Yvonne Bezrucka

Curriculum

•   BEZRUCKA CV ENGLISH SHORT   (pdf, en, 81 KB, 18/02/21)
•   YB CV ENGLISH 17.01.2022   (pdf, it, 0 KB, 02/02/22)
•   YB CV IT 17.01.2022   (pdf, it, 0 KB, 02/02/22)

Yvonne Bezrucka is specialized in CULTURAL STUDIES, and in particular in these periods and fields of studies:

1) Due to the Climate Crisis Emergency and  the Covid19 pandemia, at the moment I privilege topics related to the Environmental Humanities, and specifically about:
 my new research project "Climate Change Emergency: Anthropocene, Olocene, Ecocriticism and Ecoliterature" (cf. my essay Bezrucka, Y. (2013, 2020)
“Nature as Oikos and Kepos: Ecocriticism as a Branch of Bioethics in  Romantic Studies”, CRIER Il Romanticismo oggi, Anno X, pp. 33-54, and Polemos, 2020,
“Digital Media, Fears, and their Ontological Demagogic Power: ‘Utopia’, ‘Homeland’, ‘Occupied’”, Pólemos, 14:1, 2020, pp.147-61.
Ongoing topics of interest are:

a) The Enlightenment: Identity Issues and Nation formation, cf. (2017) "The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century
        English Literature", Cambridge Scholars; (2016)  De Mandeville
b) Modernism, Postmodernism, Victorian Studies with a special focus on Aesthetics and Literature –
       strategies of literary representation and aesthetic legitimization: beauty, enframing, mimesis, reality effects –
      cf. (2005) "Oggetti e collezioni nella letteratura inglese dellì'Ottocento" 
c) Charles Darwin’s Literary Legacies: Body Politics and Policies, Identity Politics and Policies, human rights, body & self-fashioning aesthetics, ethnicity, sex, gender, class and age discrimination –
       Material Culture, Cultural Studies, Interrelation of Bodies and Technology – cf. (2008) "The Well-Beloved: T. Hardy's Manifesto or 'Regional Aesthetics'", VLC, Cambridge University Press.
d) Visual Studies: Visual Culture and Visual Rhetoric  – painting, sculpture, architecture, garden aesthetics, cinema, photography, and design,
           Aesthetics and Politics – "Othello e la retorica visuale"  "Tassonomie visuali: Calvino e V. Woolf"
e) Identity Politics and Geopolitical use of Space metaphors, Invented Geographies, Aesthetics and Cultural Regionalisms (various)  
       cf. (2002) Genio e immaginazione nel Settecento inglese – Francis Grose and Aesthetic Regionalism (2017)
f) Law and Literature, Bioethics and Literature, Dickens and the Law (cf. 2007, 2008, 2010) – 
g) Food and Literature, Food for Dreams and an Appetite for Nations, RSV, 44 (2017).
h) Ecocriticism (2013) "Nature as Oikos and Kepos: Ecocriticism as a Branch of Bioethics in Romantic Studies", Quaderni del CRIER, Romanticismi

 

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