Elena Margarita Past
Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Wayne State University, Detroit
United States

Wayne State University, United States

elenapast@wayne.edu

Elena Past is Associate Professor of Italian at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Her research focuses on contemporary Italian literature and film, including crime fiction, posthumanism, and ecocriticism. Her book, Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction, was published by University of Toronto Press in 2012, and her articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Italica, Quaderni d’italianistica, and ISLE, among other places. Current projects include a book on ecology and Italian cinema and a co-edited volume (with Deborah Amberson) on animals and the posthuman in Italian literature and film.