Alessia Polatti obtained her B.A. (2011) and her M.A. (2013) in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Bologna, and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Verona (2018). Her PhD dissertation deals with the experiences of migration and diaspora of Black British authors, with a focus on the phenomena of ‘return’ and ‘reverse’ migration. As a speaker, she participated in several conferences, such as the Second Callaloo Early Career Researchers Conference (TORCH-University of Oxford, 2016), AIA Conferences (2017 and 2019), AIA Seminar 2018, and the international conference “The Shadow Lines. Thirty Years After” (Università di Milano-Università di Torino, 2018). She organised the international conference Bestiarium. Human and Animal Representations (Università di Verona, 2016) and the AIA Pre-Conference Symposium (Università di Padova, 2019). Among her recent publications are “A Struggle Between Literary and Self-Cannibalisation. The Brontës’ Reversal in V.S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas”, (Il Tolomeo vol. 18, 2016) and “Traces of Transnationalism and Multiculturalism in a Literary Context. Migrants’ Identity Construction in Contemporary Fiction”, (The ESSE Messenger, Summer 2018). She is co-editor of the volume Bestiarium. Human and Animal Representations, (Mimesis International, 2018). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Padova. Her main research interests are Black British Fiction, migrant literature (South Asian and Caribbean areas), 19th century colonial literature, the postcolonial rewriting of the English canon, and the evolution of Englishness/Britishness in contemporary fiction.
