Raffaella MALANDRINO
Keywords
Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Transnational Literature, American Studies, South/Asian American Literary Cultures
Associate Professor of Anglo-American Literatures
(s.s.d. L-LIN 11) at DISUM; Department of Humanities , University of Catania - SDU Ragusa, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Courses: Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States; Transnational English; English Culture and Literature I Bachelor's Degree course in Language and Cultural Mediation (L-12).
Her research fields comprise both North American and South Asian literary cultures, gender studies, and transnational literatures, with a critical and theoretical focus on diasporas, migrations, and border theories. She is author of two monographs, Engendering Transatlantic Literary Configurations. South Asian Women’ s Texts in the Nation and in Diaspora (Le Balene, 2017), about multicultural anthologies in the United States and India, and Orizzonti di transito. L’opera di Jhumpa Lahiri tra l’Italia e gli Stati Uniti (Ombre Corte, 2022), about the translinguistic creative phase of the author Jhumpa Lahiri; she has written essays on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ben Lerner, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri, E. A. Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Amitav Ghosh and Allen Ginsberg. She has edited the introduction and the Italian translation of a 1913 pamphlet on Woman Suffrage in the USA, and she is currently working on Indian spiritualities in the USA, and on the literary and cultural representation of gurus and spiritual leaders from India in the Anglo-American spaces.
2024-2027. Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania/SDS Ragusa. PIAno di inCEntivi per la RIcerca di Ateneo, “Disobbedienti, ribelli e sovversive nelle letterature tra Oriente e Occidente dalla fine dell’Ottocento a oggi – DIRIS – (Unruly, Rebel and Subversive Women in Literary Cultures between the East and the West: from the End of the XIX Century to the Present.” Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Maria Rizzarelli.
2019-2021. Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania/SDS Ragusa, “Prometeo III - Transnational Intellectual Networks between the Franco-Prussian War and the end of II World War”. Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Stefano Rapisarda.
2020-2022. Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania/SDS Ragusa. PIAno di inCEntivi per la RIcerca di Ateneo, “Alter/Idem. Identities, diversities, authorships in contemporary Anglo-American writings”. Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Salvatore Marano.
2019-2020. Individual research project, Department of Humanities, University of Catania /SDS Ragusa Prometeo I, “Borderscapes: Cross-border Literary Configurations in South Asian American Fiction”.
2014-2020. Research Project FIR - University of Catania. “Guerre, conflitti e crisi all’origine di contaminazioni tra culture e lingue: formazione di nuovi ‘confini’ e nuove espressioni culturali e linguistiche (Wars, Conflicts, Crises as main sources of Contaminations among Cultures and Languages: Formation of new Boundaries and new Cultural and Linguistic Expressions).” Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Gigliola Nocera.
2006-2017. Collaborative Research Projects, Department of Comparative and Linguistic Studies, University of Naples “L’Orientale.” Scientific Coordinator: Prof. D. Izzo.
- 2017. “Graphic Novel: Contesti Nazionali e Circolazione Globale”.
-2014-16. “Americanistica come Comparatistica: Traiettorie Storiche e Metodologiche”.
- 2011-13. “Per una Storiografia Comparata della Letteratura Angloamericana”.
- 2008-10. “KEYWORDS for Comparative American Studies”.
- 2006-8. “Modelli per una Prospettiva transnazionale negli studi letterari: gli Studi Americani tra comparatistica e globalizzazione”.
2006. Research Project PRIN (University of Naples “l'Orientale”, University of Bergamo, University of Pescara, University of Rome “La Sapienza”). Member of the Local Unit at the University of Naples “l’Orientale.” National Scientific Coordinator: Prof. D. Izzo. (Positive evaluation, project not financed).
Research groups/centres:
2022-pres. Member. Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies - “GENUS”, University of Catania, DISUM Department of Humanities
2023-pres. Member. “Passaggio a Nord-Ovest. Testi e Studi di Americanistica/ North-West Passage. Texts and American Studies” Inter-academic research network involving several universities: University of Bari, Cagliari, Calabria, Catania, L’Aquila, Messina, “L’Orientale” of Naples, Verona.