Introduction

is Full professor of English and Postcolonial literature at the University of Turin: Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures. She is the recipient of Canada-Italy Innovation Award 2021. She is former president of AISCLI (www.aiscli.it) and she is member of the Anda Board. Among her publications are Imagining Ageing. Representation of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literature (Transcript 2018) and New Critical Patterns in Postcolonial Discourse. Historical Traumas and Environmental Issues (2012). She has co-edited Trees in Literatures and the Arts. Humanarboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene (2021) and Antroposcenari. Storie, paesaggi, ecologie (2018). Her research fields are the literature of Canada, India, Australia, South Africa and the Caribbean, also seen through the lens of Environmental humanities, human and environmental rights, migration and multi-media studies.

is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Basilicata, Department of Humanities. His main areas of research are film philosophy and film ecocriticism. His recent publications include the two volumes Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology (2022, coedited with M. Gieri) and Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media (2022, coedited with R. Pollicino), and the two essays “Narratives of Mediterranean migrants in Italian cinema: The camera angle and close-up in Terraferma and Fuocoammare” (2024) and “Cinema documentario dell’eco-trauma. Le fabbriche dei veleni e i colori della morte al lavoro” (2023). Since 2016, he is member of the Turin Interdisciplinary Group of Environmental Humanities (Tigehr) and the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS).