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Silvia
Caporale Bizzini graduated in Modern Languages in 1985 in Italy and
received her PhD
at the University of Alicante (Spain) in 1994 with the
thesis “On
Power
and Ideology: Foucault, Barthes, and the
Construction of
Gender in
the Contemporary
Novel in English.” Silvia has carried on her research at the
University of Oxford (1992), the University of Ulster at Coleraine
(1992), Sheffield University (1995), and has been visiting professor at the
University of Pittsburgh (USA) in 1996 and at the University of York
(Toronto, Canada) in 2003 and 2004. Since 1997 she is Senior Lecturer at
the University of Alicante where she teaches English Literature and
Cultural Theory in the Department of English Studies. From 2002 till 2006,
she has been the Director of the Women’s Studies Centre at the University
of Alicante.
Silvia Caporale has coedited Reconstructing Foucault:
Essays in the Wake of the 80s (Amsterdam
1994), Frankenstein
(Salamanca
2000), Historia
crítica de la
novela
inglesa
escrita por
mujeres
(Salamanca, 2003); she has also edited
We, the
"Other
Victorians":
Considering the Heritage of 19th-Century
Thought
(Alicante
2003), Discursos teóricos en torno a la(s)
maternidad(es) (Madrid 2004)
y
Narrating Motherhoods,
Breaking the Silence: Other Mothers, Other Voices (Berlin
2006)
and published a number of articles and essays in Critical Quarterly,
Woman:
A
Cultural Review, Miscelánea y Estudios Ingleses
de la Universidad Complutense,
among
other journals.
Silvia is currently working on the theory and
representation of maternal autobiography as a (testimonial) political
perception of the historically determined experience(s) of mothering. E-Mail:
caporale@ua.es |
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