lucio.decapitani@unive.it
Lucio De Capitani is a tenure-track researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research and teaching interests include Anglophone, colonial, postcolonial, and Indigenous literatures (particularly the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Cherie Dimaline), theories of world literature, connections between anthropology and literary studies, as well as ecocriticism and speculative fiction, with a focus on cli-fi, solarpunk, abolitionist, utopian, and dystopian imaginaries. He is currently collaborating with the Eco-Storytelling: A Digital Toolbox for the English Classroom for Building a Climate-Just Future project, the Anthropocene Commons network, and the scientific journal Il Tolomeo: A Postcolonial Studies Journal (deputy editor in chief). He is a board member and treasurer of AISCLI (Italian Association for the Study of English Language Cultures and Literatures).