Feminist Trans/Formations. Media, Art, Literature

Silvana Carotenuto is Ordinary Professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” where she teaches Contemporary Literatures in English and directs the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies (CSPG). Her fields of research are deconstruction, écriture feminine, postcolonial and visual studies. Among her publications are: (2023) “La ‘lingua comune’ in Zong! di NourbeSe Philip: svolte traduttive”, Testo a fronte; (2022) “Cosmopolitanism and cosmo- poethics: the cultural migrations of a ‘concept’”, Neohelicon; (2021) “Il (Libro in) cammino di Jamaica Kincaid nel ‘Paradiso’ reclamato”, Scritture migranti; (2021) “Events of Thought in Chinese Contemporary Female Art”, in Falsework Smalltalk (Some Beloved and Folio Books, Pakistan); 2020 “Here and Now: The ‘Leprosy’ of Nationhood in Sonia Sanchez’ Poetics” (reprinted), in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale Gale/ Cengage Learning; (2019); “La scrittura vegetariana in Han Kang: l’abisso del carnofallologocentrismo”, in L. Curti (ed.) Femminismi futuri (Iacobelli, Roma). She is responsible of the digital archive “Matriarchivio del Mediterraneo” (www. matriarchiviomediterraneo.org). Her La pupilla di Demetra. Jacques Derrida e la decostruzione delle arti will be published in 2025, Archive Books, Berlin-Dakar-Milan.

Maša Huzjak is a PhD student at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She is a co-founder and co-editor of Krilo.info, a Croatian feminist website. Her interests include fandom studies, popular culture, and girlhood studies.

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 the principal investigator at the project Narrating Fear (2017-2021). She is one of the initiators and the co-director of the postgraduate course Feminisms in a transnational perspective (since 2007). Her field of research includes women’s history of the XX century, the memory politics in Yugoslav culture, feminist anthropology, the folklore research of narrative practices. She published the book Dom i svijet: o ženskoj kulturi pamćenja [Home and the world: on women’s cultural memory] (2008), the book of feminist essays Korice od kamfora [The Camphorwood Binder] (2016), and co-edited 13 collections of papers, including six volumes within the series Feminisms in a transnational perspective 300 – Feminist Trans/formation. Media, Art, Literature (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019). She is one of vice-presidents of the Executive Committee of the ISFNR from 2016.

Biljana Kašić is a feminist and postcolonial theorist. She was one of the co-founders of the Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb and professor at the University of Zadar, Croatia. Due to her academic and activist expertise she has taught at various universities worldwide. Her areas of competence include feminist issues and identities, postcolonial theories, cultural studies, women’s culture of resistance and ethics. She is co/author and editor of numerous books and studies published in Croatian and other languages, including Teaching subjects in Between: Feminist Politics, Disciplines, Generations, 2006; Critical Interventions. Thinking Heritage, Decolonising, Crossings, eds. 2013; Soggetti itineranti. Donne alla ricerca del sé, 2013; “The post-colonial ‘eye’ and post-socialist space: arriving unbelonging”, in Novikova, I. at al. eds. Memory, Identity, Culture, 2015.