Culture, Gender and Aesthetics

Culture, Gender and Aesthetics
Research Focus Group

Culture, Gender and Aesthetics
Conveners : Maurizia Boscagli, English, boscagli@english.ucsb.edu
Claudio Fogu, French and Italian, cfogu@french-ital.ucsb.edu

The Culture, Gender and Aesthetics Research Focus Group analyzes contemporary and twentieth century culture from a materialist and feminist perspective in order to study how particular textualizations of gender and aesthetics in popular, literary, and visual culture can offer alternatives to, or forms of resistance to, the culture of capital.