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’m currently a Lecturer in the Department and Co-Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR).

Teaching

Currently, I co-convene the BA Media and Sociology Programme with Liz Moor (Media and Communications). I contribute to core courses at both BA and MA level and convene options in my area of research: ‘Art & Society’ (BA Option) and ‘Cultural Policy and City Branding’ (MA Option). Previously, I have convened the MA Programme Critical and Creative Analysis between 2010-2012.

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 global), leisure, landscape and place, experience, aesthetics, art worlds, festivals, culture industries, museums and exhibitions.

Selected publications