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Rachele Dini is a Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Coventry University’s CAS School of Social Sciences & Humanities. Her research focuses on intersections between gender, waste studies, domestic space, nostalgia, and advertising history. She holds a PhD from University College London (UCL), an MA from King’s College London, and a BA from the University of Cambridge.
Her key works include Consumerism, Waste, and Re-use in Twentieth-Century Fiction (2016) and “All-Electric Narratives” (2021), the latter winning the 2023 Emily Toth Award. She leads the British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project Cleaning through Crisis, analyzing domestic hygiene advertising during socio-political upheavals. Dini also chairs the British Association for American Studies’ Publications Committee and founded the International Literary Waste Studies Network.
Her research engages with mid-20th century modernism, postmillennial nostalgia, and queer/feminist reappropriations of domestic practices. She has been featured on BBC Radio and Swiss print media, and her work critiques politico-commercial narratives in literature and advertising.
