PD Dr. Elena Furlanetto

Biographical Information

Born and raised in Italy, Elena Furlanetto earned her doctorate in Transnational/Transatlantic American Studies from the TU Dortmund in July 2015. She is the author of Towards Turkish American Literature: Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey (2017). She is the coordinator of the DFG Research Network “Voices and Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600-1865” (with Ilka Brasch) and a PI within the DFG Research Unit FOR 2600 “Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Historisch Kulturelle Dynamiken.”

 

Elena Furlanetto's habilitation "Ambiguity: Dis/Ambiguated Texts and Selves in North America, 1643-1883" won the 2023 Rob Kroes Publication Award by the European Association of American Studies.

PD Dr. Elena Furlanetto

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Address
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 V01 D02
Phone
+49 201 183 4126
Fax
+49 201 183 4372
E-Mail
elena.furlanetto@uni-due.de
Website
http://www.uni-due.de/amerikanistik/furlanetto_elena
Office hours
nach Vereinbarung

Functions

  • Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Anglistik: Nordamerikastudien II - North American Cultural Studies

  • Early American Studies
  • Atlantic Studies
  • Postcolonial Literatures
  • Turkish American Literature
  • Film Studies
  • Islam and the US
  • Poetry

Book Publications

Elena Furlanetto

Towards Turkish American Literature: Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey

https://www.peterlang.com/document/1113237

 

Elena Furlanetto & Dietmar Meinel

A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4132-5/a-poetics-of-neurosis/

 

Elena Furlanetto & Frank Mehring

Media Agoras: Islamophobia and Inter/Multimedial Dissensus

https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/16141?lang=fr

 

Other publications available here https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elena-Furlanetto

Principal Investigator

DFG Research Unit 2600 “Ambiguity and Difference: Historical and Cultural Dynamics.” 2019-2025
Ambiguity https://www.uni-due.de/forschungsgruppe_2600/

Subproject: “The Ambiguous Century: Gender, ‘Movements,’ and Ambiguity Aesthetics in the 19th century United States”

 

Co-organizer (Antragstellerin)
DFG Research Network “Voices & Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600-1865,” 2021-2014, with Dr. Ilka Brasch (Leibniz University Hannover)

https://www.uni-due.de/humanities/voicesandagencies/