Matriarchive of the Mediterranean: Graphics and Matters

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).

Celeste Ianniciello completed a PhD in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World and is a member of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Department of Human and Social Sciences). Her research deals with contemporary art in relation to migrant experiences in the Mediterranean Area, understood as art of the cultural, geographic, historic, ecologic, epistemological and gender confinement and trespass, and analysed through the theory and criticism of Cultural, Postcolonial and Feminist Studies. Her last publications include the co-editing of The Postcolonial Museum. The Arts of Memory and the Pressures of History (2014) and the volume Migration, Arts and Postcoloniality in the Mediterranean (Routledge, 2018).

Annalisa Piccirillo hold a PhD in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies (L’Orientale University). She has been Friedrich Hölderlin Guest Professor in General and Comparative Dramaturgy at the TMF Institute at Goethe University Frankfurt (W/S 2016), and Lecturer of Dance History at the University of Salerno (2017-18). In her research work, she combines gender-critical and postcolonial approaches with deconstructionist perspectives to investigate contemporary performance-based languages and choreographic works.