Second-Year PhD Student
Email: r
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Italian Contemporary Women Writers, Science Fiction, Utopian Studies, Environmental Humanities.
Roberta Berlingò is a PhD student in the Italian Studies department, where she focuses on ecocriticism, graphic novels, science fiction, and postcolonial studies. She previously obtained a B.A. and an M.A. summa cum laude, from the University of Calabria. She is a language enthusiast and a passionate language teacher, bringing social justice and identity to the classroom. She has worked as a language tutor at the Language Center of the University of Calabria and contributed to the creation of an interactive e-book to learn Albanian in e-tandem with the University of Tirana. In 2019, she was a Fulbright grantee as a Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, for which she taught Italian language and culture at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is a Teach For Italy alumna and participated in the Avanguardie Educative project.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCES
Articles
- #celafaremo?: Siccità (Paolo Virzì, 2022), La Fusta, 2025
Translations
- Attebery, Bryan, "Il club di lettura di James Tiptree Jr.; ovvero, una teoria mitocondriale della letteratura”, (trad.) in Anarres volume 3, ISSN 1974-8248.
Recent Conference Presentations
- “Temerarie: Polyphonic Narratives and Southern Identity in Durastanti’s Missitalia”, NeMLA's 57th Annual Convention: (Re)generation, Northeastern Modern Language (NeMLA), Pittsburgh, PA, 5-8 March 2026.
- “Ethics of Representation: Investigative Journalism and Collaboration in Toxic Tropics”, NeMLA's 57th Annual Convention: (Re)generation, Northeastern Modern Language (NeMLA), Pittsburgh, PA, 5-8 March 2026.
- “Post-Human Agency and Femininity in Pugno's Sirene and Cutrufelli L’isola delle madri”, NeMLA's 56th Annual Convention: “(R)EVOLUTION,” Northeastern Modern Language (NeMLA), Philadelphia, PA, 6-9 March 2025.
- “What is Left of Us: Post-Human Agency and Femininity in Laura Pugno's Sirens”, 42th ICFA, "Climate Change and the Anthropocene", International Conference of the Fantastic in Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2021.
Digital Projects
- 2013 Corso interattivo di albanese: interactive e-book to learn Albanian (link)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Italian 101: In-person Elementary Italian
- Italian 102: Hybrid Elementary Italian
- Italian 131: Asynchronous Intermediate Italian
- Italian 132: Asynchronous Intermediate Italian