Beatrice Ferrara

Beatrice Ferrara
Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" - DSUS
Research Fellow

Beatrice Ferrara holds a PhD in “Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World” at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (2011). She is Teaching Fellow of “Cultural Studies and New Media” at “L’Orientale.”

She has published several peer-reviewed articles and essays in Italian and international journals. Her research interests include: urban cultures of the black diaspora (especially sonic and cybercultures), theories of affect, archiving and post-representation in relation to race, studies on the production and circulation of images in the digital age.

She is a research member of the MeLa* RF02 “Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices.”

Selected publications:

Ferrara, Beatrice, ed. 2012. Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices. Milano: Politecnico di Milano DPA.

Ferrara, Beatrice. 2012. “The Otolith Group’s ‘Monuments to a Dead Television’. A Suggestion for Museums in an age of Migrations?” In Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernity and Museums Practices, edited by Beatrice Ferrara, 165-183. Milano: Politecnico di Milano DPA.

Ferrara, Beatrice. 2012. “‘My Measurement of Race is Rate of Vibration.’ Afrofuturism and the ‘Molecularization’ of Race.” darkmatter Journal 9 (2), Special Issue on “Post-Racial Imaginaries.”