Bio

Dr. Cristina Migliaccio is an Associate Professor of English. She holds an MA in English Literature from Queens College/CUNY, where her thesis, Italian-American Women: Ethnicity and Ambivalence, examined Italian American women’s literature as a site of contested identity and diasporic negotiation. She earned a PhD in English and Writing Studies from St. John’s University in 2017. Her dissertation, Language, Materiality, and Citizenship in Digital Spaces, explored language in digital environments and serves as a precursor to her current book project. Her interdisciplinary research spans digital humanities, linguistic and cultural studies, transnational media, and writing studies. Her first book, The Sirens’ Children Speak: Digital Neapolitanità (tentative title), is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. In this project, she examines how digital and streaming media reconfigure Neapolitan language and culture across diasporic networks, challenging territorial models of linguistic vulnerability and reframing the cultural politics of the Mezzogiorno in a global context. She serves as Composition Coordinator in the Department of English and World Languages and is the recipient of several recent awards, including the CUNY Office of Transformation 2025–2026 Career Success Fellow Award, a Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Curriculum Grant, and a PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Book Completion Grant. Her essays appear and are forthcoming in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Reviews in the Digital Humanities, Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and other venues.