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Chiara Cillerai is a Professor of First-Year Writing in the Department of Core Studies at St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. John’s University. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Communication Studies. Her research focuses on literary history, writing technologies, and early American manuscript publications, particularly exploring cosmopolitanism, transatlantic intellectual networks, and the intersection of historical and digital media. She has published widely on early American literature, manuscript studies, and pedagogical approaches to writing.
Her major scholarly works include Voice of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Writing and Culture (2017) and an in-progress monograph on Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson’s commonplace books. She frequently contributes to academic journals such as Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Early American Literature, and presents at conferences like the Society of Early Americanists and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
In teaching, Cillerai integrates multimodal digital forms (e.g., video, audio, social media) with 18th-century practices like commonplace books to engage students in modern composition and communication. Her courses, such as Reading and Writing in the Digital Age and Food Justice, emphasize critical analysis and innovative expression.
