Elisabetta Falcicchio is a PhD candidate in Linguistic, Literary, and Intercultural Studies in European and Extra-European Contexts at the University of Milan “La Statale.” Her dissertation, titled Romances que arquivam, arquivos que narram. As Areias do imperador de Mia Couto e a arqueologia da História de Moçambique, aims to deepen the analysis of the deconstruction process of colonial and colonialist epistemology in the Mozambican context, starting from the social projections of literature, problematizing the concept of the archive beyond its materiality. Her research approach combines literary studies, cultural studies, African philosophy, and sociology. She was a visiting PhD student at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, where she integrated into her academic curriculum several courses from the PhD program in Postcolonialisms and Cultural Citizenship, with the aim of strengthening her theoretical background and acquiring new analytical and research methodologies from a postcolonial and decolonial perspective. She has participated in several conferences, presenting papers on twentieth-century Portuguese literature and contemporary Mozambican literature. Among her most significant contributions are the paper L’ostinato rigore del tradurre. La poesia di Eugénio de Andrade divulgata in Italia, presented at the National Library of Rome on the occasion of the centenary of Eugénio de Andrade; the presentation D’este viver aqui neste papel descripto: a correspondência privada de António Lobo Antunes como arquivo sensível da guerra colonial em Angola at the international conference A obra de António Lobo Antunes e Portugal pós-25 de Abril; and the recent talk Deslocamentos forçados e moçambicanidade: No verso da cicatriz de Bento Baloi at the Congress on the 50th Anniversary of the Independence of the Portuguese Colonies in Africa, held in Lisbon.
