Renate Haas (ed.), Rewriting Academia. The Development of the Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies of Continental Europe, Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main, 2015

  • Rocco De Leo Università della Calabria
Keywords: Gender, Europe, Academia, diversity, equity

Abstract

The review considers Rewriting Academia. The Development of the Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies of Continental Europe, a volume edited by Renate Haas, Professor of English at University of Kiel and author of important publications focusing on English Studies. The book contains contributions by 25 experts from Continental Europe who had been asked to survey the status of Women’s and Gender Studies in their respective countries, taking as privileged perspective the historical and European contextualization of the subject. The geographical division Haas has chosen helps to identify the differences and difficulties Departments are facing when confronted with such a relatively new topic, as well as the reticence some national Governments keep to maintain when asked for funds to help strengthen and broaden the area of study. Particular relevance will be given to the Italian case of the Bologna Centre, which on the other hand constitutes an emblematic example of how Women’s and Gender Studies need further increase as they represent a crucial phase in the development of Gender’s equality and rights.

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Author Biography

Rocco De Leo, Università della Calabria
Rocco De Leo is Adjunct Faculty at University of Calabria – Department of Humanities, where he teaches English Literature/Literatures in English, He holds a Ph.D. in Literary and Linguistics Studies issued by University of Salerno, Department of Humanities. He has published essays, reviews and other contributions in national and international journals and volumes. His main interest focuses on the relationship between the writer and the constitutive elements of the landscapes he/she experiences; on the influence that the interrelated concepts of Space and Place have in his/her identity/identities construction; and on how this process is narrated in his/her literary production. Much attention is given to modern and contemporary texts of both English Literature and Literatures in English – Britain as well as Canada, Ireland, and Postcolonial Countries. rokkodeleo@gmail.com
Published
2017-12-31
How to Cite
De LeoR. (2017). Renate Haas (ed.), Rewriting Academia. The Development of the Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies of Continental Europe, Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main, 2015. La Camera Blu, (17). https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/5398