Alexandra Verini is an associate professor at Ashoka University and a postdoctoral research associate at Durham University. Her research focuses on utopianism in medieval and early modern women’s writing.
Alexandra Verini
Articles
Sister Acts: Why Nuns Are Showing Up Everywhere
What’s familiar and what’s new about our current fascination with the figure and the mystery of the nun, from Rosalía to self-help books.
The Feminist Uses of Narrative Fiction: Jill Filipovic’s “The H-Spot” and the Search for Women’s Happiness
Jill Filipovic’s latest rehearses the arguments we’ve heard before, but the stories of the women she interviews show the real power of feminist imagination.
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