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Silvana Carotenuto is Ordinary Professor of Literatures in English at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale, where she directs the Centro di Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere (CSPG). Her fields of interest are Deconstruction, ècriture feminine, postcolonial e visual studies. She is the referent of the research Unit M.A.M.  “Matriarchivio del Mediterraneo” (www.matriarchiviomediterraneo.org).

Manuela Esposito owns her PhD in “Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono” (UniOr). She is a member of the Centro Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” and she is member of the research Unit M.A.M. Matriarchivio del Mediterraneo. She is a full-time teacher of English at the secondary schools. In 2019 she taught “World Literature” at the school of languages Sant’Anna Institute in Sorrento (NA), during the summer semester of Jackson University FLA.

Morgane Halilem studies architecture at Montpellier, France (ENSAM). Her research concentrates on the relationship between gender studies and postcolonial studies in urban and architectonic environments. She spent a period of research at the Centro di Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere (CSPG) – Unior Naples.

Celeste Ianniciello owns her PhD in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono (UniOr). She is a member of the Centro Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere - Università “L’Orientale” Naples, and she is part of the research Unit M.A.M.Matriarchivio del Mediterraneo. Her interests focus on visual culture and cultural studies, with particular attention to female/feminist art in postcolonial and Mediterranean area. She is a full-time teacher of English language and culture in secondary schools. She is the author of Migrations, Arts and Postcoloniality in the Mediterranean (Routledge 2018).

Annalisa Piccirillo owns her PhD in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono (UniOr). She is a member of the Centro  Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere (UniOr). Due to two Post-doc gained in 2012 e in 2014, she carried out the research project “Nuove pratiche di memoria: ‘matri-archivi’ mediterranei”, analysing the new female performative praxes in the Euro-Mediterranean area. She was Friedrich Hölderlin Guest Professor at Theatre, Film and Media Institute - Goethe University (Frankfort, Germany), and she taught “Storia della danza” at the Università di Salerno, e “English literature” at the Università degli Studi of Basilicata. Her Disseminazioni coreografiche will be published in 2023, by Uniorpress.

Nabila Tavolieri is currently attending the PhD program in Studi Internazionali – 'Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali. Her master degreed in "Lingue e Comunicazione Interculturale in Area Euromediterranea", carried out in ‘Critica Letteraria e Letterature Comparate,’ was devoted to “Il ‘pensiero-prassi’ femminile nero e radicale: Sylvia Wynter, Denise Ferreira da Silva, e le sperimentazioni d’arte”.