Stanislao Pugliese is Professor of History and the Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at Hofstra University. He is the author or editor of fifteen books including Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile and Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone. With Brenda Elsey he is co-editor of Football and the Boundaries of History: Critical Studies in Soccer; co-editor with William J. Connell of The Routledge History of Italian Americans; and, with Pellegrino D’Acierno, co-editor of Delirious Naples: A Cultural History of the City of the Sun. He is currently working on a new book, Dancing on a Volcano in Naples: Scenes from the Siren City.