Daphne Orlandi

Name: Daphne Orlandi

Title: Ph.D

E-mail: daphne.orlandi@unict.it

Affiliation: University of Catania

Personal Website: Google Scholar

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Daphne Orlandi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Catania, where she is working on a project titled Stages of Resistance: Theater as Radical Praxis in the Work of Contemporary American Women Playwrights. Her main fields of interest include 19th century American literature, theories of world literature, and women’s writing, with particular attention to Transatlantic Studies, Transcendentalism as a social movement, and contemporary political theater. Her work has been published on RIAS: Review of International American Studies and Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies. In 2024, she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Houghton Library, where she conducted archival research for her forthcoming monograph on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s World Literature.

Areas of Interest:19th century literature; R.W. Emerson; Transcendentalism; World Literature; Feminist Theater; Women’s writing