Lorenza Gattamorta (Ph.D, University College London; Ph.D,
University of Parma) is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture
and Communication (SPS/08) in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of
Bologna, Forlì campus where she teaches "Culture and Society" ("Bachelor of International Sciences"), "Processi della Globalizzazione Culturale e Comunicativa" (Laurea Magistrale in Mass Media e Politica), the Laboratory of "Academic Writing". Amongst her research interests are:
sociology of symbolic and cultural processes, sociology of memory, of literature
and of language, reflexivity and dialogical self. Some of her research was financed by: British Academy, Accademia dei Lincei, AHRB, CNR. Her publications include: La memoria delle
parole (Bologna, il Mulino, 2002; 312 pp., premio nazionale
"Gentile da Fabriano"); Teorie del simbolo. Studio sulla
sociologia fenomenologica (Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2005, 208
pp.); La società e i suoi simboli (Roma, Carocci,
2010, 240 pp.). She edited: "Persona" in sociologia (Roma,
Meltemi, 2008); Riflessività e sé dialogico
(Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2008); Verso una società
post-secolare? (Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2009); I
valori hanno bisogno della religione? (Soveria Mannelli,
Rubbettino, 2012). Among her most recent articles: Sorokin e Parsons a Harvard: la sociologia americana a un bivio (in «Rivista di Politica», 1, 2023); Robert N. Bellah e la sociologia comparata delle culture (in vol., Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2024); Processi dialogici e culturali nella costituzione del sé: Mead e Bachtin (in vol., Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2024); Beyond Relationism? Different Relational Perspectives and George Herbert Mead (in vol., Methodology of Relational Sociology, Palgrave McMillan, New York, 2024).
