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ANGLO-AMERICAN NARRATIVES OF ITALIAN OTHERNESS AND THE POLITICS OF ORIENTALIZING SOUTHERN EUROPE
(AUW, 2016)This essay reflects on Anglo-American literary representations of Italian culture from the perspective of postcolonial theory. Throughout history, many national and cultural entities have defined themselves in relation ... -
Anglophone Popular Narratives of Italian Otherness and the Politics of Orientalizing Southern Europe
(AUW, 2016)This paper sets itself the goal to analyze the ways in which the discourses that have been employed in rationalizing the political and cultural divide between the 1orth and the South of (urope find an outlet in the context ... -
The application of guided peer feedback in facilitating L2 writing: Action research with tertiary-level language learners in Bangladesh
(The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021)This study is based on action research conducted with 117 students attending their introductory English language courses at two universities in Bangladesh. Peer feedback (PF), an essential part of collaborative learning, ... -
BOOKS
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Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey)
(AUW, 2022-06)The seminar ‘Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey)’ was held at the Department of English of University of Basel in the Winter term ... -
CRITICAL INSIGHTS Life of Pi
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Curriculam Vitea
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Curriculam Vitea
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Curriculum Vitae
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Discursive Intertextuality, Parody, and Mise en Abyme in A.S. Byatt’s Short Stories
(AUW, 2022)This essay analyses three short stories from A.S. Byatt's collection Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998) in light of several self-reflexive strategies. The short narratives Crocodile Tears and Baglady will be ... -
The Essences of Objects: Explicating a Theory of Essence in Object-Oriented Ontology
(De Gruyter, 2019)In this paper, I will discuss the need for a theory of essences within Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and then formulate one. I will do so by drawing on Graham Harman’s work on OOO and Martin Heidegger’s thought on the ... -
The Genetic Essence of Houses and People: History as Idealization and Appropriation of an Imagined Timelessness
(AUW, 2016)Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) tells the story of Eleonora, a young woman who travels to Venice in search of her genealogical past and existential roots. Coming from London, Eleonora incarnates a ... -
“He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love
(AUW, 2020)This paper investigates two popular historical novels, Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) and Anne Fortier’s Juliet (2010), in order to shed light on a discourse of pure origins and unbroken continuity ... -
List of Publications
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Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Don’t Move
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Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Normal People
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Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India
(AUW, 2025)This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster’s literary construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign ... -
THE NOBLE KARDOUCHOI AND THE BARBAROUS MOSSYNOIKOI: Remembering and Forgetting Ancient Anatolian Peoples
(Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, 2015)For several hundred years from the mid-first millennium B.C.E. the Mossynoikoi and the Kardouchoi were dominant peoples in their respective regions of Anatolia. While the historical record indicates they were strong ... -
Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries
(AUW, 2020-12)A dominant descriptive pattern of the Anglo-Italian encounter in modern and contemporary Anglophone fiction has been focusing on representing Italy as a unique constellation of counter-values to Anglo-American culture ...