Alessandra Di Maio

Alessandra Di Maio is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of
Palermo, Italy. She divides her time between Italy and the U.S., where she taught at several universities after earning her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is currently working on a project on African Italian literature and the Black Mediterranean. Among her publications are Tutuola at the University. The Italian Voice of a Yoruba Ancestor (2000); An African Renaissance (2006); Wor(l)ds in Progress. A Study of Contemporary Migrant Writings (2008); and Dedica a Wole Soyinka (2012). She has translated into Italian the work of Nuruddin Farah, Chris Abani, Caryl Phillips, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.