Dr Federica Mazzara

Teaching Fellow and Honorary Research Associate

email: f.mazzara@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: +44 20 020 3108 1082
Internal-phone: 51082
Room: Foster Court 348

Office Hours: Wednesday 10.00-10.45  and  13.10-14.00

Teaching: Italian Migrant literature and cinema; Words for Pictures; Language, Culture and Representation. Seminars for the MA in Contemporary Italian Culture and History, Ma in Comparative Literature, MA in Gender Studies, MA in Global Migration.

Convenor of the UCL MA in Gender Society and Representation and of the UCL BA Language and Culture.

Research areas: Italophone literature and cinema; migration studies, translation theory and practice; relationship between literature and other arts; visual culture, cultural studies.

Publications include:

Book:

  • Lettere in cornice. Traduzioni artistico-letterarie di Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Catania, Roma: Bonanno, 2010)
  • Edited Book:
  • Dizionario degli studi culturali, by M. Cometa, edited by F. Mazzara, R. Coglitore, (Roma: Meltemi, 2004).

Articles:

  • "Performing a Postmigration Cinema in Italy. Corazones de Mujer by K. Kosoof". Modern Italy 18.1 (2013).

  • "Beyond Italian Borders. Amara Lakhous and the Mediterranean Alternative". Crossings. Journal of Migration and Culture 3 (2012).
  • “Narrare Passaggi. Intervista a Cristina Ali-Farah”, in A. Ledgeway, L. Lepschy (eds.), In and out of Italy. the language and Culture of Migration (Perugia: Guerra Edizioni, 2010) 75-80.
  • “Lettere a Colori: Descrizioni di dipinti nella corrispondenza di Dante GabrielRossetti”. Peer reviewed article and exhibition NINES. Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online (2009).
  • “Rossetti’s Letters: IntimateDesires and Sister Arts”. Interface 28(2008) 115-124.
  • “La danza nel Novecento: un’esperienza di contaminazione dionisiaca”. Textos/Pretextos 11 (Coreo-grafias: Literatura eDanca)(Autumn/Winter 2008) 34-45.
  • “Studi sulla Traduzione” in Dizionario degli Studi Culturali (Roma: Meltemi 2005) 478-87
  • “Reading and Translating: The Circulation of Social Energy”. Norwich Papers (special edition'Translation and Multiculturalism') 9 (2001) 24-37.

Additional publications can be found in UCL Discovery and Dr Mazzara also has a personal blog.