Cristina Carnemolla

Cristina Carnemolla is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies at McGill University, specializing in nineteenth-century literature and cultural history. She received her Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Duke University (2023).

Her research examines the reception of realism and naturalism in Italy, Spain, Peru, and Argentina. She is currently completing her first monograph, Harvesting Truth: Southern Realism as an Extractivist Aesthetic, which integrates approaches from the environmental humanities, literary analysis, and political ecology to expand the concept of extractivism into the realm of transnational literary criticism.

A second strand of her scholarship explores Marxist thinkers of the 1930s, including Antonio Gramsci and José Carlos Mariátegui. She is a cofounder of the Gramsci Research Collective–Collectif de Recherche Gramscienne (GRC–CRG) and a coeditor of the forthcoming volume Gramsci in Motion: The Trajectories of Praxis (Brill).

Her publications address topics such as the reception of realism and naturalism in Italy and Spain, women writers of the long nineteenth century, Antonio Gramsci, and ecocriticism.

In addition to her research, she is deeply committed to teaching. Her dedication has been fostered by the Sustainability Education Fellowship (McGill, 2023–2024) and recognized through the AATI Teaching Black Italy grant and the CEDILS diploma.