Marta Fossati holds a PhD from the University of Milan with a thesis on the South African short story in English, which she partially wrote during a visiting research period at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include South African literature, postcolonialism, and world literature. She is the author of The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2024), which won the Junior Book Prize from the Italian Association of English Studies (AIA). She is a member of the Modern Language Association and of the African Literature Association, and an alumna of the Institute for World Literature.
