CLETO Fabio

Professor FABIO CLETO teaches English Literature and Cultural History at the University of Bergamo (Italy), and he is the station manager of its web radio (www.unibgonair.it). An international authority on the theory and practice of camp, on which he published three books (PopCamp, 2 volls., Milan: Marcos y Marcos, 2008; Per una definizione del discorso camp, Genoa: ECIG, 2006; ed., Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), his research interests include queer issues, gender and sexuality, critical theory and the politics of representation, literary history and fin de siècle to postmodernist fiction. He published books on nineteenth-century literary dissidence (Percorsi del dissenso nel secondo Ottocento britannico, Genoa: ECIG, 2001), on American queer pulp fiction (ed., Victor J. Banis, writing as Don Holliday, That Man from C.A.M.P.: Rebel Without a Pause, New York: Haworth Press, 2004, 2nd edition, The Man from C.A.M.P.: Three Classics from the Golden Age of Paperbacks, Albion: MLR Press, 2008; ed., Spine Intact, Some Creases: Remembrances of a Paperback Writer, Genoa: ECIG, 2004, 2nd edition, Rockville, MD: Borgo Press, 2008), on the obscenity of the Noughties (Fuori scena. Gli anni Zero e l’economia culturale dell’osceno, Genoa: ECIG, 2014), on serial time (Tempo di serie. La temporalità nella narrazione seriale, Milan: Unicopli, 2018) and on movement (Movimento I. Generazioni, storie, trasformazioni, Elephant & Castle, 30:2, 2023).
He has written for cinema, radio, television, newspapers and the web. His work inspire the "Camp: Notes on Fashion" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, along with the 2019 MET Gala.