A feminist critique of knowledge production

Silvana Carotenuto is 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 feminine, 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 (Milano, Marietti, 2009), and the editing of “Im-possible Derrida. Works of Invention”, darkmatter (8, 2012). She was recently active in the International Researching BWPWAP (Back When Pluto Was A Planet): “The Reinvention of Research as Participatory Practice” (Leuphana University of Lüneberg, Germany), a conference and a PhD workshop in preparation for ‘Transmediale’ Festival (Berlin, Germany, 2013). She is at the moment leading the research on “Feminine Performance in the Mediterranean Area. A Digital Archive” (European Funding) as a consequence of her interest in the question of exile, women and technologies. Forthcoming is her “Go Wonder’: Plasticity, Dis/semination and (the Mirage of) Revolution”, in B. Bhandar and J. Goldberg Hiller (eds.), Plastic Materialities. Legality, Politics and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (Duke U.P., 2014) and “Passages d’innocence: la différence photographique dans l’œuvre de Jacques Derrida”, Études françaises, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal (2015). [silcarot@gmail.com]

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 project Gender and Nation: feminist ethnography and postcolonial historiography (2007-2013) and a national coordinator in the COST Action Network “Remaking eastern border in Europe” (2008-2013). She is the co-director of the postgraduate course Feminisms in a transnational perspective (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 six collections of papers including four volumes within the series Feminisms in a transnational perspective (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013). [renata@ief.hr]

Sandra Prlenda studied in Zagreb (B.A. in History and French Studies), in Budapest (MA in History) and in Paris (École pratiques des hautes etudes, doctoral studies in History). From 2006 she has been working at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Zagreb, Croatia, currently as the research and publishing coordinator. She coordinates and manages the Centre’s activities in several fields, from EU-funded  multi-dimensional projects (women’s heritage, women’s memory, support to textile workers) and publishing programme, to documentation and research projects related to women’s and feminist history and memory (Zagorka’s heritage, Yugoslav feminisms). She has edited or co-edited seven books, among them four collections of proceedings from the postgraduate course Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013) [Sandra.prlenda@zenstud.hr]