Derek Duncan is Professor of Italian at the University of St Andrews. He has published extensively on modern Italian culture, particularly on intersections of gender/sexuality and of race/ethnicity in a transnational framework. Most recently he published ‘Trans-regional optics and queer affiliations in the work of Jonas Carpignano’, in Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema, ed. by James S. Williams (Routledge, 2021).