Sandra Ponzanesi
Humanities Department
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
I am currently Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme(UU). I am also Head of Department Humanities at University College Utrecht (UCU). My expertise is gender and postcolonial critique from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. My research areas include postcolonial studies, transnational feminist theories, comparative literature, Italian colonial history, European migration studies, visual culture, postcolonial cinema, media and conflict studies. I studied English and Commonwealth Studies at the University of Bologna (Italy) and University of Sussex (UK) and received my Ph.D., in Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Utrecht University. I was Visiting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles Women's Studies Program and visiting scholar at the University of California, Riverside and Gemma Scholar at Rutgers University.
Research Interest
Gender Studies (Research)
Publications
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Ponzanesi, S. & Leurs, K.H.A. (2014). On Digital Crossings in Europe. Crossings, 5 (1), (pp. 3-22) (20 p.).
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Ponzanesi, S. & Colpani, G. (2016). Postcolonial Transitions in Europe - Contexts, Practices and Politics. (436 p.). London: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Ponzanesi, S. (2016). On the Waterfront: Truth and Fiction in Postcolonial Cinema from the South of Europe. Interventions, 18 (2), (pp. 217-233).
