Danila Cannamela’s work explores literary genres and movements that have remained at the periphery of dominant culture. This includes avant-garde poetics, niche genres, counterculture, and gender liberation movements. She is working on a book project titled Radical Trans/Locations: U.S. Trans Activism in Italy. This monograph traces overlooked connections between Italian and American trans activists.
She believes that scholarly work can be creative and can open up connections between theory, pop culture, and everyday life. Her future book-length project is a theory-infused cookbook. This project rethinks the pastoral genre as a “comfort food recipe” that has inspired sophisticated “cooking techniques” and reinventions.