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CULTURAL STUDIES AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE FACULTY


 Simone Brioni

 Assistant Professor
Ph.D. – University of Warwick – 2013
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simone.brioni@stonybrook.edu | 631-632-2134 | 1138 Humanities

    • Postcolonial Theory
    • Migration Studies
    • Film studies and filmmaking
    • Diaspora Cultures from the Horn of Africa
    • Gender and Representation

Using cultural studies and postcolonial theory, my work analyses the literary and cinematographic representation of migrations and Italian colonialism. My articles have been published in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals including Altreitalie, Cinergie, Écritures, Incontri, Science Fiction Studies, Studi Culturali, and The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. I edited the bilingual volumes (Italian and English) Somalitalia. Quattro vie per Mogadiscio (Roma: Kimerafilm, 2012) and Aulò! Aulò! Aulò! Poesie di nostalgia, d’esilio e d’amore (Roma: Kimerafilm, 2012) by Ribka Sibhatu, which respectively contain the documentaries Aulò. Roma postcoloniale and La quarta via. Mogadiscio Italia, for which I was co-director and co-author. I have published the monographs J.G. Ballard: Il futuro quotidiano (Siena: Prospettiva, 2011) and The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in ‘Minor’ Italian Literature (Oxford: Legenda, 2015).

Here is my professional homepage.