Dr. Simona Adinolfi

Simona Adinolfi is a postdoctoral Research Associate in the MeDiMi sub-project “Dehumanizing, Victimizing, or Universalizing? How Images of Migration Interact with Human Rights Discourse”. She completed her PhD in Literary Studies with a thesis titled “Narrating Migration in the 21st Century. A Posthumanist Approach to Anglophone Novels” at Ghent University, in Belgium. During her PhD, she took part in the Horizon 2020 project “OPPORTUNITIES: For a Fair Narrative on Migration”, in which she analyzed migration narratives in the Italian public media landscape. Her research interests include narrative theory, critical posthumanism, migration studies, and digital media studies. She has published on On_Culture, Diegesis, and Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap (CLW).

Contact: simona.adinolfi@uni-giessen.de