MALAS Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture II: Dr. Alice Balestrino, "Of Patriarchy, Patrimony, Patriotism, and Other Feral Things: Ripping the Paters Apart in Chelsea Cane's MAN-EATERS #1" November 7, 2019 in GMCS 333 from 11am to 12:15pm on the SDSU Main Campus | Free and Open to the Public!

November 7, 2019
GMCS 333
11am to 12:15pm
Free and Open to the Public!

Dr. Alice Balestrino
Of Patriarchy, Patrimony, 
Patriotism, and Other Feral Things
Ripping the Paters Apart in Chelsea Cane's MAN-EATERS #1

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Dr. Alice Balestrino holds a Ph.D. in American literature from Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”. Her dissertation, Extra-Vacant Narrative. Reading Holocaust Fiction in the Post-9/11 Age, develops the philosophical concept of vacancy as a reading strategy for Holocaust uchronias, idealized or fictional conceptions of a particular period of time (especially in the past), and fictionalized autobiographies published in the aftermath of 9/11. She has published on Jewish- American Holocaust literature and post-memory, on alternate histories, on post- 9/11 fiction, and, specifically connected to her lecture today, to narrative strategies for the representation of memory in graphic novels: “Placing Time, Timing Space. Memory as Border and Line of (Hi)Stories in Richard McGuire’s Graphic Narrative Here,” published in RIAS – The Review of International American Studies. She has lectured on Art Spiegelman’s MAUS and In the Shadow of No Towers at University of Bologna and University of Naples, L’Orientale. She taught American culture at the University of Milan as an adjunct professor and has recently joined the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is pursuing a second Ph.D. focusing on the philosophical currents of Italian Critical Theory. Presently, in Illinois, she works as the program coordinator of IFUSS – An International Forum for U.S. Studies.

This is the Second Lecture in The Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture Series, 2019-2020 sponsored by MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsoring support comes from Amatl Comix, the new comic book publishing initiative of San Diego State University Press, and SDSU Press. The lecture is hosted by the 281 souls in English 220: #nakedsexybeasts: An Introduction to the Study of Literature, Film, Photography, Comics, and Streaming Media.

About Edward Said (via wikipedia)

	Edward Wadie Said 1 November 1935 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
	24 September 2003 (aged 67) New York City, United States
Education	Princeton University Harvard University
Spouse(s)	Mariam C. Said
	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Postcolonialism
Notable ideas	Occidentalism, Orientalism, the Other
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Edward Wadie Said 
(/sɑːˈiːd/; Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد‎ [wædiːʕ sæʕiːd], Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.^[3] A Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran.

Educated in the Western canon, at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the Middle East; his principal influences were Antonio Gramsci,  Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno.^[4]

As a cultural critic, Said is known for the book Orientalism (1978), a critique of the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient.^[5][6][7][8] Said's model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle-Eastern studies—how academics examine, describe, and define the cultures being studied.^[9][10] As a foundational text, Orientalism was controversial among scholars of Oriental Studies, philosophy, and literature.^[11][4]