Adriano Elia is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the Department of Political Science, University of Rome “Roma Tre”. His publications include essays on contemporary British fiction, Afrofuturism, Hughes’s poetry, Du Bois’s short fiction and poetry, Octavia E. Butler’s fiction, and five books: W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes – Two Remarkable Men (2020), La Cometa di W.E.B. Du Bois (2015), Hanif Kureishi (2012), The UK: Learning the Language, Studying the Culture (co-author, 2005) and Ut Pictura Poesis: Word-Image Interrelationships and the Word-Painting Technique (2002).
