Silvia Caporale-Bizzini

Silvia Caporale-Bizzini is Professor of English at the University of Alicante, where she teaches English Literature and Contemporary Critical Theory, and a member of the Research Institute for Gender Studies (IUIEG) at this university.  She has coordinated the funded research project "MADRE. Análisis y estrategias desarrolladas en la actualización de las nociones de maternidad y familia. Una perspectiva pluridisciplinar" (Mineco); as well as served as local coordinator for ATHENA 2: Athena Advanced Thematic Network in European Women's Studies (EU).

Her main lines of research are women's writing and the discursive representations of the intersection of neoliberalism, precariousness and the discursive construction of poverty as represented in neoliberal society. She is the author of Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence. Other Mothers, Other Voices (Peter Lang, 2005) and has coedited From the Personal to the Political. Towards a New Theory of Maternal (with Andrea O'Reilly, Susquehanna UP, 2009), and Teaching Subjectivity. Travelling Selves for Feminist Pedagogy (with Melita Richter Malabotta, Utrecht U. and U. of Stockholm, 2009). Her research articles include “Marginalia as Narratives of Ordinary Lives: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall's Down to This”, Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2021); "Ordinary Affects and Spectrality in Three Works: Carole Giangrande's Midsummer, Brenda Missen's Tell Anna She's Safe, and Andrea Thompson's Over Our Heads", Contemporary Women's Writing (2020); “Narratives of Space in the Writing of Five Contemporary Canadian Women Writers of Italian Origin”, Anglia (2016); "Las mujeres y los niños primero. Discursos de la maternidad", Atlantis (2004); or "Writing, Memoirs, Autobiography and History", Feminismo/s (2004), among others.