GIANNA FUSCO teaches English Language and Linguistics at the University of L’Aquila where she has been an Associate Professor since 2015. She was previously a fixed-term researcher at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She has also taught at the University of Trieste and the University of Padua as an adjunct professor. Her research interests range from 19th-century American literature to 21st-century TV series, and from Corpus-based Translation Studies to Critical Discourse Analysis. She has published on canonical American writers (Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin), American TV series, and the language of New Media. Among her most recent publications is the monograph Telling Findings. Translating Islamic Archaelogy through Corpora (LED 2015) and the co-edited collection Harbors. Flows and Migrations of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas: The U.S. in/and the World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017). She also co-edited with Donatella Izzo an issue of Fictions on “The Experts: Representing Science, Technology, and Specialized Knowledge in 21st Century TV Series” (XVII 2018), and with Anna Scacchi an issue of RSAJournal on “Post-Racial America Exploded: #BlackLivesMatter between Social Activism, Academic Discourse, and Cultural Representation” (2018). Winner of the British Academy Visiting Fellowship in 2010 at the University of Birmingham and the SUSI (Study of the United States Institute) Fellowship at New York University in 2012, she was a member of the AISNA (Italian Association of North American Studies) board between 2016and 2019. She serves on the editorial board of the journals RSAJournal and de genere – Rivista di studi letterari, postcoloniali e di genere, and is a member of the scientific committee of NON - A Journal of Alternative Sexualities in Ancient and Modern Literature and in the Arts.
Selected publications:
1)“A Nakedness Rejected. Inverting Paradigms of Sovereignty between Breaking Bad and Macbeth.” Memoria di Shakespeare. Vol. 8 (2021): 299-327.
ISSN 2283-8759; DOI: 10.13133/2283-8759/17619
2)“‘Sacred Emblems to Partake’: Nature and Eucharist in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry.” The Emily Dickinson Journal 29:2 (2020): 73-90.
Print ISSN: 1059-6879; Online ISSN: 1096-858X
3)“Unapologetic: il movimento Black Lives Matter tra hood, protesta politica e accademia.” Guerre, conflitti e crisi. Confinamenti e contaminazioni al fronte delle culture globali. Eds. Gigliola Nocera. Lugano-Sarzana: Agorà & Co. 2020. 157-182.
ISBN 9788889526613
49“Queer as American Folk.” Comparative American Studies. An International Journal, 16:3-4 (2019): 154-173.
DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2019.1664104; Print ISSN: 1477-5700 Online ISSN: 1741-2676
5)“‘Humanity is overrated’: uomini e macchine in Dr. House.” Ácoma. Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani 15 Nuova serie (2018): 54-70.
ISSN: 2421-423X
6)“Redeeming Discipline. The Poisoned Gifts of Expertise in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” Fictions XVII (2018): 63-76.
ISSN 1721-3673 / ISSN elettronico 1724-045X
7)“Toward Asymmetrical Corpora, or what Italian and English speaking archaeologists see when they look at an Islamic finding.” Translating East and West. Ed. O. Palusci, K.E. Russo. Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2016. 363-375.
ISBN 9788864581323
8)Telling Findings. Translating Islamic Archaeology through Corpora. Milano: LED, 2015.
ISBN 9788879167536
9)Emotions and Cultural Awareness in EFL Learning via Blogs, Facebook and Skype.” Crossroads. Languages in (E)motion. Ed. L. Landolfi. Napoli: Photo City Edizioni-UP, 2014. 247-258.
ISBN 9788866826446
10) “‘Specimens indeed of human greed’: The Museum of Popularity in The Papers.” Transforming Henry James. Ed. D. Izzo et al. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 145-162.
ISBN 1443846147