Caterina Romeo is an Associate Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma, where she teaches Literary Theory, Migration Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Gender Studies. She was selected to return to Italy from the United States as part of the national program “Rientro dei cervelli”. In 2019, she was Academic Visitor at the University of Auckland (NZ) and was invited to be Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HK). She is the author of Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature (2023), Tra follia e realismo magico. La produzione narrative di Domenico Dara (2023), Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale (2018), and Narrative tra due sponde. Memoir di italiane d’America (2005). She has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing on Intersectional Italy (2022), a special issue of the Postcolonial Studies Journal titled Postcolonial Europe (2015), and the volume Postcolonial Italy (2012). She has translated into Italian the work of numerous Italian American women writers (among them Louise DeSalvo’s Vertigo and Kym Ragusa’s The Skin Between Us) and published essays on the memoir and autobiography, Italian postcolonial literature, intersectionality, representations of Italian Blackness, and Italian American literature and culture in national and international journals and edited volumes. She is currently working on a project on Italy’s recent emigrations and exploring new fields of research.

Her research will focus on the ways in which Black and BAME Italian writers, directors, artists, artivists, and social media activists are constantly redefining and decolonizing Italian cultural canons. By addressing the issue of race, especially in its intersection with gender, in their cultural production and highlighting the continuity existing between colonial processes of racialization and contemporary racisms, they create important connections with other African European subjects (and emphasize social and cultural aspects of Europe that remain understudied).