Chiara Patrizi
Name: Chiara Patrizi
Title(s): Ph.D.
e-mail: chiara.patrizi6@unibo.it
Institutional Affiliations: Adjunct Professor at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Bionote: Chiara Patrizi teaches Anglo-American Literature at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures – LILEC at the University of Bologna. She holds a PhD in American Literature from Roma Tre University, with a dissertation on the relation between the self and time in the works of Kurt Vonnegut and Don DeLillo, and an MA from Ca’ Foscari University Venice (her MA dissertation was awarded with a special mention at the Lombardo-Gullì Award 2015). In 2017, she was Visiting Scholar at Duke University (Durham, NC-USA).
Her research interest include: Contemporary US Literature, Postmodernism, African-
American Literature and Culture, Trauma Studies, studies on temporality, Pop Culture,
Literature and the Arts.
She has published essays on various Italian and international journals on Jesmyn Ward, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Don DeLillo, Langston Hughes—among others—on the evolution of the concept of blackness, and on the relationship between trauma and
temporality.
Since 2021, she serves as co-chair of the AISNA Graduate Forum of the Italian Association of North-American Studies (AISNA).
She collaborates with the publisher D Editore (Roma) as a literary translator.
Research Interest: Contemporary US Literature, African American Literature, Trauma Studies, Popular Culture, Literature and the Arts in America (music and photography).