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Erica Bellia is a Gulbenkian Early-Career Research Fellow in Italian at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. With a Bachelor's degree in Italian Literature from the University of Catania and a Master's in Italian Philology and Literature, she completed her PhD at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, focusing on Italian industrial writing and anticolonial discourse in the 1950s and 1960s. Erica has received the MHRA postdoctoral research scholarship for her work on a monograph titled 'Colonial Allegory: Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy, 1955–1965'. In addition to her research, she has contributed to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at her faculty, covering a diverse range of topics in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture. Erica's ongoing research includes anthologies of African, African-American, and Afro-Diasporic literatures published in Italy from 1945 to the present. She is also an active participant in various academic seminars and workshops, including the Narratives of Unpaid Labour seminar series.
Churchill College, University of Cambridge • Cambridge, England
Currently conducting research and providing undergraduate as well as postgraduate instruction.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.