Francesca MussiFrancesca Mussi has recently joined the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Sapienza University of Rome as Adjunct Lecturer (docente a contratto) in English Literature, and is also "Cultore della Materia" in English Literature in the Department of hilology, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Pisa. In 2021, she completed a Leverhulme ECR fellowship in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University, which led to two articles, "Land and Storytelling: Indigenous Pathways towards Justice, Healing and Spiritual Resurgence" (Journal of Commonwealth Literature in 2021), and "North American Indigenous Perceptions of the Apocalypse and a Renewal of Kinship Relationships through the Imagination" (Between in 2022). Her research interests also include decolonial theory, settler colonial studies, gender studies, trauma studies, ecocriticism, and South African literature. In May 2020 her first book Literary Legacies of the South African TRC: Fictional Journeys into Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation was published by Palgrave Macmillan and demonstrated the value of the TRC as a literary subject in contemporary South African fiction. Currently, she is also senior editor of the Postcolonial Studies Association's Newsletter. Read More Read Less