Dr. Claudia Dellacasa

Biography

Claudia Dellacasa is a Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. She completed her PhD at Durham University, focusing on the works of Italian author Italo Calvino in relation to Japanese culture during the late 1970s. Her thesis was awarded the British-Italian Society Postgraduate Prize in 2021. Previously, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College Dublin, where she worked on a project titled 'Intersectional Eco-Polyphony: Cross-Cultural Cross-Species Dialogues in Contemporary Women's Writing'. Claudia has been involved in teaching and research at the University of Tübingen and Augsburg University in Germany, focusing on ecocriticism and post-humanism. Her current research interests encompass modern and contemporary Italian literature, comparative literature, and environmental humanities. Additionally, she is the co-founder of 'Notes on Italian Studies', an open-access journal dedicated to the field. Claudia has received various grants and is recognized for her contributions through awards, including the Emerging Researcher Award from the University College Dublin Earth Institute. Her forthcoming monograph, 'Italo Calvino Japan: Journey Shallow Depths Signs', explores Calvino's engagement with Japanese literature and Zen Buddhism, aiming to contribute to the discourse on East-West dialogues and ecological interdependence.

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