Paolo Pasolini.” Italica, n. 99, vol. 3, 2022, pp. 399-404.

**Victoria Surliuga. “Fran Lebowitz in Italian.” ytali.com, July 2021 (in English).

**Victoria Surliuga. “La vita secondo Fran Lebowitz.” ytali.com, July 2021 (in Italian).

Victoria Surliuga. “Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni: Blurring the Animus/Anima Archetypes.” In: Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini. Edited by Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller, and Marita Gubareva. Wiley Blackwell, 2020, pp. 191-204.

**Victoria Surliuga. Omaggio a Ezio Gribaudo / Homage to Ezio Gribaudo. Lubbock and Venice: Texas Tech University Libraries and ytali.com, 2020; Texas Tech University Libraries DSpace Open Repository.

Victoria Surliuga. “Pinocchio e il cinema: due temi nella formazione artistica di Ezio Gribaudo.” Rivista di Studi Italiani, vol. XXXVII, n. 2, 2019, pp. 319-331.

Victoria Surliuga. “Nei simboli del concilio una lezione di umanità e di arte.” L’Osservatore Romano, January 6, 2019, p. 4.

Victoria Surliuga. Le Conchiglie di Ezio Gribaudo / Ezio Gribaudo’s Seashells. Pistoia: Edizioni Gli Ori, 2019.

Victoria Surliuga. “Collector, Art Patron, and Creator of Museums: Peggy Guggenheim in Venice.” Rivista di Studi Italiani, January-April 2018, pp. 359-372.

Victoria Surliuga. Paesaggi di Ezio Gribaudo / Ezio Gribaudo’s Landscapes. Turin: Archivio Gribaudo, 2018.

Victoria Surliuga. Ezio Gribaudo: Archeologia Incantata / Ezio Gribaudo: Enchanted Archaeology. Pistoia: Edizioni Gli Ori, 2018.

Victoria Surliuga. Ezio Gribaudo: My Pinocchio. Pistoia: Edizioni Gli Ori, 2017 (book in English) and Ezio Gribaudo: Il mio Pinocchio (book in Italian); both volumes were published with the endorsement of the Fondazione Carlo Collodi.

Victoria Surliuga. Ezio Gribaudo: The Man in the Middle of Modernism. London-New York: Glitterati, 2016. First Place President’s Faculty Book Award, Texas Tech University, 2017-2018.

Victoria Surliuga. “Co-Making Federico Fellini: Giulietta Masina’s Achievement.” In: Bernardini, Paola, Joanne Granata, Teresa Lobalsamo, and Alberto Zambenedetti (Eds.) Federico Fellini: Riprese letterarie Literary Takes. Franco Cesati Editore, 2016, pp. 129-142.

Victoria Surliuga. “Ibridismi multimediali e contaminazioni testuali nell'arte di Ezio Gribaudo.” Attraversamenti. Orsitto, Fulvio and Simona Wright (Eds). Franco Cesati Editore, 2016, pp. 179-199.

Victoria Surliuga. “Ezio Gribaudo: Dall’industria tipografica ai monocromatismi bianchi.” Ekecheiria organo d’informazione dell’Associazione Culturale Librerie Storiche e Antiquarie d’Italia, vol. IX, n. 12, 2016, p. 7.

Victoria Surliuga. annuncio radio 11-09-2001. Osnago: Edizioni PulcinoElefante, 2015.

Victoria Surliuga. “Dire e non dire: il controllo della parola in Sessioni con l’analista (1967).” In: La Poesia di Alfredo De Palchi. Gradiva, 2011, pp. 262-268.

Victoria Surliuga. “The Fantastic Roman Catholic Church in Italian Cinema.” In: Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual, and Imagery. Edited by Regina Hansen. MacFarland and Company Publishing, 2011, pp. 219-231.

Victoria Surliuga (Edition and Introduction). Natural Theater: Selected Poems (1976-2009). New York: Chelsea Editions, 2010.

Victoria Surliuga. “Simulation and Ekphrasis: Zanzotto’s Poetry in Fellini’s Casanova.” Literature and Film Quarterly, vol. 37, n. 3, 2009, pp. 224-233.

Victoria Surliuga. Donne. Osnago: Edizioni PulcinoElefante, 2009.

Victoria Surliuga. Nell’epoca del gremito: Conversazioni con Giancarlo Majorino. Milan: Edizioni Archivi del ‘900, 2008.

Victoria Surliuga (Edition and Introduction). Prose di Giampiero Neri. Como: Lietocollelibri, 2008.

Victoria Surliuga (Biography and Bibliography). Giampiero Neri. Poesie 1960–2005. Oscar Mondadori Poesia del Novecento, 2007, pp. XIII–XIX.

Victoria Surliuga. “Il naturale e l’umano. La poesia di Giampiero Neri.” Forum Italicum, vol. 41, n. 1, 2007, pp. 59–78.

Victoria Surliuga (Edition and Introduction). Atti della giornata di studio su Giampiero Neri. 7 Aprile 2006. Como: Lietocollelibri, 2007.

Victoria Surliuga (Edition and Introduction). “Uno sguardo sulla realtà. Cinque inediti di Giampiero Neri con un’intervista.” Italian Poetry Review, n. I, 2006, pp. 31–47.

Victoria Surliuga. “La prosa dei poeti.” Nuova prosa, n. 44, 2006, pp. 223–239.

Victoria Surliuga. Uno sguardo sulla realtà: L’opera poetica di Giampiero Neri. Novi Ligure: Edizioni Joker, 2005.

Victoria Surliuga. “Spiritualità e sacro nella poesia di Franco Loi.” Humanitas, vol. 60, n. 3, 2005, pp. 553–569.

Victoria Surliuga (Translation and Introduction.) “Houses. A Selection of Six Poems by Giampiero Neri.” Metamorphoses: The Journal of the Five-College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation, vol. 13, n. 1, 2005, pp. 42–49.

Victoria Surliuga (Edition and Introduction). La serie dei fatti. Quindici prose di Giampiero Neri. Como: Lietocollelibri, 2004.

Victoria Surliuga. Abbandono. Osnago: Edizioni PulcinoElefante, 2003.

Victoria Surliuga. “La Galeria di G. B. Marino tra pittura e poesia.” Quaderni d’Italianistica, n. 1, 2002, pp. 65–84.

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