Maria Ilaria Tonelli
Name: Maria Ilaria Tonelli
Title(s): Ph.D. Student
E-mail: mariailaria.tonelli@unito.it
Affiliation: University of Turin
Bionote: Maria Ilaria Tonelli is a Ph.D. student in Digital Humanities and a Teaching Assistant in North American Literature at the University of Turin, Italy. She holds an MA in English and American Studies from the University of Turin, where she graduated in 2022. Under the supervision of Andrea Carosso and Stefano Morello, her MA thesis took the form of a documentary that sheds light on the little-known Italian community residing in the early 1900s in the Lung Block—an area situated in Lower Manhattan between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. During an Erasmus+ exchange program at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin in 2021, she also studied for a semester at the John F. Kennedy Institute. She is interested in North American literature, specifically in Postmodern fiction and in cultural products that imagine a different historical and geographical trajectory of the spread of fascist totalitarian regimes.
Areas of interest: US Literature; Postmodernism; Dystopias