I am an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University.
I completed my PhD project, Narrating Migration in the 21st Century: A Posthumanist Approach to Anglophone Novels, in November 2024. My thesis is the first extensive study of contemporary novels of migration to adopt a posthumanist approach. A summary of my approach can be read on the criticalposthumanism.net website where I contributed with the entry on “migration” for Genealogy of the Posthuman project. I have also published my research on literature of migration and posthumanism in Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap, On_Culture, and in the Palgrave Volume Mobility, Agency, Kinship.
The PhD was part of the Horizon 2020 project “Crises as OPPORTUNITIES: Towards a Level Telling Field on Migration and a New Narrative of Successful Integration”. In that context, I co-authored with my PhD supervisor prof. Marco Caracciolo the article "Narrative, Scale, and Two Refugee Crises in Comparison in the Italian Media" on Diegesis.
I wrote on Unreliability and Alzheimer's novels, narrative identity and migration, new formalism and novels of migration. Forthcoming is my book chapter on "Migration and the Contemporary Novel" for the DeGruyter/Brill volume Changing the Narrative: European and African Perspectives on Migration.
My research specialises in contemporary literature and media, narrative theory, and critical posthumanism. In particular, I am interested in how formal textual experimentations mirror or subvert the socio-political concerns of our present times.
At Justus Liebig University Giessen, I am part of the DFG-funded project MeDiMi - Human Rights Discourses in Migration Societies.
At Ghent University, where I retain my affiliation, I am an active member of the Post-MESH lab, a research group for scholars interested in posthumanism, narratology, videogames, and ecocriticism.
