Maurizia Boscagli

Maurizia Boscagli is a Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with affiliations in Feminist Studies and Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on modernist literature, critical theory, feminist and gender theory, materialism, Marxism, migration, globalization, urban studies, and the environmental humanities. She directs COMMA (Center on Modern Culture, Materialism, and Aesthetics), which explores 20th and 21st-century culture through Marxist, feminist, queer, decolonial, and ecological frameworks.

Education: Ph.D., Brown University. Her recent work addresses plastic pollution, 1970s Italian Autonomia, and Virginia Woolf’s materialist approach to labor. She has authored books such as *Stuff Theory* (2014) and *Eye on the Flesh* (1996), and co-edited *Walter Benjamin and Magical Urbanism* (2011). COMMA’s initiatives include colloquia on topics like “EcoMarx” and “Biopolitics and Materialism,” with notable speakers including Silvia Federici and Etienne Balibar.

Research interests span Marxist theory, eco-criticism, and the intersections of gender, labor, and capitalism. Her current project explores the politics of work and non-work. Courses taught include *Cityscapes*, *Modern European Literature*, and *Feminist Interventions*.