Anna Chiafele is an Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Auburn University, in Alabama. Chiafele has published a monograph on Luigi Malerba and scholarly articles on Italian writers, such as Massimo Carlotto, Elisabetta Bucciarelli, Ugo Riccarelli, and Antonio Scurati. Her articles have appeared in Italica, Quaderni di Italianistica, Rivista di Studi Italiani and Ecozon@. Her most recent interests focus on Italian climate fiction in conjunction with material ecocriticism. She recently published  “Climate Change: Eco-Dystopia in Antonio Scurati's La seconda mezzanotte” in Quaderni d’Italianistica. Together with Canadian writer Lisa Pike, Chiafele published a translation of Italian author Silvana La Spina’s 1998 novel, Penelope (Bordighera Press 2021).