PD Dr. Elena Furlanetto

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PD Dr. Furlanetto is currently a stand-in professor at TU Dortmund.

Born and raised in Italy, Elena Furlanetto earned her doctorate in Transnational/Transatlantic American Studies from the TU Dortmund in July 2015. She is the author of Towards Turkish American Literature: Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey (2017). She is the coordinator of the DFG Research Network “Voices and Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600-1865” (with Ilka Brasch) and a PI within the DFG Research Unit FOR 2600 “Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Historisch Kulturelle Dynamiken.”

 

Elena Furlanetto's habilitation "Ambiguity: Dis/Ambiguated Texts and Selves in North America, 1643-1883" won the 2023 Rob Kroes Publication Award by the European Association of American Studies.

PD Dr. Elena Furlanetto

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Address
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 V01 D02
Phone
+49 201 183 4126
Fax
+49 201 183 4372
E-Mail
elena.furlanetto@uni-due.de
Website
http://www.uni-due.de/amerikanistik/furlanetto_elena
Office hours
nach Vereinbarung

Functions

  • Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Anglistik: Nordamerikastudien II - North American Cultural Studies

The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.

    Books, Collections, Proceedings

  • Furlanetto, Elena; Meinel, Dietmar (Eds.)
    A Poetics of Neurosis : Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
    Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2018
    (Culture & Theory ; 161)
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)

    • Journal articles

  • Furlanetto, Elena
    Vanishing Creole in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic : The Unites States, Panama, and the Caribbean
    In: Oltreoceano, 2023, Nr. 21, pp. 109 – 119
    DOI
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    Lovely Renegades : Seduction and Conversion in Susanna Rowson’s 'Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom'
    In: Unikate: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, 2022, Nr. 58, Geisteswissenschaften : Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, pp. 70 – 80
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Furlanetto, Elena; Mehring, Frank
    Media agoras : Islamophobia and inter/multimedial dissensus. Introduction
    In: European Journal of American Studies, Vol. 15, 2020, Nr. 3, pp. 16141
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    The reluctant islamophobes : Multimedia dissensus in the hollywood premodern
    In: European Journal of American Studies, Vol. 15, 2020, Nr. 3, pp. 16256
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    An implausible juncture? : Locating the Turkish novel in an American frame, from neocolonial anxiety to the ‘threshold novel'
    In: Journal of American studies of Turkey: JAST, 2017, Nr. 46, pp. 3 – 28
    Online Full Text
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    Resident aliens : locating Turkish American literature beyond hyphenated American fiction
    In: Amerikastudien = American Studies, Vol. 61, 2016, Nr. 2, pp. 181 – 202
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    "Safe Spaces of the Like-Minded": The Search for a Hybrid Post-Ottoman Identity in Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul
    In: Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Vol. 36, 2014, Nr. 2, pp. 19 – 31
    Online Full Text
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    The ‘Rumi Phenomenon’ between Orientalism and Cosmopolitanism : The Case of Elif Shafak’s the Forty Rules of Love
    In: European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 17, 2013, Nr. 2, pp. 201 – 213
    DOI

    • Book articles / Proceedings papers

  • Furlanetto, Elena; Marx, Christoph; Scheller, Benjamin
    Die Öffnung geschlossener Formen : Ein Triptychon der Konversion
    In: Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Kaleidoskopische Betrachtungen / Scheller, Benjamin; Müllerburg, Marcel (Eds.). Frankfurt: Campus, 2025, pp. 113 – 135
    DOI, Online Full Text
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    Living deliciously? : The borderless horror of female empowerment
    In: Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Gender Debates in Post-2010's US Horror Cinema / Gregorio-Fernández, Noelia; Méndez-García, Carmen M. (Eds.). Cham: Springer Nature, 2024, pp. 33 – 54
    DOI
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    “TOO MUCH JOY, I SWEAR, IS LOST” : Ambiguity in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
    In: ersMapping World Anglophone Studies: English in a World of Strangers / Kumar Malreddy, Pavan; Schulze-Engler, Frank (Eds.). Oxford: Taylor & Francis, 2024, pp. 183 – 196
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Furlanetto, Elena; Grider, Phillip James
    Rather Pretty Legends : The Vanishing Gardens of Lafcadio Hearn and George Washington Cable
    In: Die Stadt: Eine gebaute Lebensform zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft / Beutmann, Jens; Clauss, Martin; Sandten, Cecile; Wolfram, Sabine (Eds.). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT), 2022, pp. 291 – 310
  • Furlanetto, Elena; Tüfekcioglu, Zeynep
    Istanbul in the Turkish Novel : Ambiguity and Resistance
    In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies / Tambling, Jeremy (Eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 1 – 11
    DOI
  • Furlanetto, Elena; Shahi, Deepshikha
    The American Discourse on Sufism : On the Resilience of ‘Mystical Islam’
    In: Sufism: A Theoretical Intervention in Global International Relations / Shahi, Deepshikha (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, pp. 161 – 180
    DOI
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    "As rare as rubies” : did Salman Rushdie invent Turkish American-Literature?
    In: Postcolonial gateways and walls: under construction / Tunca, Daria; Wilson, Janet (Eds.). Leiden ; Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2017, pp. 21 – 40
    DOI
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    Walt Whitman’s ‘Sea Drift’ cluster : the encounter of Sufi and American selves at Paumanok
    In: Harbors, flows, and migrations: the USA in/and the world / Biennial International Conference of A.I.S.N.A(the Italian Association of American Studies) ; Naples, Italy, 24.-26.09.2015 / Bavaro, Vincenzo; Fusco, Gianna; Fusco, Serena; Izzo, Donatella (Eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 95 – 110
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    "Imagine a country where we are all equal" : imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Elif Shafak's Ottoman Utopia
    In: Post-empire imaginaries?: Anglophone literature, history, and the demise of empires / Buchenau, Barbara; Richter, Virginia (Eds.). Leiden [u.a.]: Brill, 2015, pp. 159 – 180
    DOI
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Hassan, Zohra; Meinel, Dietmar; Furlanetto, Elena; Leyda, Julia
    Urbanität Neu Denken? : Provokationen aus der nordamerikanischen Gegenwartskultur
    In: Neu gedacht und neu gemacht: Lehrideen aus der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Duisburg ; Essen: Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2015, pp. 54 – 59
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    Voices from Anglophone Turkey : the reasons for English in contemporary Turkish literature
    In: Literature in an intercultural perspective / Antonič, Nives Zudič (Eds.). Koper: University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre, Annales University Press, 2015, pp. 109 – 128

    • Thesis

  • Furlanetto, Elena
    Towards Turkish American literature : narratives of multiculturalism in post-imperial Turkey
    Frankfurt am Main, 2017
    (Interamericana ; 10)
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)

    • Encyclopedia entries

  • Buchenau, Barbara; Furlanetto, Elena
    Atlantic History : Nation and Empire in Northern Atlantic History
    In: Oxford Bobliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019
    DOI

    • Reviews

  • Furlanetto, Elena
    How to Hide an Empire : A Short History of the Greater United States
    In: Review of International American Studies: University of Silesia Press, Vol. 13, 2020, Nr. 2, pp. 215 – 220
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    Michaela Keck: Deliberately Out of Bounds. Women’s Work on Classic Myth in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Heidelberg: Winter, 2018)
    In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology = Zeitschrift für englische Philologie. Berlin: de Gruyter, Vol. 137, 2019, Nr. 2, pp. 373 – 376
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Furlanetto, Elena
    Francesca de Lucia. Italian American Cultural Fictions. From Diaspora to Globalization. Bern, Peter Lang 2017
    In: American Studies in Scandinavia: Nordic Association for American Studies, Vol. 50, 2018, Nr. 2, pp. 117 – 120
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Early American Studies
  • Atlantic Studies
  • Postcolonial Literatures
  • Turkish American Literature
  • Film Studies
  • Islam and the US
  • Poetry

Principal Investigator

DFG Research Unit 2600 “Ambiguity and Difference: Historical and Cultural Dynamics.” 2019-2025
Ambiguity https://www.uni-due.de/forschungsgruppe_2600/

Subproject: “The Ambiguous Century: Gender, ‘Movements,’ and Ambiguity Aesthetics in the 19th century United States”

 

Co-organizer (Antragstellerin)
DFG Research Network “Voices & Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600-1865,” 2021-2014, with Dr. Ilka Brasch (Leibniz University Hannover)

https://www.uni-due.de/humanities/voicesandagencies/