Organisation of Conferences by Maria Elena Alampi
Unversity of Exeter and Sapienza University of Rome 20-22 June 2023- Santa Severa Castle
Oxford Brookes University 12th of January 2024 Keynote: prof. Elettra Stimilli
University of Exeter and Oxford Brookes University- Keynote: Professor Guy StandingThe conference... more University of Exeter and Oxford Brookes University- Keynote: Professor Guy StandingThe conference was in collaboration with Projet OBERT - Observatoire Européen des Récits du Travail and ASMI - The Association for the Study of Modern Italy
University of Exeter, University of Birmingham, Universidad de Zaragoza- Zoom online - Invited sp... more University of Exeter, University of Birmingham, Universidad de Zaragoza- Zoom online - Invited speakers: Prof. Romana Andò, Prof. Celestino Deleyto (Universidad de Zaragoza), Dr Catherine Lester (University of Birmingham), Prof. Rob Stone (University of Birmingham)
Programme: Dis/similar Identity and Hybridisation in Italian Culture, 5-6 September, University o... more Programme: Dis/similar Identity and Hybridisation in Italian Culture, 5-6 September, University of Birmingham (UK)
by Carlo Baghetti, Gerardo Iandoli, Alessandro Ceteroni, Romano Summa, Monica Jansen, Emanuele Zinato, Carmen Van den Bergh, Claudio Milanesi, Maria Elena Alampi, Erica Bellia, Christos Bintoudis, Héloïse Moschetto, Matteo Ottaviano, claudio panella, Isabella Pinto, LARA TOFFOLI, and Tiziano Toracca Summer School co-finanziata dall'AIPI (sponsor principale) e Aix-Marseille Université (UFR-ALLSH,... more Summer School co-finanziata dall'AIPI (sponsor principale) e Aix-Marseille Université (UFR-ALLSH, Collège Doctoral, CAER)
Conference Presentations by Maria Elena Alampi
Workshop "A Girls' Eye View" Network- Santa Severa (Rome) 2023
University of Oxford "New Queer South: Perspective on Italian Society Culture" 21-22 Sept 23
Expressio : rivista di linguistica, letteratura e comunicazione, 2022
Summer school “Dis/simile: identità e ibridazione nella cultura italiana”, 5-6 settembre 2019, Un... more Summer school “Dis/simile: identità e ibridazione nella cultura italiana”, 5-6 settembre 2019, University of Birmingham, "
AAIS-The American Association for Italian Studies
18-21 May 2023 Texas Christian University (TCU)... more AAIS-The American Association for Italian Studies
18-21 May 2023 Texas Christian University (TCU) - Fort Worth
TVSERIES : II International Conference on Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series 20-21 Octob... more TVSERIES : II International Conference on Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series 20-21 October 2022 University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Paper presented at NECS 2021
B-Film 2nd annual PGR Symposium on World Cinema- University of Birmingham
SIS Themed Conference, University of Sussex, 5-6 April 2018
Call for papers by Maria Elena Alampi
University of Birmingham - Online via Zoom (5/3/2021)
Call for papers (both in Italian and English) for the postgraduate summer school in Italian Studi... more Call for papers (both in Italian and English) for the postgraduate summer school in Italian Studies, entitled ‘Dis/similar: identity and hybridization in Italian culture’ (University of Birmingham, 5-6 September 2019)
The main field of research are Italian Literature, Gender and Cultural Studies, Film Studies and History of Art.
Deadline: 20 July 2019.
Book Reviews by Maria Elena Alampi
Italica, 2020
Mimesis (Eds.) Parol - Quaderni d'arte e di epistemologia, vol.29. Reviewed by Maria Elena Alampi... more Mimesis (Eds.) Parol - Quaderni d'arte e di epistemologia, vol.29. Reviewed by Maria Elena Alampi. Italica: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian Vol. 97 • No. 1 • Spring 2020
Papers by Maria Elena Alampi
Italian studies, Mar 27, 2024
This article explores the portrayal of contemporary Italian girlhood in the context of Italian me... more This article explores the portrayal of contemporary Italian girlhood in the context of Italian media studies. It critically examines the emergence of a new media depiction of Italian high-school girls in the role of exchange students abroad. Given the widespread prevalence of this trend, which has received limited academic attention, the representations of these young travellers are examined across different media, offering insights into their dynamic agency as cultural intermediaries within Italian society. The inquiry draws from data from the AHRC research project A Girls’ Eye View. It analyses excerpts from project interviews and social media in order to shed light on the emergence of nomadic Italian girlhood as portrayed in TV series and on the TikTok platform. By exploring Italian girls’ nomadic aspirations, the study provides valuable insights into the dynamic relationship between travel, education, and the impact of social media on their lives.
Italian Studies 1-21, 2023
This article explores the portrayal of contemporary Italian girlhood in the context of Italian me... more This article explores the portrayal of contemporary Italian girlhood in the context of Italian media studies. It critically examines the emergence of a new media depiction of Italian high-school girls in the role of exchange students abroad. Given the widespread prevalence of this trend, which has received limited academic attention, the representations of these young travellers are examined across different media, offering insights into their dynamic agency as cultural intermediaries within Italian society. The inquiry draws from data from the AHRC research project A Girls’ Eye View. It analyses excerpts from project interviews and social media in order to shed light on the emergence of nomadic Italian girlhood as portrayed in TV series and on the TikTok platform. By exploring Italian girls’ nomadic aspirations, the study provides valuable insights into the dynamic relationship between travel, education, and the impact of social media on their lives.
Expressio : rivista di linguistica, letteratura e comunicazione , 2022
The decline in fertility in Western nations is now a fact. Industrialized nations have been parti... more The decline in fertility in Western nations is now a fact. Industrialized nations have been particularly affected by the crisis and the unstable labour market known as precarity. Drawing on Giusy Di Filippo's article (2017), Italy has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world and childfree women are becoming a large part of the population. At the beginning of the millennium, explanations for the phenomenon of childless women included their increased participation in the labour force, the women's rights movement and advances in reproductive freedom (Bartlett 1996; Ireland 1993; Gillespie 2000); however, the contemporary economic crisis complicated the situation. In fact, the number of Western women who choose to remain childless (CF people) is increasing worldwide (Krupka 2016). This article addresses issues raised by the representation of contemporary women in the era of precarity. In particular, it investigates a less-explored female gender stereotype: the emerging representation of childfree women in contemporary Italian cinema, in relation to legacies of Italian cinema, such as neorealism, which represented women under the myths and stereotypes of brides, wives, mothers and prostitutes. Precarity, as I argue in my doctoral thesis, 1 not only concerns the lack of financial means for Italians to fulfil life plans established by the heteronormative and neoliberal society, such as having a family and a house and experiencing professional success. Precarity has also caused an epochal change in Italian lifestyle and mentality and contributed to the emergence of different gender models and this is reflected in cinema. To be clear, this change has led, in my opinion, to the increased representation of different gender roles, which have always been present but which have previously remained marginal to Italian mainstream cinematic representations of gender. The importance of this development has pushed me to find an interpretative key for this era of large-scale phenomena within Italy. This period spans from the crisis of the so-called First Republic to the process of globalization, job flexibility and the delay in implementing the benefits of this flexibility such as the so-called reddito di cittadinanza. Therefore, cinema is a clear interpreter of social changes with numerous productions of notable national success. Focused on the vicissitudes of the average Italian, these films offer a bitter representation of national malaise, addressing different aspects of the discourse on identity such as, acceptance of diversity, recent immigration and problems of coexistence in a multicultural society. In short, cinema analyses the anxieties of its time, sometimes even anticipating phenomena that only later are acknowledged by scholars of the historical-social disciplines (Urban 2009). Among gender models, even the cornerstones of Italian cinema such as the conservative images of the woman and mother that I will deal with in this article have undergone a multi-faceted identity change in the era of precarity. The Great Recession of the 2000s has had different consequences in each country. These consequences produced a widespread crisis and proliferated forms of temporary work in post-industrial societies, known as precarity. In Italy, precarity in the workplace led to precarity in the material and 1 PhD thesis title The Economic Crisis on the Big Screen: the Italian Era of Precarity, supervised by Dr Charlotte Ross and co-supervised by Professor Rob Stone, PhD in Italian Studies-Modern Languages, University of Birmingham.
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Organisation of Conferences by Maria Elena Alampi
Conference Presentations by Maria Elena Alampi
18-21 May 2023 Texas Christian University (TCU) - Fort Worth
Call for papers by Maria Elena Alampi
The main field of research are Italian Literature, Gender and Cultural Studies, Film Studies and History of Art.
Deadline: 20 July 2019.
Book Reviews by Maria Elena Alampi
Papers by Maria Elena Alampi
18-21 May 2023 Texas Christian University (TCU) - Fort Worth
The main field of research are Italian Literature, Gender and Cultural Studies, Film Studies and History of Art.
Deadline: 20 July 2019.
Addressing precarity and the moving image also means putting in relation screen with wider media, social, and environmental ecologies and accounting for how much cinema, television, and audiovisual experiences in a broad sense, always exist by interrelating to wider and, in turn, evolving, reality.
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and heteronormative characteristics of the white male hegemony (Hipkins, 2018, pp.83-84;O’Rawe, 2014, p.45). Furthermore, the academic call that Danielle Hipkins made in 2008 about the need to study strong women in Italian cinema (in both acting and directorial roles) provided a starting pointfor the field of Italian film studies to consider different types of gender roles (Faleschini Lerner and D'Amelio, 2017, p.8). In fact, in the arena of contemporary cinema, several female actresses have begun to diversify both their roles and the ways in which celebrities are experienced, the latter being mainly attributable to social media that allows direct contact with their fans. Drawing on the work of
Yvonne Tasker (1998, p.6), who argues that the female performer is repeatedly framed within an opposition between her body as spectacle and her work a s an actor, I will argue here that nowadays social media mediates this tension since, in the case of Scarano, the audience understands her in terms of her star image as much as the different roles she interprets (from the letterina to criminal/investigative roles). This is thanks to her direct contact with her fans on Instagram. From this perspective, this article about the female Italian actor Greta Scarano shall focus on the analysis of two aspects: Scarano’s ability to cover different roles across differ ent media (TV and cinema) and thus avoid being stereotyped in only one female role, and the way in which she conveys the image of herself as an Italian celebrity through her Instagram profile