Laura ALICINO

Laura Alicino is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (Global Fellowship) at the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University.

She is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She earned her PhD in Modern, Comparative, and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Bologna. She has also worked as a language tutor at the Modern Language Centre of King's College London.

Her research focuses primarily on the representation of violence in contemporary Spanish-American literatures, with a specific emphasis on intertextuality, genre blending, and documentary writing.

Her current Marie Curie research project, "SHAPE. Sharing the Pronoun. Extreme violence, social resistance and the shaping of cultural memory in Spanish American contemporary documentary poetry," explores the role of 21st-century Spanish-American documentary poetry as a form of community resistance in the collective construction of cultural memory regarding extreme violence in Latin America. Through an interdisciplinary approach that intersects literature, cultural history, and ethnography, SHAPE aims to develop a model for interpreting documentary poetry not only as an aesthetic expression but also as a tool capable of preserving a social memory of suffering and constructing new imaginaries for a better future.

SHAPE: https://pric.unive.it/projects/shape/home

She also studies precolonial and colonial Mexican literature. Using a philological approach that examines Nahuatl and Spanish codices, she primarily analyzes the concepts of war and conquest in the history of precolonial and colonial Mexico. Since 2021, she has been part of the international research project "War, Sacrifice, and Anthropophagy: New Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives" at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), coordinated by Dr. Gabriel Kenrick Kruell.