Sofia Cavalcanti

Research fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Macerata.

Adjunct professor of English Literature and Culture at the Department of Interpreting and Translation (Forlì campus).

Ph.D. candidate in Intercultural Studies at the University of Bologna (2020).

Her research area is contemporary Anglophone literature, both in postcolonial and diasporic contexts. She focused her research on Indian women's literature of XX and XXI centuries by investigating the relationship between material culture and literature. Currently, she studies gendered representations in migration and refugee literature through the lenses of ecofeminism and material ecocriticism.