Fulvia Sarnelli

Fulvia Sarnelli è professoressa associata di letteratura angloamericana presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. Dopo aver vinto una borsa di studio per attività di perfezionamento all’estero presso la Tianjin Foreign Studies University, RPC (2011), ed essere stata Teaching Fellow presso il Bowdoin College (Maine, 2013-14), ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in Letterature Comparate (Stati Uniti-Cina) presso “L’Orientale” (2016). È poi tornata ad insegnare al Bowdoin College dal 2017 al 2019. In Italia, ha insegnato a contratto in diversi atenei (Sapienza, Pisa, Federico II) ed è stata ricercatrice in Lingua e Letteratura anglo-americana presso l’Università di Messina (2021-2024). Nel 2021 è stata due volte Research Fellow (Spring e Fall) presso the International Forum for U.S. Studies: a Center for the Transnational Study of the United States (IFUSS) alla University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Fa parte della rete di ricerca “Passaggio a Nord-Ovest” e del comitato scientifico della collana omonima, dell’EAAS Women’s Network, ed è socia delle seguenti associazioni: AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani), EAAS (European Association of American Studies), IASA (International American Studies Association), Henry James Society. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca riguardano la letteratura e la cultura delle comunità etniche e razzializzate degli Stati Uniti, particolarmente Asian American e Pacific Islander and Indigenous Studies, teorie della governamentalità e della cittadinanza, femminismi e giustizia riproduttiva, teorie dell’immaginazione, la cultura pop americana.

Fulvia Sarnelli is Associate Professor of US Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. After being awarded a scholarship for advanced studies abroad at Tianjin Foreign Studies University, PRC (2011), and serving as a Teaching Fellow at Bowdoin College (Maine, 2013–14), she earned a PhD in Comparative Literatures (U.S.–China) from “L’Orientale” in 2016. She later returned to teach at Bowdoin College from 2017 to 2019. In Italy, she held adjunct teaching positions at various universities (Sapienza, Pisa, Federico II) and was a researcher in American Studies at the University of Messina (2021–2024). In 2021, she was twice a Research Fellow (Spring and Fall) at the International Forum for U.S. Studies: A Center for the Transnational Study of the United States (IFUSS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the research network “Passaggio a Nord-Ovest” and of its editorial team, has participated in the EAAS Women’s Network, and has joined the following associations: AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani), EAAS (European Association of American Studies), IASA (International American Studies Association), and Henry James Society. Her main research interests concern the literature and culture of ethnic and racialized communities in the United States, particularly Asian American and Pacific Islander and Indigenous Studies, theories of governmentality and citizenship, feminisms and reproductive justice, theories of the imagination, and US pop culture.