Elena Ritondale holds a PhD in Spanish Philology and is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She was a member of the working groups of the projects “Pedagogías de género. Educación, literatura y cultura en México (siglos XIX-XX)” of the IISUE-UNAM, and “Condición de extranjería. Escritoras latinoamericanas, entre América y Europa, en el siglo XXI”. Her most recent publications include: "Representación de la(s) violencia(s) en la posmodernidad mexicana. Vida privada y muerte pública" (2021) and “Travesías de la palabra: Dante Alighieri en la obra de Eduardo González Viaña y Yuri Herrera”, in Il folle volo. Las rutas transatlánticas de Dante Alighieri, Verbum (2022). Her main research lines are border studies, the literary representation of violence, the literature of migration, and literature and gender studies.
