Caterina Colomba

Caterina Colomba is a Research Fellow (RTDB) at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York, for the academic year 2015-16. She holds a PhD in postcolonial studies (2007) and has been the recipient of several awards, including an Australia-Europe scholarship for pursuing academic research in Australia. She holds two Masters of Arts from Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne and in 2008 she was an adjunct Research Fellow within the Australian Research Institute at Curtin University of Technology (Perth). She has published essays and articles on English literature/s and, in particular, on Australian literature and culture, and translated stories and Aboriginal myths.
She has recently translated into Italian M. Oliphant et al., "Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign: A Book of Appreciation" ("Romanziere del regno della regina Vittoria. Un libro di apprezzamenti", Mimesis, 2021). In 2016 she edited the volume "Pride and Prejudice: A Bicentennial Bricolage" (Forum, Udine) which includes her contribution “Dis/covering Characters: Clothes and Clothing in Pride and Prejudice and its Filmic Adaptations”.

Among her other publications:
- “History as Sharing Stories: Crossing the Cultural Divide Through Kim Scott’s Fiction”, in Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 17:2 (Fall 2011);
- “Art in Life/Life in Art. The “Catastrophe of Colonialism” in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting” in Living Art. Essays on Words and the World, edited by David Lucking, libreriauniversitaria.it, 2016;
- Righting 'herstory' in Margaret Atwood’s "Alias Grace" and Sarah Polley’s screen adaptation”, RVS - Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, XXV, 49, 2020, pp. 57-74;
- “Questioning Master Narratives of ‘Civility’ and ‘Savagery’: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Beach of Falesá” and The Ebb-Tide”, RSV - Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, XXIV, 48, 2019, pp. 87-106;
- “An Environmental Reading of David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon” in A. Riem Natale and J. Thieme (eds.) Ecology and Partnership Studies in Anglophone Literatures, Forum, Udine, 2020, pp. 39-56.