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Stefania Arcara is an Associate Professor of English Literature in the Department of Humanities at the University of Catania, where she has been teaching since the 1999-2000 academic year. She holds a PhD from the University of Warwick and has held research positions in Italy and the USA. She currently teaches Gender Studies, Comparative English Literatures and Cultures, and English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration, and has previously taught at both the Catania and Ragusa campuses.
Her research interests are deeply rooted in feminist and gender studies, with a focus on:
- Feminist literary criticism and women's writing
- Seventeenth-century English women's writing
- Victorian poetry, Pre-Raphaelitism, and Hellenism
- Travel literature and literary translation
- Discourses on sexuality and English suffragism
- 1970s Anglophone feminism
Although no recent articles are listed in the provided text, her sustained research focus is evident through her extensive thesis supervision, editorial work, and co-founding of the Manastabal feminist blog.
Stefania Arcara is actively involved in academic leadership and service:
- President of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (GENUS), which she co-founded in 2014
- Member of the Department of Humanities Board (2020-2022)
- Coordinator of the interdepartmental GenderLab project (2013-2016)
- National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor (2020)
She advises a large number of MA students, guiding theses on prominent feminist figures such as Virginia Woolf, Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Elizabeth I. She is also a member of several academic associations including AIA, ANDA, ESSE, SIL, and the History and Translation Network, and serves on the scientific board of the lumen book series. She co-edits the feminist blog Manastabal and is on the International Advisory Board of the journal INTRALINEA.
She leads and participates in research groups and initiatives focused on gender studies, including the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (GENUS) and the GenderLab workshops, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and training in gender issues.
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