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Eleanor Paynter (Brown University) studies transnational Italy through questions of migration, asylum, and testimony. Her focus on Africa-Europe mobilities bridges filmic, media, and literary analysis with ethnographic methods, approaches she also enjoys bringing into her teaching. Her first book, Emergency in Transit (forthcoming, University of California Press), draws on multiple witnessing forms to discuss the complex dynamics shaping Italy’s recent immigration "emergenze." In current research, she examines entanglements across migrant, racial, and environmental justice work. Eleanor holds a PhD in Comparative Studies (Ohio State University) and an MFA in poetry (Sarah Lawrence College). She was recently Migrations Postdoctoral Associate with Cornell University’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and is currently Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in Italian Studies and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University.

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