PhD Student and Part-time Teacher

Laurea Specialistica in Lingue e Letterature Euroamericane (Università di Trento); Laurea Triennale in Lingue e Letterature Straniere (Università di Bologna)

Research interests

• Migration literature in Italy
• Postcolonial literature and criticism
• Intersemiotic Translation
• Cinema and Documentary Theory and Analysis
• Postmodern Anglo-American Literature (J.G. Ballard, T. Pynchon, B.E. Ellis, C. Palahniuk)

Teaching

Language and Institutions IT211

L'Italia nel '900 IT411/IB4050 

Emigrants, Immigrants, Migrants

Contact details

Room H413

Tel. 024 761 51108

Email: s.brioni@warwick.ac.uk

Research

The Somali within: Questions of Language, Identity and Resistance in Post-colonial Italian literature

I am currently in my second year of Ph.D, supervised by Dr Jennifer Burns. My research aims to analyse Somali-Italian literature, particularly focusing on the oeuvre of second-generation writers (Cristina Ali Farah, Igiaba Scego). The context of Italian postcolonial literary discourse in the Horn of Africa will be analysed, by providing a cultural legacy of Italian colonialism. Furthermore, Somali migration to Italy is presented in its specificity, as is prejudice against immigrants in contemporary Italy, especially those who have Muslim background. These writers'ability to challenge the preconceptions against immigrants will also be evaluated. The recognition of these writers within the literary canon will be discussed, by trying to redefine Italian literary studies in a post-hegemonic and trans-national perspective.

Publications

"Automutilazione e dermografia: Madre piccola di Cristina Ubax Ali Farah" (Trickster, Rivista del Master in Studi Interculturali-Università di Padova, n. 9, settembre 2010).

Il futuro quotidiano: Saggi su James Ballard (Siena: Prospettiva, 2011).

‘Presentazione’ in Babel Hotel, ed. by Ramona Parenzan (Roma: Infinito, 2011).

‘Tradurre l’identità nell’Italia post-coloniale: La quarta via di Kaha Mohamed Aden.' Altreitalie 41 (2011).

‘Orientalism and Former Italian Colonies: an Interview with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’ in Orientalismi italiani, ed. by Gabriele Proglio (Torino: Antares, 2012).

Translations

Lamberto Pignotti. La poesia ve lo dice prima, la poesia ve lo dice meglio. (Brescia: Fondazione Berardelli, 2010)

Giovanni Fontana. Testi e Pretesti. (Brescia: Fondazione Berardelli, 2009)

Documentaries

 La quarta via (ITA, 2009, 38')

Aulò (ITA, 2011, 40')