Marie Helene Laforest - University of Naples, “L’Orientale”

Marie-Hélène Laforest is a writer and professor of postcolonial literatures at the University of Naples “L’ Orientale”. She has written extensively on interculturality, hybrid identities, racial and gender issues, and the African diaspora. She is the author of two books of non-fiction, Diasporic Encounters. Remapping the Caribbean (2000) and La magia delle parole. Omeros di Derek Walcott (2007). A James Michener fellow and a John Simmons Short Fiction Award semi-finalist, she has also published a collection of short stories entitled Foreign Shores.