Massimo Fusillo is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of L’Aquila (Italy), where he is Coordinator of the PhD Program on Literatures Arts Media: The Transcodification. He is President of the Italian Association of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature; chair of the Research Committee on Literatures Arts Media (CLAM) of the International Association of Comparative Literature (ICLA); and member of the Academia Europaea. Among his recent publications: Empatia negativa (with Stefano Ercolino), Bompiani, 2022; Mapping the Baroque Mediascape and its Legacy in Contemporary Culture, in The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality (with M. Petricola), 2023; The Fetish. Literature, cinema, visuality, Bloomsbury, 2017.