Prof. Marilena Parlati

Professor, Modern Literature in English, Dept of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padova

Vice-Chair AISCLI

Board Member European Association for Studies on Australia

Marilena Parlati is Professor of British and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Padua (Italy). Her main areas of research are British and Australian literatures and cultures of the long nineteenth century, namely thing culture, commodity culture and waste issues; she also works on contemporary fiction related to trauma, disability, environmental and postcolonial cultural issues, suspended and altered embodiment, with a book on these issues forthcoming, and essays on contemporary authors such as Jim Crace, Hanif Kureishi, J.M. Coetzee, Eva Figes, Rosa Cappiello, Christos Tsiolkas. With Joseph Pugliese, she has just edited a special issue of From the European South, dedicated to Aftermaths. Vulnerable Times, Vanishing Places, Toxic Erasures and she is currently working on a book tentatively entitled T/Rubble. Toxic Legacies, Fraught Memoyscapes, dedicated to nuclearity, trauma and slow violence in contemporary diasporic and indigenous cultures.

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