Valentina Romanzi
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures · University of Torino
Biography
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.
Education
PhD in Transcultural Studies in the Humanities, University of Bergamo, 2021 MA in European and Extra-European Comparative Literatures and Languages, University of Verona, 2017 BA in Foreign Languages and Cultures for International Commerce, University of Verona, 2014
Recent Scopus Publications
- Atlantic reckonings: (Capitalist) man vs. the sea in twenty-first-century disaster narratives
- Reflections and refractions: Anglophone fiction and the Atlantic poetics of water
- Play Me for a Fool: Horror-Inducing Madness from Edgar Allan Poe to The Dark Eye (1995)
- Editors’ Note: American Narratives and Video Games
- THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: ANIMAL VALUE(S) WITHIN AND BEYOND NECROPOLITICS IN THE ONLY HARMLESS GREAT THING
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7995-3917
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U0TJzzUAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=58127261200