Emanuela Maltese
Emanuela Maltese is a translator, curator, writer, and independent researcher. She holds two Ph.D.: one in “Anglophone Literatures and Culturesˮ (2024, Charles University, Prague, Czechia); and one in “Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World” (2011, University of Naples l'“Orientale,ˮ Italy).
Her interests include anglophone postcolonial studies and literature, the Black radical tradition, postcolonial translation, transnational feminism, gender studies, and African-American and Afro-Caribbean literatures and cultures. She has written peer-reviewed articles on Haitian-American diasporic encounters, feminine spirituality, James Baldwin (as a winner graduate’s contribution to the James Baldwin Review, 2023), and resistance and anti-racism approaches through literature, video performance, and art.
She has co-translated and curated the Italian translation (2021) of Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, The Wall Between Us (2022) and translated and edited many texts on anticolonial and feminist resistance, in addition to some poems (i.e., a selection of poems by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah).
Emanuela@DAI:
2024-2025 COOP study group ~ Half Land, Half Sea: Transcartography of Resistance
2022 – 2023 COOP study group – Publishing Practices: Textauralities, Oralitures, Corpoliteracies