Monica Sassatelli
Lecturer
Sociology
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Laurea (BA Hons) in Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna; MA in Modernism, Gender and Postmodernism, University of East Anglia; PhD in Sociology, University of Parma. She is currently a Lecturer in the Department and Co-Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR).Dr Monica Sassatelli co-convenes the BA Media and Sociology Programme with Liz Moor (Media and Communications). She contributes to core courses at both BA and MA level and convene options in her area of research: ‘Art & Society’ (BA Option) and ‘Cultural Policy and City Branding’ (MA Option). Previously, she has convened the MA Programme Critical and Creative Analysis between 2010-2012.
Research Interest
Cultural identity, European cultural policies (and cultural politics), the city (in Europe and global), leisure, landscape and place, experience, aesthetics, art worlds, festivals, culture industries, museums and exhibitions.
Publications
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Europe, cosmopolitanism and the postcolonial biennale Sassatelli, Monica. 2015. Europe, cosmopolitanism and the postcolonial biennale. In: S. Ponzanesi and G. Colpani, eds. Postcolonial Transitions in Europe. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9781783484454
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Becoming Europeans: Cultural Identity and Cultural Policies Sassatelli, Monica. 2009. Becoming Europeans: Cultural Identity and Cultural Policies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-53742-2
