Bio
Francesca Calamita is Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. She works in the area of women's studies in Italian, European and global contexts, and she is internationally recognised for her publications on the fictional depiction of eating disorders in Italian literature and culture.
Women’s voices, empowerment and visibility are at the centre of her research and teaching, author of two monographs(Linguaggi dell'esperienza femminile - 2015; Visibili e influenti - 2023), co-editor of Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity (2017) and Eve Sinful's Bite (2020), she is the ideator and co-author of DiversITALY (2022 and 2023), the first textbook series around the world to learn Italian with gender equality.