Floriana PUGLISI
Keywords
American poetry, specifically women's and innovative poetry - focusing on the relationship with the visual arts, forms of interartistic collaboration, performance and poetry readings, the hybridization of codes and genres, intertextuality and intermediality, the influence of new technologies on the writing process, and expressions of spirituality/religiousness from a gender perspective.
Floriana Puglisi holds a PhD in English and Anglo-American Studies from the University of Catania, where she serves as an Associate Professor of American Literature.
Her research interests focus primarily on poetry—ranging from Modernism to women’s poetry and contemporary experimentation—with a particular emphasis on its relationship with the visual arts, interartistic collaborations, performance and poetry readings, the hybridization of codes and genres, intertextuality, intermediality, and expressions of spirituality/religiousness through a gender lens. Her publications include monographs on Anne Sexton and Rosmarie Waldrop, as well as numerous essays on Anne Bradstreet, William Carlos Williams, Rosmarie Waldrop, Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, and Harryette Mullen.
She regularly presents her research at national and international conferences and actively participates in local and national research projects. She served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for the research project "Performing/Transforming: Encroachments and Hybridizations of Genres, Codes, and Functions between the Analog Universe and the Digital Multiverse," funded by the University of Catania (2019–2021). Additionally, she was a research member for the PRIN 2022 project "Between Text and Performance: Race and Gender in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (1970s–today)," conducted in collaboration with Roma Tre University (2023–2026).
She is a member of AISNA (Italian Association for North American Studies), EAAS (European Association for American Studies), IASA (International American Studies Association), and the GENUS Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies within the Department of Humanities. Having served on the AISNA Board of Directors from October 2022 to September 2025, she was re-elected for a second three-year term (October 2025–September 2028).
American poetry - Modernist poetics, women's poetry, contemporary experimentation (specifically "Language Poetry/Writing") – focusing on the relationship with the visual arts, forms of interartistic collaboration, performance and poetry readings, the hybridization of codes and genres, intertextuality and intermediality, digital technology and writing, and expressions of spirituality/religiousness from a gender perspective.