Author Interview: Eleanor Paynter

In her spring 2026 OHR article, “Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape: Temporalities, Solidarities, and Affect in Interviews with Ukrainians with Temporary Protection in Italy,” Eleanor Paynter, who is assistant professor of Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies in the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon, brings to light her work interviewing Ukrainian refugees in Italy. In her Author Interview with OHR Editor Holly Werner-Thomas, she elaborates on her deep ties to Italy, her fieldwork process, and the implications of the “nonlinear temporal experience” when interviewing refugees

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