Beatrice Melodia Festa ha insegnato Letteratura Americana presso l’Università di Parma (2022–2025) ed è ricercatrice con incarico post-doc in Letteratura Anglo-Americana presso l’Università di Verona. I suoi interessi principali riguardano tecnologia e new media, intermedialità e adattamento cinematografico, l’opera di William Faulkner, la narrativa afroamericana contemporanea (Whitehead), la narrativa femminile tra Otto e Novecento (Alcott e Wharton) e la letteratura post‑9/11. La sua ricerca attuale include disability studies, le narrazioni della malattia e le pratiche di cura nella letteratura americana. Ha pubblicato le monografie The Evolution of Virtual Identity in American Literature (Ombre Corte, 2022), William Faulkner sul grande schermo (La Bottega Editoriale, 2023) e The Flâneur and Post‑9/11 Literature: Texturing 9/11 through Urban Walking in Contemporary American Fiction (F. & Timme, 2025). È membro della redazione di Iperstoria – Journal of American and English Studies.
Beatrice Melodia Festa taught American Literature at the University of Parma (2022–2025) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Anglo-American Literature at the University of Verona. Her main research interests include technology and new media, intermediality and film adaptation, the work of William Faulkner, contemporary African American fiction (Whitehead), women’s writing between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Alcott and Wharton), and post‑9/11 literature. Her current research focuses on disability studies, illness narratives, and practices of care in American literature. She is the author of the monographs The Evolution of Virtual Identity in American Literature (Ombre Corte, 2022), William Faulkner sul grande schermo (La Bottega Editoriale, 2023), and The Flâneur and Post‑9/11 Literature: Texturing 9/11 through Urban Walking in Contemporary American Fiction (F. & Timme, 2025), and serves on the editorial board of Iperstoria – Journal of American and English Studies.