Robert Buranello was born in Toronto, Ontario, and received his PhD in Italian from the University of Toronto. He has published a number of books and articles in Italian Studies in North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. He is a recipient of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Independent Research on Venice and the Veneto and was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rhodes University in South Africa in 2007. His areas of expertise are Early Modern Italian literature and Italian Immigration Studies. His translation of Giuseppe Conte’s I personaggi dei romanzi futuri is his first for Guernica Editions. He is currently Musco Professor of Italian Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California.