Publications

Xausa, Chiara. Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative. ‘Ralahine Utopian Studies’ series, Oxford-New York: Peter Lang, ISBN: 9781803740942, ISSN: 1661-5875, 2025.

Fabbri, Giulia, and Chiara Xausa (eds.). Special Issue “Feminist and Intersectional Ecologies in Transmedia Environmental Humanities,” de genere: Journal of Literary, Postcolonial, and Gender Studies 11, 2025.

Xausa, Chiara. “Collective Narration and the Politicization of Climate Distress.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2026 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “Metamorfosi acquatiche ecotransfemministe e decoloniali.” In RadicAzioni. Corpi, nature, tecnologie, ed. by Claudia Cerulo and Rachele Cinerari, pp. 137–154, Napoli: Orthotes Editrice, 2026 (book chapter).

Xausa, Chiara. “From the Abyss of the Middle Passage to the Currents of Hydrofeminism: ‘Getting Wet’ with the Ocean in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep.” Humanities 2025 (journal article).

Preite, Arianna, and Chiara Xausa. “New Technologies of Re/Production and a World beyond the Family: Tlotlo Tsamaase’s Womb City.” From the European South: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Humanities 16, pp. 91–110, 2025 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “‘Focused Anger’ and ‘Radical Hope’ in Young Adult Climate Fiction. An Affective Reading of Lauren James’s Green Rising.” In Narrating Multiplicities in Motion: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Anglophone Cultures, ed. by Elena Ogliari Anna Pasolini and Carla Tempestoso, pp. 179–194, New York: Routledge, 2025 (book chapter).

Oboe, Annalisa, and Chiara Xausa. “Equ(al)ity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Higher Education: Teaching Genders, Knowledge, and Social Justice at the University of Padua.” In Why EDI Matters. Equ(al)ity, Diversity and Inclusion in European Universities, pp. 67–82, Padova, Padova University Press, 2025 (book chapter).

Xausa, Chiara. “Climate Change, Reproductive Justice, and Biocolonialism in Future Home of the Living God by Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich.” de genere: Journal of Literary, Postcolonial, and Gender Studies 11, pp. 215–229, 2025 (journal article).

Fabbri, Giulia, and Chiara Xausa (2025). “Framing Feminist and Intersectional Ecologies: An Opening Note.” de genere: Journal of Literary, Postcolonial, and Gender Studies 11, pp. 1–8, 2025 (journal article).

Baccolini, Raffaella, and Chiara Xausa. “Narrating Differences through Space: John Lanchester's The Wall.” Rilune: Revue des littératures européennes 18, pp. 67–84, 2024 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “A Dissident Archive of Climate Change Fiction: Feminist Afrofuturist Literary Voices on the Anthropocene.” Altre Modernità: Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 31, pp. 55–71, 2024 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “La narrativa visionaria di Octavia E. Butler: vulnerabilità ribelle, convivenza multispecie e azione collettiva in Parable of the Sower e Wild Seed.” In Narrazioni Dall'antropocene. (Pre)visioni della crisi ambientale nella letteratura e nella cultura visuale, ed. by Giulia Fabbri, pp. 179- 202, Firenze: editpress, 2024 (book chapter).

Xausa, Chiara. “‘From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win’. A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were.” Il Tolomeo: A Postcolonial Studies Journal 25, pp. 197–212, 2023 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “Coming-of-Age as Ecocitizens in Young Adult Climate Fiction: Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017.” Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 76 (2), pp. 295–312, 2023 (journal article).

Baccolini, Raffaella, and Chiara Xausa. “Ecofeminist Care at the End of the World: Collaborative Survival in Niccolò Ammaniti's Anna and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli's L'isola delle madri.” In Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities, ed. by Daniel A. Finch-Race, Emiliano Guaraldo, and Marco Malvestio, pp. 187–200, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023 (book chapter).

Baccolini, Raffaella, and Chiara Xausa. “Gender Roles, Parenthood, and the Ethics of Care in Pandemic Cinema Pre- and Post-Covid-19.” EJES – The European Journal of English Studies 26 (3), pp. 399–418, 2022 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “Ecologie femministe e saperi di genere.” In L’Università delle donne. Accademiche e studentesse dal Seicento a oggi, ed. by Andrea Martini and Carlotta Sorba, pp. 201-214, Roma: Donzelli, 2022 (book chapter).

Xausa, Chiara. “Climate Fiction and the Crisis of Imagination: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and The Swan Book.” Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal. Special issue “Climate Fiction, Friction & Fact” 8 (2), pp. 99–119, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v8i2.555(journal article).

Luccioli, Alessandra, Ester Dolei, and Chiara Xausa. “Investigating Gender Bias in Machine Translation: A Case Study between English and Italian”. Mediazioni. Rivista online di studi interdisciplinari su lingue e culture 29, pp. 29-49, 2021 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “Decolonizing the Anthropocene: ‘Slow Violence’ and Indigenous Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves.” Il Tolomeo - A Postcolonial Studies Journal 22, pp. 87–100, 2020 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “Feminist Intersectional Perspectives on Pandemic Narratives: Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu.” From the European South - A transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Humanities 7, pp. 21–34, 2020 (journal article).