Yvonne Bezrucka

Curriculum

•   BEZRUCKA CV ENGLISH SHORT   (pdf, en, 81 KB, 18/02/21)
•   TESISTI scadenze tesi aprile 2021   (pdf, it, 787 KB, 06/02/21)
•   YB CV 9.2.2021 FULL ENGLISH   (pdf, en, 363 KB, 18/02/21)
•   YB CV IT 9.2.2021   (pdf, it, 336 KB, 09/02/21)

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

 

 

Projects

Title	Starting date
18th-c., 19th-c., 20th-c., 21st-c. Literature and Cultural Texts	4/3/20
Darwinism and Literature	4/1/20
Aesthetics and Literature	4/1/20
Fears and the Media	4/1/20
Body Politics and Policies, Identity Politics and Policies, human rights, body & self-fashioning aesthetics, ethnicity, sex, gender, class and age discrimination	4/1/20
Identity Politics and Geopolitical use of Space metaphors, Invented Geographies, Aesthetics and Cultural Regionalisms (various)	4/1/20
Environmental Humanities Environmental Fiction, Ecocriticism, Climate Crisis, Olocene, Anthropocene, and Cli-Fi	1/1/20
Le immagini del diritto nella letteratura inglese e nelle arti	5/26/11
Il concetto di potere nel Rinascimento	5/24/09
Bioetica, biodiritto e letteratura	5/24/09
Il concetto di persona legale in letteratura inglese e diritto	2/13/09
"Equità": intersezioni letterarie e legali	5/24/08
Letteratura e arti visive	5/24/07
Appropriazione estetico-culturale delle culture "altre"	6/30/02

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Chair

• Erasmus Committee

Referent posts held

Referente di Dipartimento per l’Internazionalizzazione/Erasmus - Foreign Languages and Literatures

Yvonne Bezrucka

Office	Collegial Body
member	Collegio dei Docenti del Dottorato in Letterature Straniere, Lingue e Linguistica A.A. 2020/2021 - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures
member	Collegio dei Docenti del Dottorato in Lingue e Letterature Straniere A.A. 2021/2022 - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures
	Teaching Committee for the PhD in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures
associate prof.	Teaching Committee for the PhD in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
	Teaching Committee for Foreign Languages and Literatures - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures
president	Erasmus Committee - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures
full prof.	Consiglio del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures
PhD coordinator	Consiglio della Scuola di Dottorato di Studi Umanistici