Michela听Ardizzoni

  • Associate Professor
  • ITALIAN
Address

HUMN 315
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Office Hours

Fall 2024 - on a research fellowship
Spring 2025 - on sabbatical
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Biography

Michela听Ardizzoni is an associate professor at the 精品SM在线影片.听She received her Ph.D. in Media Studies from Indiana University-Bloomington and her MA in American Studies from the University of Iowa.听Her research focuses on global media, and听media activism, marginality, and听feminism. Her study of Italian television听North/South,听East/West: Mapping Italianness on Television听was published in 2007. She is the听co-editor of听Beyond Monopoly: Globalization听and Contemporary Italian Media听(2010) and听Mediterranean Encounters in the City听(2015). Her听research has also听appeared in several media journals, such as听Journalism,听Jump Cut, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media听Studies, International Journal of Communication,听and听Communication, Culture听and Critique.听Her most听recent book,听Matrix听Activism: Global Practices of Resistance听(2017), examines contemporary forms听of media activism in Italy, North Africa, Senegal, and the US. She鈥檚 currently听working on two book-length projects on the politics and economies of听expendability听and superfluity of vulnerable bodies as they are represented in听contemporary media and on Afro-Italian artists and their creative practices of听resistance.

Books:

  • Matrix Activism: Global Practices of Resistance, Routledge, 2017.
  • Mediterranean Encounters in the City: Frameworks of Mediation between East and West, North and South, co-edited with Valerio Ferme, Lexington Books, 2015.
  • Beyond Monopoly: Globalization and Contemporary Italian Media, co-edited with Chiara Ferrari, Lexington Books, 2010.
  • North/South, East/West: Mapping Italianness on Television, Lexington Books, 2007.

Special Journal Issue:

  • Co-editor, 鈥淰oices of Dissent: Activists鈥 Engagements in the Creation of Alternative, Autonomous, Radical and Independent Media鈥 Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements 2(2): 2010.

Selected Articles and Chapters:

  • 鈥淟aughing at the Other: Islam in Italian Cinema鈥 in K. Petersen (Ed.), Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology, Harvard University Press (forthcoming in Sept. 2020).
  • 鈥淔eminist Citizenship in the Banlieue: Houda Benyamina鈥檚 鈥淒ivines鈥 (2016)鈥 in R. Mielusel and S. Pruteanu (Eds.), Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration. Palgrave (2020), pp. 135-149.
  • "On Rhythms and Rhymes: Poetics of Identity in Postcolonial Italy" Communication, Culture and Critique, 13 (1): 1-16, March 2020.
  • 鈥淢atrix Activism: Media, Neo-Liberalism, and Social Action in Italy鈥 International Journal of Communication, 9 (2015): 1-20.
  • 鈥淣arratives of Change, Images for Change: Contemporary Social Documentaries in Italy鈥 Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 1.3 (2013): 311-326.
  • 鈥淭actical Media Practices in Italy: The Case of Insu^Tv鈥 Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 14.7 (2013): 868-884.
  • 鈥淏orderless Nationalism: RAI鈥檚 Transnational Brand鈥 in Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell, Mark Andrejevic and Zala Volcic (eds.), Palgrave McMillan, 2015, pp. 131-146.