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CURRICULUM VITAE
MARILENA PARLATI

Full Professor - Literatures in English
Dept. of Linguistic and Literary Studies DISLL
University of Padova (Italy)
Email: marilena.parlati@unipd.it
https://marilenaparlati.academia.edu/ -

Current Research Areas
Cultural studies; material culture and waste studies; trauma studies; embodiment; disability studies; late Victorian culture and literature; colonial and post-colonial Australian literature; nuclear traces in contemporary global culture

Qualifications
* PhD in “Letterature di lingua inglese” (Literatures in English), Università La Sapienza, Rome and
Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples
* MPhil in Publishing Studies 1992-1993, University of Stirling, Scotland

Academic Experience
* Vice-Chair AIA (Italian Association for English Studies-Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) September 2023-2025
* Board Member EASA (European Association for Studies on Australia), April 2021-
* Department Board Member, October 2023-
* Board Member of the PhD Programme in Linguistic, Philological and Literary Studies, University of Padova
* Convenor (Presidente Corso di Laurea), BA Course in Languages, Literatures and Cultural Mediation, University of Padova, October 2016-September 2020
* Member of AISCLI Board of Directors, January 2016-February 2019
* Member, Doctoral Program in Linguistic, Philological and Literary Sciences, University of Padova, 2017-
* General Editor JEASA (Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia) December 2024-
International Research Affiliations
* Affiliated Scholar, Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVRe-Q), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (https://avreq.sun.ac.za/research/) March 2022-
* Member of the Research Group Orientation: Towards a Dynamic Understanding of Contemporary Fiction and Culture (1990s-2000s), ORION Project, PI Rosario Arias, University of Malaga. Spanish Ministry of Culture, 2017-2021
* Member of the Research Group Lives, National Ministry of Education, Norway, Universities of Kristiansand and Bergen, 2014-2016
* Member of the European Thematic Network 2003-2005, ACUME: Memoria culturale Europea/European Cultural Memory, PI: Vita Fortunati, University of Bologna
* PI Research Unit University of Calabria, PRIN 2003-2005: “Bric à Brac of the Archaic”: on the Predicament of Material Culture in Late-Victorian and Edwardian England
National Research Affiliations
* Gruppo di ricerca LeGend, Letterature e Genere https://www.unich.it/legend

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Books and Edited Volumes

- E. Federici, M. Parlati (eds), Dark Tourism, FES (From the European South), 19, Fall 2026
- S. Ben-Messahel, M. Parlati (eds), JEASA (Journal of the European Association of Studies of Australia), 2025
- M. Parlati, Complex Embodiment. Fiction and Pathography in Contemporary Anglophone Culture, Milan, Mimesis International (under revision)
- Cinema e Diversità: Intersezioni nella Rappresentazione della Disabilità nel Cinema e nei Media Contemporanei, a cura di Giuseppe Balirano e Marilena Parlati, Napoli, Loffredo, 2024
- M. Parlati, J. Pugliese (eds), Aftermaths. Vulnerable Times, Vanishing Places, Toxic Erasures, Special Issue, From the European South, 10, 2022
- E. Federici, M. Parlati (eds), The Body Metaphor, Perugia (Italy), Morlacchi, 2018
- M. Parlati (ed.), “Unforgiving Memory. Dynamics, Rhetorics, Paradoxa in Literary Representations of Trauma”, Special Issue of Prospero, XX, December 2015
- M. Parlati, M. Calbi (eds), European Journal of English Studies: ‘Matter and Material Culture’, 2011, Vol. 15, n. 1
- M. Parlati, M. Coppola, E. Federici (eds), Locating Subjects. Views on Identity and Difference from the Early Modern to the Late Modern Age, Roma, Aracne, 2009
- N. Daly, M. Parlati (eds), Textus. The Cultural Object. Maps, Memories, Icons, Vol. I, Genova, Tilgher, 2005

Selected Book Chapters

- “Un’arte cruda le esplode dal corpo”, postfazione a Ali Cobby Eckermann, Inside My Mother. Poesie dalle Generazioni rubate, a cura di Margherita Zanoletti, 2026, pp. 203-207
- “‘The Earth Is a Blur’. E. M. Forster, la guerra, e il mondo a venire in Two Cheers for Democracy”, in Celebrando Forster, a cura di M. L. De Rinaldis, in print, 2026
- “Hardly at War: Figuring Unheroical Masculinity in WW2 British Culture”, in Masculinity, Pescara, Tracce, 2025, pp. 123-40
- “Paradigmi e sfide dei disability studies. Corpi, complessità, rappresentazioni”, “Introduzione, sezioni 1, 2, 3”. in Cinema e Diversità: Intersezioni nella Rappresentazione della Disabilità nel Cinema e nei Media Contemporanei, a cura di Giuseppe Balirano e Marilena Parlati, Napoli, Loffredo, 2024, pp. 11-19
- “Atomic Wonders: Radioactive Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction”, in Literature and Science, 1922-2022: Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives, edited by M. Martino, M. Mitrano, Roma, Lithos, 2024, pp. 979-12-80197-96-2
- “Australian Modernisms Strike Back, or Still Harping on ‘Margins’”, R. Gefter, K. Pizzi, eds, Peripheral Modernisms, London, Palgrave, 2024, pp. 99-118
- “Una tossica salvezza. HG Wells e la modernità nucleare”, in R. Malagoli (a cura di), E.T.L. ExtraTerritorial Literatures: le sfide narrative della Science Fiction, Padova, Padova University Press, 2022, pp. 15-28
- “Detective senza memoria”, in GialloMa. Polimorfismo e ibridazioni del poliziesco contemporaneo, Città di Castello (PG), I Libri di Emil, 2022, pp. 23-28
- “Serie ‘a colori’. Crimini, repliche, fantasmi del ‘pericolo giallo’ nella cultura popolare del Novecento”, in M. Piva (a cura di), PARAdigmi identitari e LETTERATURA popolare, Città di Castello (PG), I Libri di Emil, 2021, pp. 25-42
- “‘The Central Man in the World’: echi di Dante (e di Beatrice) nella cultura vittoriana”, in Risonanze III. La memoria dei testi dal Medioevo a oggi, a cura di C. Giordano, Napoli, Liguori, 2020, pp. 215-227
- “Auras and Haunting Libraries. Marie Corelli's Affair with Stratford”, in M. Minier, M. Pennacchia (eds), Shakespeare and Tourism. Place, Memory and Participation, ed. by Marta Minier and Maddalena Pennacchia, Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2019, pp. 39-58
- “The Body in Question. On Pathography and Testimony in Contemporary Anglophone Culture”, in E. Federici, M. Parlati (a cura di), The Body Metaphor, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2018, pp. 127-139
- “Dying in the Desert: Jim Crace and the Life of Jesus in Quarantine”, in T. Vegge, F. Forsgren (eds), Lives, Pisa, Serra, 2018, pp. 153-165
- “Vibrant Matter. Narrating (the) Post-Mortem in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction”, in Vulnerability. Memories, Bodies, Sites, a cura di D. Bulotta, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2016, pp. 451-471
- “Looking for/at Australia. Roots and Repulsion in Some Texts by Italian-Australian Women”, in R. Summo O’Connell (ed.), Imagined Australia, New York, Berlin, Bern, Wien, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 251-264
- “‘Landscape of Unfamiliar Objects’. Myth, Mimesis, Textual Appropriation in David Malouf’s Narrative”, in O. Palusci (ed.), Postcolonial Studies. Changing Perceptions. Trento, Labirinti, 2005, pp. 79-88

Selected Journal Articles

- “On the Trail of Nuclear History: Bombs and Bodies of War in Kamile Shamsie and Dennis Bock”, EJES (European Journal of English Studies) 3, 2027 (under revision)
- “Beyond Dark Voyeurism: Memory, Community and the Nuclear Violence of Maralinga”, in E. Federici, M. Parlati (eds), FES (From the European South), Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s), 19, Fall 2026
- “Stuck at the Edge of Time. Nuclearity On the Beach”, in C. Davidson-Novosivchei, M. Parlati (eds), JEASA (Journal of the European Association of Studies of Australia), “Minding the Present. Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe”, 2026
- “Fitting the ‘Nation’: Eugenic Anxieties and Shadows of War in Prelude to Christopher by E. Dark”, in S. Ben-Messahel, M. Parlati (eds), JEASA (Journal of the European Association of Studies of Australia), “Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?”, 2025
- “This Body which Is not M(in)e Figuring the Pregnant Body”, NuBE, 3, 2022, pp. 137-158
- “’Mixing Memory’: Discovering and Narrating the Other Selves of Alzheimer”, Orientation and Recognition in Contemporary Illness Narratives, special issue of Prose Studies, R. Baena, M. Cerezo, R. Arias eds, Sept. 2021, pp. 53-67 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01440357.2021.1999678
- “Memory in T/Rubble. Tackling Nuclear Ruins”, CLCWEB (Comparative Literature and Culture, Purdue University), 21, 1, 2019 (Fascia A) https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol21/iss1/7/
- “‘Peopling the World’: from Scheherazade to Rushdie’s Nights”, Prospero 23, 2018, pp. 153-170 DOI 10.13137/2283-6438/22503
- “Controversial Embodiment: Sport, Masculinity, Dis/Ability”, AM. Altre Modernità, “Gaming Identity: Sports and Cultures, Local and Global”, ed. by Paolo Caponi and Nicoletta Vallorani, 14, novembre 2015, pp. 90-100 (Fascia A) https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/6533
- “‘Humans Unhumans’. Ageing, Dying and the Body Nostalgic in Kazuo Ishiguro and Hanif Kureishi”, Status Quaestionis. Rivista di studi letterari, linguistici e interdisciplinari, special issue on Literature and Medicine, M. Vaccarella (ed.), 6, 2014, pp. 63-86 (Fascia A) https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/12473
- “Beyond Inchoate Debris. Dust in Contemporary Culture”, European Journal of English Studies, 2011, Vol. 15, n. 1, pp. 73-84 (Fascia A)
https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2011.553907
- “Europe and its ‘Ends’. Haunting (by) the Past in Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas”, JEASA The Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia, 2011, Vol. 2, n. 2, pp. 42-52 http://www.australianstudies.eu/?p=659
- “Tracing/Tracking History’s Nightmares. The Wreck of the Batavia as Australian Foundational Myth”, Prospero, XIV, 2007, pp. 267-283 ISSN 1123-2684 http://hdl.handle.net/10077/6230

Modern British and Anglophone literatures and cultures
trauma studies
disability studies
peace, war and the aftermath of war

Nineteenth-century British and Australian literatures and cultures
thing theory, material culture from the late 18th century to contemporary times
colonial and postcolonial literatures in English
nuclearity in contemporary Anglophone cultures
disability studies