Elisa BORDIN

Elisa Bordin is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in Anglophone Studies from the University of Verona (2012) and has spent research periods at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the University of La Habana, Cuba. As a post-doc fellow, she continued her research at the University of Verona and, from 2016 to 2019, at the University of Padua, with a project on "transit" literature (or literature in transit) and human rights. From 2012 to 2017 she was Adjunct Professor of American Literature at the University of Trieste and the University of Padua.

Her research deals with the western, a genre she analyses in her monograph Masculinity & Westerns: Regenerations at the Turn of the Millennium (2014); the literatures of migration, with a special focus on Italian-American literature; critical race studies, and especially the memory of slavery. On this topic, she edited Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Remembering the Past, Changing the Future (2015, with Anna Scacchi) and A fior di pelle. Bianchezza, nerezza, visualità (2017, with Stefano Bosco). In 2019 she published Un'etnicità complessa. Negoziazioni identitarie nelle opere di John Fante; and in 2022 a volume on the "global Igbo" writer Chris Abani (Manchester University Press; with Annalisa Oboe). She directs the PRIN-founded research "Literary California 1884-2022: Spaces of Exception, Spaces of Disaster". 

She is a member of the editorial board of Acoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani, Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies, and From the European South. She is also a member of the following associations: AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani), EAAS (European Association of American Studies), IASA (International American Studies Association).