Libros, viajes y viajeros: itinerarios de lo extraño en América Latina

PhD in American Studies, is an associate professor of Latin American Language and Literatures at the University of Turin. She has focused in particular on the discourse of the tango-canción, exploring its reverberations in other genres and media; on contemporary Spanish-American microfiction (she selected, introduced, and translated the anthology Bagliori estremi, 2012); on humor in 20th–21st-century Argentine literature (see the monograph Variazioni umoristiche. Julio Cortázar y César Bruto, 2018); and on contemporary fantastic literature. In general, she is interested in forms of representation that subvert languages and reshape imaginaries. On these topics, she has published numerous articles and coordinated several dossiers in academic journals (Artifara, Brumal, Pasavento, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana), as well as giving lectures and seminars in Italian, European, and Latin American universities. Since 2017, she has been a member of the Grupo de Estudio de lo Fantástico coordinated by Prof. David Roas (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), and she has collaborated with various European and Latin American institutions, with which she has organized numerous congress activities and carried out several internationally oriented research projects. Currently, as co-PI of the PRIN-PNRR project “Plotting for Democracy: Literatures of Transition in Latin America,” funded by the EU, she is working on Latin American women writers and on the intersection between gender and monstrous figurations in contemporary narrative, with attention to feminist genealogies and Latin American feminist theories.

is Professor of Spanish Language, Translation, and Linguistics in the Department of Political Science and Communication at the University of Salerno. Her main areas of research have been Latin American liberation theology and paremiology in the Spanish language. She currently focuses mainly on translation, linguistic historiography, and linguistic application in literature. Since 2009, she has been a permanent visiting professor at the Universidad Católica de Colombia, Bogotá. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the international research groups Mediterranean Knowledge. International Centre for Studies and Research, Narratives and Social Changes-International Research Group, and SyngSmart_4.0 (University of Salerno), as well as the international research project “Historia, ética, política y cultura en la Colombia contemporánea” (Universidad Católica de Colombia/Università degli Studi di Salerno). She works on the editorial board of numerous journals and collections (Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge – JMK; Book Series. Mediterranean, Knowledge, Culture and Heritage; Working Papers. ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge; Topoi Aracne Editore). She is Director of the Laboratorio Interdisciplinare di Studi Euro-Latinoamericani (LISEL) and co-director of Cultura Latinoamericana. Revista de Estudios Interculturales (A-level journal for the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research, ANVUR). She is a member of the Doctorate in Politica e Comunicazione - POLICOM, and is also the Rector’s Delegate for Mobility Policies.