Maria Cristina Fumagalli

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Maria Cristina Fumagalli is a British-based literary scholar whose work focuses on the literatures, cultures, and visual arts of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, with an emphasis on visual culture and transnational perspectives. She is a professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Career

Fumagalli obtained her undergraduate degree from the Università Statale di Milano and completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1997. She joined the University of Essex in 1999 and was appointed Professor in 2011.

She has received research funding from organizations including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Leverhulme Trust. In 2006, she was one of the principal investigators for the AHRC-funded project American Tropics: Towards A Literary Geography. In 2012, she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to complete her monograph On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (2015; 2018 paperback).

Her monograph Derek Walcott's Painters: A Life with Pictures (2023; 2025 paperback) was supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2016–2019). [1] Her most recent research, Painting the Caribbean 1850–1904, supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023–24), explores the artistic and cultural exchanges between European, American, and Caribbean painters during a period of significant socio-political change.

Other work

Fumagalli's monograph On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic has been associated with a series of cultural activities in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. [2] [3] Her research on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border informed the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) impact case study titled Reconceptualizing Troubled Border Relations: Promoting Cross-Border Collaboration, Cooperation and Solidarity between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the Wake of the Denationalization Crisis in Hispaniola. The same project received the Best International Research Impact Award from the University of Essex in 2019. [4]

As an investigadora asociada (associate investigator) of OBMICA, a Santo Domingo-based organization focused on migration, human rights, and social development, Fumagalli co-organized events such as a 2017 commemoration in Comendador, Elias Piña (Dominican Republic), marking the 80th anniversary of the 1937 massacre of Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans. [5] Her work has also highlighted the socio-political effects of the Dominican Constitutional Court's 2013 ruling, which resulted in the denationalization of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent. [6] [7]

In addition to her academic and advocacy work, Fumagalli co-produced several plays by Derek Walcott at the Lakeside Theatre, including the UK premiere of Moon-Child (2011), Pantomime (2012), and the world premiere of O Starry Starry Night (2013), directed or co-directed by Walcott. [8]

Honors

Books

She has also co-edited several collections, including:

She is the author of the Introduction to Freddy Prestol Castillo El Masacre se pasa a pie / You can cross the Masacre on foot (2019) [25]

References

  1. ↑ "Leverhulme Trust Newsletter January 2016" (PDF). Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  2. ↑ "VERBALISER LA FRONTIÈRE: VERS UNE APPROCHE CULTURELLE DE LA TRANSFORMATION DES CONFLITS" (PDF). OBMICA. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  3. ↑ INTERCAMBIANDO CON LA CASA DE LA DIVERSIDAD CULTURAL DE CAMAGÜEY Obmica
  4. ↑ "Impact case study : Results and submissions : REF 2021". Ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  5. ↑ WRITING THE EDGE: TOWARDS A CULTURAL APPROACH IN CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION
  6. ↑ Fumagalli, Maria Cristina (2020). "Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces". In Moïse, M.; Réno, F. (eds.). ‘When dialogue is no longer possible, what still exists is the mystery of hope’: migration and citizenship in the Dominican Republic in Film, Literature and Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 139–163.
  7. ↑ Fumagalli, Maria Cristina (8 July 2020). "Stranger than Fiction: Opportunities for a New Narrative in Dominico-Haitian relations under Covid-19". Human Rights Centre Blog, University of Essex. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  8. ↑ "Derek Walcotts works at the Lakeside Theatre". University of Essex. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  9. ↑ "Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli FBA". The British Academy.
  10. ↑ "Literary elite nominate Essex University professor to join English Association". Gazette. 2 February 2025. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  11. ↑ Price, Sally (2024). "Review of Derek Walcott's Painters: A Life with Pictures". NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 98 (3/4): 381–382. ISSN   1382-2373.
  12. ↑ Kaisary, Philip (2017). "Review of On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, FumagalliMaria Cristina". NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 91 (1/2): 143–144. ISSN   1382-2373.
  13. ↑ Fumagalli, Maria Cristina; Bronfman, Alejandra. "Maria Cristina Fumagalli discussing On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic with Alejandra Bronfman for New Books in Caribbean Studies". New Books Network. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  14. ↑ Fumagalli, Maria Cristina (2019). "On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic". Journal of Borderland Studies. 34 (1): 137–139. doi:10.1080/08865655.2019.1602220 . Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  15. ↑ Blanco, Masaya Llaveneras (2018). "Maria Cristina Fumagalli, On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic" (PDF). Island Studies Journal. 13 (2): 209–210. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  16. ↑ Roberts, Nicole Shelly-Ann (2017). "Maria Cristina Fumagalli, On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic". Postcolonial Text. 12 (1). Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  17. ↑ Mika, Kasia (2016). "Maria Cristina Fumagalli, On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 93: 1045–1056. doi:10.3828/bhs.2016.65 . Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  18. ↑ Oakley, Seanne Sumalee (2011). "Review of Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze". South Atlantic Review. 76 (1): 149–152. ISSN   0277-335X.
  19. ↑ Shay, Maureen (2012). "Review of Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze". NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 86 (3/4): 316–318. ISSN   1382-2373.
  20. ↑ Innes, Lyn (2004). "Review of The Flight of the Vernacular". NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 78 (3/4): 351–353. ISSN   1382-2373.
  21. ↑ Cummings, Ronald (2016). "Review of The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities, FumagalliMaria Cristina, LedentBénédicte, del Valle AlcaláRoberto". NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 90 (1/2): 155–156. ISSN   1382-2373.
  22. ↑ Soto, Paulina Paz (16 April 2015). "The Cross-dressed Caribbean: Writings, Politics, Sexualities by Maria Cristina Fumagalli et al. (Eds.) (2013)". Critical Reviews on Latin American Research (in Spanish). 4 (1). ISSN   2195-3481.
  23. ↑ Taylor, Emily L. (2014). "Review of The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities". Caribbean Quarterly. 60 (4): 125–127. ISSN   0008-6495.
  24. ↑ Kutzinski, Vera M. (1 January 2015). "Book Review: Surveying the American Tropics: A Literary Geography from New York to Rio, edited by María Cristina Fumagalli, Peter Hulme, Owen Robinson & Lesley Wylie". New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 89 (1–2): 158–160. doi: 10.1163/22134360-08901027 . ISSN   2213-4360.
  25. ↑ You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot
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