Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts. 

The Ohio State University Press (2023)

reviewed in:

Leonardo, Jan Baetens, July 2023 

Rocky Mountain Review, Jacob Welcker, vol. 77 no. 2, 2023, p. 228-230. 

Diegesis, Torsa Ghosal, July 2024

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Souhardya Chatterjee and Ujjwal Jana, August 2024

Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Lee Christien, January 2025

➞ available in open access here.

Cruel Meritocracy in 21st Century US Fiction. Co-edited with Laura Roldán-Sevillano. 

RAEI. Alicante Journal of English Studies (forthcoming in July 2025)

Narrative Co- Construction. Co-edited with Malcah Effron and Margarida McMurry.

The Ohio State University Press (under review)

Mapping the contemporary US novel: theories, forms and themes. Co-edited with Pia Masiero. 

RSAJournal, Rivista di Studi Nordamericani, N. 32 (2021)

Ephemerality across (digital) media. Co-edited with Roberta Sapino.

Neohelicon (2021) 

Rethinking 1968 and the Global Sixties. Co-edited with Marta Gara.

 JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy (2019) 

Teaching American Studies in Europe: Challenges and New Directions for the Twenty-First Century. Co-edited with Lorenzo Costaguta.

RSAJournal, Rivista di Studi Nordamericani (2018)

Open Literature. La cultura digitale negli studi letterari. Co-edited with Silvia Ulrich.

QuadRi, Quaderni di RiCOGNIZIONI, Università di Torino (2016)

Narrative Co- Construction: Introduction, with Malcah Effron and Margarida McMurry.

The Ohio State University Press (under review)

Social Change Through Character Co-Construction in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Chapter in Malcah Effron, Margarida McMurry, and Virginia Pignagnoli (eds.) Narrative Co- Construction. 

The Ohio State University Press (under review)

"Nothing more American than Resurrection”: Cruel Meritocracy in Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch. Cruel Meritocracy in 21st Century US Fiction. Special issue co-edited with Laura Roldán-Sevillano. 

RAEI. Alicante Journal of English Studies (forthcoming in July 2025)

The Co-Constructive Dynamics of Posthumous Digital Paratexts: An Analysis of the Emily Dickinson Museum's Instagram Narrative. Chapter in Stefan Iversen and Evan Van Tassell (eds). The Materiality of Narrative Dynamics.

De Gruyter, Narratologia Series (forthcoming).

Narrated Counter-Narratives and Assumed Grand Narratives about Contemporary Work: Halle Butler’s The New Me. Considering Political Counter-Narratives. Special issue edited by Matti Hyvärinen and Samuli Björninen.

Narrative Works (2024)

The Narrative of the Great Resignation and the Ethics of Positional Power in the Documents of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s America Works Initiative. Chapter in Pierangela Adinolfi and Cristina Trinchero (eds.) Mistificazione e demistificazione: il linguaggio del potere dall’età moderna all’era della globalizzazione. 

Bonanno Editore (2023)

U.S. Fiction in the Age of Authenticity: Earnestness and Digital Epitexts in Leilani’s Luster.

Enthymema (2022)

Genre Ambiguity and (Ephemeral) Digital Epitexts: Co-Constructing Michael Chabon’s Moonglow.

Neohelicon (2021)

Introduction: Ephemerality in the Digital Age: Creating, Preserving, and Sharing Practices Across Media. (with Roberta Sapino.) 

Neohelicon (2021)

Introduction: A Vocabulary of Reclaim. (with Pia Masiero).

RSAJournal, Rivista di Studi Nordamericani (2021)

Narrative Ethics in HBO’s Big Little Lies: Reframing Motherhood. Chapter in Eva-Sabine Zehelein, Andrea Carosso and Aida Rosende (eds.) Family in Crisis? Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives. 

[transcript] Verlag (2020). 

Rethinking 1968 Now: Movements, Practices, Forms. Introduction. (with Marta Gara). 

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy (2019) 

Queer and Feminist Narrative Theories: An Interview With Robyn Warhol. (with Margarida McMurry).

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy (2019) 

Changing dominants, changing features? The fiction/nonfiction distinction in contemporary literary and Instagram narratives. Special issue edited by Jan Alber and Alice Bell.

European Journal of English Studies (2019)

➞ The article has been published also as book chapter in Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives 

Routledge (2021)

Narrative Co-Construction: A Rhetorical Approach. (with Malcah Effron and Margarida McMurry).

Narrative (2019) 

Narrative Theory and the Brief and Wondrous Life of Post- Postmodern Fiction. Special issue edited by Paul Dawson.

Poetics Today (2018)

Mothering and Family Life in Contemporary Autofiction: Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, Sarah Manguso's Ongoingness, and Heidi Julavits's The Folded Clock.

CoSMo Comparative Studies in Modernism (2018)

Teaching American Studies in Europe: Challenges and New Directions for the Twenty-First Century: Introduction. (with Lorenzo Costaguta).

RSAJournal, Rivista di Studi Nordamericani (2018)

Surveillance in Post-Postmodern American Fiction: Dave Eggers’s The Circle, Jonathan Franzen’s Purity, and Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story. Chapter in Susan Flynn and Antonia Mackay (eds.) Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves. 

Palgrave Macmillan (2017).

America’s Barbarian Heart: Exploring Space, Genre and Social Criticism in Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier.

RSAJournal Rivista di Studi Americani (2017)

Paratextual Interferences: Patterns and Reconfigurations for Literary Narrative in the Digital Age. 

Amsterdam International Electronic Journal for Cultural Narratology (2016)

Se il digitale entra nel romanzo. Appunti per una letteratura post- postmoderna. Chapter in Virginia Pignagnoli and Silvia Ulrich (eds.) Open Literature. La cultura digitale negli studi letterari. 

QuadRi, Quaderni di RiCOGNIZIONI, Università di Torino (2016)

Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction: The Case of Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity. Chapter in Tim Lanzendorfer (ed.) The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel. 

Lexintgon Books (2016)

Il lettore secondo Zadie Smith: Rereading Barthes and Nabokov. Chapter in Martina Bortignon, Katiuscia Darici, and Stefania Imperiale (eds. ) Il Lettore in Gioco. Finestre sul mondo della lettura. 

Ca’ Foscari Digital Publishing (2013)

New Voices and the Difference They (May) Make: David Shields’s Reality Hunger and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes. Chapter in Giovanna Covi, and Lisa Marchi (eds.) Democracy and Difference: The US in Multidisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives. 

Editrice Università degli Studi di Trento (2012)

Interview with Lauren Groff and review of Matrix. "La capacità femminile di plasmare il futuro" L'Indice dei Libri del Mese (2023) 

Review of Louise Erdrich's The Nightwatchman. “Guardiani contro l’estinzione” L'Indice dei Libri del Mese (2022) 

Review of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise. “Manipolare la scelta” L'Indice dei Libri del Mese (2021)

Review of R. O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries. “Cercare l’amore e trovare l’alleluia” L'Indice dei Libri del Mese (2020)

Review of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies. “Frammenti di complicata

bellezza” L'Indice dei Libri del Mese (2017)

Review of Miranda July’s The First Bad Man. L'Indice dei Libri del Mese (2017) 

Review of Thomas Williams’s The Hair of Harold Roux. L’Indice dei Libri del Mese (2016)

Review of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman. “La pubblicazione del manoscritto matrice di Il buio oltre la siepe”, L'Indice dei Libri del Mese (2016)

Review of Dave Eggers’s Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? “Sogni e bugie d'America” L'Indice dei Libri del Mese (2016)

Review of Dave Eggers’s The Circle. “Come cresce l'isteria social” L'Indice dei Libri del Mese (2015)