Eleonora RAO | Curriculum

Eleonora Rao, Associate Professor of English at the University of Salerno since 2000. MA and a PhD in English Literature (University of Warwick, UK) and a Post doctorate (University of Toronto, Canada).

Rao’s main areas of research are as follows:

- Modernist literature
- Contemporary Canadian women writers (poetry and fiction)
- Transcultural Autobiographies and Memoirs
- Gender Studies

She has published essays on modernist writers (Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Anna Kavan), on female autobiographers (Eva Hoffman, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Fay Weldon, Doris Lessing, Christine Brooke Roose, Charlotte Perkins Gilman) and on contemporary re-writing of Shakespeare (Margaret Laurence, Gloria Naylor) in Italy and abroad. She has a volume on Margaret Atwood (New York,1994) and a few essays on contemporary Canadian and US authors: Margaret Laurence, Joy Kogawa, Daphne Marlatt, Smaro Kamboureli e Janice Kulyk Keefer, Alice Munro, Adrienne Rich. She is a member of AIA, AISNA, AISCLI, MLA, British Association of Canadian Studies, and of the Margaret Atwood Society. She is part of the board of OGEPO (Observatory for the diffusion of Gender Studies and Equal Opportunity Culture), University of Salerno.

She was organizer and chair of two panels on Margaret Atwood at MLA Conventions (Toronto, 1997 e San Francisco, 1998). She was Program Chair for the session “Writing Across Boundaries in Margaret Atwood’s Shorter Fiction” at the international conference on the Short Story, The Border as Fiction (York University, Canada, 2010).
She has served as President of the Margaret Atwood Society (USA) 2015-2018.

(CV: update in progress)