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Benedetta Barbisan

Is a comparative constitutional scholar at the School of Political Science. Her interests dealt also with transitional justice and new forms of constitutionalism. She was visiting scholar at the Boston College Law School, research assistant at the Harvard Law School and visiting researcher at the Yale Law School. Among her publications, «Marbury v. Madison. Le origini della giustizia costituzionale negli Stati Uniti». Currently, she has been working on her new book «Therpandrus' Obsession. Privacy, Dignity and the «Right to Die» in the Era of Universal Human Rights».

 

 

 

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Simone Betti

Researcher in Geography at the Department of Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the University of Macerata
Degree in Political Sciences (specializing in International Politics) from University of Urbino in 1993
Degree in Sociology (specializing in Territory and Environment) from University of Urbino in 1996
Degree in Geography from University of Genova in 2000
Ph.D. in Geographical-Environmental and Cartographic Sciences XIV course, from University of Genova in 2002
Professor of Economic and Political Geography of Asia and Africa at the University of Urbino (Faculty of Political Sciences) degree in Political Sciences
Professor of Geography and Economic and Political Geography at the University of Urbino (Faculty of Political Sciences) degree in International Cooperation for Development
Professor of Geography, Geography of Rural Areas, Economic and Political Geography, Human Geography, Landscape and Territory Geography at the University of Macerata
Departmental Delegate for Erasmus and foreign language courses since 2012 – University of Macerata, Department of Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Main fields of interest and research are Regional Studies, Cultural and Social Geography, Landscape and Territory.

 

 

Sc. Formazione

 

Carla Carotenuto

She has a degree in Modern Literature, was completed in Philology and received his PhD. He has held teaching and research abroad. Researcher in Contemporary Italian Literature at the Department of “Studi Umanistici” – University of Macerata.
His fields of research are the modern and contemporary Italian Literature, migrant writers, women's writing. Coordinates international agreements in Europe and beyond. Among the publications we mention the essays on Kubati, Cappiello, Nibbi Bigiaretti, Betti, Duranti, Sanvitale, Sereni. He edited, with M. Meschini, Scrittura, migrazione, identità in Italia: voci a confronto (2011). He has held courses and organized meetings on the literature of migration in the italian language; tutor the thesis in this field.

 

 

 

Studi Umanistici

Silvia Caserta

Studi

Umanistici

 

Uoldelul Chelati Dirar

He was born in Asmara (Eritrea). He has completed his secondary school and university studies in Italy. In 1998, after having earned a Doctorate in African history at the University of Cagliari, he went back to Eritrea where he has taught until 2003 in the Department of History of the University of Asmara. He has also been chair of the same Department from 1998 to 2002. In 2003 Uoldelul Chelati Dirar went back to Italy and is now Associate Professor of African History in the Department of Political Science at the University of Macerata. Historian by training, Uoldelul Chelati Dirar has dealt mainly with the history of the Horn of Africa, particularly Eritrea, during colonial times. His research interests focus on the processes of élites formation and on the development of nationalisms in the Horn of Africa.

 

 

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Edith Cognigni

She is lecturer in Modern Language Teaching Methodology at the Department of Humanities of the University of Macerata, where she teaches Foreign Language Teaching Methodology and Translation Studies.

The main research interests have always been focused on the learning and teaching of Italian L2 to adult migrants. Between 2002 and 2005 I managed a doctoral research at the Department on Social Change at the University of Macerata (“Language and culture policy, education and training”), on the plurilingual repertoires and language representations of adult migrants who study Italian L2; the empirical investigation included narrative interviews with Francophone and Anglophone learners from Africa and Russian-speaking learners from Eastern Europe. In 2010 she concluded a post-doctoral research project on teaching migrant women Italian L2 through self-narrative methodology, which put him in touch with a large number of women of African origin. Her current research interests include the teaching and learning of Italian L2 in a gendered perspective, with a specific focus on women of Maghrebi origin of different generations and the role of L2 and heritage languages in their identity construction and intergenerational transmission.


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Elisabetta Croci Angelini

Professor of Economic Policy, University of Macerata, Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations
Education 1986 - PhD in Economics, European University Institute, Florence. 1978 - Laurea in Economics, University of Siena.
Research activities abroad: 2014 – Visiting professor all’UPPA (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour); 2001 - IRISS scholarship at CEPS-INSTEAD Differdange - Luxembourg 1995-96 - Research Associate at the International Development Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford 1988-89 - Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. 1982-83 - Visiting student at the Graduate School, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Academic positions: 1997 - 2005 Associate Professor of European economics at Macerata University 1992 – Associate professor of Economic Policy, University of Siena. 1989 – Resercher in Economics, Department of Political Economics, University of Siena. 1987 – Researcher in Economics, Faculty of Political Science, University G.D’Annunzio, Chieti.

 

 

 

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Luca De Benedictis

He teaches economics and international economics at the University of Macerata.
He is member of the Italian Economic Society, the European Economic Association, the American Economic Association and the International Network for Economic Research. He is founding member of ITSG (Italian Trade Study Group) and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Annual Report on Italy in the World Economy (ICE) and of ARS (Social Network Analysis).
He has published extensively on the international trade theory and policy. He has published in 2011 a Springer volume with Luca Salvatici, The Trade Impact of European Union Preferential Policies, with a specific focus on Less Developed Countries, and Africa. He writes about globalization, migration and integration of markets. His present research focuses on empirical international trade and network analysis.

 

 

Economia

Francesca de Vittor

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Elena Di Giovanni

She is Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the University of Macerata. She holds a degree in Translation from the University of Bologna, Italy, and a PhD in English for Special Purposes from the University Federico II in Naples (consortium with the University of Bologna). She has been teaching specialized translation for over 15 years at several universities (Macerata, Bologna, London, Barcelona). For 8 years she has been teaching an MA course in Translation and Ideology at the University of Macerata (MA course in Translation for International Communication), focusing on interlingual communication and postcolonialism, neocolonialism, diaspora.

Her research interests lie in literature and translation in postcolonial settings, with special reference to Asia and, more recently, Africa. She also specializes in research on audiovisual translation (cinema, television, theatre) and media accessibility for the sensory impaired.

 

 

 

Studi Umanistici

 

Gianluca Frenguelli

Graduated in Italian studies at the University of Roma Tre (Italy), where he also obtained his Doctorate degree, he lectured in Linguistics and Italian linguistics at the Universities of Roma Tre and Macerata (Departments of Economics and Education Science). He taught within the Master degree courses in Italian studies at the University of Chieti, and the Degree courses in Contemporary Italian language at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia.
Since 2005 he has been Senior Lecturer in Italian linguistics at the Humanities Department in the University of Macerata.
His main research interests include: language of the media from the colonial period to the present day; language and culture of the colonial period. On these topics he has written numerous contributions, held lectures and given conference papers in several Italian and foreign universities.
From 2006 to 2012 he was the Head of the Macerata unit for two national research projects: “The language and culture of the colonial period” and “ The language and culture of the colonial period: Literature, journalism and the mass media” (whose national coordinator was, in both cases, Prof. Simona Costa from Roma Tre University).
He is co-editor of the international journal «La lingua italiana. Storia, strutture, testi».

 

 

 

Studi Umanistici

Danielle Levy

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Massimo Meccarelli

Giurisprudenza

Laura Melosi

Studi Umanistici

 

Michela Mercuri

She received her PhD in “Representations and political behavior” at the University Cattolica in Milan, in which, from 2003 to 2010, was fellow in International Relations and Comparative Political Systems. From 2006 to 2010 she also has held the role of researcher at Eupolis Lombardy. Since 2009 she is professor of “Contemporary History of the Mediterranean Countries” at the University of Macerata. Her researchs include the history and geopolitics of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, with particular reference to Libya. He has participated in publications for ETAS, Aegean and some magazines. She recently edited, together with Stefano Maria Torelli, The Arab Spring. Origins and effects of the riots that are changing the Middle East, published by Vita e Pensiero, Milan.

 

 

 

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Michela Meschini

Studi Umanistici

 

Renata Morresi

She is PhD in Comparative Literature and has received a post-doctoral grant in Transnational American Literature. Since 2004 she has been teaching subjects related to Anglo-American Studies at the University of Macerata and at the University of Padua, Italy.
She focuses on the study of cross-cultural themes and questions arising from encounters across different languages; she has written on several authors, among whom modernist writers such as Nancy Cunard, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, and the postmodern poet-critic Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and topics, such as transatlantic modernism, African American literature, African diasporic writing, poetry and polilinguism, multicultural children's literature, e-poetry. She is poet, creative writer, blogger and translator.

 

 

 

Studi Umanistici

Federica Musso

Giurisprudenza

Enrico Nicosia

He is a researcher in Geography at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata. He graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Economics, University of Catania with a thesis of Urban Geography. In 2005 he received his Master’s Degree in Economics and recovery of cultural property at the School of the University of Catania. In 2008 he was awarded a PhD in "Territorial Organization and Sustainable Development in Europe" XX cycle, at the University of Catania.
In the years 2009-2012 he worked as the outer part of the European Research Project "1 G-MED08-276/MEDISS renforcer les Innovation Capacities of the distribution chains Senteurs de Saveurs de la sur le pourtour Mèditerranée-2009/2011".
The main research topics are focused on sustainable land development policies and in its social and economic component is on urban regeneration strategies. In addition, several issues were explored in the development of tourism, cultural routes and the geography of trade. Recent studies are directed: the urban redevelopment, the transformation of the spaces of consumption and "territorial competitiveness" sustainable implementation of the Lisbon/Gothenburg, movie induced development as an opportunity to promote and develop land.
Research Groups International and National:
"Ciudad, Urban Comercio y Consumo" Coordinator: Prof. Carles Carreras, Departament of Geography Humana Universitat de Barcelona (Spain).
"Media and geography" Coordinator: Prof. Dell’Agnese Elena, University of Milan Bicocca.

 

Sc. Formazione

Paolo Palchetti

He is professor of international law at the Department of Law of the University of Macerata. He is the Director of the PhD program in Law of the same university. He sometimes acted as adviser of the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and was counsel of several States in international disputes before the International Court of Justice. His research interests broadly include: settlement of international disputes, law of international organization, and the treatment of foreigners.

 

Giurisprudenza

 

Maria Elena Paniconi

She holds a PhD in Oriental Studies (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2006). Her dissertation focused on the Egyptian novel of the 80’s and 90’s. Later on she was recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Berkeley (2008) and since 2010 she has been serving as permanent lecturer of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Macerata.

She works on modern and contemporary Arabic literature and culture, on twentieth-century women’s writing in the Arabic world, and on the cultural aspects of the process of experiencing modernity in the Arab world, with a specific focus on Egypt.

Her research deals with the creation of a modern imagery of youth in early twentieth-century Egypt and the role played, within this same context, by intellectuals and writers in the spread of a national ideal. This last interest of hers has been the focus of the work: Modernità arabe. Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egiziano written with Lorenzo Casini (University of Messina) and Lucia Sorbera (University of Sydney) (Mesogea, 2013). Furthermore she has been working on the Italian cultural realm in early twentieth-century Egypt, investigating the relations between the Italians in Egypt had the Egyptian cultural elites.

She is member of the executive board of SeSaMO (Società italiana di Studi sull’Africa e Medio Oriente).

 

 

 

Studi Umanistici

Roberto Perna

Studi Umanistici

 

Paola Persano

She studied Law at the University of Pisa and the University of Oviedo (Spain). She got a PhD in ‘History and theory of modern and contemporary constitutions’ at the University of Macerata, with frequent periods of study and research at the BNF and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris.
Currently she’s a lecturer and she teaches ‘History of Political Thought’ and ‘History of Contemporary Political Thought’ at the Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations of Macerata.
She collaborates with the revue «Jura Gentium» (Center of philosophy of international law and global politics), with the “Gruppo di lavoro interuniversitario sulla soggettività politica delle donne”, and finally with the revue «About Gender».
Her research focused some gender issues in modern and contemporary political thought, especially the political subjectivity of women, the patriarchy in the western history of migrant and non-migrant women, and the ideology in the most recent feminist studies (Immaginari a confronto. Quando il femminismo incontra l'ideologia, in «Scienza & Politica» - full version in http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/3842) .
Her ongoing research deals with the impact of inter-generational bonding on the contemporary public debate.

 

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Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh

Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh (Ph.D.), is tenured Assistant Professor in Anglo-American Literature and Culture at the University of Macerata. Honors: Fulbright visiting scholar, U. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1995; Grant, John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität, Berlin 1996; Salzburg Seminar Fellow, Salzburg 2001. Research topics/areas include: African American literature; Black diaspora literature; Race Studies (racialization dynamics in the Circum-Atlantic context).

 

 

Studi Umanistici

Carmelo Porto

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Maria Antonietta Rizzo

Studi Umanistici

 

Isabella Rosoni

Associated professor of History of political institutions at the University of Macerata. She dealt with the history of criminal law and with the relationship between historical truth and trial truth. Currently she is dealing with the colonial history. Among her publications concerning this scientific field there is: La Colonia Eritrea. La prima amministrazione coloniale italiana (1880-1912), Macerata, EUM, 2006; Legislazione coloniale e mobilità degli individui. Il caso della Colonia eritrea, in U. Chelati Dirar, S. Palma, A. Triulzi, A. Volterra, Colonia e postcolonia come spazi diasporici, Carocci, Roma, 2011; Cittadinanze e giustizie differenziali. La condizione giuridica degli eritrei, in I. Rosoni, U. Chelati Dirar (a cura di), Votare con i piedi. La mobilità degli individui nell’Africa coloniale italiana, Macerata, EUM, 2012; Le istituzioni politiche coloniali, in M. Meriggi, L. Tedoldi (a cura di) Manuale di Storia delle istituzioni politiche, in corso di stampa presso Carocci editore, Roma.

 

 

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Paolo Rovati

He is Associate Professor of Geography and teaches Political and Economic Geography and Geography of Globalization at the Department of Economics and Law, University of Macerata. He is the scientific responsible of the Iberian and Latin American area for the «Annali di Ricerche e Studi di Geografia» review.
The scientific writings have earned him the award «Premio Carmelo Colamonico» by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. For have distinguished himself in the dominio de la ciencia geográfica he has been appointed Correspondent Fellow of GÆA Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Geográficos. Recently, in the ambit of the National Prize of Naturalistic Literature «Parco Majella», he has been awarded the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic.
Under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has taught for almost a decade in Italian schools of Spanish -speaking area and he has had the opportunity, among other things, to undertake the study of the regions of Iberian influence, even in the African continent.
He has published works mainly in political, urban and environmental geography. In the context of studies on Africa he has been interested in the territories of the Spanish state located in this continent, especially in the Canary Islands, in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla and in the Spanish garrisons along the Mediterranean coast of Africa. Studies on the former Spanish colonies in Africa, have led him to address the geo- historical issues of Western Sahara in the broader context of relations between Spain and Morocco. In recent years, he has focused his research mostly on Equatorial Guinea of which he has made ​​a few publications on geographic, economic, political and environmental issues of this complex sub-Saharan African country.

 

 

 

Economia

Lecturer in French Language and Translation at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Macerata, teaching the undergraduate course in Linguistics and Translation (‘Discipline della Mediazione Linguistica’). Member of the doctoral research programme in the Science of Translation (at the University of Bologna) as well as tutor of the PhD programme in Politics, Education and Linguistic-cultural formations (University of Macerata). Having graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Bologna, I went on to obtain my PhD there in Francophone literature (sub-Saharan Africa) in 2001. In 2003 I enrolled on the post-graduate course in Translation from French to Italian for Publishing at the ISIT of Milan. From 2002 until 2009 I was a visiting lecturer in French language and translation at the University of Bologna (Faculty of Letters and Philosophy and the Faculty of Political Sciences), at the University of Trento (Faculty of Letters and Philosophy) and at the University of Macerata (Faculty of Political Sciences). Research grants awarded from abroad: International summer internship in the teaching of FLE, Dép. d’Études Romanes, Fac. de Philosophie et Lettres, (UCL) Louvain–La–Neuve (2007); European College of Literary Translaters of Seneffe (Belgium, 2005); enrolment and attendance of the post-graduate course (D.E.A.) in Modern Literature at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop di Dakar (Senegal, 1994/1995). Collaborations with scientific journals: chief editor of the section “Francophone sub-Saharan Africa” for “Il Tolomeo” (University Ca’ Foscari – Venezia) since 2010; founder and editorial collaborator of the journal “Afriche e Orienti” (University of Bologna) since 1997; editor, webmaster and editorial secretary of the on-line journal “InterFrancophonies” (University of Bologna) since 2009; referee who evaluates contributions to the journal “MediAzioni” (SITLeC – University of Bologna-Forlì) since 2011. Translator for various publishing houses. Research fields: Socio-linguistic variation, Francophony, Translation, Difference and Identity, Specialised Lexicon, Language rights.

Studi Umanistici

Paolo Sospiro

He teaches Development Economics at University of Macerata and Economy of renewable energy; he is lecturer at University of Florence. He holds a degree in Political Economy at Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona) with a final thesis on “Poverty and Famine in Ethiopia”, and a PhD in Development Economics at the Faculty of Economics of University of Florence with a final thesis on “The nexus between migration-remittances-development: the case of Tunisian worker’s remittances in Italy”. His main researches topics are: migration-remittances-development, poverty and inequality, development education, socio-labour inclusion of vulnerable people, services of general interest, EU integration. His main geographical areas are: Europe, Africa and middle East. He is currently studying the regional, national and European non formal education, and the development education.

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Maria Giulia Serpetta

Studi Umanistici