Formazione:
Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli 110/110 e lode, 1991
MA in Communications and Technology, Brunel University, UK, 1992
Phd Media and Communications, Goldsmiths' College University of London, 1996
Premi e borse di studio
1990-1991
Borsa di studio Erasmus . Department of Cultural Studies, Middlesex Polytechnic, UK
1992-1994
Borsa di studio per corso di perfezionamento all'estero, Ministero dell'Istruzione, Italia
1994-1995
Fulbright Scholarship. American Studies Program, New York University, New York, USA.
1994-1995
Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship, NYU, USA
2005-2008
Ministero Italiano per l’Universita’ e la Ricerca ‘Rientro cervelli’ (Braindrain programme) research grant ‘La guerra nella mente; soggettività postcoloniali e Internet’ January 2006- December 2008, Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli, l’Orientale.
2017 Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer Chair in Italian Studies, Northwestern University, IL, USA.
2019 Nobel Prize Dialogue Speaker, Santiago, Chile
Attività didattica in Italia e all'estero
Docente a contratto Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK 1993-1996, corsi: Introduction to Media Studies
Professore a contratto, Department of Innovation Studies, University of East London, UK, 1996, corsi: Science and Technology Studies
Ricercatore (Lecturer A) in Media Studies, Department of Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK, 1997-2000: corsi: Introduction to Media Studies; Digital Culture.
Professore Associato (Lecturer B) in Media, Culture and Film, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK, 2000-2006; corsi: Social Theory; Methods in Social Sciences; Digital Media Theory
Visiting Professor, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, 2013-2014: seminari di dottorato: I corsi di Michel Foucault su biopolitica e sicurezza
Docente di Italian Studies, Northwestern University, USA: Italian Postcolonial Studies; Italian Marxism and Digital Media, spring term, 2017
Professore Associato in Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi, Università 'L'Orientale' 2008- (sociologia delle comunicazioni; studi culturali e media; teorie culturali e nuovi media;)
Commissioni e deleghe
2018 Membro commissione di ateneo 'Public Engagement'
2016- Membro della Commissione Ricerca, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Universtà 'L'Orientale'
2012-2016 Coordinatore Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono, Dipartimento di Studi Americani, Culturali e Linguistici, Università 'L'Orientale', Napoli
2009-2016 Membro della giunta del Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono, Dipartimento di Studi Americani, Culturali e Linguistici, Università 'L'Orientale', Napoli
2008-2012: Altre Attività Formative delega.
2003-2004 Student support officer, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
2003-2004 Web officer, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
2002-2003 Director of MA in Sociology of Culture and Media, University of Essex.
2001 Staff representative for the MA in the Sociology of Culture, University of Essex
1998/2000 3rd Year coordinator of the degree in Media Studies, University of East London
1998/2000 Coordinatrice del Master of Arts in MA in Multimedia: culture, production, theories, the Department of Cultural Studies, the Department of Innovation Studies, the Multimedia Production Center, and the School of Art and Design), University of East London, UK
Partecipazione a progetti nazionali e internazionali
2021- Scientific Board Horizon 2020 Project EUMEPLAT, European media platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European culture
2020- Member AHRC Network Advisory Group: "Law and the Human"
2019- Membro Cost Action CA18136, European Forum for Advanced Practices
2017-2020 nodo italiano della rete Immediations network, Concordia University, Montreal Canada, finanziato dal Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2011-2019).
2017-2020
Partner 'The Incomputable’, project IZK - Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, finanziato dall'Austrian Science Research Council (2017/2020) diretto da Antonia Majaca (IZK), in collaborazione con Luciana Parisi (Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths' College, University of London)
2011-2013
MeLa: European Museums in an Age of Migration, finanziato dalla European Commission under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Program (FP7th), coordinator Prof. Iain Chambers, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, 'L'Orientale', Napoli; role: research member.
2007-2010
EU-funded, local coordinator, A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics.
(NEST – 043415) Pathfinder Initiative: 2005/2006. Duration: 36 months, This project is supported by funding under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union. 2007-2009;
1998-2000
Economic Social Research Council, UK "From the Net to the Web and Beyond: Actors and Interests in the Construction of the Internet" (The Virtual Society? Programme) (Innovation Studies Department, UEL);
Organizzazione e supervisione di convegni
2007 Convegno Internazionale 'Materia Futura/Future Matter', L'Orientale
2019 Convegno internazionale 'Sound System Outernational 5: Sounds in the City (con Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK), L'Orientale 5 aprile 2019
2020 Convegno Internazionale “Recursive Colonialisms, Speculative Computation and Artificial Intelligence” (with the Department of Literature, Duke University, UK and Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania)
