Laura Scarabelli

Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at the Department of Foreign Language and Literature, University of Milan. Her research focuses on the representation of black and mulatto in Cuban anti-slavery narrative and Alejo Carpentier’s narrative work from the theories of imaginary perspective. Her further area of interest is the study of modernity and postmodernity in Latin America. Her research also examines narrative of memory in the Southern Cone and focuses on the literary production of the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit. She is co-director of the magazine OJS UNIMI Altre Modernità and of the collection “Idee d’America latina” (Mimesis edizioni) devoted to the translation of the main voices of the contemporary latinamerican essay. She is a founding member of the project “Literature and Human Rights”, which brings together a network of 19 Latin American, American and European Universities. Among her books are: Identità di zucchero. Immaginari nazionali e processi di fondazione nella narrativa cubana, 2 voll., Milano, Arcipelago, 2009; Immagine, mito e storia, El reino de este mundo di Alejo Carpentier, Roma, Bulzoni, 2011; (Coed.), Itinerari di cultura ispanoamericana. Ritorno alle origini, ritorno delle origini, Torino, De Agostini, 2011; (Coed.), La letteratura di testimonianza in America latina, Milano, Mimesis, 2017; (Coed.), Donde no habite el olvido. Herencia y transmisión del testimonio en Chile, Milano, Ledizioni, 2017; Escenarios del nuevo milenio. La narrativa de Diamela Eltit (1998-2018), Santiago de Chile, Cuarto Proprio, 2018.
Construction and Representation of National Identities in Latin America; Latin-American Romanticism and European Sources; Gender Studies (19th and 20th Centuries); Imaginaries, Representations and Stereotypes of Black and Mulatto in Cuban Literature; Narrative of memory in the Southern Cone; Biopolitics, Globalization and Literature; Latin-american Literature on exile and migrations; relaciones literarias Italia-Argentina; Literature, Body and Disease.