Simone Brioni

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Simone Brioni (born 16 March 1982, in Brescia) is a literary scholar, documentary maker, and academic. He is associate professor in the Department of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.[1][2] He lectures in film studies, comparative literature, migration literature, translation studies and colonial and postcolonial literature.[3] His research and publications are primarily concerned with the representation of migrants and the legacy and memory of colonialism, with a particular focus on contemporary Italian culture.

Early Life

Brioni completed his B.A. in Modern Languages at the University of Bologna in 2005, and an M.A. at University of Trento in 2008, with a thesis on Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991) and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (novel) (1996).[1][4] He completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Warwick in 2013 on Somali Italian Literature, supervised by Dr. Jennifer Burns.[5] Between 2013 and 2014, he was visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing, University of London.[1]

Career

Brioni is the author of The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in Minor Italian Literature, a monograph that analyses "the processes of linguistic and cultural translation and self-translation, the political engagement with race, gender, class and religious discrimination, and the complex strategies of belonging and unbelonging at work in the literary works in Italian by authors of Somali origins",[6] such as Shirin Ramzanali Fazel[7], Igiaba Scego, and Cristina Ali Farah.[8][9][10] In this book, "Brioni proposes that the ‘minor’ Somali Italian connection might offer a major insight into the transnational dimension of contemporary ‘Italian’ literature and ‘Somali’ culture".[6]

Brioni has collaborated with writer Shirin Ramzanali Fazel to write a book about islamophobia in Italy, Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la diaspora[11][12][13][14] (2020, Islam and Me. Narrating a Diaspora).[15][16] He has also edited a bilingual edition of Fazel's Lontano da Mogadiscio/Far from Mogadishu (2013),[17] a bilingual collection of poems by Ribka Sibhatu, Aulò! Aulò! Aulò! Poesie di nostalgia, d’esilio e d’amore di Ribka Sibhatu. / Aulò! Aulò! Aulò! Poems of Nostalgia, Exile and Love by Ribka Sibhatu (2012),[18][19] and the second edition of Genevieve Makaping’s book Traiettorie di sguardi: E se gli altri foste voi? [20] (2022, Reversing the Gaze: What if the Other were you).[21]

His work as a documentary maker and writer has produced three films about immigration to Italy: Aulò: Postcolonial Rome (2012; awarded the Mediaeducazione Prize at the Premio Libero Bizzarri, co-directed with Graziano Chiscuzzu and Ermanno Guida),[22][23] The Fourth Road: Mogadishu Italy (2012; shortlisted at Docucity Film Festival and A Film for Peace-Film Festival, co-directed with Graziano Chiscuzzu and Ermanno Guida),[24][25][26] and Maka (2012, directed by Elia Moutamid).[27] These films focus respectively on writers Ribka Sibhatu, Kaha Mohamed Aden[28], and Geneviève Makaping.

Brioni has also written on science fiction literature and cinema, including a book on J. G. Ballard novel The Atrocity Exhibition (1970),[29] [30] and two monographs, co-written with Daniele Comberiati, which focus on Italian Science Fiction movies and literature: Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Film and Literature (2019)[31][32][33] and Ideologia e rappresentazione: Percorsi attraverso la fantascienza italiana (2020). These texts analyze literature written by Lino Aldani, Tullio Avoledo, Enrico Brizzi, Paolo Mantegazza, Emilio Salgari and Wu Ming. Italian Science Fiction explores "Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness".[31] Ideologia e rappresentazione was presented in TV program such as Rai 4 Wonderland, and at several Italian literary festivals including the Festivaletteratura, the Palermo Book Festival-Una Marina di Libri, [34] and at the Loving the Alien Fest at Museo del fantastico e della fantascienza.

Publications

  • L’Italia, l’altrove: luoghi, spazi e attraversamenti nel cinema e nella letteratura sulla migrazione. Venezia: Cà Foscari University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-88-6969-626-8 http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-625-1
  • Simone Brioni, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel. Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la diaspora. Venezia: Cà Foscari University Press, 2020.ISBN 978-88-6969-410-3 http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-411-0
  • Simone Brioni, Daniele Comberiati. Ideologia e rappresentazione: Percorsi attraverso la fantascienza italiana. Milan: Mimesis, 2020. ISBN 9788857560960
  • Simone Brioni, Daniele Comberiati. Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film. New York: Palgrave McMillan,2019. ISBN 9783030193256
  • Simone Brioni, Shimelis Gulema, ed. The Horn of Africa and Italy: Colonial, Postcolonial and Transnational Encounters, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. ISBN 9781787079939
  • The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in “Minor” Italian Literature. Cambridge: Legenda, 2015. ISBN 9781909662643
  • Simone Brioni, ed. Somalitalia: Quattro vie per Mogadiscio. Roma: Kimerafilm, 2012. ISBN 9788890771415
  • Il futuro quotidiano: Saggi su James Graham Ballard. Siena: Prospettiva, 2011. ISBN 9788874186563

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Simone Brioni's Academic Profile, Professional Website, Stony Brook University".
  2. ↑ Department of English, Stony Brook University. "Simone Brioni, Faculty Page".
  3. ↑ "Simone Brioni's Teaching Activity, Professional Website, Stony Brook University".
  4. ↑ Il gioco degli specchi. "Simone Brioni". ilgiocodeglispecchi.org.
  5. ↑ Jennifer Burns. "Jennifer Burns. Professional profile".
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Brioni, Simone. The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in 'Minor' Italian Literature. ISBN 9780367606282.
  7. ↑ "Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Online Profile on the School of Advanced Studies, University of London, Website".
  8. ↑ Emma Bond (2017). "The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in 'Minor' Italian Literature by Simone Brioni". The Modern Language Review. 112 (2): 524–525 – via JSTOR.
  9. ↑ Elena Benelli (2018). "The Somali within. Language, race and belonging in 'Minor' Italian literature". Italian Studies. 73 (4): 467–468.
  10. ↑ Minonne, Francesca (2016). "The Somali Within". Quaderni d'Italianistica. 37 (1).
  11. ↑ Simone Brioni, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (2020). Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la Diaspora. Ca' Foscari UP. ISBN 978-88-6969-410-3.
  12. ↑ "Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la Diaspora". edizionicafoscari.unive.it. doi:10.30687/978-88-6969-411-0. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
  13. ↑ Simone Brioni, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (2020). ""Scrivere di Islam": A Collaborative Project" (PDF). gender/sexuality/italy. 17 (1).
  14. ↑ Finozzi, Anna (2021). "Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la diaspora" (PDF). Annali d'Italianistica. 39 (1): 568–571.
  15. ↑ Ramzanali Fazel, Shirin. "Islam and me". Wasafiri. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  16. ↑ Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (2023). Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978835825.
  17. ↑ Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (2013). Lontano da Mogadiscio/Far from Mogadishu. Milan: Laurana. ISBN 978-8896999-90-5.
  18. ↑ Sibhatu, Ribka (2012). Aulò! Aulò! Aulò! Poesie di nostalgia, d’esilio e d’amore di Ribka Sibhatu. / Aulò! Aulò! Aulò! Poems of Nostalgia, Exile and Love by Ribka Sibhatu. Rome: Kimerafilm. ISBN 9788890771415.
  19. ↑ Bellesia, Giovanna (2012). "Somalitalia: Quattro Vie per Mogadiscio. Somalitalia: Four Roads to Mogadishu.Con allegato il documentario La quarta via: Mogadiscio. Ed. Simone Brioni. Roma: Kimerafilm, 2012. Pp. 37. ISBN 9788890771408. € 15.Sibhatu, Ribka. Aulò!Aulò!Aulò! Poesie di nostalgia, d'esilio e d'amore. Aulò!Aulò!Aulò! Poems of Nostalgia, Exile and Love. Con allegato il documentario Aulò: Roma postcoloniale. A cura di Simone Brioni. Introduzione di Graziella Parati. English trans. by André Naffis-Sahely. Roma: Kimerafilm, 2012. Pp. 41. ISBN 9788890771415. € 15". Quaderni d'italianistica. 35 (1): 298–300.
  20. ↑ Makaping, Geneviève (2022). Traiettorie di sguardi. E se gli altri foste voi? (2nd ed.). Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino. ISBN 9788849871081.
  21. ↑ Makaping, Geneviève (2023). Reversing the Gaze: What if the Other Were You?. New Brumswick: Rutgers UP. ISBN 9781978834682.
  22. ↑ Premio Libero Bizzarri. Official Website. "Premio Libero Bizzarri".
  23. ↑ Vivan, Itala. "Postcolonial Discourses in Italy". Borderlands. 12 (2).
  24. ↑ "The Fourth Road. Mogadishu, Italy".
  25. ↑ Simone Brioni. "Migrant Stories and Italian Colonialism: A Report on Two Documentaries". The Italianist. 33 (2): 321–324.
  26. ↑ Linde Luijnenburg (2013-07-24). "Voices on Italy's Recent History: Aulò: Roma postcoloniale and La quarta via". Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani. 28 (1): 101–103.
  27. ↑ Brioni, Simone (25 April 2022). ""Revitalising History and Memory", Lucrezia Zaina Lecture in Italian Studies, University of Liverpool".
  28. ↑ Kaha Mohamed Aden. "Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London". Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  29. ↑ Brioni, Simone (2011). J.G. Ballard. Il futuro quotidiano. Siena: Prospettiva. ISBN 9788874186563.
  30. ↑ Roberto Sturm (13 August 2011). "Simone Brioni: J.G. BALLARD, IL FUTURO QUOTIDIANO". carmillaonline.com.
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Brioni, Simone; Comberiati, Daniele (2019). Italian Science Fiction. New York: Palgrave. ISBN 9783030193256.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  32. ↑ Cris Alvarez. ""Interview Simone Brioni. Italian Science Fiction book tour"". youtube.com. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  33. ↑ Mamolo, Sean. "Italian Science Fiction, by Simone Brioni and Danele Comberiati" (PDF). SFRA Review. 51 (3): 278–281.
  34. ↑ Simone Brioni and Daniele Comberiati (May 15, 2020). "Presentation of Ideologia e Rappresentazione at Una marina di libri: Festival del Libro. Palermo, Italy". youtube.com. Retrieved 11 November 2022.

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