Maria Ilaria Tonelli

Name: Maria Ilaria Tonelli
Title(s): Ph.D. Candidate
E-mail: mariailaria.tonelli@unito.it
Affiliation: University of Turin
Personal Website: Academia

Bionote:Maria Ilaria Tonelli is a Ph.D. Candidate in Digital Humanities and North American Literature at the University of Turin, Italy. She is a former Fulbright VSR at Northeastern University in Boston and an Erasmus+ Visiting Ph.D. Candidate at the John F. Kennedy Institute (Freie Universität) in Berlin. Her research seeks to bridge traditional literary criticism and modern digital culture. She is interested in Postmodern fiction and has published on Don DeLillo and Philip Roth. Her Ph.D. dissertation employs mixed methodologies—combining literary analysis with digital humanities tools—to examine how online communities negotiate democratic practices through US literary and cultural works. Tonelli also serves as Co-Chair of the AISNA Graduate Forum and on the Steering Committee of the EAAS Postgraduate and ECR Network.

Areas of interest:US Literature; Postmodernism; Digital Humanities