Daphne Orlandi
Name: Daphne Orlandi
Title: Ph.D Candidate
Affiliation: Sapienza – Università di Roma & Technische Universität Dortmund
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Daphne Orlandi is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the American Literature program at Sapienza – University of Rome and at Technische Universität Dortmund. As a DAAD scholarship holder, Daphne is currently working – between Rome and Dortmund – on her PhD project centered around R. W. Emerson’s models of European and World Literature, his transatlantic literary and cultural relations. In 2019, she was awarded AISNA’s (American Studies Association of Italy) Gullì Prize for the most innovative MA thesis, and in 2022 she was the recipient of the Emerson Society Graduate Student Paper Award. Since 2021, she has served as managing editor for JAmIt! (Journal of American Studies in Italy). Her main fields of interest include 19th century American literature and comparative literature. Besides Emerson, she is especially interested in Transcendentalism as a social force, in the works of Margaret Fuller and in Walt Whitman’s poetry.
Areas of Interest: Transcendentalism; Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Transatlantic Studies.