Chiara Xausa

Chiara Xausa is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Bologna, with a project on climate fiction, econarratology, and empirical and affective ecocriticism. Previously, she has been a postdoctoral fellow in Anglophone literature and an adjunct professor of gender studies at the University of Bologna (2022-2024). She completed her PhD in 2022 with a thesis on feminist environmental humanities and dystopian Anthropocene narratives. Her publications include articles on Alexis Wright, Cherie Dimaline, Jesmyn Ward, Sacy Lloyd, Imbolo Mbue, Wanuri Kahiu, climate fiction, and feminist environmental humanities. Her first monograph, titled Intersectional World Making in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative, will be published by Peter Lang in 2025.