My current book project “Wars of Seduction: Queer Marxism in Italy after 1968” is the first cultural history of the Italian queer movement in the years of its bourgeoning, from 1968 to 1977. By considering literary texts, visual art, experimental cinema and through oral history interviews with movement participants, my project will show that the movements politicizing gender and sexuality in the Italian late sixties and seventies brought together identity politics and Marxism to create an original set of theories and aesthetics.
Serena Bassi
Vita
Serena Bassi is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Yale University in the United States. Their research interests are in queer studies, Marxist theory, Italian Studies, comparative literature and translation studies. Their work has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, Translation Studies, Modern Languages Open, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Forum Italicum, and Modern Languages Notes. With Brian Baer, they co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality (2024). Their current book project, “Wars of Seduction: Queer Marxism in Italy after 1968,” will be the first book-length study of the politics, theories, and aesthetics of queer liberation movements in the Seventies in Italy.
