Manuela Pellegrino is a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. She holds a PhD in anthropology from University College of London. Through her current project on ethnographic poetry, she conceptualises and uses writing poetry in Griko, a minority language of Greek origins.
Manuela Pellegrino is a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. She holds a PhD in anthropology from University College of London. Through her current project on ethnographic poetry, she conceptualises and uses writing poetry in Griko, a minority language of Greek origins. Since 2006 she has conducted research among Griko-speakers and activists in Apulia (Southern Italy) and Greece. She was a fellow of the Smithsonian Institution (2018/2019) and lectured part-time at Brunel University (2014-2017). She originally comes from Zollino, a Griko-speaking village.
