Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon

Elisabetta Marino is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy. She has published a book on the figure of Tamerlane in English and American literature (Tamerlano; Rome: Sun Moon Lake, 2000), and edited the proceedings volume of the 2001 “Asia and the West Conference,” a conference organized by Professor Lina Unali and held at Tor Vergata (Rome: Sun Moon Lake, 2002). Together with Dr Simal Gonzalez, she edited a collection of essays entitled Transnational, National, and Personal Voices, New Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women Writers (Munster: LitVerlag, 2004). In 2005, Dr Marino published Introduzione alla letteratura bangladese Britannica—Introduction to British Bangladeshi Literature (Rome: Sun Moon Lake, 2005) and in 2006, translated poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, which were collected in the volume Talismans/Talismani (Ibiskos: Empoli, 2006). In 2007, she edited the second volume of the e-book New Asian American Writers and News from UK, Italy and Asia: Literature and the Visual Arts.