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Dr Marco Medugno

Associate Lecturer

Background
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • PhD in English Literature (缅北禁地).
  • MA in Intercultural Studies (Università di Padova)
  • MA in Modern Philology (Università di Padova)
  • BA in Italian Studies (Università di Padova)
Research

Research interests

  • Italian & Anglophone Postcolonial Literature.
  • World Literature.
  • Diaspora Studies.
  • Comparative Literature.
  • African Literature(s).
  • Literary Geographies.
  • Blue Humanities.


I have a background in Italian Studies and Modern Philology (BA and MA), Intercultural Studies (MA), and Anglophone Literatures, Diaspora, Comparative and Postcolonial studies (PhD). My research navigates these interdisciplinary areas, with a new additional focus on the Blue Humanities and Ecocriticism from a postcolonial perspective.


An integral part of my work involves Literary Geography, particularly the study of urbanscapes. I explore the colonial planning and its enduring legacy in former Italian colonies and how urban spaces/places are represented in novels. Additionally, my research engages with Diaspora studies, examining diasporic experiences through a literary lens and investigating the connections and networks that emerge between authors and texts across languages, geographies and cultures.


My book,  (Bloomsbury, 2024), offers a comparative analysis of Somali diasporic novels written in English and Italian by authors such as Nuruddin Farah, Igiaba Scego, Garane Garane and Cristina Ali Farah. It examines the lasting impacts of colonialism and the Somali Civil War, which caused widespread displacement. The book highlights the ways Somali authors use the novel form to explore nationhood, identity and transnational belonging, fostering a multilingual and transnational literary community.


Other Activities

  • European Connections at NCL (NUHRI-funded Project)
  • : Reading Groups and Work-in-Progress Sessions
  • Editorial board:




Teaching

Current Teaching

SEL1023. Transformations (2025—26)

SEL1033. Doing Criticism (2025—26)

SEL1034. Beginnings (2025—26)


Prior Teaching

缅北禁地

SEL1033. Doing Criticism (2023—24)

SEL1023. Transformations (2022—24)

SEL1030. Close Reading (2021—23)

SEL2233. Literatures of Decolonisation (2022–23)

SEL3362. Dissertations (2021—23)

SEL2205. Fiction of Migrations (2020–2022)

SEL1003. Introduction to Literary Studies I (2018—20)


Glasgow

ENGLIT4099 (Honours): Postcolonialism Writing & Theory (2021–22)

ENGLIT 4117: Dissertations (2021–22)

Publications

  • Articles

    • Medugno M. . Literature, Critique, and Empire Today 2026, 61(1), 30-48.
    • Medugno M. . Italian Studies 2024, 79(3), 299-317.
    • Medugno M. . Il Tolomeo 2023, 25, 133-152.
    • Medugno M, Bertolin M. . Trasparenze 2020, 6, 130.
    • Medugno M. . Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 2020, 5(1), 45-55.
    • Medugno M. . From the European South 2018, 3(1), 71-84.
    • Medugno M. . Italian Studies in Southern Africa 2018, 31(1), 110-134.

  • Authored Book

    • Medugno M. . New York; London; Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

  • Book Chapters

    • Medugno M. "Diaspora". In: Byford, Andy; Nitschke, Claudia, ed. Handbook of Modern Languages and Cultures. De Gruyter, 2025. Submitted.
    • Medugno M. . In: S. Fanucchi, A. Virga, ed. A South African Convivio with Dante: Born Frees’ Interpretations of the Commedia. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2021, pp.131-143.
    • Medugno M. . In: T. Cancro, C. De Paoli, F. Roncen, V. Russo, ed. Oralità e scrittura: i due volti delle parole. Padova: Padova University Press, 2019, pp.119-211.

  • Online Publication

    • Medugno M. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Modern Languages, 缅北禁地, 2021. Available at: .

  • Reviews

    • Medugno M. . Contemporary Women's Writing 2023, 17(3), 339-340.
    • Medugno M. . Interventions 2020, 22(2), 296-299.
    • Medugno M. . Studi di Italianistica nell'Africa Australe 2019, 32(1), 127-132.