Rachele Dini

I am a twentieth-century and contemporary literary and cultural studies scholar based in London (UK).

My areas of expertise include

ecocriticism, gender and sexuality studies, waste studies, and domestic space studies. I have a particular interest in the politics and representation of housework, post-1945 US literature, the history of advertising, the politics of nostalgia, and the place of mid-century culture in the public imagination. My work is informed by my previous career in market research and advertising.

I am the founder of the International Literary Waste Studies Network, which brings together scholars working on waste in literature across genres, forms, historical periods, and geographic regions. I am also the chair of British Association for American Studies' Publications and Knowledge Exchange Executive Sub-Committee, and I sit on the editorial board of the journal Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-Horror and the Eco-Gothic.

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Having grown up between the US and Italy, and having now lived in the UK for twenty years, I am especially interested in the social construction of national identity, and the objects we use to communicate it.

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You can find recent work of mine here, here, and here.

You can find my upcoming and recent talks, podcasts, and keynotes here.

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My new book on time-saving appliances and domesticity in post-45 US lit came out in hardback on 4 November 2021!