Lucas Ramos is the 2025 Jesse Howard Jr. Rome Prize Fellow in modern Italian studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University.

A writer based in San Francisco, Selby Wynn Schwartz is the 2025 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow (a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust) in literature.

The shoptalks will be held in English. 

This event, to be presented in person at the Academy, is closed to the public.