Guest Researcher - Elisa Virgili
Today we welcome Elisa Virgili from the Insubria University - Varese, as our new guest researcher. We hope that you will enjoy your time here at the Centre for Gender Research!
Disciplinary background: Philosophy
Areas of expertise and research areas:
- Gender and language
- Queer Theory
- Gender and medicalization
- Political Philosophy
Why did you choose to come to the Centre for Gender Research?
It would be great to have the chance to compare my research with other PhD students dealing with Gender Studies.
Shortly describe your current research project:
The topic of my research is Judith Butler's performativity theory, I especially stress on the language developed in the Italian media and the possibility of re-signification.
Publications:
“Doing gender with words. The term escort in mediatic italian context“ [“Costruire il genere con le parole. Il termine escort nel contesto mediatico italiano”] in Metabasis, Anno IX n° 18
“The Recognition of Genders. Intersexuality between Medicalization and Social Construction of Sex” [“Riconoscere i generi. Intersessualità tra medicalizzazione e costruzione sociale dei sessi”] in Rivista sperimentale di Frenatria - Il lessico della sessualità, vol.CXXXVIII - N° 2, 2014
Antigone, or the eternal irony of society [Antigone, o l’eterna ironia della comunità], AlboVersorio, Milano, 2014
Hermaphrodites [Ermafroditi], Mimesis Edizioni, Milano, 2013
Olympics. The imposition of a gender [Olimpiadi. L’imposizione di un sesso], Mimesis Edizioni, Milano, 2012
“The strategy of abjection” [“La strategia di abiezione”] in Forum Lou Salomè - 2011