American Nightmares: Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction - Paperback
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Investigates dystopia in twenty-first-century US fiction using a methodological framework based on sociology, and theorizes a correlation between the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American exceptionalism and a renewed interest in dystopian worlds.
Valentina Romanzi is Adjunct Professor of English literature and culture at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and of English at the University of Verona, Italy. She holds a PhD in Transcultural Studies in the Humanities from the University of Bergamo. She specializes in contemporary popular culture, with a particular focus on utopias, dystopias and (post-)apocalyptic fiction. In 2021, she published Contaminazioni. Un approccio interdisciplinare, a collection of essays co-edited with Alessandro Secomandi and Danilo Serra. She is an editor at Iperstoria. Journal of American and English Studies.
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