Educational objectives The course aims to develop the ability to read and interpret Italian literary texts through a gender perspective, with particular attention to the national and European historical-cultural context. Analysis will be based on close reading of key works, with a focus on authors who have opened critical debates on gendered approaches within the Italian literary tradition.
Knowledge and understanding
To acquire an in-depth knowledge of Italian literary production, especially works and authors who engage with gender-related themes.
To understand the main theoretical and methodological tools for gender-oriented literary analysis, placing texts within their historical and cultural contexts.
Applying knowledge and understanding
To apply the acquired knowledge to the critical interpretation of literary texts, using appropriate analytical tools and gender-aware methodologies.
To read and comment on literary texts with critical awareness and a firm grasp of the cultural and historical frameworks.
Making judgements
To develop an autonomous capacity for interpreting literary texts, with particular attention to identity constructions and representations of gender.
To formulate well-argued personal reflections on the course topics, also in connection with current theoretical debates.
Communication skills
To clearly and accurately express analyses and interpretations, both in written and oral form, using appropriate disciplinary terminology.
To participate in critical discussions and debates, demonstrating strong argumentation and synthesis skills.
Learning skills
To strengthen independent study skills, through engagement with critical texts and specialised bibliography.
To build connections between course content and other areas of literary, cultural, or interdisciplinary study.
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Educational objectives The course aims to introduce key theories and methodologies from migration studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and gender studies, and to apply them to the critical analysis of literary texts and cultural contexts. The objective is to develop a deep understanding of how these perspectives reshape approaches to literature and cultural production, with a focus on both national and international dimensions.
Knowledge and understanding
To acquire familiarity with the main theoretical frameworks, critical tools, and methodological approaches in postcolonial, migration, cultural, and gender studies.
To understand the core issues addressed in these fields, including their relevance to broader historical and cultural contexts at both national and transnational levels.
Applying knowledge and understanding
To independently and effectively apply the acquired theories and methodologies to the analysis of literary and cultural texts.
To identify and articulate connections between discursive practices, historical and social dynamics, and cultural representations.
Making judgements
To develop autonomous critical thinking, with the ability to relate and integrate the different themes explored throughout the course.
To formulate complex and well-argued reflections, identifying continuities and theoretical intersections across the various areas of study.
Communication skills
To clearly express acquired knowledge using appropriate disciplinary terminology, including through oral presentations and active participation.
To effectively engage in seminar discussions, demonstrating strong argumentative and dialogic abilities.
Learning skills
To develop theoretical and methodological awareness necessary for interpreting contemporary issues through the lenses of cultural, postcolonial, migration, and gender studies.
To strengthen the ability to autonomously connect historical and social contexts with the analysis of cultural production.
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Educational objectives The course enables students to achieve the following learning objectives:
Knowledge and Understanding:
Understand the main theoretical approaches in Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and intersectional methodology.
Analyse the relationships between environmental crisis, structural systems of discrimination, social inequalities, and power relations.
Understand the Anthropocene paradigm through critical, intersectional, and non-anthropocentric perspectives, with attention to the relationships between the human and the non-human, environment, bodies, territories, and forms of vulnerability.
Recognise the historical, cultural, and structural dimensions of contemporary environmental phenomena, avoiding naturalising or purely emergency-based interpretations of the ecological crisis.
Applying Knowledge and Understanding:
Apply theoretical and methodological tools from Gender Studies, ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and intersectionality to the analysis of literary texts, films, short films, graphic novels, and other cultural products.
Critically interpret representations, narratives, and imaginaries related to the environmental crisis, the body, vulnerability, care, climate justice, and interspecies relations.
Connect the symbolic dimension of cultural representations with the material dimension of social, political, economic, and ecological processes.
Analyse how sexism, racism, colonialism, ableism, classism, and other forms of inequality contribute to producing differentiated exposure to environmental crisis.
Making Judgements:
Develop independent critical judgement regarding dominant narratives of environmental crisis, the Anthropocene, and human responsibility in ecological processes.
Recognise the limits of universalising or supposedly neutral approaches to environmental issues, identifying the inequalities that shape experiences of ecological crisis.
Assess texts, public discourses, and cultural products through categories such as intersectionality, environmental justice, feminist ecology, critical posthumanism, and non-anthropocentrism.
Communication Skills:
Use the vocabulary of Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and intersectional analysis appropriately.
Clearly present, both orally and in writing, complex concepts relating to environmental crisis, inequalities, and cultural representations.
Critically argue the analysis of texts and cultural products, connecting theoretical references, empirical examples, and personal interpretation.
Communicate environmental and gender-related issues while avoiding simplifications, stereotypes, and reductive representations of the subjects, territories, and communities involved.
Learning Skills:
Develop the tools needed to independently engage with the scientific literature on Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, ecocriticism, intersectionality, and environmental justice.
Strengthen the capacity for critical engagement with contemporary debates on the Anthropocene, climate crisis, posthumanism, ecofeminisms, and environmental inequalities.
Acquire skills useful for developing independent paths of research, analysis, and critical reflection on the relationships between gender, environment, culture, and power.
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