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.

Further information may also be found on Elena Furlanetto's Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elena-Furlanetto?ev=hdr_xprf