RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

Comparative and interdisciplinary cultural studies of contemporary objects, visual or textual narratives (20th and 21st-century literatures, popular culture, cinema,television and new media); specific focus on:

• Gender studies (queer theories and performativity)
• Diasporic, (post)colonial and globalization studies (especially Europe, the Maghreb, the Caribbean)

CURRENT PROJECTS:

Book projects:

What's Queer about Europe (co-edited with S. Dasgupta)
Multilingual Europe, Multilingual Europeans (co-edited with L. Maracz)

Collaborative projects:


"Disorientation" (ASCA, "Mobility" project; University of Tromsø)

Keywords: border aesthetics, mobility and intercultural mapping, cultural transformations.