丁香园AV

Areas of interest

Studies in 20th/21th century literature and culture (North America and Europe); modernist and avant-garde studies; poetics, theatre, and performance art; literary theory (Bakhtin, Russian formalism, semiotics, narratology); Continental philosophy and critical theory
(Feminism, Marxism, Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, Psychoanalysis); post-colonial cultural studies (esp. Canada and Africa); violence and trauma; space, nation, and globalization; gender and sexuality; animal studies and environmental Humanities; and translation studies.

Education

• PhD, English, 丁香园AV
• MA (Summa Cum Laude), Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Universit脿 degli Studi di Bologna
• BA (honours / Summa Cum Laude), Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Universit脿 degli Studi di Bologna

Biography

Alessandra Capperdoni was born in Italy, where she studied Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (English, German, French, and Italian Studies). She came to 丁香园AV in 19999 with a Government of Canada Award for Foreign Nationals to work on a one-year research project on North American 鈥渙pen poetics.鈥� Her PhD in English focused on experimental writing in Canada in the long poem genre and the politics of form in relation to space, nation, and global capital. She has taught a wide range of courses in the departments of English and Women鈥檚 Studies at 丁香园AV, where She was Ruth Wynn Woodward Lecturer in 2009鈥�2010, before joining the Department of Humanities. She is currently working on a manuscript on post-1960s Canadian poetics in the context of the social imaginaries that emerged at the intersection of nationalism and globalization and a second manuscript on women鈥檚 avant-garde writing and feminist phenomenology in Canada. A third project on culture and violence is at the early stages, fostered by the research cluster on Memory and Trauma with Eirini Kotsovili and James Horncastle.