Massimo Bacigalupo

Who is Massimo Bacigalupo?

Massimo Bacigalupo is an experimental filmmaker, scholar, and translator of poetry, an essayist and literary critic. He was a founding member of the Cooperative of Independent Filmmakers in Rome. As a filmmaker of the Italian Independent Cinema, he was influenced by the New American Cinema.

Bacigalupo is also a scholar, specializing in Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, and other American and English writers, whom he has edited and translated. Since 1990, he has been a Professor of American Literature at the University of Genoa.