2024 Ex-position Talks 

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Title: The Ambiguous Century: Passing, Cross-Dressing, and Transgressing in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Speaker: Dr. Elena Furlanetto (Senior lecturer, University of Duisburg-Essen)

Time: 2–4 PM Friday, October 25, 2024
Venue: Online (registration link: forms.gle/GGzJMACaTGjfLvag7)

Hosted by Dr. Manuel Herrero-Puertas (National Taiwan University)

Born and raised in Italy, Elena Furlanetto earned her doctorate in Transnational/Transatlantic American Studies from the TU Dortmund in July 2015. She is the author of Towards Turkish American Literature: Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey (Peter Lang AG, 2017). She is the coordinator of the DFG Research Network “Voices and Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600-1865” (with Ilka Brasch) and a PI within the DFG Research Unit FOR 2600 “Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Historisch Kulturelle Dynamiken.” Elena Furlanetto's habilitation "Ambiguity: Dis/Ambiguated Texts and Selves in North America, 1643-1883" won the 2023 Rob Kroes Publication Award by the European Association of American Studies.