Rachele Dini

Rachele Dini is a former lecturer in English and creative writing at Coventry University, and former senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Roehampton. Her areas of specialization include 20th-century and contemporary literature, waste studies, domestic space studies, and the history of advertising. She is the author of Consumerism, Waste, and Re-use in Twentieth-Century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016) and “All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020 (Bloomsbury, 2021), and editor of Queer Trash and Feminist Excretions: New Directions in Literary and Cultural Waste Studies (SUNY Press, forthcoming). She is currently writing a nonacademic book on the role of midcentury popular culture and design in the contemporary imagination.