Anna Barattin

Ph.D., Georgia State University

Geocentrism, Comparative Studies, Multiethnic Literature, Twentieth Century Literature of the United States, Translation (Italian to English/English to Italian), Composition, Multilingual Writing, Music and Songwriting.

Anna Barattin is a lecturer in the Department of English where she teaches literature and First Year Composition. Her courses focus on spatial literacy and community engagement. She earned her Ph.D. in American Literature at Georgia State University. A native of Italy, she pursued both her bachelor and graduate degrees at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in Foreign Languages and Literatures. At Georgia State University, she serves as an editorial committee member for the journal Studies In Literary Imagination and Eudora Welty Review.

Dr. Barattin has dedicated the past several years to the study of geocentrism and American Literature. Her research establishes the social significance of concepts such as place, location, landscape, architecture, environment, home, city, region, territory, and geography. In her works, she argues that a localized understanding of the urban literary model can serve a larger frame of reference for a global interpretation of the non-conformative text.