Alessia Polatti

Alessia Polatti held her 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. She is co-editor of the volume Bestiarium. Human and Animal Representations, (Milano: Mimesis International, 2018). As a speaker, she participated in the Second Callaloo Early Career Researchers Conference at the University of Oxford (2016), in AIA conferences and AIA Seminar 2018. She is currently a teaching fellow at the University of Padova and of Bologna. Her main research interests are Black British Fiction, migrant literature, the concept of Britishness in contemporary fiction, 19th century colonial literature, and the postcolonial rewriting of the English canon. Go to the Curriculum vitae