Alessia Polatti is Adjunct Professor of English Literature at the University of Bologna and Teaching Assistant at the University of Verona. She held a PhD in English Literature from the University of Verona (2018). Her main research examines the experiences of migration and diaspora of Black British authors. She has participated in several conferences as speaker, and she has organised international conferences. She has published articles and essays in national and international journals and is co-editor of the volume Bestiarium. Human and Animal Representations (Mimesis International, 2018). Her main research interests are Black British Fiction, migrant literature (South Asian and Caribbean areas), colonial literature, the postcolonial rewriting of the English canon, Literary Cultural Studies, and the evolution of Britishness/Englishness in contemporary fiction and culture.
