MALANDRINO RAFFAELLA

Professore Associato

Orari di ricevimento

Venerdi 10:00-12:00 piattaforma Teams o in presenza, Ex- Distretto Militare, SDS Ragusa Ibla, Stanza 6 , Via Solarino - 97100 Sabato 8:00-10:00 piattaforma Teams

Curriculum

Raffaella Malandrino



Current Position

Associate Professor of Anglo-American Literatures
(s.s.d. L-LIN 11) at DISUM; Department of Humanities, University of Catania - SDU Ragusa, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Courses: Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States; Transnational English; English Culture and Literature I Degree course in Language and Cultural Mediation (L-12).



Raffaella Malandrino is Associate Professor of Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States and Transnational
English at the University of Catania, SDU of Ragusa, Italy. Her research fields comprise both North American
and South Asian literary cultures, gender studies, and transnational literatures, with a critical and theoretical
focus on diasporas, migrations, and border theories. She is author of two monographs, Engendering Transatlantic Literary Configurations. South Asian Women’ s Texts in the Nation and in Diaspora (Le Balene, 2017), about multicultural anthologies in the United States and India, and Orizzonti di transito. L’opera di Jhumpa Lahiri tra l’Italia e gli Stati Uniti (Ombre Corte, 2022), about the translinguistic creative phase of the
author Jhumpa Lahiri; she has written essays on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ben Lerner, Bharati Mukherjee, E. A. Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Amitav Ghosh and Allen Ginsberg. She has edited the introduction and the Italian translation of a 1913 pamphlet on Woman Suffrage in the USA, and she is currently working on Indian spiritualities in the USA, and on the literary and cultural representation of gurus and spiritual leaders from India in the Anglo-American spaces.
























CURRICULUM VITAE
Raffaella Malandrino
Tel.+39 349 7221037
E-mail rmalandr@unict.it; malandrinoraffaella@gmail.com

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2024-PRES. Associate Professor Anglo-American Literatures (10/L1, SSD L-LIN/11)
2021-2024. Senior Researcher (RTD Type B) Anglo-American Languages and Literatures (10/L1, SSD L-LIN/11)
2018-2021. Junior Researcher (RTD Type A) Anglo-American Languages and Literatures (10/L1, SSD L-LIN/11)

2020 received the National Scientific Qualification as an Associate Professor, ASN 2018, SC 10/L1 Measurements.


ACADEMIC FORMATION

2010. Ph.D. in Comparative Literatures, University of Naples “L’Orientale.” Title of Dissertation: Engendering Transatlantic Literary Configurations: The Case of India in the Anthologies of Women Writers in the Nation and in Diaspora. SSD L-LIN/11, L-FIL-LET/14. Research Director: Prof. D. Izzo.
2004. Degree (former Italian University system) in Comparative Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” Four-year study of Anglo-American language and literature and Hindi language and literature. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude. Dissertation in Anglo-American literature: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond. The geographies of the South Asian diaspora in Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories.

RESEARCH GRANTS/BURSARIES AWARDED

Dec. 2016. Research Grant John Fitzgerald Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany) - (awarded in 2015, stay 27 Nov. - 11 Dec. 2016).
July 2008- June 2009. International Mobility Research Grant, bilateral agreement Italy/India, University of Naples “L’Orientale.”: research stay in Calcutta (India), Jadavpur University and University of Calcutta. Further research carried out in New Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters).
July 2003. Full Bursary for the attendance of the Summer School of Literary Translation, British Centre for Literary Translation, Girton College, Cambridge University, Cambridge (UK), 13-19 July 2003.
Sept. -Oct. 2000. Study Bursary - University of Naples “L’Orientale” for the attendance of a course of Hindi language, DIFL-Dante Institute of Foreign Languages, Jaipur, India.

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
2025. Certified Attendance. AISNA (Italian Association of North American Studies) International Conference, Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West, University of Bergamo, 11-13 Sept. 2025.
Jan. 2025 Research stay, British Library and SOAS University (School of Oriental and African Studies) London, UK.
Jan. 2024 Research stay, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.
Aug. 2024 Research stay, British Library and SOAS University (School of Oriental and African Studies) London, UK.
June 2022 Research stay, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany)
2018-2019/2022. Professional training courses: “Professional training and development for type A RTD Junior Researchers,” Nov. 2018-May 2019. “Professional training and development course for type B RTD Senior Researcher,” Mar.-May 2022, University of Catania.
June-July 2018. Attendance (auditor) Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theory, “The Human in Question”, University of Bologna, 25 June-6 July 2018.
Dec. 2018 Attendance (with presentation) Intra-departmental Seminars Cycle A.A.2018-19, DISUM, Department of Humanities, University of Catania, 29 Nov. 2018.
Sept. 2010. Attendance (auditor), The South Asian Short Story Conference. Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury (UK), 10 Sept. 2010.
Jan.-Apr. 2008. Research stay, New York Public Library, Bobst Library (New York University), Baruch College (CUNY) and Columbia University, New York (USA). Attendance of classes, conferences and seminars at the Centre for the Humanities at CUNY, Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University.
July-Aug. 2007. Intensive Hindi language course at Hindi Guru Language Institute, New Delhi (India). Further research stay at Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters), New Delhi.
May 2007. Certified attendance/ Excellence course Migration and Diaspora: Cultural Theory and Aesthetic Practice, taught by Prof. Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Macerata, 21-25 may 2007.
Sept. 2006. Attendance (auditor) IV Scientific Conference, Associazione per gli Studi di Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura, Il personaggio: figure della dissolvenza e della permanenza-Character in Literature: Patterns of Evanescence and Permanence, University of Turin, 14-16 Sept. 2006.
July-Aug. 2006. Research stay, New York Public Library and Bobst Library (New York University), New York (USA).
July-Sept. 2005. Research stay New York Public Library and Bobst Library (New York University), New York, USA.
Mar. 2003. Research stay University of Cork City, Cork, Ireland.
Aug.-Dec. 2002. Research stay Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Nov. 2001-May 2002. International Internship European Mobility Program “Leonardo”, Cork, Ireland.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2024-2027. Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania/SDS Ragusa. PIAno di inCEntivi per la RIcerca di Ateneo, “Disobbedienti, ribelli e sovversive nelle letterature tra Oriente e Occidente dalla fine dell’Ottocento a oggi – DIRIS – (Unruly, Rebel and Subversive Women in Literary Cultures between the East and the West: from the End of the XIX Century to the Present.” Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Maria Rizzarelli.

2019-2021. Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania/SDS Ragusa, “Prometeo III - Transnational Intellectual Networks between the Franco-Prussian War and the end of II World War”. Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Stefano Rapisarda.

2020-2022. Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania/SDS Ragusa. PIAno di inCEntivi per la RIcerca di Ateneo, “Alter/Idem. Identities, diversities, authorships in contemporary Anglo-American writings”. Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Salvatore Marano.

2019-2020. Individual research project, Department of Humanities, University of Catania /SDS Ragusa Prometeo I, “Borderscapes: Cross-border Literary Configurations in South Asian American Fiction”.

2014-2020. Research Project FIR - University of Catania. “Guerre, conflitti e crisi all’origine di contaminazioni tra culture e lingue: formazione di nuovi ‘confini’ e nuove espressioni culturali e linguistiche (Wars, Conflicts, Crises as main sources of Contaminations among Cultures and Languages: Formation of new Boundaries and new Cultural and Linguistic Expressions).” Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Gigliola Nocera.

2006-2017. Collaborative Research Projects, Department of Comparative and Linguistic Studies, University of Naples “L’Orientale.” Scientific Coordinator: Prof. D. Izzo.
- 2017. “Graphic Novel: Contesti Nazionali e Circolazione Globale”.
-2014-16. “Americanistica come Comparatistica: Traiettorie Storiche e Metodologiche”.
- 2011-13. “Per una Storiografia Comparata della Letteratura Angloamericana”.
- 2008-10. “KEYWORDS for Comparative American Studies”.
- 2006-8. “Modelli per una Prospettiva transnazionale negli studi letterari: gli Studi Americani tra comparatistica e globalizzazione”.

2006. Research Project PRIN (University of Naples “l'Orientale”, University of Bergamo, University of Pescara, University of Rome “La Sapienza”). Member of the Local Unit at the University of Naples “l’Orientale.” National Scientific Coordinator: Prof. D. Izzo. (Positive evaluation, project not financed).

Research groups/centres:

2022-pres. Member. Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies - “GENUS”, University of Catania, DISUM Department of Humanities
2023-pres. Member. “Passaggio a Nord-Ovest. Testi e Studi di Americanistica/ North-West Passage. Texts and American Studies” Inter-academic research network involving several universities: University of Bari, Cagliari, Calabria, Catania, L’Aquila, Messina, “L’Orientale” of Naples, Verona.

Editorial Committees/Scientific journals

(2018-pres.). Consulting Editor. RSA Journal. Journal of the Italian Association of North American Studies - AISNA; ISSN 1592-4467; Class A journal.
(2019-pres.) Member of the Editorial Board. de genere - Rivista di studi letterari, postcoloniali e di genere (de genere. Journal of literary, postcolonial and gender studies); ISSN 2465-2415; Class A Journal.
(2022- pres.). Member of the Editorial Board, book series “Passaggio a Nord-Ovest”, Agorà, Lugano.
(2020-pres.). Member of the Editorial Board, book series “Intelligere,” Agorà, Lugano.

SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS


“Between Homecoming and Displacement: Confronting Language, Self and Community in Ben Lerner's The Topeka School (2018).” Presentation at the Seminar “A Sense of Place: Geography, Space and Belonging in U.S. Literature,” University of Naples “L'Orientale,” 28 Oct. 2022.

“Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond. La diaspora indiana negli Stati Uniti attraverso i racconti di Jhumpa Lahiri.” Presentation at the Seminar “Asia allo specchio. Incontri culturali e immaginari letterari,” University of Cagliari, 13 Apr. 2023.

“Confini nazionali e contesti globali nei racconti di Jhumpa Lahiri”. Presentation at the Seminar “Racconti Americani,” University of Bari, 12 May 2023.

“Gli studi americani e le letterature della diaspora indiana: un orizzonte comparatistico.” Interdisciplinary Seminar at DISUM, Department of Humanities, University of Catania, 29 Nov. 2018.

Transiti, Diaspore, Rilocazioni. Voci letterarie dall’India agli Stati Uniti. Seminar Asian American: transiti e prospettive. American Intercultural Studies Seminars, University of Catania/SDU Ragusa, 24 Apr. 2013.



PAPER PRESENTATIONS - CONFERENCES

“Between Homecoming and Displacement. Confronting Language, Self and Community in The Topeka School by Ben Lerner.” International Conference Other_ Othernesses, University of Catania, 22-23 Sept. 2022.
“Shaking the Pattern. Working through Liminal States in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and Susan Glaspell’s A Jury of her Peers.” Panel Dwelling on Thresholds: Exploring, Trespassing Liminal Places, XXV AISNA International Conference Gate(d) Ways. Enclosures, Breaches and Mobilities Across U.S. Boundaries and Beyond, University of Catania, SDU Ragusa, 26-28 Sept. 2019.
“Trasfezioni testuali e network di ospitalità in The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) di Amitav Ghosh”, Conference Guerre, Conflitti e Nuovi Saperi (Wars, Conflicts, and New Epistemologies), University of Catania, SDU Ragusa, 1-2 Dec. 2017.

“The Children who Never Forgot the Experience of that Time: The Gendered Voice of Utopia in Louisa May Alcott’s Transcendental Wild Oats.” Panel Next of Kin? Physiological Attachments in American Literature and Culture, XXIV AISNA International Conference The US and the World We Inhabit, University of Milan, 27-30 Sept. 2017.

“Tale-Telling Transfections in an Interconnected World: Figuring Hospitality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome”. Panel Contagious Embraces, XXIII AISNA International Conference Harbors. Flows and Migrations of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas. The U.S.A. in/and the World, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, 24-26 Sept. 2015.

Round Table Participant. Conference Gender e Queerdom. I linguaggi delle Identità (Gender and Queerdom. The Languages of Identity). University of Bergamo, 12-13 Nov. 2009.

“Adrift from the Hudson to the Ganges: A Reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Indian Journals”. Panel Queer Migrations, XIX AISNA International Conference U.S.A.: Identities, Cultures and Politics in National, Transnational and Global Perspectives, University of Macerata, 4-6 Oct. 2007.

“Troping Home and Space in the South Asian American Diaspora. A Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Mrs. Sen’s’”. Panel Asian American Workshop, XVIII AISNA International Conference American Solitudes: Individual, National, Transnational, University of Bari, 4-6 Oct. 2005.

Workshops
“Anglo-American Literary Texts in Transnational and Global Perspective(s)”. Online Webinar and Reading Workshop. University of Catania, SDS Ragusa. 15-19 Jan. 2026
Orientation and Tutoring
2022-PRES. – Member - Departmental Guidance Working Group
University of Catania – (DISUM Department of Humanities)
Participation in Open Days and Orientation Fairs (presentation of educational offerings, entrance exams, and career opportunities)
[April/May 2026] – Lead Lecturer for Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation - Workshops
University of Catania – Salone dell' Orientamento (Orientation Fair)
“E Pluribus Unum(?). Sguardi sulla letteratura multietnica degli Stati Uniti” 17 Apr.
“Fumetto e Graphic Novel nella letteratura statunitense.” 5 May


ACADEMIC TEACHING

A.A. 2023-PRESENT: as RTDB Type (Senior) Researcher and Associate Professor (since 2024).

Multiethnic Literature of the United States L-LIN/11 (9 ECTS, 54 hrs), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania.

Transnational English L-LIN/11 (9 ECTS, 54 hrs), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania.

English Culture and Literature I L-LIN 10 (3 ECTS, 18 hrs) B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania.

A.A. 2021-2023:
Multiethnic Literature of the United States L-LIN/11 (9 ECTS, 54 hrs), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania.

Transnational English L-LIN/11 (9 ECTS, 54 hrs), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania.

A.A. 2020-2021 As a RTDA Type (Junior) Researcher

English Language and Translation II (SSD L-LIN/12), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania. (6 ECTS, 36 hrs).
Contemporary American Literature (SSD L-LIN/11), M.A. Degree Course in Science of Language for Interculture and Education (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).

A.A. 2019-2020. Specialized Languages and Anglo-American Translation. (SSD L-LIN/11), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania. (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).
Contemporary American Literature (SSD L-LIN/11), M.A. Degree Course in Science of Language for Interculture and Education (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).

A.A. 2018-2019. Anglo-American Language II (SSD L-LIN/11), M.A. Degree Course in European and Extra-European Languages and Cultures (9 ECTS, 54 hrs). SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania. (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).
Multiethnic Literature of the United States (SSD L-LIN/11), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania. (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).


A.A. 2017-2018 Specialized Languages and Anglo-American Translation. (SSD L-LIN/11), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania. (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).
Anglo- American Language (SSD L-LIN/11) I (9 ECTS, 54 ore) and II (9 ECTS, 54 hrs), M.A. Degree Course in European and Extra- European Languages and Cultures (9 ECTS, 54 hrs)

A.A. 2006-2008/2013-2018 as an Adjunct Professor


A.A. 2015-2017. Specialized Languages and Anglo-American Translation. (SSD L-LIN/11), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania. (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).
Anglo- American Language (SSD L-LIN/11) I (9 ECTS, 54 hrs), M.A. Degree Course in European and Extra- European Languages and Cultures (9 ECTS, 54 hrs) and II (9 ECTS, 54 hrs),

A.A. 2013-2014. Anglo- American Language (SSD L-LIN/11) I (9 ECTS, 54 hrs), M.A. Degree Course in European and Extra- European Languages and Cultures (9 ECTS, 54 hrs) and II (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).

A.A. 2013-2014. Taught “Teaching Anglophone Literary Cultures,” as a part of the formative activities required for the achievement of PAS (Percorso Abilitante Speciale/Qualification for Teaching), for class A345, Foreign Languages (English), Lower Secondary School. SDU Foreign Languages and Literatures Ragusa, Department of Humanities, DISUM, University of Catania (12 hrs, 2 ECTS).

A.A. 2014-2015. English Language for Tourism (9 ECTS, 54 hrs, SSD L-LIN 12), B.A. Degree Course for Tour Operators. University of Catania, Department of Educational Sciences.

A.A. 2012-2013. Anglo- American Language (SSD L-LIN/11), B.A. Degree Course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).
Anglo- American Language (SSD L-LIN/11) I (9 ECTS, 54 hrs), M.A. Degree Course in European and Extra- European Languages and Cultures (7 ECTS, 48 hrs) and II (9 ECTS, 54 hrs).

A.A. 2007-2008. Awarded a grant for Junior and Senior Tutorial Activities:
- Seminar (25 hrs) of Early American Literature - I-year students (SSD L-LIN/11).
- Tutorial/teaching activities Anglo-American Language and Literature - I-year students (SSD L-LIN/11).
- Orientation to incoming and enrolled students - Degree Course in Comparative Languages and Cultures.
University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. Department of Literatures and Philosophy.


A.A. 2006-2007. Teaching Assistant. English Language I (SSD L-LIN/12), Degree Course in Comparative languages and Cultures (50 hrs, 8 ECTS).
University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. Department of Literatures and Philosophy.


A.A. 2006- 2007. Awarded a grant for Junior and Senior Tutorial Activities:
- Seminar (25 hrs) Asian American Literature (SSD L-LIN/11) - III-year students, Degree course in Comparative languages and Cultures.
- Tutorial Lessons in Anglo-American Language and Literature (SSD L-LIN/11), I-year students. Degree Course in Comparative Languages and Cultures.
University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. Department of Literatures and Philosophy.




PUBLICATIONS


Monographs

Malandrino, R. (2022). Orizzonti di Transito. L'Opera di Jhumpa Lahiri tra l'Italia e gli Stati Uniti, Ombre Corte, Verona. ISBN 9788869482274, pp. 135.
Malandrino, R. (2017). Engendering Transnational Literary Configurations. South Asian Women’ s Texts in the Nation and in Diaspora. Napoli, La Scuola di Pitagora Editrice, ISBN 978-88-6542-606-7, pp. 250.

Essays in volumes

Upcoming Malandrino, R. (2026) “Urban romance” da New Delhi al New Yorker. Cosmopolitica letteraria e gender nel racconto “Aphrodisiac” (2011) di Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, eds. Stefania Arcara, Carminella Sipala, Luca Capponcelli, Duetredue edizioni, Catania, 2026.
Malandrino, R. (2025) Dall’Upper East Side, con uno sguardo all’India. I racconti newyorkesi di Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In Racconti americani, ed. Cristina Consiglio, Agorà, Lugano, pp. 113-130. ISBN 979-12-80508-78-2
Malandrino, R. (2024). Between Homecoming and Displacement: Self, Language and Community in The Topeka School by Ben Lerner. In Other Americas, eds. Donatella Izzo and Gigliola Nocera, Agorà, Lugano, pp. 57-98. ISBN 9791280508232
Malandrino, R. (2020). “Tra memoria coloniale e orizzonti globali. Conflitti, lacerazioni e trasmigrazioni in The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) di Amitav Ghosh”. In Guerre, conflitti e crisi. Confinamenti e contaminazioni al fronte delle culture globali, eds. G. Nocera, Lugano, Agorà, pp. 1-13. ISBN 978 88895266123.
Malandrino, R. (2014). “Textual Coalitions: Le antologie americane tra letteratura nazionale e multiculturalismo”. In Parole e sconfinamenti, eds. Massimo Sturiale and Giuseppe Traina, Leonforte, Euno Edizioni, 2014, pp. 253-268. ISBN 9788868590260.
Malandrino, R. (2008). “Mitografie di riscatto femminile: Bandit Queen di Shekhar Kapur”. In Schermi indiani, linguaggi planetari, eds. Lidia Curti and Susanna Poole, Roma, Aracne Editrice, 2008, pp. 139-154. ISBN 9788854817654.
Malandrino, R. (2009). “Adrift from the Hudson to the Ganges: A Reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Indian Journals”. In Queerdom. Gender Displacements in a Transnational Context, eds. Mario Corona and Donatella Izzo, Bergamo, Il Sestante, 2009, pp. 141-158. ISBN 8896333040.
Malandrino, R. (2007). “Troping Home and Space in the South Asian American Diaspora. A Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Mrs. Sen’s’”. In American Solitudes: Individual, National, Transnational, eds. D. Izzo, G. Mariani, P. Zaccaria, Roma, Carocci, 2007, pp. 430-435. ISBN 8843044338.
Malandrino, R. (2006). “Narrare l’India Attraverso la Diaspora: ‘A Real Durwan’ e ‘The Treatment of Bibi Haldar’ di Jhumpa Lahiri”. In Suzie Wong non abita più qui. La letteratura delle minoranze asiatiche negli Stati Uniti, ed. Donatella Izzo, Milano, Shake, 2006, pp. 285-317. ISBN 9788888865287.


Articles in Scientific Journals

Malandrino, R. (2020). “Between Colonial Enterprises and Imperialist Dystopias: Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome (1995)”. Iperstoria – Testi Letterature Linguaggi, Vol. XV, Spring/Summer 2020, pp.323-344. ISSN 2281-4582 (Class A journal).
Malandrino, R. (2020). “Gli studi americani e le letterature della diaspora indiana: un orizzonte comparatistico”. América Crítica, Vol. 4, n. 1, 2020, pp. 9-15. ISSN 2532-6724
Malandrino, R. (2019). “Un capitolo da un romanzo mai scritto. La testualità della voce materna in Transcendental Wild Oats (1873) di Louisa May Alcott”. Ácoma. Rivista di Studi Nordamericani, 17 n.s., Autunno/Inverno 2019, pp. 146-159. ISSN 2421-423X. (Class A journal).
Malandrino, R. (2018). “A turning point. La svolta transculturale di Jhumpa Lahiri in 'In altre parole'”. Iperstoria – Testi Letterature Linguaggi. Vol. XII, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 144-154. ISSN 2281-4582. (Class A journal).
Malandrino, R. (2015). “Authorizing for Oneself a Place in the World. Coming of Age in Jhumpa Lahiri’s and Mira Nair’s The Namesake”. RSA Journal - Rivista di Studi Americani, Vol. 26, 2015, pp. 59-74. ISSN-1592-4467. (Class A journal).
Malandrino, R. (2007). “Atti di traduzione culturale. La diaspora indo-americana in Interpreter of Maladies di Jhumpa Lahiri”. Ácoma. Rivista di Studi Nordamericani, 33, 2007, pp. 104-119. ISBN 978-88-88865-20-1. (Class A journal).
Malandrino, R. (2005). “Immigrant Narratives of an Engendered American Dream: A Reading of Bharati Mukherjee’s The Middleman and Other Stories.” Anglistica - AION, 1-2, 2005, pp. 107-124. ISSN 1125-1077. (Republished in Bharati Mukherjee: Critical Perspectives, ed. Somdatta Mandal, New Delhi, Pencraft International, 2010, pp. 158-172. ISBN 978-8190941655).

Book Reviews

Malandrino, R. (2014). Edgar Allan Poe, Racconti Sensazionali, edited by Carlo Martinez, La Questione Romantica, Rivista Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici, VI, 1-2, pp. 139-141. ISBN 9788820766375.

Translations

Malandrino, R. (2024). Twenty-Five Answers/Venticinque perché. Donne e Suffragio: Stati Uniti, 1912. Ed. Gigliola Nocera, Agorà, Lugano, 146 pp. ISBN 9791280508218. (translation, bio-bibliographic notes, afterword).



OTHER ACTIVITIES

Dec. 2004-Apr. 2005. Italian Embassy, New Delhi, India
(Postgraduate Internship – Framework: Agreement between the Italian Ministry of External Affairs and the Italian Universities (University of Naples “l’Orientale”) MAE-CRUI:
Political Researcher at the Consular Wing of the Italian Embassy of New Delhi. Translation activities (Italian/English, English/Italian, Hindi/Italian) at several Embassy Wings and at the Italian Institute of Culture.
Interpreter/Translator for Italian scholars and journalists during conferences, exhibitions and seminars.

KNOWN LANGUAGES

Italian – Native language
English – Fluent, written and spoken
Hindi/Urdu – Intermediate level, written and spoken
Urdu – Intermediate level, spoken