Member Profile
Name:
Dr Silvia Antosa
Institution:
University for Foreigners of Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Academic status:
University/college academic
Main discipline:
Cultural Studies
Additional disciplines:
Cultural Studies
Literary Studies
Literary Studies
Other societies:
The Italian Association for English Studies (AIA);
The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE);
The Gaskell Society;
AISCLI (Associazione Italiana di Studi sulle Culture e Letterature in Lingua Inglese)
NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association)
ANDA (Associazione Nazionale dei Docenti di Anglistica)
CIRVI (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerche sul “Viaggio in Italia”)
The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE);
The Gaskell Society;
AISCLI (Associazione Italiana di Studi sulle Culture e Letterature in Lingua Inglese)
NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association)
ANDA (Associazione Nazionale dei Docenti di Anglistica)
CIRVI (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerche sul “Viaggio in Italia”)
Research interests:
I am an Associate Professor of English at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. I am the author of "Frances Elliot and Italy. Writing Travel, Writing the Self" (Milan, Mimesis, 2018); "Richard Francis Burton: Victorian Explorer and Translator" (Bern, Oxford and New York, Peter Lang 2012) and "Crossing Boundaries: Bodily Paradigms in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction 1985-2000" (Roma, Aracne 2008). I have edited several interdisciplinary volumes on queer theories and practices; and I have published extensively on Victorian fiction, poetry and travel accounts as well as on contemporary British fiction. I am currently working on an interdisciplinary research project on 'Queer Kinship' with Charlotte Ross (University of Oxford) and Paolo Frascà (University of Toronto) (www.queerkinshipnetwork.com). I am also working on a British Academy / Leverhulme Trust funded project on queer cross-cultural approaches to lesbian literature in the late nineteenth century across England, France and Italy.