Research: Trauma, Memory and the Reclamation of the Black Body in London Black British Literature (1948–Present)
Monica Livia D’Angelo is a PhD student in Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome. In 2025, she obtained her Master’s Degree in Linguistic, Literary and Translation Studies with a thesis entitled “‘And I Tiresias have foresuffered all’ The Waste Land in Contemporary English Theatre and Poetry (1998–2017).” In 2022, she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation with a thesis entitled “Female Somatopias in Postcolonial Poetry: Walcott, Boland, Soobrayen.” Her research interests include Modernism, contemporary English theatre and poetry, and postcolonial literature. Her current research project focuses on the representation of the “Black body” in Black British literature from 1948 to the present, with the aim of investigating the ways in which postcolonial writers who migrated to London following the arrival of the Empire Windrush have represented processes of emancipation and reclamation of their violated bodies.