Elena Lamberti

Elena Lamberti (Associate Professor, North American Literatures, qualified for Full Professorship) is a specialist of Modernist Literature, Cultural Memory, Literature and Media Ecology, War Literature, Literature and Cognitive Sciences. She is the author of eight volumes and of a number of essays and book-chapters on Anglo-American Modernism and American/Canadian literature and culture. She pursues an interdisciplinary methodology of research where literature stands at the core of innovative investigations of complex ecosystems. Her volume Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic. Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies (2012) received the MEA Award 2016 - Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology. She serves in a variety of editorial boards including Explorations in Media Ecology (EME); Wi: Journal of Mobile Media; The International Journal of McLuhan Studies; as well as book series. She has been invited as visiting scholar and course director in various North American and Chinese Universities. She is affiliated to the Mobile Media Lab, Concordia University di Montreal and to the Media Ethics Lab, University of Toronto.