She holds the Inaugural ACIS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Italian Studies at University of Melbourne. After completing her PhD at La Trobe University, in Melbourne, Australia, she extensively published in Australia and overseas, including her monograph Inchiostro d’Africa on Postcolonial Somali Literature in Italian.
Her area of expertise extends from Gender and Cultural Studies to Performing Arts and Theatre Studies. She also conducted research on Italian Crime Fiction and Contemporary Literature. Her previous research project There Ain’t no Black in the Tricolore investigated the connections between postcolonial studies, global mobility and the ongoing social changes in contemporary Italy. Her current project Transcultural trajectories in Italian Theatre: new ways of inclusion through the performing arts explores how the re-writing and mise en scène of plays by Italian theatre companies and young migrants facilitates inclusion and challenges the discourse around nation and sovereignty.
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Ciyaal missioni e la stolen generation somala: la violenza nell’incontro coloniale e relig..
Journal article
Border Crossing in Italy
Book Chapter
Rome: the former caput mundi between postcolonialism and cosmopolitanism
Journal article
Il giallo in colonia: Italian post-imperial crime novels
Journal article
Naago, Dumar, Haween: figure femminili nella letteratura postcoloniale somala in italiano
Book Chapter
Inchiostro d'Africa la letteratura postcoloniale somala fra diaspora e identità
Book
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Positions
Melbourne Acis Postdoctoral Fellow
Languages And Linguistics
Senior Tutor In Italian Studies
Languages And Linguistics
Education
Education
Doctorate of philosophy
La Trobe University
Laurea in Lettere Moderne
Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore