Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Italian Cinema
- Italian Literature
Areas of Interest
- Queer Theory;
- Feminism and Ecofeminism;
- Film and Visual Media;
- Mediterranean Studies;
- Memory Studies.
Administrative Service
Biography
Alice Parrinello received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in Medieval and Modern Languages (Italian). Her doctoral thesis analysed the films and plays by Sicilian director Emma Dante and argued for a queer Southern epistemology by focusing on specific elements of her works: temporality/haunting, oddkin and queer families, and the Southern cultural archive. It has now been turned into a monograph, forthcoming with Peter Lang.
Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Alice has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, working on a project in collaboration with the British Film Institute (BFI).
Her project at Toronto investigates contemporary queer Italian graphic novels and comics to understand the ways these works can provide a non-hegemonic and non-heteronormative education in the face of institutional limitations. Furthermore, it explores how these works embody both the social opening towards the LGBTQIA+ community that took place in the mid-2010s and the current conservative trend.
Her published work includes articles that have appeared in gender/sexuality/italy, Memory, Mind & Media, Studies in Comics, and Ecozon@ - European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment.