Diletta’s primary specialism is in late twentieth-century and twenty-first-century North American and British fiction, and her research takes place at the intersection of literary studies and philosophy to interrogate the way in which contemporary narratives play a key role in our construction of time and history. Her PhD thesis, which was funded by a European Research Excellence Scholarship and which she is now turning into a book, examines a selected corpus of American, Canadian, and British contemporary post- apocalyptic fictions, focussing on the relationship between the conception of time featured in these novels and that of postmodern theories. Her other research specialisms include narrative theory, utopian studies, critical and literary theory, postmodernism.

Dr. De Cristofaro's publications include: