Katrin Wehling-Giorgi

Dr. Wehling-Giorgi is Associate Professor in Italian Studies and Director of the MA in Languages, Literature and Cultures at Durham University. Her first book, Gadda and Beckett: Storytelling, Subjectivity and Fracture, published in 2014 with Legenda's Italian Perspectives Series, won the Gadda First Prize.

She has published widely on post-WWII and contemporary women’s writing including Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Goliarda Sapienza, Elena Ferrante, Toni Morrison and Alice Sebold. She has co-edited a collection of critical essays on Goliarda Sapienza and, together with Tiziana de Rogatis and Stiliana Milkova, a Special Journal Issue on Elena Ferrante in a Global Context. She is currently co-editing the first volume of critical essays on Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women's Writing (forthcoming with Sapienza University Press in 2022) and guest-editing a Special Issue on Comparative Approaches to Elena Ferrante: Traumas, Bodies, Languages for the journal Romance Studies.