Queer(ing) Gender in Italian Women’s Writing
Maria Morelli - Paperback
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Maria Morelli is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Milan, where she teaches Italian women’s theatre and feminist philosophy. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster (IGSRC, University of Leicester) and acts as Expert Evaluator for the European Commission. She has taught Italian literature and language at the Universities of Kent, Leicester (UK) and Wheaton College (US). Her research interests are in gender, sexuality and embodiment in modern and contemporary Italian literature and theatre on which she has published widely. She co-edited the volume Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy (2017) and edited the collection Il teatro cambia genere (2019). In 2018-19 she took part as co-dramaturge and producer in La donna attraverso lo specchio / Through Her Own Looking Glass, a series of stage readings based on a selection of Dacia Maraini’s plays (PACTA dei Saloni theatre, Milan).