Tatiana Avesani is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies program working between the fields of Classics and Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. They received their BA at the Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano and their MA from New York University before coming to Johns Hopkins University. Tatiana\u2019s research has mainly focused on analyzing the relationship between language and identity in the Italian Renaissance. They\u2019ve explored the ways in which vernacular and Neo-Latin literary production influenced each other in the development of Italian language at a time of political and cultural instability. More recently, Tatiana\u2019s interests have been directed towards the study of queer and trans theory in relation to Italy\u2019s Early Modern literary production. Specifically, that has led them to explore the influence of Latin and Greek literature and mythology on the Italian Renaissance. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Claudia Calabresi (she\/they)<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
After a bachelor\u2019s degree in Classical Studies, Claudia Calabresi earned her M.A. in 2022 at the faculty of Communication and Media\u2019s Culture at the University of Turin, Italy, with a dissertation titled \u201cI\u2019d rather be a cyborg than a goddess<\/em>. Cinema, sociosemiotics, science fiction and feminisms\u201d. He research is based upon the experimentation of a \u201chybrid\u201d sociosemiotic and feminist analysis towards the gender-based discrimination and violence dynamics enacted in the science fictional, Western contemporary cinematography, and the theorisation of a critical gaze which could provide an effective counterpart to the male gaze by unraveling its mechanisms and vulnerabilities. The methodological theory offered by the analysis would seek to combine the sociosemiotics theory’s model developed by the authors Guido Ferraro and Antonio Santangelo with the gender studies focused on the semiotic field elaborated by the authors Cristina Demaria, Federica Turco, Teresa de Lauretis, Judith Butler, Mary Ann Doane, Laura Mulvey and Donna J. Haraway. At Johns Hopkins, Calabresi aims to offer through this research a new perspective towards cross-sectional contexts of semio-feminist critics, culture, activism.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Marta Cerreti<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Marta Cerreti<\/strong> received her B.A. and a M.A. in Philosophy from Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma.<\/em> In her dissertation titled Feeling a Stranger at Home: An Itinerary Between Philosophy and Literature<\/em>, Marta explored the theme of recognition. At Hopkins, Marta investigates the link between narrativity and identity in Contemporary literary texts, working at the intersection between Philosophy and Italian Studies. Her research focuses on non-traditional autobiographies, collective writing, and autofiction as feminist genres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She wrote on Teresa Ciabatti, Igiaba Scego and Adriana Cavarero, Gadda and Hegel, and on the feminist documentary Processo per stupro<\/em>. She is currently working on the impact that the ecological and feminist revolution in Rojava had on Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Hopkins, Marta is affiliated with the Program for the Study of Women Gender and Sexuality and the Center for Advanced Media Studies. She is also in the graduate committee for both the Hopkins-Yale Graduate symposium for Italian Studies and the Stanford-Hopkins Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n