Curriculum Vitae
- Education
September 2023
PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies and History
EUTOPIA Cotutelle (University of Warwick – CY Cergy-Paris Université)
October 2017
MA in Theatre and Performance Research
University of Warwick
September 2016
BA Hons. in Theories and Techniques of Interlinguistic Mediation (English and German)
Università degli Studi di Genova
- Experience
10/2023 – 07/2024 – Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick
In this fellowship, I further developed my research on border studies and cultural diplomacy to finalise my postdoc research project
03/04/2023- 30/09/2023 – Research Assistant for Dr. Nadine Holdsworth (University of Warwick)
RA for an international project between the University of Warwick and an Italian not-for-profit organisation (Istituto Don Calabria) for the development of a creative cultural toolkit to be used in schools and volunteering programmes exploring issues around homelessness, to increase the awareness and understanding of this social issue.
- Publications/Research achievements
Golisano, A. (2022) “European borders, multicultural liminal spaces, and artistic resistance. How Sibiu International Theatre Festival exemplifies a European heterotopic worksite for democracy”. JAS – Journal of Performing Arts 2/2022 pp. 33-41
Research Project:
The aim of this project is to explore how civic engagement can be approached by examining how cultural and artistic spaces are used for political expression. More precisely, I will focus on how cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue are promoted in European urban border areas by medium-scale artistic projects. Furthermore, the promotion of territories and intercultural societal inclusion goes hand in hand with discourses of ecological preservation and sustainable development: there can’t be true actions towards social inclusion and welfare without addressing matters of sustainability. I intend to investigate if a common European identity can be found through the promotion of a shared territory that unites and divides, a place marked by a common troubled history and a shared natural, material and immaterial heritage.