REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES and book chapters
“Theorising from the European South: Italy, Racial Evaporations, and the Black Mediterranean.” Critical Quarterly 65.4 (2023): 77-89. [download]
“Translingualism, Identity, and the Contemporary World Literary Space: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Turn to Italian.” Comparative Literature Studies 60.2 (2023): 312-335. [download]
“Methodologies of Blackness in Italy: Past, Present, and Futures.” Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe, edited by B.B. Blaagard, S. Marchetti, S. Ponzanesi, S. Bassi, University of Ca’ Foscari Press, 2023, 57-73. [download]
“Rethinking Diaspora through Borders: Contemporary Somali Literature in English and Italian.” Comparative Literature 73.1 (2021): 61-83. [download]
“The Semi-Peripheral Novel: Narrating the Neoliberal Present from Southern India and Southern Italy.” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 8.1 (2021): 39-59. [download]
“Peripheral Realism and the Bildungsroman in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.” Research in African Literatures 49.2 (2018): 107-124. [download]
PUBLIC-FACING essays and reviews
“Building Black Futures in Italy.” Public Books, Dec 9, 2020 [link]
“A New Vocabulary.” English Language Notes 58.2 (2020): 184-186 [download]
“Somalia and Italy Across a Century.” Public Books, Nov 6, 2017 [link]
Review of Stefano Ercolino, The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow to Roberto Bolano’s 2666. Comparative Literature Studies 53.4 (2016): 854-858. [link]