UNO - University of Naples "L'Orientale"
- UNO
- Dip. Scienze Umane e Sociali
- Italy
The University of Naples "L'Orientale" is the oldest school of Sinology and Oriental Studies in Europe and has a strong tradition in language, cultural and social studies, both ancient and modern, relating to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Since its very beginning, in 1732, "Orientale" has set itself up as a centre for learning and research which aims to focus on comparative and intercultural analysis, that have subsequently been extended to interdisciplinary approaches to questions of culture, histories and present day polities.
The Department of Human and Social Sciences provides the context for contemporary interdisciplinary and intercultural studies in the “Orientale” University of Naples, where a developing tradition in cultural and postcolonial studies has continuously devoted research to questions of migration, memory and the mutation of social and cultural formations within a European and extra-European frame.
Working with literary, audio-visual and musical languages, critical attention has consistently been devoted to understanding the political and poetical affects of such languages in configuring cultural memories, the construction of the historical archive, and the subsequent institutional practices that sustain modalities of historical identification and cultural belonging. In particular, working with the differentiated expressions of the multiplicity of histories and cultural traditions brought together in modern multicultural societies, critical attention has consistently been applied to both the complexities and unsuspected potentials of cultural dynamics constantly reworking and extending the very understanding of “culture”, “history”, “memory” and “identity”.
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Staff
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Iain Chambers
RF02 Leader i.chambers(at)tiscali.it He is Full Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, where he has extended his work on interdisciplinary and intercultural analyses to the formation of the modern Mediterranean.
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Giulia Grechi
. giulia.grechi(at)gmail.com She holds a PhD in “Theory and social research” from the University La Sapienza in Rome.
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Lidia Curti
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She has been teaching Women and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, where she is now Honorary Professor.
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Beatrice Ferrara
. beatriceferrara(at)gmail.com She holds a PhD in "Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World" from the University of Naples “L’Orientale”.
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Alessandra De Angelis
. lady-macbeth(at)libero.it She holds a PhD in "Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World" from the University of Naples «L’Orientale».
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Mariangela Orabona
. mariangelaorabona(at)gmail.com She holds a PhD in "Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World" from the University of Naples "L'Orientale".
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Michaela Quadraro
. michaelaquadraro(at)libero.it She holds a PhD in “Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World” from the University of Naples “L’Orientale”.
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Celeste Ianniciello
. celesteianniciello(at)libero.it She holds a PhD in “Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World” from the University of Naples “L’Orientale”.