Valentina Romanzi

Title(s): PhD, MA

Email: valentina.romanzi92@gmail.com

Affiliation:University of Torino/University of Verona

Personal Website: ORCID

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Valentina Romanzi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in American Studies at the University of Torino and an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Verona. She holds a PhD in Transcultural Studies in the Humanities from the University of Bergamo. Her research interests lie in US speculative fiction, the posthuman and more-than-human in literature, and ecocriticism (with a focus on the Blue Humanities). She is also researching the interplay between video games and American culture, queerness and fandom, and has a vested interest in the application of Care Theory to literary studies. Her latest book is American Nightmares: Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction (Peter Lang, 2022). She is an editor at Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies and collaborates with RSAJournal and ContactZone.

Areas of interest: speculative fiction; posthumanism; ecocriticism; blue humanities; video games; queer studies