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Patrizia Calefato / short CV in english

 

(Publications: see complete CV in Italian)

 

Patrizia Calefato is Associate Professor of “Sociolinguistica” and “Linguistica informatica” in the Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature straniere, Università degli studi di Bari. She also teaches in the same University:”Analisi socio-antropologica del prodotto di moda” in the Corso di laurea in Scienze e tecnologie della moda; “Sociolinguistica” in the Corso di laurea in Scienze della comunicazione. Her main fields of interest are: Social dimension of language, Fashion studies, Sociolinguistics and Sociosemiotics, Cultural studies, Feminist studies, Audiovisual media studies.
She is member of the Board of Advisors of “Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture”, Oxford , Berg.

She is advisor of Meltemi Publishers, Rome .

She has been assistant president of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici from 1998 to 2002.

She taught in many Italian and foreign Universities, among which: University of Helsinki : Semiotic Programme Course on: “Myth, fashion, cinema: a semiotic approach” (2002) and "Barthes's Relevance Today" (2007). New Bulgarian University , Sofia : Seminars on “Language and Power” during the Early Fall Semiotic School (2003). Università di Macerata: corso di eccellenza in “Semiotica della moda” (2006); Stockholm University: "Levande Mode" (Living Fashion) (2007).

She is the author of many books. Among them:

Among her essays:

  • Semiótica del uniforme. Semiotics of the Uniform, “Exit” 27, Madrid, Olivares, 2007, pp. 22-39.

  • Studi culturali e Fashion Theory nell'Italia dell'ultimo decennio, tra attivismo intellettuale e pratiche sociali, in Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 24, 2006, "Negotiating Italian Identities", Norma Bouchard ed., pp. 199-209.

  • Fashion as sign system, in, J. Brand, J. Teunissen, in coop. With A. van der Zwaag, editors,The Power of Fashion. About Design and Meaning, Arnhem, Terra ArtEZ Press, 2006, pp.126-151.

  • La escritura/lectura electrónica en la plaza de la red, in Textualidades electrónicas, ed. Laura Borras Castanyer, Barcelona, Editorial UOC, 2005, pp. 115-127.

  • Fashion as sign system, in, J. Brand, J. Teunissen, in coop. With A. van der Zwaag, editors,The Power of Fashion. About Design and Meaning, Arnhem, Terra ArtEZ Press, 2006, pp.126-151.

She edited the Italian version of the book by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Critica della ragione postcoloniale. Verso una storia del presente in dissolvenza, Roma, Meltemi, 2004.