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Stefano Morello is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center. His academic interests include American Studies, pop culture, poetics, and archive theory. His dissertation explores the heterotopic space of the East-Bay punk scene, its modes of resistance and (dis-)association, and the clashes between its politics and aesthetics. He serves as co-chair of the Graduate Forum of the Italian Association for American Studies (AISNA) and is a founding editor of its journal, JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy). As a digital humanist, Stefano focuses on archival practices, with a knack for archival pedagogy and public facing initiatives. He is currently creating an open access archive of East Bay zines and co-curating an exhibition based on his yet unpublished M.A. dissertation on the Lung Block, a neighborhood on the Lower East Side subject to a process of slum-making during the Progressive Era.