Chiara Patrizi

Chiara Patrizi (she/her/hers) is MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University Bologna and at Duke University (Durham, NC), with the research project "WOT - Wilderness of Time: Timescapes of Contemporary US Literature."
She holds a Ph.D. in Anglo-American Literatures from Roma Tre University (Rome) with a dissertation on the relation between the self and time in the works of Kurt Vonnegut and Don DeLillo. Her research interests include Postmodernism, Trauma Studies, studies on temporality in contemporary US literature, African-American Literature and Culture, Black and New African Diaspora Studies. Her essays—on Jesmyn Ward, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Don DeLillo, Langston Hughes, among the others—appeared on various Italian and international journals.
She is in the Editorial Board of JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy) and Oltreoceano. Go to the Curriculum vitae