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Anna Chiafele

Anna Chiafele

Associate Professor

Italian

World Languages, Literatures & Cultures

Anna Chiafele

Contact Me

334-844-6359

azc0039@auburn.edu

6018 Haley Center

Office Hours

By Appointment

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Education

PhD, University of Toronto

MA, University of Virginia

BA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy

Research Interests

Ecocriticism, environmental humanities, ecological disasters, climate change fiction

Publications

Book

  • Sfumature di giallo nell'opera di Luigi Malerba. Soveria Mannelli (CZ): Rubbettino Editore, 2016.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Carlotto's Perdas de Fogu. Toxicity and National Security in the Mediterranean Basin." In Waste and Discard in Italy and the Mediterranean: Theories, Practices, Literature and Film. Edited by Damiano Benvegnù, Marta Cariello, Matteo Gilebbi and Graziella Parati, Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 141-168.
  • “Francesco Aloe’s Climate Fiction: Ruins, Bodies and Memories from the Future in L’ultima bambina d’Europa.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Culture, Literature and Environment, vol. 13 no. 2, 2022, pp. 154-173.
  • “Climate Change: Eco-Dystopia in Antonio Scurati’s La seconda mezzanotte.” Quaderni d'Italianistica 42.1 (2021): 5-30.
  • “Spazzatura: consumo, cura e negligenza in Stramonio di Ugo Riccarelli.” Rivista di Studi Italiani 38.2 (2020): 244-264.
  • Corpi di scarto: la vita in discarica narrata da Elisabetta Bucciarelli.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Culture, Literature and Environment 8.2 (Winter 2017): 151-174.
  • “Tecno-spazzatura: verso la Liberia con Francesco Abate e Massimo Carlotto.” Italica 94.4 (Winter 2017): 760-784.
  • "Il viaggiatore sedentario (1993) e Città e dintorni (2001): sensibilità postmoderna e etica ambientale in due testi odeporici di Luigi Malerba." Quaderni d’italianistica 36.2 (2015): 155–172.
  • “Antonio Scurati e Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo: uno scrittore ai confini tra realtà, finzione e autofinzione.” Quaderni d’Italianistica 35.2 (2014): 215-240.
  • "Fantasmi romani e Decostruzione Urbanistica: due romanzi o uno solo?" Italica 86.4 (2009): 688-705.
  • "Le pietre volanti (1992), La superficie di Eliane (1999), Il circolo di Granada (2002): il romanzo giallo e la sua parodia nell’opera di Luigi Malerba." L’immaginazione 248 (luglio-agosto 2009): 4-6.

Translations

  • Penelope. A co-translation with Lisa Pike of Penelope, a novel by Silvana La Spina. Bordighera Press, 2021. Winner of the 2022 ALTA Italian Prose in Translation Award
  • “Pneumonia.” A co-translation with Lisa Pike of “La polmonite”, a short story by Luigi Malerba. Delos. A Journal of Translation and World Literature 36.2 (Fall 2021): 208-213.
  • “Encyclopedia.” A co-translation with Lisa Pike of “Enciclopedia”, a short story by Luigi Malerba. Delos. A Journal of Translation and World Literature 35.2 (Fall 2020): 208-213.
  • “The Tail.” A co-translation with Lisa Pike of “La coda,” a short story by Luigi Malerba. Columbia Journal, Columbia University. May 2019. Go to translation.

Book reviews

  • Pireddu, Nicoletta. The Works of Claudio Magris. Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 in Annali d’italianistica, 34 (2016): 688-690.
  • Parker, Deborah and Parker, Mark. Inferno Revealed. From Dante to Dan Brown. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 in Quaderni d’Italianistica, 36.1 (Spring 2015): 238-240.
  • Antonello, Pierpaolo. Contro il materialismo. Le «due culture» in Italia: bilancio di un secolo. Torino: Nino Aragno Editore, 2013 in Annali d’Italianistica, 32 (2014): 653-655.
  • Colleoni, Federica e Francesca Parmeggiani, editors. Forme, volti e linguaggi della violenza nella cultura italiana. Lonato del Garda (Brescia): EDIBOM, 2012 in Quaderni d’Italianistica, 34:2 (Spring 2014): 204-206.
  • Glynn, Ruth and Gianfranco Lombardi, editors. Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder. London: Legenda, 2012 in Annali d’Italianistica, 31 (2013): 704-706.