Dr Francesco Ricatti

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Dr Francesco Ricatti

Dr Francesco Ricatti

BA(Hons) Rome La Sapienza, PhD Syd.

Position: Lecturer, Italian
Office: D1.21
Tel: +61 7 5430 1185
Email: fricatti@usc.edu.au

Teaching areas

  • Italian Language and Culture

Research areas

  • Italian migration to Australia
  • Italian popular culture
  • Football and globalisation
  • Love in Italy
Professional membership
  • Australasian Centre for Italian Studies
  • Australian Historical Association

Profile

Francesco Ricatti is the Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian. In 1999 he graduated in Contemporary Italian Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza and recently completed his PhD at the University of Sydney. The title of Francesco's PhD thesis was Embodying Italian migrants: impossible dialogues, spectral fantasies and the body. Letters to Mamma Lena (La Fiamma, 1956-1964).

His main research interest focuses on the relation between body and popular culture in Italian and transnational contexts.

Publications

Journal articles
  • Ricatti F. 2006. Sentirsi uomo. An emblematic case of desired transsexuality in the Italian Australian community, History Australia 3:1, 6.1-6.10. DOI: 10.2104/ha060006.
  • Ricatti F. 2005. Corpi migranti e pratiche discorsive: Frammenti di una dissonante colonna sonora, in (Wilson R and Scarparo S, eds) Representation of Italian diaspora in Australia, special issue of Studi di italianistica nell’Africa Australe / Italian studies in Southern Africa, 18:1, 1-19.
Book chapters
  • Ricatti F. 2008. Sexual and ethnic identity in a migratory context: Letters to an Italo-Australian newspaper. In: (Rando G. Turcotte G. eds), Literary and social diasporas: An Italian Australian perspective, Peter Lang, Bern, 203-218.

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