Dr Monica Sassatelli

I joined the Department in September 2010; prior to that I was a Research Fellow at Sussex University (2008-2010), working on the project Art Festivals and the European Public Culture  (www.euro-festival.org) and before moving to the UK I taught sociology in a number of Italian universities and held a post-doctoral Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence.

Academic qualifications

Laurea (BA Hons) in Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna; MA in Modernism, Gender and Postmodernism, University of East Anglia; PhD in Sociology, University of Parma.

I am a member of the Higher Education Academy.

Teaching

I am the Convenor of the MA Critical & Creative Analysis and of its Core Course ‘What is Culture. Key Theoretical Interventions’. I also contribute to core courses on the undergraduate programme and convene options in my area of research: ‘Art & Society’ (BA, 2nd year Option) and ‘Urban Cultural Policy, Place Branding and Public Sphere (MA Option).

Areas of supervision

I welcome applications from prospective research students wishing to work in any of my areas of teaching or research.  Currently I am co-supervising (with Nirmal Puwar) Felipe Palma, working on ritual festivities in the Atacama, Chile.

Research interests

Cultural identity, European cultural policies (and cultural politics), the city (in Europe and globally), leisure, landscape and place, experience, aesthetics, art worlds, festivals, culture industries, museums and other ‘memory institutions’

Selected publications

Books

Becoming Europeans. Cultural Identity and Cultural Policies, Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 (Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2010).

Arts festivals and the cultural public sphere (co-editor with G. Delanty and L. Giorgi) London: Routledge, forthcoming 2011.

Journal articles and book chapters

• ‘Varieties of Cosmopolitanism in Art Festivals’ (with G. Delanty and J. Chalcraft) in A. Bennett, I. Woodward and J. Taylor (eds) Festivalisation of Everyday Life: Identity, Culture and Politics, Ashgate, forthcoming 2012.

• ‘Europe’s Capitals of Culture. From Celebration to Regeneration, to Polycentric Capitalization’ in K. Patel (ed.) Localizing Europe. European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s, Routledge, forthcoming 2012.

• ‘Festivals, Museums, Exhibitions: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in the Cultural public Sphere’, in G. Delanty (ed.), Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies, London: Routledge, 2012

•Urban Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere: Cosmopolitanism between Ethics and Aesthetics, in G.Delanty, L. Giorgi and M. Sassatelli (eds) Arts festivals and the cultural public sphere, Routledge, 2011.

• ‘Festivals in cities, cities in festivals’ (with G. Delanty) in L. Giorgi et al. European Art Festivals. Strenthening Cultural Diversity, Brussels: Publications Office of the European Union, 2011.

• Europe, Identity Thefts and Missed Renaissances. An Interview with Jack Goody, “European Journal of Social Theory”, 13(4): 539-548, 2010.

• European Identity between Flows and Places: Insights from Emerging European Landscape Policies, "Sociology", 44 (1): 67-83, 2010.

• ‘Narratives of European Cultural Identity’, in I. Van Hamersveld and A. Sonnen (eds) Identifying with Europe: Reflections on European Identity through a Historical and Cultural Canon, Amsterdam: Boekmanstudies, 2009, pp.15-45,

• L’Europe des paysages: nouvelles politiques européennes à partir de la Convention européenne du paysage, in C. Moumoni (ed.), Proceedings of the Unesco Workshop Journalisme et Patrimoine Mondial, Sainte-Foy(Québec) : Presses de l'Université Laval, 2009.

• Europe, authenticity and unavailable identities. An interview with Alessandro Ferrara, “European Journal of Social Theory”, 11 (3): 421-437, 2008.

• The European Cultural Space in the European Cities of Culture, “European Societies”, 10 (2): 225-245 (Special issue on Cultural Spaces in Europe, edited by A. Scott, C. Bee and R. Scartezzini), 2008.

• The Arts, the State and the EU: Cultural Policy in the Making of Europe, “Social Analysis”, 2007, 51 (1): 28-41. Also published in J. Kapferer (ed.) The Arts and the State. Articulating Power and Subversion, Oxford: Berghahn, 2007.

• Everything Changes and Nothing Changes. Change, Culture and Identity in Contemporary Italian Social Theory, in G. Delanty (ed.) Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 95-107.

• The Logic of Europeanizing Cultural Policy, in U.H. Meinhof and A. Triandafyllidou (eds), Transcultural Europe, London: Palgrave, 2006, pp. 24-42.

• Landscapes of Identity. The European Landscape Convention as a Discourse of European Identity, EUI Working Paper, 2006, pp. 17-26.

• Bridges and Doors: Euro Aesthetics and European Identity, in P.J. Burgess (ed.) Museum Europa. European Cultural Heritage between Economics and Politics, Oslo: Norwegian Academic Press, 2003.

• Imagined Europe. The shaping of a European cultural identity through EU cultural policy,“European Journal of Social Theory”, 2002, 5(4): 435-51.

• Europe, globalization and the destiny of culture: interview with Jean Baudrillard, “European Journal of Social Theory”, 2002, 5(4): 521-30.

• Aestheticized Life, An-aestheticized Art. The Case of Visual Artist Mona Hatoum, in “Parol”(Internet Journal, University of Bologna, 2000 (January issue).