Chiara Patrizi

Name: Chiara Patrizi
Title(s): Ph.D.
E-mail: chiara.patrizi6@unibo.it
Institutional Affiliations: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Personal Website: University Webpage

Bionote:
Chiara Patrizi is MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna and at Duke University with the project “Wilderness of Time: Timescapes of Contemporary US Literature (WOT).” She has authored essays on, among others, Jesmyn Ward, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Don DeLillo, Langston Hughes, Octavia Butler, and on the relationship between trauma and temporality. She is currently working on her first monograph “Journeys into the Wilderness of Time. Trauma and Temporality in Kurt Vonnegut and Don DeLillo” (BUP 2026). She served as co-chair of the AISNA Graduate Forum (2021-2023) and she is in the editorial board of the academic journals Jam It! Journal of American Studies in Italy and Oltreoceano.

Research Interest: US Literature and Culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; Postmodernism; Trauma Studies; time and literature; Black Studies.