Annamaria Elia (1996) is a PhD student in Italian Studies at the Sapienza University of Rome (PON fellowship "Dottorati Innovazione e Green"). She graduated in Modern Humanities at the Aldo Moro University of Bari (2019), after obtaining a Piano degree at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory of Bari (2018). In 2021, she obtained a double degree in Modern Philology and Études Italiennes at the Sapienza University of Rome and the Sorbonne University of Paris, discussing a thesis in Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature entitled La letteratura al tempo dell'Antropocene: i casi di Marie Darrieussecq e Laura Pugno (supervisor: Prof. Franca Sinopoli, co-supervisor: Prof. Davide Luglio). Her current doctoral project aims to explore the literary imaginary of the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective and pays particular attention to the representation of the relations between human and non-human subjects in contemporary European and Anglo-American literatures (supervisor: Franca Sinopoli, co-supervisor: Florian Mussgnug). Her research interests concern ecocriticism, environmental humanities, literary theory, comparative literature and literary criticism.

Her contribution to EuLiterArt research will concern the study of the possible contact zones between ecocriticism and transcultural theory. She will particularly analyse the literary production of the Austrian writer and poet Barbara Pumhösel.