FUSCO SERENA

Serena Fusco (she/her) is Associate Professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Her research interests include Chineseness in the global context; East/West comparative literature and world literature; Asian American literature; intermediality, transmediality, and photography; feminism, the body and the cultural politics of breastfeeding; ergodic literature and interactive fiction. Among her publications: Incorporations of Chineseness: Hybridity, Bodies, and Chinese American Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016); Confini porosi. Pelle e rappresentazione in quattro narrazioni della modernità [Porous Borders: Skin and Representation in Four Narratives of Modernity] (Scripta, 2018); “Reappropriating Breastfeeding as Power and Time in Photography and Feminist Discourse”, in Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Culture, and Media, eds. Jodi Cressman et al. (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024); “The Glocal Cosmopolises of Chinese / American Speculative Fiction”, in _Migrating Minds. Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism_, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2025). She is a member of several interdisciplinary and international research networks, and she is currently Principal Investigator of the project "UPLIFT: Urban Visions, Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes, and Future Topographies Across World Literatures", which focuses on urban and spatial imagination in modern and contemporary works with a speculative thrust. She is a member of the editorial board of _de genere - Journal of literary, postcolonial and gender studies_ and _Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies_.