CAROTENUTO Silvana

Ordinary Professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, where she teaches Contemporary Literatures in English. Her fields of research are Deconstruction, écriture feminine, Cultural, Postcolonial and Visual Studies, Interculturality. Her scientific activities, resulting in a series of publications and the establishment of research networks at international level, focus on the academic study of themes related to World Literatures, which includes Anglophone postcolonial literature, and global and transnational writing in English. The perspectives of these researches apply the interdisplinary approaches of Cultural Studies, which require the confrontation of the areas of writing and theory, literature and philosophy, literature and performative and visual culture.
In particular, her areas of interest identify with the thought of modernity, the critique of representation in the work of historical English and international vanguards, the foundational contribution of Gender Studies, nowadays in the recent development of feminist theories on the Anthropocene such as eco-feminism and hydrofeminism.
In the area of postcolonial studies, her research concentrates on the history of colonialism, the
rewritings of the imperial canon, the creative, critical and theoretical deconstruction of the appropriation-ex/appropriation of the slave carried out by the radical contemporary black
study.
Her academic production is diversified in the analysis of a range of textualities, authorial poetics, and interpretative methodologies that range from poststructuralism to postmodernism, with an interest towards the question of translation, in theoretical, practical and inter-semiotic terms, at the crossing, that is, of media such as theatre, cinema, performance and arts.
At the intersection of human and social disciplines lie her investigation of cultural difference, the diaspora experience, and the aesthetic exploration of the question of contemporary female creation. Finally, her researches consider the public impact of their results, developing in the area of the Ministerial ‘Terza Missione’ and ‘Public Engagement’ , as it is recognized in the project of the digital archive “Matri-Archive of the Mediterrenan”- M.A.M. -(http://www.matriarchiviomediterraneo.org/en/)- that was established during her direction of the European research “Performance in the Mediterranean Region”

INSTITUTIONAL ROLES
Ministry of the University
2015-today: “Reprise: Register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation”, Albo degli esperti scientifici Miur, Direzione Generale per il coordinamento e la valorizzazione della ricerca e dei suoi risultati. Settori ERC SH5_4; SH5_8; SH5_6.
Centres of culture
2020-2023: Direction of the Centre for postcolonial and gender studies (CSPG) - Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”.
2018-2019: Direction of the Centre for postcolonial and gender studies (CSPG) - Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”.
2009-2012: President of Centro Studi Postcoloniali, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”;
1999- 2014: Active members of Archivio delle Donne - Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale.”
PhD and Postdoctoral programs
2016-today: Co-direction of the Post-Graduate Course “Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective”, IUC Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Ministry of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia, Rachel and B. Vaughan Foundation, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Erasmus Mobility
2011-today: Responsible of the Erasmus Exchange with Sabanci University, Turkey – (as part of the exchange in 2011, there was the organization and coordination of the workshop “Exile Writing. Arts and Technologies of Women”, XVII International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA 2011, Istanbul; Leonardo Electronic Almanac–LEA). 
International Agreements
2018-today. Responsible of the “Joint Statement of Agreement” between “Institute for Ethnology and Folklore”, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”.
Membership
1999- today: Active member of Associazione Anglistica Italiana – A.I.A. 
2001-today: Member of Società Italiana delle Letterate – SIL (2001-2004: elected member in Comitato Direttivo). 
Editorial Direction
2016- Founder and director of the series Materia Postcoloniale/Postcolonial Matter - Unior Press
 http://www.unior.it/ateneo/9088/1/postcolonial-matters-materia-postcoloniale-book-series.html
RESEARCH PROJECTS
National
2001-2004: Research Cofin-Murst: “Donne e scrittura tra identità multiple”, directed by Prof. L. Curti, whose results were published in La nuova Shaharazad. Donne e multiculturalismo, Napoli, Liguori, 2003 edited by Lidia Curti, Silvana Carotenuto, Anna de Meo and Sara Marinelli (with essay “Il ‘velo toccante’ di Cleopatra: figurazioni etniche”)
Academic
2018-2021: Scientific responsible of the triennial ‘assegno di ricerca’ for the Project “Archivi della differenza. Archeologie e architetture performative del Mediterraneo.”
2018-2019. Responsible of the initiative “Matriarchivio del Mediterraneo. Digital Exhibition”, with funding of “Public Engagement.”
Regional
2012-2015: Scientific responsible of the Project "Nuove pratiche di memoria: il Matri-archivio del Mediterraneo" (Bando Regionale rete d'eccellenza POR Campania, FSE 2007-13 ASSE IV, Capitale Umano);
2013-2014: Direction of the Project “L’archivio della performance femminile in area Mediterranea. Prove digitali”, Bando della Regione Campania (Legge 13/2004; Por 2007/13);
2012-2013: Scientific responsible of the Project “Nuove pratiche di memoria: Matri-archivi mediterranei”, Reti di Eccellenza TPCC-ValCSiP – Fondi Regione Campania, Bando “Sviluppo reti di eccellenza tra Università, Centri di ricerca e Imprese”, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Settore scientifico-disciplinare L-LIN10.
2007: Scientific responsible of the Project “Le donne migranti e i ‘percorsi’ dell’esilio” Rassegna “Città delle Donne”, Napoli (multimedia laboratories approved with P.O.R, Fondi Regione Campania/Fondo Sociale Europeo).
International
2021-in progress: Co-leader of the network “European University Alliance”, University of Bayreuth, team WG 4 Mapping of additional fields of cooperation (https://4euplus.eu/4EU-1.html)
2021-2023: Member of the European project, Erasmus K2 “Geo-philosophy of the Balkans”, organized and coordinated by American University of Europe in Skopje, with the participation of Singidunum University of Belgrade, Panteion University of Athens, the Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, and l’Università di Verona.
2015-2019: Participation of the scientific Program “N’Ko Ne: Africa in the world. Translation: Disputing the sense of African Social Realities” –Point Sud, financed by German Research Council (DFG), in cooperation with Goethe University in Frankfurt Main, Germany, Point Sud in Mali, Cordesia, and University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, The University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
2008-2009: Member of the European research ATACD “A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics” (funded by New and Emerging Science and Technology, NEST), Priority of the European Union Sixth Framework Programmes (FP6), Evolution, Interaction, Communication, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London (G.B.). Title of the research: “The ‘Maximal Atlantes’ in Jamaica Kincaid’s Postcolonial Topology” (residency at The Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Holland, and coordination of the section “Postcolonial Topologies: Bounds and Mutations” at the Conferenza ATACD “Changing Cultures/ Cultures of Change”, International network, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. (http://www.atacd.net)

ORGANIZATION / PARTICIPATION TO RECENT CONFERENCES
2023 – “‘Ecomedia’ counternarratives or ‘visual activism’ against digital land grabbing in Africa”, Digital transformation of land governance in Africa- 24-28 October 2023, Istitute of African Studies, Univerwity of Ghana, legon, Accra
- Organization of 16th postgraduate course Feminisms in a transnational perspective:Re/configuration. Worlds in motion (Dubrovnik, 22-26 May, 2023)
2022- Organization of 15th postgraduate course Feminisms in a transnational perspective, with the title “Beyond the Ruins of Capitalism: Stolen Concepts, Deep Silences, Resurfaced Frictions”, Dubrovnik, Inter-University Centre, Croatia. (Dubrovnik, Inter-University Centre, 23-27 May 2022)
2021-23
January-June: Responsible of the laboratories and the cycle of interdisciplinary seminars Borderscapes at Centro Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere. DISUS-UNIOR (https://www.unior.it/ateneo/7278/1/seminari-borderscapes-e-altre-attivita.html).
2020
February: Organization and participation to the Laboratory “Ecologie Politiche del Presente”. Panel of the MAM group - with the theme “Figurazioni cosmopolitiche e cosmopoetiche Ecologie femminili dell’ospitalità, Ex Asilo Filangieri, Napoli.
May: Organization of the 14th Postgraduate Course “Feminisms in A Transnational Perspective” with the title “Beyond the Ruins of Capitalism: Stolen Concepts, Deep Silences, Resurfaced Frictions”, Dubrovnik, Inter-University Centre, Croatia.
June: 7th Derrida Today Conference, Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, France. Overall Panel Proposal: “Deriddean Borderscapes: The gift of the inn, shelter and asylum" 2019
January: Study days devoted to Cosmopolitics#1 with Ashami Sharma (UK, Univ. East London) and Andrea Cassatella (Bard College for Arts and Sciences East Jerusalem).
February: VIII AISCLI Conference, Post-Colonial/Decolonial Unpacking the Prefix, Panel “Postcolonial Praxis of Hospitality. Mediterranean Methods, Feminism Art and Technologies”, CSPG, UNIOR, Napoli.
2017
March: Organization, with others, of the conference “Dai colonialismi al ‘diritto di avere diritti’: la sfida del Medio Oriente, Università degli studi di Napoli L’Orientale’, organized by Centro di Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere, Unior (my contribution “Damasco: il vento nei capelli…”).