Paola Scrolavezza, short-time guest researcher at our department, will introduce a cross-cultural project she is co-organizing at the University of Bologna.

About the speaker:
Paola is a translator, literary critic, and Full Professor at Bologna University’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She teaches Japanese Culture and Literature. Her research and teaching interests include modern women’s literature as well as the intersections between media, literature and urban space. Recently, she focuses on cultural processes, addressing the circulation of fiction in the new media age, and the construction of transnational imagery in the context of globalization. Paola has authored several critical works, and she has translated into Italian fiction by Yoshiya Nobuko, Enchi Fumiko, Ogawa Yoko, Higashino Keigo, Ekuni Kaori, and Hayashi Fumiko. Since 2011 she has been the coordinator and director of NipPop, an annual festival dedicated to Japan’s contemporary cultures and subcultures.

To interested parties outside of the Department: please register with Jaqueline Berndt (jberndt@su.se) to allow access.