Jessica Sciubba

Research Interests & Areas

Her main research interests include ecomedia studies, ecocriticism, migration studies, postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality. Her scholarly work looks at Italy and Mediterranean as spaces of encounters, conflicts, and environmental tensions. She has published on issues of gender, migration, and environment in Italian literature and visual culture and her most recent article “Blurring Bodily Boundaries: On the rione’s Abjective Agency in the Cycle of L’amica geniale,” appeared in the 2019 issue of Annali d’Italianistica.