Cultural Studies and Mentalities

Persone con competenze nell'area
Competenze

Chiara Battisti: Professore associato
Yvonne Bezrucka: Professore associato

Lisanna Calvi: Professore associato
Carla Sassi: Professore associato

Competenze
Argomento	Persone	Descrizione
corpo e tecnologia	Yvonne Bezrucka
Diaspora studies	Carla Sassi	Diaspora is a complex concept that foregrounds different meanings and applications. It focuses on migrants’ cross-border connections and flows, as well as on the establishment of social and symbolic ties. It challenges essentialist views of identity, foregrounding ideas of community that are fluid and constantly re-negotiated. Literature is a powerful vehicle for the representation of diasporic experiences. Diasporic narratives (novel, autobiographical writings), located at different points of space and time, grounded in a day-to-day experiences of diaspora, have the ability to relationally construct other places and other times.
La cultura giacobita	Lisanna Calvi	Cultura e letteratura giacobita in Inghilterra; gli scritti politico-devozionali di Giacomo II Stuart.
Letteratura e fashion studies	Chiara Battisti	L'approccio critico "Letteratura e fashion studies" analizza la dimensione mitica della moda ponendone in luce le caratteristiche di vero e proprio linguaggio. Gli strumenti metodologici offerti dai fashion studies saranno applicati all’analisi di romanzi per evidenziare l’impatto e il significato della moda nella cultura letteraria e per analizzare la modalità e la presenza di mitologie della moda nei testi letterari. Tale approccio analizza anche l’idea di moda come finzione e tecnologia del potere, ponendo in luce come la moda possa creare alleanze con norme egemoniche e divenire pertanto forza normativa che incita al conformità, ma talvolta anche alla resistenza al potere stesso.
Memory Studies	Carla Sassi	Concerned with the social, cultural and political shifts determining how, what and why individuals, communities and societies remember and/or forget.
Postcolonial theory	Carla Sassi	A body of thought concerned with the political, aesthetic, economic, and social impact of European empires between the 18th and the 20th century, and how this has or should have re-shaped our understanding of local/global connections.
regionalismo critico	Yvonne Bezrucka
Slavery studies	Carla Sassi	Focused on providing a deeper understanding of slavery and post-slavery in any period and any geographical region. An interdisciplinary field intersecting with other field of academic inquiry, such as diaspora studies, globalization, and minority studies.