Nora Moll is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the Uninettuno University (Rome) and teaches Contemporary Italian Literature at the Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici "Carlo Bo" in Rome.In her publications in Italy and abroad, she intervened on the theoretical and methodological aspects of Imagology (Image Studies), on Cross-cultural and Migrant Literature in Italy and in Europe, on the theories of Weltliterature and on the German and Italian reception of Neue Sachlichkeit. She is the author of the monographs Ulisse tra due mari. Riscritture novecentesche dell’Odissea nel Mediterraneo e nei Caraibi (2006), L’infinito sotto casa. Letteratura e transculturalità in Italia dal 1900 (2015) and (together with Armando Gnisci and Franca Sinopoli) La letteratura del mondo nel XXI secolo (2010). Among her most recent publications: “Il Novecento italiano in una prospettiva transculturale”, in F. Sinopoli, S. Contarini (eds.), Transculturalità: un concetto operativo in Europa? (2023) and “Mondialità, mondanità, worldliness: la letteratura come impegno”, in «Le forme e la Storia», n. XV (2022), 1-2, pp. 249-268.
Her contribution to the “The Foreign Gaze” project concerns the research and analysis, mainly of an imagological nature, of the narratives (literary and otherwise) of people with a migratory background, focused on the experience of arriving in Europe and on the subsequent stages of their “migrant lives”. Particular attention will be dedicated to the attempt, by writers, artists and ordinary people, to demystify cultural stereotypes regarding their countries of origin, and to trigger a dialogue with their audience about the "other visions" of the target culture and creative ideas around coexistence and mutual integration.