Andrea Chiurato is a Research Fellow in the department of Communication, Arts and Media, at IULM University (Milan, Italy). His research interests and publications focus primarily on two areas of scientific inquiry: 20th-century avant-garde art movements, with particular attention to Italian experimentalism, and the issues of intersemiotic translation. His books include: La retroguardia dell’avanguardia (Mimesis, 2011), Là dove finisce la città. Riflessioni sull’opera di J. G Ballard (ArchetipoLibri, 2013), La metropoli ai margini: alterità, diversità ed esclusione tra Otto e Novecento (Mimesis, 2016), and Geografie dell’esodo (Patron, 2020).