Yvonne Bezrucka

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YB20, January 23, 2020
Position
Full Professor
Academic sector
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE
Research sector (ERC)
SH5_8 - Cultural studies, symbolic representation, religious studies

Office
Palazzo di Lingue,  Floor Terzo,  Room 3.06
Telephone
+39 045802 8580
E-mail
yvonne|bezrucka*univr|it <== Replace | with . and * with @ to have the right email address.
Personal web page
https://uinvr.academia.edu/YvonneBezrucka

Office Hours

Wednesday, Hours 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM,  
Prego gli Studenti di controllare fino al lunedì sera per eventuali variazioni al ricevimento del martedì. Please check for changes to the office hours up to Monday evening.

Curriculum

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

 

Modules

Modules running in the period selected: 46.
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Course Name Total credits Online Teacher credits Modules offered by this teacher
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English literature 1 [Cognomi A-L] (2022/2023)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English literature 1 [Cognomi M-Z] (2022/2023)   9    9 
Master's degree in Languages, Literatures and Digital Culture English literature - Master 1 (2022/2023)   6    2 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and literatures for publishing and digital media English literature 1 (2020/2021)   9  eLearning 9 
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English literature 3 (2020/2021)   9  eLearning 9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [Tur] [Cognomi F-O] (2020/2021)   6  eLearning 2 
Master’s degree in Comparative European and Non-European Languages and Literatures English literature 1 LM. Forms, genres, and critical approaches (2019/2020)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English literature 3 (2019/2020)   9  eLearning 5 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [Tur] [Cognomi A-E] (2019/2020)   6  eLearning 5 
Master’s degree in Comparative European and Non-European Languages and Literatures English literature 2 LM. Critical methodologies and textual interpretation (2018/2019)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English literature 3 (2018/2019)   9  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [Tur] [Cognomi P-Z] (2018/2019)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English literature 2 (2017/2018)   9  eLearning 9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 [Tur] (2017/2018)   9  eLearning 9 
Ph.D. programme in Foreign Literatures, Languages and Linguistics The human olfactory system (2017/2018)   10    1 
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English literature 2 (2016/2017)   9  eLearning 9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 (2016/2017)   9  eLearning 9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 [Cognomi A-L] (2015/2016)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 [Cognomi M-Z] (2015/2016)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [CInt] (2014/2015)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [Tur] (2014/2015)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [CInt] (2013/2014)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [Tur] (2013/2014)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English Literature II (2012/2013)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [CInt] (2012/2013)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [CInt A-L] (2011/2012)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [Tur] (2011/2012)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature I [Tur] (2010/2011)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [Tur] (2010/2011)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Publishing English Literature I (2009/2010)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [CInt] (2009/2010)   9    9 
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism English Language and Literature (i) (2008/2009)   3    3 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Publishing English Literature I (2008/2009)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Culture for Tourism and International Commerce (until 2007-2008) (not running) English Literature III [Tur] (2008/2009)   6    6 
Degree in Communication Science: publishing and journalism English Language and Literature (i) (2007/2008)   3    3 
Degree in Languages and Culture for Publishing English Literature I (2007/2008)   6    6 
Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English Literature I (2006/2007)   6    6 
Master's degree in Modern Comparative Languages and Literatures (until 2008-2009) English literature I (LS) (2006/2007)   6    3  Modulo 1
Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English Literature I (2005/2006)   6    6 
Degree in Languages and Culture for Tourism Management English Literature I [Matricole pari] (2004/2005)   6     
Four-year Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English Language and Literature I [Matricole dispari] (2000/2001)   0     
Four-year Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English Language and Literature I [Matricole pari] (2000/2001)   0     
Four-year Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English Language and Literature II [Matricole dispari] (2000/2001)   0     
Four-year Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English Language and Literature II [Matricole pari] (2000/2001)   0     
Four-year Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English Language and Literature III (2000/2001)   0     
Four-year Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English Language and Literature IV (2000/2001)   0     

 
 
Research interests
Topic Description Research area
Bioethics, Biolaw and Literature Bioethics and biolaw are two philosophical approaches that address social tensions and conflicts caused by emerging bioscientific and biomedical research and their application. Literature deals with this topics especially in contemporary production. English and Anglophone Literatures
Science Fiction / Literature & Science
corpo e tecnologia English and Anglophone Literatures
Cultural Studies and Mentalities
Darwin e la letteratura English and Anglophone Literatures
Science Fiction / Literature & Science
Law and the Body The body is the focus of the social, legal, and cultural imagination and the privileged metaphor for specific cultural discourses and political practices. The Renaissance literature particularly echoes these topics. English and Anglophone Literatures
Critical Theory & Poetics
Equity: literary and juridical intersections Equity is a protean concept that covers the fields of law, philosophy of law, and morality. In the history of human ideas the problem of equity has been inseparable from that of justice. This theme is re-echoed throughout English literature in particular in Shakespeare's plays. English and Anglophone Literatures
Critical Theory & Poetics
Estetica e letteratura English and Anglophone Literatures
Critical Theory & Poetics
Iconology of the law in Literature The project investigates the link between law, literature and the image. It aims to explore how the study of law and literature can be enhanced by a critical study of iconology. English and Anglophone Literatures
Visual Arts & Image Studies
The concept of power in the Renaissance The link between words and images is at the basis of the semiotic texture of any culture. This theory can be explored by analyzing the connection between legal words and images in the representation of power in the Renaissance. English and Anglophone Literatures
Theatre
Literature and the Visual Arts The study of literature and visual arts is linked to the deep connection between words and images, telling and seeing. The visual aspects of literature, as well as the mutual illuminations of the two expressive modes, are related to the rhetorical and stylistic choices of authors. English and Anglophone Literatures
Visual Arts & Image Studies
Literary Ecocriticism Literary Ecocriticism examines the way literary texts embody ecological concerns in order to pursue an ecological awareness and to envisage ecologically conscious societies, societies that are sustainable, viable and ecologically minded English and Anglophone Literatures
Film Studies
luoghi e identità English and Anglophone Literatures
1830-1880
regionalismo critico English and Anglophone Literatures
Cultural Studies and Mentalities
retorica visuale English and Anglophone Literatures
Visual Arts & Image Studies
Shakespeare and the law There is a flourishing production on Shakespeare featuring legal problems in the last twenty years. The Law and Literature movement, born in the United States, has given rise to an endelss re-interpretation of Shakespearean texts according to the many legal elements he discusses about. English and Anglophone Literatures
Shakespeare
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