Simona Adinolfi
Univ.-Ass. Dr.
Research and teaching interests
- Narrative Theory
- Critical Posthumanism
- Literature of Migration
- Media Representations of Migration
- Social Media Studies
- Memory Studies
- Transmedial Representations of Old Age
Current Research Projects
- OnLies: Lies Online in Contemporary Fiction (second book project)
- Narrating Migration in the 21st Century
CV
Currently: University Assistant (Postdoc), Department of English, University of Innsbruck
2024-2026: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, MeDiMi Project, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2021-2024: PhD Candidate, Ghent University. Phd project “Narrating Migration in the 21st Century: A Posthumanist Approach to Literatue of Migration”. Member of the Horizon 2020 Project Opportunities
2020-2021: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiterin, Wuppertal University.
Selected Publications (ORCiD: 0000-0002-3123-0189)
1) Adinolfi, Simona. “Narrating refugees at sea: Remediated memories of migration in the Italian media”, Memory, Media & Mind, e21, 2026. doi:10.1017/mem.2026.10045.
2) Adinolfi, Simona. “Migration”, Genealogy of the Posthuman, Critical Posthumanist Network, 18 February 2025, https://criticalposthumanism.net/migration.
3) Adinolfi, Simona. “Colliding Forms in Postapocalyptic Novels of Migration”, Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap (CLW), Vol. 15, 2024. doi.org/10.62956/nfcpz561.
4) Adinolfi, Simona. “Altered Narration. Unreliability in Narrators with Alzheimer’s Disease, In Poetics of Disturbances. Narratives of Non-normative Bodies and Minds, edited by Deborah de Muijnck, Jessica Jumpertz, Ralf Schneider, and Teresa Turnbull. Brill, 142–158. doi.org/10.1163/9789004519886_009.