Research areas
I am a scholar of modern and contemporary literature and visual cultures. I work primarily on the transnational circulation of people, texts, objects and cultural artifacts.
I have published widely on representations of contemporary migration, including the monograph Writing Migration through the Body (2018) and two co-edited volumes: Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative (2015) and Il confine liquido (2013).
I am passionate about finding new ways to share my work with diverse audiences. Since 2015 I have collaborated on a number of projects around Scotland’s role in the transatlantic sugar trade. In 2019 I established a network exploring the stories of empire and colonialism within five Scottish museums, called “Transnational Scotland”. I am academic lead on a major exhibition taking place at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews in 2022 called "Recollecting Empire".
I have also worked extensively on Italo Svevo, the literature of Trieste, and psychoanalytic literary theory. Within this field I published my first monograph Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini (2012) and co-edited the volume Freud and Italian Culture (2009).
I am co-editor of the Transnational Italian Cultures series (Liverpool University Press) and Section Editor for Comparative Literature for Modern Languages Open. I hold the Research Portfolio for the Society for Italian Studies (2019-2022), where I also direct a major EDI initiative.
In 2019 I won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures, and I will be on research leave between 2020-2022 working on a new book project entitled Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature.
I continue to welcome enquiries from postgraduate students interested in modern and contemporary Italian and Comparative Literature, especially material culture, body studies, and migration, transnational and border narratives.
Selected publications
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Open access
Stories
Bond, E., 13 May 2022, Transnational modern languages: a handbook. Burns, J. & Duncan, D. (eds.). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, p. 279-288 10 p. (Transnational modern languages; vol. 7).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Open access
Thinking on foot: new Italian pilgrimages in the work of Emily Jacir, Diana Matar and Hisham Matar
Bond, E., 8 Mar 2022, In: Studies in Travel Writing . 25, 2, p. 110-127 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Museum Practices in World Literature
Bond, E. F., 23 Dec 2020, Interdisciplinary Italy.Research output: Other contribution
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Displacements of Experience: The Case of Immersion and Virtual Reality
Bond, E. F., 15 Dec 2020, Handbook of Displacement. Adey, P., Bowstead, J., Brickell, K., Desai, V., Dolton, M., Pinkerton, A. & Siddiqi, A. (eds.). PalgraveMacMillan, p. 673-685Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Decolonising our Galleries: An Introduction
Bond, E. F. & More, M., 12 Aug 2020Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Open access
From snap to selfcare: reading feminism through Sara Ahmed and Phoebe Boswell
Bond, E. F. & Crabtree, E. V., 30 Nov 2019, In: FRAME: Journal of Literary Studies. 32, 2, p. 29-47Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Assembling the refugee anthology
Bond, E., 25 Sept 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal for Cultural Research. Latest ArticlesResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Photography: memorial intertexts in new writing by Maaza Mengiste, Nadifa Mohamed, and Igiaba Scego
Bond, E., 2018, The Horn of Africa and Italy: colonial, postcolonial and transnational cultural encounters. Brioni, S. & Gulema, S. B. (eds.). Oxford: Peter Lang, p. 295-317 23 p. (New comparative criticism).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Writing migration through the body
Bond, E. F., 2018, Palgrave Macmillan. 283 p. (Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture)Research output: Book/Report › Book