Disrupting Historicity, Reclaiming the Future

Associate Professor at the Università di Napoli “L’ Orientale”, where she teaches Contemporary English Literature, Critical Thought, and Postcolonial Studies. Her fields of research are Deconstruction, écriture féminine, poetry, and visual art. Her publications include the Italian translation of Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Hélène Cixous (Roma, Bulzoni, 2002), La lingua di Cleopatra. Traduzioni e sopravvivenze decostruttive (Milan, Marietti, 2009), and the editing of “Im-possible Derrida. Works of Invention”, darkmatter (8), 2012). She has been active in the International Researching BWPWAP (Back When Pluto Was A Planet): “The Reinvention of Research as Participatory Practice” (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany), a conference and a PhD workshop in preparation for ‘Transmediale’ Festival (Berlin, Germany, 2013). She is a member of the International PhD Course “Feminist Critique of Knowledge Production” (Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik 2011- 2013). As a consequence of her interest in the question of exile, women and technologies, she is now leading the research on “Feminine Performance in the Mediterranean Area. A Digital Archive” (European Funding). Forthcoming is her “‘Go Wonder’: Plasticity, Dis/semination and (the Mirage of) Revolution”, in B. Bhandar-J. Goldberg-Hiller (eds.), Plastic Materialities. Legality, Politics and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (Duke U.P., 2014).

She is currently employed as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she teaches courses on Italian early-modern literature. She received her doctoral degree in 2015 at the University of Zagreb (Protofeminist Reinterpretations of Female Biblical Figures in the Works of Six Women Authors from the XVth to the XVIIth Century). Her research and publications are in the related fields of Renaissance women’s writing and early feminism. Since 2015, she is one of the co-directors of the postgraduate course Feminisms in a transnational perspective.

Renata Jambrešić Kirin is Research Advisor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb in the field of oral literature and women’s history. She was a head of the project Gender and Nation: feminist ethnography and postcolonial historiography (2007- 2013) and currently is a head of the project Narrating Fear (2017- 2021). She is the co-director of the postgraduate course Feminisms in a transnational perspective (since 2007). She published the book Dom i svijet: o ženskoj kulturi pamćenja [Home and the world: on women’s cultural memory] (2008) and co-edited eight collections of papers including five volumes within the series Feminisms in a transnational perspective (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015).