I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna and the University of Idaho, with research periods at Ghent University and Cornell University.

My research brings together intersectional ecocriticism, queer ecologies, narrative theory, postcolonial studies, affective ecocriticism, and utopian studies.


I am the author of Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative (Peter Lang, 2025), and my second monograph, Eco-Anxiety and the Politics of Futurity in Contemporary Fiction, is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. I am also co-authoring Queer Ecological Forms in Contemporary Fiction with Gabriele D’Amato.


My work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including English Studies, European Journal of English Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Modern Fiction Studies, and Studies in the Novel, as well as Oxford Intersections and several edited collections.


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August 2026 · Visiting Scholar at Cornell University

August 31, 2026
In August 2026 I was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University.
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June 2026 · Paper at the 41st Narrative Conference

June 30, 2026
I presented "Transecological Temporalities in Postapocalyptic Caribbean Fiction" at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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April 2026 · Scholar of the Month at ASLE

April 30, 2026
Explore my research on ecocriticism & eco-anxiety. Learn about my work with the SHIFT-GEN project and its impact.

Latest Publications

Xausa, Chiara. “From Comparison to Coalition: Toward an Intersectional Econarratology of Multispecies Resistance.” English Studies, accepted for publication, forthcoming 2026 (journal article).
Xausa, Chiara. “Collective Narration and the Politicization of Climate Distress.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2026 (journal article).

Forthcoming

D’Amato, Gabriele, and Chiara Xausa. “Queer Ecological Forms and the Marriage Plot.” Studies in the Novel, accepted for publication, forthcoming 2026 (journal article).
Xausa, Chiara. Eco-Anxiety and the Politics of Futurity in Contemporary Fiction. Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic for the ‘Environmental Cultures’ series. Forthcoming 2027.