I am an independent scholar speacialied in dance and cultural history, literature, gender and postcolonial studies. I am also a language teacher (English, Italian and Spanish), a translator (mainly English to Italian), a self-taught cartoonist, a blogger and an activist.
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| Rosella Simonari, photo M.T. De Roberto. |
I was temporary lecturer (docente a contratto) of the Dance and Mime course at the University of Macerata, Italy from 2003 to 2007. In 2012 I completed a PhD in literature at the University of Essex, UK, with a research project on Martha Graham’s Letter to the World, supervised by Marina Warner. Before that, in January 2006, I had completed a Master’s Degree at the same university, with a thesis on two dance adaptations of Carmen.
After the
degree in foreign languages and literatures gained in 1999 from the
University of Macerata, Italy, and supervised by Marina Camboni, I moved to London where I
continued my research on dance at Laban (now TrinityLaban), attending the Dance
Research Programme (2000) and worked as teacher of Italian in places such as Cryodon College and CityLit. In July 2002 I returned to Italy for family reasons and decided to stay there teaching English and Spanish as a private teacher and substitute teacher in public schools. In spite of this, I managed to frequently travel to the UK to continue to work on my research projects attending both the MA and the PhD as a part-time student.
In September 2003 I attended the NOISE Summer School, an advanced course in Women’s Studies promoted by the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, organised by philosopher Rosi Braidotti. In 2006 I began a research on Italian music-hall dancer and painter Alberto Spadolini, research which is still in progress.
In September 2003 I attended the NOISE Summer School, an advanced course in Women’s Studies promoted by the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, organised by philosopher Rosi Braidotti. In 2006 I began a research on Italian music-hall dancer and painter Alberto Spadolini, research which is still in progress.
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| Roberto Lori in Simonari's lecture performance on Spadolini, photo M.T. De Roberto. |
I was part of a Collective called Via Libera 194 that fought for women's reproductive rights. I was part of a Book Club called Libera la Lettura tied to the Centro Studi Libertari Luigi Fabbri and its rich historical, political and sociological archive.I am part of a Book Club tied to the Independence bookshop, Sabot.
At present
I am a member of SDR (Society for Dance
Research) and was a member of AAS (Association of Adaptation Studies) and other Societies. I collaborated in Italian with the cultural journal Leggere Donna, in English with www.ballet-dance.com.
I have four other blogs:
It is in
Italian and represents a kind of alter ego to this blog, but it does
not necessarily contain always the same material.
It is in
English and Italian and has exsisted since 2008. I use it to experiment new ways to talk about dance writing and relfect on my research, with poems, cartoons and articles among other things. With time I have began
to insert other questions only loosely related to my studies.
It is in Italian and was born on January 2014 as a blog dedicated to my language (especially English) teaching activity following a new method based on great stories mainly taken from literature.
It is in
English and Italian and has exsisted since 2008. It was born out of
dancescriber.blogspot.com and is dedicated to a strip whose protagonist is the
p.s. (precarious scholar). It is the result of a research I am conducting on
the concept of precarity in the academic and not only academic world.
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