Katherine E. Russo holds a PhD at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and has lectured at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". Her research focuses on Australian and Mediterranean migrant cultures, practices of appropriation, editorial relations and cross-cultural exhibitions. Her recent publications include ContamiNATIONS, a special issue of New Literatures Review, and, as co-author, Middle Passages: English for Cultural and Postcolonial Studies.