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BOARD MEMBERS

Chiara Patrizi

University of Bologna


Chiara Patrizi (PhD) is adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, University of Trieste, and at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She authored several essays on contemporary US literature, African American literature and culture, the New African Diaspora, Postmodernism, and graphic narratives. She is a member of the scientific board of “Spin-off: Permanent Seminar on Comics” (WeTell Project, University of Bologna). She serves as a co-chair of the AISNA (Italian Association of American Studies) Graduate Forum and as the editorial mananger of jam It! – Journal of American Studies in Italy. She is currently working on her first book on self and temporality in Kurt Vonnegut and Don Delillo.


 

“Ho voluto regalarti un'emozione, Corto, perché ti voglio bene… Dio solo sa quanto è brutto vivere in un mondo senza avventure, senza fantasia, senza allegria… Dimmi che mi capisci, Corto!”

“Ti capisco Rasputin… Ma so anche che sei ogni volta più matto!”

“Potrei ucciderti per questo”.


(Hugo Pratt, Corte Sconta Detta Arcana)

C-S Publications

“Gone to Texas: Tropes of American Violence in Preacher,” What’s Popping? La storia degli Stati Uniti nella Cultura Popolare del nuovo millennio, a cura di C. Di Maio, D. Giovannone e F. Sarnelli. La scuola di Pitagora, 2022, pp. 187–210.

Into C-S

“Talking Comics” guest lectures series, as part of “Spin-Off: Permanent Seminar on Comics” (WeTell – Storytelling & Civic Awareness, University of Bologna). Member of the scientific and organizing committee.


Round Table: “Rediscovering 1960s Pulp-Pop Comics,” with Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, Gino Barbieri, Enrico Fornaroli, and Gino Scatasta, as part of “Spin-Off: Permanent Seminar on Comics” (WeTell – Storytelling & Civic Awareness, University of Bologna), Aula Magna, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, May 6, 2022. Member of the scientific and organizing committee.


“Wild Weird West: Stranger Looks at the Frontier.” Visual Depictions of the American West: How the West Was Drawn and What it Showed Us, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, 2021. Panel organizer, with Marco Petrelli.


“Not Enough Gun”: The Old West is Back From Hell and Exacts Vengeance.” Visual Depictions of the American West: How the West Was Drawn and What it Showed Us, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, 2021. Presenter.


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