Cristina Di Maio

Name: Cristina Di Maio

Title(s): Ph.D.

Mail: cristina.dimaio@unito.it

Affiliation: University of Turin / Università degli studi di Torino

Personal Website: University webpage

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Cristina Di Maio is Junior Assistant Professor (RTDa) in American Literature at the University of Turin. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Macerata, and she has taught American Literature and Culture at the Universities “L’Orientale” and “Federico II” in Naples. She is the author of contributions on contemporary American women writers, Italian American and Italian Diasporic Studies, coming of age, young adult fiction and pop culture; in 2021 published her first book on games and play in Toni Cade Bambara, Rita Ciresi e Grace Paley’s short fiction. She recently co-edited with Fulvia Sarnelli the special section of RSA (journal of the Italian Association of American Studies), n. 36 (2025), on recent representations of Reproductive Justice in American Popular Culture.

Interests: Contemporary American Literature; Play Theory; Feminist Theory; Intersectionality; Reproductive Justice; Italian American Literature; Popular Culture