Timothy C. Campbell

Professor of Italian Studies

Overview

Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. His translations include Roberto Esposito’s Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Minnesota, 2008) and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Stanford, 2010), and he is the co-translator (with Lia Turtas) of Carlo Diano's Form and Event (Fordham, 2018).  He is also the author of Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life (Fordham, 2017) and more recently The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession (Minnesota, 2023), co-authored with Grant Farred.

He is also PI of the 2023 New Frontier Grant project, The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid.

Research Focus

  • Contemporary Italian Thought
  • Global Health and its Institutions 
  • The Biopolitics of Covid

Publications

Books

  • Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life, Fordham University Press, 2017.
  • Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben, University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
  • Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Articles

  • "Infinite Remoteness: Marinetti, Bontempelli, and the Birth of Modern Italian Visual Culture," MLN (January 2005).
  • "Bios: The Thought of Roberto Esposito," Special Issue of Diacritics, forthcoming 2006
  • "Contemporary Italian Thought," Special Issue of Diacritics, co-edited with Alberto Toscano and Lorenzo Chiesa, forthcoming 2006
  • "Negotiations in Italian Culture," Special Issue of Forum Italicum, co-edited with Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, forthcoming 2006
  • "Violent Cities: Virility and B-Movie Fascism in the Cop Films of Umberto Lenzi," Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 19 (2006).
    • An earlier version is available through Cornell University Library's digital initiative DSpace
  • "Re-membering D'Annunzio and Il Duce: Modern Prophecy in Italy," Quaderni d'Italianistica, 2006.
  • "Scenarios of Poiesis: Italian New Media (1994-2004)," Modern Italy, 2006.
  • "Modern Immunities: The Thought of Roberto Esposito," Special Issue of Diacritics, 2006.