Elena Lamberti teaches American & Canadian Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is the author of Marshall McLuhan.Tra letteratura, arti e media, editor of Interpreting/Translating European Modernism and has recently completed a new book on Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic (2011). Her areas of study also include: cultural memory, media studies and interfacing sciences/humanities. She was among the promoters of the European Thematic Networks ACUME and ACUME2 and of the EU/Canada Cooperation Program CEMMENTI.