Beatrice Melodia Festa
Università di Verona
Italia

Beatrice Melodia Festa is Adjunct Professor of English Language at the University of Verona. She holds a PhD in American Literature from the University of Verona and a Double Master’s Degree (MA) in American Studies from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and The City University of New York- City College. Her main research interests include the analysis of New Media and communication systems in American literature, cyberfiction, pseudo-modernism, and fictions of the American South. Among her recent publications are essays on cyberfiction and American prison narratives. Her researches now prominently focus on prison literature, the psychology of shame in southern literature, Afrofuturism, technologies and racism in contemporary Black science fiction.