Valentina Romanzi

Valentina Romanzi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in American Studies at the University of Torino and an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Verona. She holds a PhD in Transcultural Studies in the Humanities from the University of Bergamo. Her research interests lie in US speculative fiction, the posthuman and more-than-human in literature, and ecocriticism (with a focus on the Blue Humanities). She is also researching the interplay of video games and American culture, queerness and fandom, and has an invested interest in the application of Care Theory to literary studies. Her latest book is American Nightmares: Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction (Peter Lang, 2022). She is an editor at Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies and collaborates with RSAJournal and ContactZone.