Please join Queer Intersections Oxford (QIO) for the two-events online series "Queer(ing) Italian Masculinities."
First event:
Tuesday 28 May 2024 5 - 6pm, Vulca Fidolini (Lorraine) and Matteo Botto (Genoa)
This event is cancelled. To sign up for 4th June please register here.
Second event:
Tuesday 4 June 5 - 6pm, Alessandro Giammei (Yale) and Irene Villa (Verona)
To sign up please register here.
Biographies:
Matteo Botto is a Sociology doctoral scholar at the University of Genoa and a visiting doctoral scholar at Stockholm University. He conducts research on gender and online culture, with a particular focus on masculinity, radicalization and embodiment within the manosphere.
Vulca Fidolini is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Université de Lorraine (France). His current main research topics are in age transitions, masculinities and health. His last contributions are focused on constructions of masculinity linked to sexual behaviour, health and food habits. Publications include “Eating Like a Man. Food, Masculinities and Self-Care Behavior”, Food, Culture & Society (2022); “Heteromasculinities. Sexual Experiences and Transition to Adulthood among Young Moroccan Men in Europe”, Men and Masculinities (2020).
Irene Villa is a post-doc researcher in Political Philosophy and Human Sciences at the University of Verona. Their research focuses on the political history of gender and sexuality, with a particular interest in the lesbian milieu and in the explorations of theoretical intersections between feminist, queer and trans histories and theories.
Alessandro Giammei (he/him · lui/tu) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Italian Studies. He specializes in modern and contemporary literature and art, questioning their fantasies of genealogical roots in early modern and classical cultures. Trained as a philologist and a literary historian in Italy, he moved to the US to hybridize his research and pedagogy with Queer theory, speculative realism, trans-historical and trans-national perspectives. He is the author of Ariosto in the Machine Age (University of Toronto Press, 2024), a study of how the most influential poet of the Renaissance was conjured or appropriated to shape magical realism, avant-garde painting, fascist cultural propaganda, and cinema in modern Italy between the birth of Futurism and the end of World War II.
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