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Alice Balestrino
Roma Tre University
Alice Balestrino is Junior Assistant Professor of American Literature at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre. Her research interests include 20th and 21st century American Literature, Postmemory, Autobiography and Autofiction, Biopolitics and Italian Theory. Her book Extra-Vacant Narratives, Reading Holocaust Fiction in the Post-9/11 Age elaborates on the concept of vacancy as a reading strategy for Holocaust uchronias and autofictions written in the aftermath of 9/11 and analyzes texts by Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Art Spiegelman and Philip Roth. She is also the author of essays on Jewish American literature, alternate histories, and the representation of memory in graphic narratives. Her paper “Placing Time, Timing Space. Memory as Border and Line of (Hi)Stories in Richard McGuire’s Graphic Narrative Here ” received the Emory Elliott Award at the IASA Conference in 2017.
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2023
HistorioGraphics Conference, Amerikahaus, Munich.
“At Home in History. Inhabiting the Past in Nora Krug’s Belonging and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers.” Presentation.
2022
ESCL (European Society of Comparative Literature) 9th Congress, Sapienza Università di Roma
“‘Why do the good guys always have to choose to do the right thing?’ Revenge and Retribution in The Hunters TV Series.” Presentation.
2021
International Comparative Literature Association, Clam 2020. Università dell’Aquila.
“‘I’m not the Hero Type.’ Marvel’s Infinity Saga as Chivalric Romance.” Presentation.
2019
San Diego State University, The Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture Series.
“Of Patriarchy, Patrimony, Patriotism, and Other Feral Things. Ripping the Paters apart in Chelsea Kane’s ManEaters”.” Presentation.
Università di Napoli, “L’Orientale”. Dipartimento di Studi Letterari.
“‘My Father Bleeds History.’ From Memories to Postmemory in Art Spiegelman’s MAUS.” Presentation.
2018
“Past-Imperfect Continuous: Trans-Cultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII.” International Conference, Sapienza Università di Roma.
“‘Another Break in the Wall’– Gravestone Rubbing and Postmemorial Agency in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Book-Sculpture Tree of Codes.” Presentation.
2017
Memory Studies Association 2nd International Conference, University of Copenhagen
“‘Waiting for That Other Shoe to Drop.’ Horizontality, Verticality, and Multilayered Traumas in Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers.” Presentation.
8th IASA (International Association of American Studies) World Congress, International University, Laredo (TX).
“Placing Time, Timing Space. Memory as Border and Line of (Hi)Stories in Richard McGuire’s Graphic Narrative Here.” Presentation.
ICLA Research Commitee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2024)
