Beatrice Ferrara
Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Napoli, Italy
Italy

Beatrice Ferrara (PhD in “Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World”, 2011) teaches Media and Cultural Studies at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Italy). Here she is also Local Project Manager and Appointed Researcher within the EU Project “MeLa* - Museums in an Age of Migrations” (FP7). Her research interests include sonic-cultures and cyber-cultures of the black diaspora; theories of affect and post-representation through images and sounds, especially in relation to race; the relation between image, sound and pre-emptive power. She has published several essays and articles in international publications. She is the editor of Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices (Politecnico di Milano DPA, 2012).