Valentina Adami

Valentina Adami is a Researcher of English Language at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, a position she has held since September 2021. Previously, she served as a Post-Doc Research Assistant at the University of Verona and an Adjunct Professor at the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen.

Her research focuses on interdisciplinary intersections:

• Ecolinguistics & Ecocriticism: Language of environmental rights and earth jurisprudence.
• ELT & Environmental Education: Pedagogical use of young-adult fiction for environmental justice.
• Law, Literature & Trauma: Rights discourse and (post-)human identities in contemporary fiction.
• Digital Humanities: New directions in environmental rhetoric.

Her publications bridge environmental justice, legal studies, and literary analysis, with work on speculative fiction pedagogy, UN environmental documents, and bioethics in literature.