Education
- 2018-22: Ph.D. in Asian and Transcultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Heidelberg University.
- 2015-18 M.A. in History and Asian Studies, University of Bologna.
- 2010-13 B.A. in Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures, University of Bologna.
Research abroad and additional training
- 2021 (November-December) Visiting scholar at the Unofficial Poetry Journals from China special collection, Leiden University.
- 2019-20 (September-January) Senior visiting student in contemporary Chinese literature and cultural studies, Peking University.
- 2019 (July) Summer school in "Modern Asian Literatures and Cultures", Palacký University Olomouc.
- 2017 (November-December) Fieldwork at Peking University on contemporary Chinese urban literature.
- 2017 (May-October) Chinese-Italian literary translation workshop, Confucius Institute of the University of Milan & Civica Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori "Altiero Spinelli".
- 2014-15 (September-June) 1-year advanced Chinese language course, Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Scholarships and awards
- 1-semester Joint Research Ph.D. Fellowship, Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters (May 2019).
- 3-year PhD full scholarship, Italian Ministry of University/Ca' Foscari University of Venice (September 2018).
- Grant to conduct M.A. thesis-related fieldwork at Peking University, School of Humanities of the University of Bologna (June 2017).
- Second prize, 15th Hanyuqiao/Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition, Italy-San Marino (April 2016).
- Hanban scholarship for a full academic year in China (June 2014).
Academic teaching experience
- 2024-present Assistant Professor, Bologna University.
- 2023-24 Adjunct Lecturer, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
- 2022-24 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in contemporary Chinese literature, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
- 2022-24 Adjunct Lecture, Bologna University.
- 2022-24 Senior Teaching Assistant of Contemporary Chinese Society, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
- 2022-24 Teaching Assistant of Translation Methods and Text Typologies for Chinese Translation, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
- 2021-24 Educational Assistant for the "Global Asian Studies" Minor, Ca' Foscari International College.
- 2020-22 Teaching Assistant of Chinese Language (B.A.), Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
- 2019-23 eaching Assistant of Translation Methods and Text Typologies for Chinese Translation (formerly Chinese Language and Translation), Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Teaching activity
- Bologna University
- 2023/24-today: Chinese Literature, BA (20th-21st century), Chinese Literature, MA (Labour in Contemporary Chinese Literature)
- 2021/22-23/24: Chinese Language, MA (Translation of Different Text Typologies)
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice
- 2023/24: Business Chinese, BA; 1st-term Chinese Language, MA (Translation and Discourse Analysis of Political Texts); 3rd-term Chinese Language, MA (Translation of Literary and Academic Texts).
- 2022/23: Chinese Literature, BA (Song dynasty-20th century), Advanced Chinese Grammar, BA; 2nd-term Chinese Language, MA (Translation Methods and Strategies).
Presented papers
- (2024) Sinophone Social Poetics Through Art in Italy: The Wuxu Collective - Sinophone Europe: Exploring Cultural Expressions and Identities, University of Florence, 13-14 December.
- (2024) Literary Margins and the Right to Recognition(s): Chinese Worker Poets as a Case Study - 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Universitas Airlangga, 28 July-1 August. (Panel convenor and chair: Voices from the Margins: the Socioliterary Activity of Contemporary Chinese Poets)
- (2024) Literary Sailings Across the Urban Sea: Liquid Narrative Space(s) and the Sea Metaphor in Xu Zechen’s Fiction - PhD Symposium on Metaphors: Conceptualising Horizons of Meaning, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 26-28 February.
- (2023) The (un)reality of labour: worker writer Wan Huashan's 'avant-gardist' narrative - 1st OBERT Conference: Narrating Labour: Posture and Positionality, Aux-Marseille Université, 28-30 June.
- (2023) Quanto è "cinese" questa letteratura? La poesia operaia cinese e le opportunità metodologiche di un approccio globale agli studi letterari - Sfide e criticità nelle ricerche sulla Cina: metodologie, fonti e approcci teorici, online (AISC), 27 March.
- (22-26 August 2022) Recognitions and misrecognitions of Chinese migrant workers’ poetry: the case of the Picun Literature Group - Generation Asia: 2022 Nordic NIAS Council Conference, University of Iceland.
- (18-20 November 2021) L'arte come pratica sociale nella migrazione cinese in Italia: il caso di WUXU - 18th Conference of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies, University of Turin.
- (14-15 October 2021) Urban queer mobility in China and Mu Cao's poetry of abjection - FRINGE/ALUS Symposium: Urban (Im)mobilities and Borderland Narratives, University of Alcalá.
- (24-28 August 2021) Worker: silent as a riddle. Gongren identity in Chinese worker poetry - 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Leipzig University.
- (11-14 May 2021) Tame the hooligan: LGBTQ representations in China's pink capitalism - Queer Representations: Pasts, Presents, Futures, University of Edinburgh.
- (16-17 April 2021) From the margins of city and literature. The representation of Beijing in the Picun literature group's ouevre and the right to recognition(s) - China from the Margins: New Narratives of Past and Present, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
- (17-19 March 2021) "La mano verso il sole, il piede nella fabbrica": poetica dei lavoratori migranti e politica culturale in Cina" - Vulnerabilità e resilienza: Voci e pratiche dai margini, Joint Graduate Conference, University of Milan.
- (20-21 November 2020) Whose voices, again? Issues around migrant-worker poetry as a medium for subaltern voices - 14th Annual Conference on Asian Studies: Voiced and Voiceless in Asia, Palacký University Olomouc.
- (9-10 November 2020) Yours the slogans, yours the praise. (Self-)narratives in China during the epidemic - 13th CCVA Annual Conference: The World, Two Metres Away, Birmingham City University.
- (21 August 2020) The great absentee. Centre, periphery and gentrification in Beijing through migrant-worker literature - Representing Urban Change: Gentrification and Displacement in Literature and other Media, Uppsala University.
- (21-22 June 2019) Writing the country and meaning the city. Rural space, city and identity of authors in contemporary Chinese migrant-worker literature - Transcultural Connections: Migration in Asia, Europe and the Americas, Heidelberg University.
- (18-19 June 2019) Migrant-worker writing in the social space of China's contemporary city - 11th Asian Dynamics Initiative Conference - PhD Workshop "The Asian City", University of Copenhagen.
- (20-21 February 2019) Strangers in a familiar city? The urban space of Beijing seen and written by Picun migrant poets - The Transcultural Production of the Urban Space in Eurasia, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
- (15-16 November 2018) Family restructuring, marital crises and left-behind children and wives in Fan Yusu and Xu Zechen's stories - The invisible within: actors, relationships and activities in Chinese migrant families, University of Central Lancashire.
- (29 June 2018) Gendered migration. City, countryside and gender in Xu Zechen's migrant fiction - 9th International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona.
Guest lectures
- (13 November 2023) "Spazi di autogestione culturale nella Cina di oggi: il caso di Picun" (Spaces for Cultural Self-Management in Present-day China: The Case of Picun", University of Milan.
- (13 December 2021) "Il passato al servizio del presente: riletture di storia e pensiero cinese durante la campagna contro Lin Biao e Confucio (1974)" (Past Serving the Present: Reassesments of Chinese History and Thought during the Criticise Lin Biao, Criticise Confucius Campaign (1974)", L'Orientale University of Naples.
- (29 November 2021) "Chinese Workers' Literature between the Old and the New", China's New Workers and the Politics of Culture (M.A. Seminar), Leiden University.
- (27 October 2021) "A Fieldwork into New Workers' Culture in Picun, Beijing", University of Cincinnati.
- (13 October 2021) "Margins and Recognition(s) in the Practice of the Picun 'New Workers' Literature Group", China Seminar, Leiden University.
- (24 May 2021) "La letteratura operaia in Cina fra adesione e dissenso: matrimoni e divorzi con il potere" (China's Worker Literature Between Participation and Dissidence: Marriages and Divorces with Power), Course in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
- (3 November 2020) "Esperimenti di autogestione culturale a Pechino" (Experiments for cultural self-management in Beijing), Course in Sociology of Asian Countries, University of Bologna.
- (9 October 2020) "La Cina scritta dal basso. Scrittori e poeti operai nella Cina di oggi" (China written from below. Worker writers and poets in China today", Convitto Nazionale Cicognini (Prato).
- (3 December 2019) "Picun's writers in the literary field of Beijing; Beijing in the literary works of Picun's writers", University of Chicago Center in Beijing.
- (7-8 November 2018) "Contrordine compagni! Il linguaggio omosessuale in Cina" (Pull back, comrades! Homosexual language in China), Course in Chinese Language, University of Bologna.
Memberships
Research groups and networks
Editorial activities
- Manuscript reviewer: Annali di Ca' Foscari; Asian Studies; The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Last update:1 February 2024.
