Research: Eating the Nation: Meat, Citizenship and American Identity from the Colonial Perspective to the Anthropocene.
Agnese Galli is a PhD student in Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation (SELLT) at La Sapienza, University of Rome. She obtained her Master's degree cum laude in Modern, Compared and Postcolonial Literatures at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna in 2026, after defending her thesis "Works of the Flesh: Meat, Consumption, and Dynamics of Power in Contemporary North-American Literature". In 2024, she obtained her Bachelor's degree cum laude at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna with a thesis titled "Visions of Dystopia: Exploring the Societal Value of Linguistic and Literary Landscapes in North-American Speculative Fiction". Her research interests include Ecocriticism and Anthropocene, Vegan literary studies, Post-modernism and Post-colonial literatures. Her doctoral project aims at providing a stronger focus on the role of meat as metaphor and symbol of the power dynamics between elites and subordinate categories - paying particular attention to gender narratives and Native-American authorial voices) in the literary landscape of Canada and the U.S. in the 20th and 21st century.