Silvia BORASO

Position
Researcher
E-mail
silvia.boraso@unive.it
967157@stud.unive.it
Academic discipline
French Literature [FRAN-01/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/silvia.boraso(personal record)
Office
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dslcc
Where: Palazzo Cosulich

Office hours

The professor is available on Tuesday from 3:30 to 5:30 PM.
Students are kindly asked to schedule their appointment in advance by e-mail.

Teaching activity current year

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Laurea

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ MODERNE E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [R352]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)

Teaching activity previous years

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LM5]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Laurea

Activities and research skills

Publication highlights

Silvia BORASO Ritratti d’Haiti. Rappresentazione del paesaggio e appropriazione letteraria nei primi romanzi haitiani dell’Ottocento , Prospettive linguistiche e letterarie dell’isolamento, Napoli, UniorPress, pp. 29-40
2026, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5121331


Silvia Boraso Haïti : Terre et regards. Une analyse écopoétique du paysage chez les premiers romanciers (1859-1923) , Paris, Honoré Champion, vol. 18 (ISBN 9782745362933) (ISSN 2266-7148)
2025, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5094888


Silvia Boraso Deux romans haïtiens sur les ‘troubles’ de Saint-Domingue in LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE, vol. 27 (ISSN 2105-2557)
DOI 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5091969


Silvia Boraso La mère Françoise-Marguerite Patin, directrice et supérieure du monastère de la Visitation de Caen, vue à travers sa propre voix, les témoignages monastiques et sa correspondance avec Jean Eudes in PUBLIF@RUM, vol. 43, pp. 87-105 (ISSN 1824-7482)
2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5094887


Silvia Boraso Regards québécois sur Haïti. La visibilité d’Haïti dans la presse québécoise du XIXe siècle in CAHIERS ERTA, vol. 44, pp. 41-58 (ISSN 2300-4681)
DOI 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5108707


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Silvia Boraso has been a Researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice since 2025. Her research interests range from Francophone literatures, particularly from the Atlantic area, to colonial and decolonial studies, ecocriticism, digital humanities, and women’s autobiographical writing, with a special focus on seventeenth-century religious texts. She earned her PhD through a joint supervision agreement between Ca’ Foscari University and Université Paris-Est Créteil, receiving the SOCARE Award 2024 for her dissertation. She is currently the scientific coordinator of the EMAN website Paysages haïtiens and the project WHRAP – Writing Haiti. Racialized representations of Haiti in the Francophone Atlantic Press (1801-1915) (PNRR, Bando Young Researcher 2024). She also collaborates with the PRIN project Bringing out an invisible female literary corpus: religious writing in the French-speaking world at the time of the Counter-Reformation, as well as with the interuniversity research centers CRIAR and Visages. She serves on the editorial boards of the journals Il Tolomeo: A Postcolonial Studies Journal, Interfrancophonies, and CRIANDO. Previously, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Université de Haute-Alsace and taught Francophone literatures at Université Savoie-Mont Blanc and French literature and culture at the University of Genoa.

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