About the Author

Sindija Franzetti

E-Mail: sindija@chalmers.se

Dr Sindija Franzetti is a senior lecturer at the Department of Communication and Learning in Science at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. In her thesis Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World (2021), Franzetti sought to discover aspects of epistolarity that persist even in a world where the global reach of increasingly digitized interpersonal communication seems to obviate the need for letters. Her current work on epistolarity brings into dialogue literary studies and writing pedagogy.

Contributions by Author: Sindija Franzetti

“This Notebook, Your Letter”

The Future Reader and the Pivotal Present in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God

A future reader is a potent trope in contemporary art and literature that is concerned with the fate of our planet and humanity. One fascinating example is the one-hundred-year artwork by the Scottish artist, Katie Paterson, titled Future Library in Oslo, Norway…