Silvia Antosa
SILVIA ANTOSA è Professoressa Associata di Inglese presso l’Università per Stranieri di Siena e Direttrice del Centro per le Lingue Straniere - CLASS. Co-dirige la Collana di Studi di Letteratura e cultura inglese 'AngloSophia' per Mimesis. E' stata membro del Direttivo dell'Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA) e co-editor del fascicolo di Cultura della rivista di fascia A "Textus: English Studies in Italy" (Carocci) dal 2017 al 2023. Ha pubblicato numerosi saggi ed articoli sulla narrativa, la poesia e la scrittura di viaggio dell’Ottocento inglese (Jane Austen, Richard F. Burton, George Eliot, Frances Elliot e Dante Gabriel Rossetti) e sul romanzo contemporaneo (Martin Amis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Stephen King, Eimear McBride, Will Self, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson, Jackie Kay, Sarah Waters, Rebecca Tamàs, Emma Donoghue ed altr*). E’ autrice di diversi studi monografici, tra cui: "Frances Elliot and Italy. Writing Travel, Writing the Self" (Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2018), di un volume sul viaggiatore e traduttore vittoriano Richard Francis Burton (Richard Francis Burton: Victorian Explorer and Translator, Bern, Oxford and New York, Peter Lang 2012) e di una monografia sulla scrittrice inglese contemporanea Jeanette Winterson (Crossing Boundaries: Bodily Paradigms in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction 1985-2000, Roma, Aracne 2008). Ha curato diversi volumi interdisciplinari sulle teorie e pratiche queer. Essi includono: Queer Crossings: Theories, Bodies, Texts (Milano-Udine, Mimesis 2012); Gender and Sexuality: Rights, Language and Performativity, (Roma, Aracne 2012) e Omosapiens II: Spazi e identità queer (Roma, Carocci 2007). Ha recentemente co-curato il fascicolo monografico della rivista De Genere “Soggetti transnazionali e identità interculturali: il viaggio e il Sud Globale” con Elisabetta Marino (2021). Attualmente sta lavorando con Charlotte Ross (University of Birmingham) ad un Progetto finanziato dalla British Academy e dal Leverhulme Trust su “Cultural Discourses on Desire between Women: A Queer Comparative Analysis”.
SILVIA ANTOSA is Associate Professor of English at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy, and the Director of the Centre for Foreign Languages - CLASS. She is the co-editor of the Series AngloSophia: Studies in English Literature and Culture (Mimesis). She has been a member of the Board of the Italian Association of English Studies (AIA) and a member of the editorial board of Textus. English Studies in Italy (Carocci) from 2017 to 2023. She has published extensively on Victorian fiction, nineteenth-century travel accounts and translations (Jane Austen, Richard F. Burton, George Eliot, Frances Elliot e Dante Gabriel Rossetti) and contemporary British novelists (Martin Amis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Stephen King, Eimear McBride, Will Self, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson, Jackie Kay, Sarah Waters, Rebecca Tamàs, Emma Donoghue and more). She is the author of the following monographs: Frances Elliot and Italy: Writing Travel, Writing the Self (Mimesis 2018); Richard Francis Burton: Victorian Explorer and Translator (Peter Lang, 2012) and Crossing Boundaries: Bodily Paradigms in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction 1985-2000 (Aracne 2008). Antosa has edited several inter- and transdisciplinary volumes on queer theories and practices, which include: Queer Crossings: Theories, Bodies, Texts (Mimesis 2012); Gender and Sexuality: Rights, Language and Performativity (Aracne 2012) and Omosapiens II: Spazi e identità queer (Carocci 2007). Antosa is a member of several international networks of Gender and Sexuality Studies. She has recently co-edited with E. Marino a special issue of the journal de genere on ‘Transnational Subjects and Intercultural Identities: the Global South’ (2021). She is currently working with Charlotte Ross (University of Birmingham) on a project funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust on “Cultural Discourses on Desire between Women: A Queer Comparative Analysis”.
SILVIA ANTOSA is Associate Professor of English at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy, and the Director of the Centre for Foreign Languages - CLASS. She is the co-editor of the Series AngloSophia: Studies in English Literature and Culture (Mimesis). She has been a member of the Board of the Italian Association of English Studies (AIA) and a member of the editorial board of Textus. English Studies in Italy (Carocci) from 2017 to 2023. She has published extensively on Victorian fiction, nineteenth-century travel accounts and translations (Jane Austen, Richard F. Burton, George Eliot, Frances Elliot e Dante Gabriel Rossetti) and contemporary British novelists (Martin Amis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Stephen King, Eimear McBride, Will Self, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson, Jackie Kay, Sarah Waters, Rebecca Tamàs, Emma Donoghue and more). She is the author of the following monographs: Frances Elliot and Italy: Writing Travel, Writing the Self (Mimesis 2018); Richard Francis Burton: Victorian Explorer and Translator (Peter Lang, 2012) and Crossing Boundaries: Bodily Paradigms in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction 1985-2000 (Aracne 2008). Antosa has edited several inter- and transdisciplinary volumes on queer theories and practices, which include: Queer Crossings: Theories, Bodies, Texts (Mimesis 2012); Gender and Sexuality: Rights, Language and Performativity (Aracne 2012) and Omosapiens II: Spazi e identità queer (Carocci 2007). Antosa is a member of several international networks of Gender and Sexuality Studies. She has recently co-edited with E. Marino a special issue of the journal de genere on ‘Transnational Subjects and Intercultural Identities: the Global South’ (2021). She is currently working with Charlotte Ross (University of Birmingham) on a project funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust on “Cultural Discourses on Desire between Women: A Queer Comparative Analysis”.
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Chapters by Silvia Antosa, Ilaria Berti, Claudia Capancioni, Maria Teresa Chialant, Silvana Colella, Emanuela Ettorre, William Greenslade, Pam Lock, Jude V. Nixon, Francesca Orestano, Oriana Palusci, Maria Parrino, Kim Salmons, Marilena Saracino, Eleonora Sasso, Luisa Villa.
sex(t)ualities, ovvero le costruzioni e raffigurazioni testuali delle sessualità, con l’intento di decostruirne gli assiomi essenzialisti che in passato ne hanno caratterizzato l’elaborazione e la categorizzazione. Pertanto, l’analisi delle sex(t)ualities attinge a piene mani dalle ossessioni culturali verso le raffigurazioni delle sessualità che attraversano il contesto contemporaneo. A
tal fine, i saggi che qui vengono presentati dispiegano una stimolante prospettiva multidisciplinare, dai cinema e film studies alla letteratura comparata e agli studi culturali, con cui rintracciare in testi filmici, televisivi, in narrazioni letterarie, nel mercato di massa del porno così nelle sue sottoculture e negli
emergenti immaginari tecnologici, le molteplici morfologie che il corpo sessualizzato assume nelle sue rappresentazioni e nelle sue costruzioni come entità politica.
europea e mondiale con un convegno interdisciplinare organizzato da Silvia Antosa e Antonietta T. Messina Fajardo. Gli atti di tale iniziativa congressuale sono raccolti in questo volume, che esplora in una pluralità di direzioni e punti di vista differenziati l’attenzione su entrambi gli autori e soprattutto mette in luce come i capolavori dei due autori continuino a influenzare le scelte degli scrittori contemporanei non solo in Inghilterra e in Spagna ma a livello transnazionale.
both identification and dis-identification. The author argues that these impersonations enabled a series of queer encounters which broke down the barriers between imperial Self and colonised Other, and led Burton to embody several self-conscious, performative constructions of masculinity. Burton’s life and works are analysed in light of recent critical and theoretical debates
and reconceptualise key issues such as queer subjectivity, homophobia, gender performativity, masquerade and cross-dressing."
Articles by Silvia Antosa
Service (NHS) in Government communication and news media in Britain
as a crucial discursive figure of British national identity both during the
months preceding the Brexit referendum of June 2016 and in the early
months of the diffusion of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. We focus
on a number of issues regarding the ways in which the NHS has been
portrayed in the public arena. Both during the Brexit campaign and at the
onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS was adopted as a powerful
unifying national symbol to be protected, thanks to a populist language
based on the adoption of quasi-religious tropes and mythical themes, war
metaphors, and praise for heroism. This populist language was charged
with rhetorical messages and slogans which turned the NHS into an image
of Britishness, as emerges especially from an analysis of the leading frontpage articles from the right-wing newspaper Daily Mail in the early phases of the pandemic.
Numero speciale di Altre Modernità dedicato al delicato rapporto tra Studi culturali e università italiana
Chapters by Silvia Antosa, Ilaria Berti, Claudia Capancioni, Maria Teresa Chialant, Silvana Colella, Emanuela Ettorre, William Greenslade, Pam Lock, Jude V. Nixon, Francesca Orestano, Oriana Palusci, Maria Parrino, Kim Salmons, Marilena Saracino, Eleonora Sasso, Luisa Villa.
sex(t)ualities, ovvero le costruzioni e raffigurazioni testuali delle sessualità, con l’intento di decostruirne gli assiomi essenzialisti che in passato ne hanno caratterizzato l’elaborazione e la categorizzazione. Pertanto, l’analisi delle sex(t)ualities attinge a piene mani dalle ossessioni culturali verso le raffigurazioni delle sessualità che attraversano il contesto contemporaneo. A
tal fine, i saggi che qui vengono presentati dispiegano una stimolante prospettiva multidisciplinare, dai cinema e film studies alla letteratura comparata e agli studi culturali, con cui rintracciare in testi filmici, televisivi, in narrazioni letterarie, nel mercato di massa del porno così nelle sue sottoculture e negli
emergenti immaginari tecnologici, le molteplici morfologie che il corpo sessualizzato assume nelle sue rappresentazioni e nelle sue costruzioni come entità politica.
europea e mondiale con un convegno interdisciplinare organizzato da Silvia Antosa e Antonietta T. Messina Fajardo. Gli atti di tale iniziativa congressuale sono raccolti in questo volume, che esplora in una pluralità di direzioni e punti di vista differenziati l’attenzione su entrambi gli autori e soprattutto mette in luce come i capolavori dei due autori continuino a influenzare le scelte degli scrittori contemporanei non solo in Inghilterra e in Spagna ma a livello transnazionale.
both identification and dis-identification. The author argues that these impersonations enabled a series of queer encounters which broke down the barriers between imperial Self and colonised Other, and led Burton to embody several self-conscious, performative constructions of masculinity. Burton’s life and works are analysed in light of recent critical and theoretical debates
and reconceptualise key issues such as queer subjectivity, homophobia, gender performativity, masquerade and cross-dressing."
Service (NHS) in Government communication and news media in Britain
as a crucial discursive figure of British national identity both during the
months preceding the Brexit referendum of June 2016 and in the early
months of the diffusion of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. We focus
on a number of issues regarding the ways in which the NHS has been
portrayed in the public arena. Both during the Brexit campaign and at the
onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS was adopted as a powerful
unifying national symbol to be protected, thanks to a populist language
based on the adoption of quasi-religious tropes and mythical themes, war
metaphors, and praise for heroism. This populist language was charged
with rhetorical messages and slogans which turned the NHS into an image
of Britishness, as emerges especially from an analysis of the leading frontpage articles from the right-wing newspaper Daily Mail in the early phases of the pandemic.
Numero speciale di Altre Modernità dedicato al delicato rapporto tra Studi culturali e università italiana
word performer Kate Tempest, whose postmodern poems challenge the
triangular relationship between written and/or performed text, the role of
the author and/as performer, and the traditional function of the (reading)
audience. It argues that her work questions in productive ways crucial
issues like authorship, ethical responsibility, inter- and transmedial textual
plurality, reception and oral narration. In Brand New Ancients (2013) in
particular, Tempest questions and deconstructs the form and the structure
of traditional epics by reversing a number of key features. Set in the
contemporary age, Tempest’s poem breaks down sociocultural boundaries
such as, for example, those between high and low, Gods or semi-divine
figures and lower-class, disenfranchised mortals and, in a metanarrative
move, between the figure of the poet and the readers/listeners, who are
transformed into potential members of an interactive postmodern dramatic
chorus. In this way, Tempest gives voice to a potentially endless spectrum of voiceless and marginalised subjectivities, whose subaltern status is erased in this new poetic hierarchy-free (inter)textual space where opposites can co-exist.
and deconstructed by Stephen King in his 1992 novel
Gerald’s Game. Significantly, in this text, King subverts the
triangular structure villain-father-heroine by gradually reversing
the female character’s role, as she evolves from a
passive, vulnerable victim to an active protagonist of the
story. Such a change is possible only through her confronting
and overcoming the “buried, ominous secret”: a traumatic
event of sexual abuse which she experienced in her childhood. I demonstrate that the issues of vulnerability and trauma are central to a feminist reworking in a contemporary
key of traditional Gothic-horror tropes, themes and
characterisation.
March 26, 2021: online (Microsoft Teams)
Convened by Silvia Antosa (“Kore” University of Enna), Mariaconcetta Costantini ("G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara) and Mara Mattoscio ("G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara)