Teresa de Lauretis

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Teresa de Lauretis

Teresa de Lauretis (* 1938 in Italy ) is an Italian-American literary scholar. She also publishes in the fields of film theory , semiotics and feminist theory and has made significant contributions to queer theory .

Life

She did her PhD in Modern Language and Literature at the Luigi Bocconi University of Economics in Milan . In the mid-1960s, she went to the United States as a young mother , where she worked at several Romance Studies institutes until she moved to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1968 . At that time, it was the center of US reception of European film theory. From 1985 she worked in the interdisciplinary History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz , where she is now professor for the history of consciousness.

Publications

  • Sui generis. Scritti di teoria femminista. Trans. Liliana Losi . Milan: Feltrinelli, 1996.
  • The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. German: The other scene. Psychoanalysis and Lesbian Sexuality. Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1999.
  • Differences e indifferenza sessuale . Firenze: Estro Editrice, 1989.
  • Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
  • Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
  • Umberto Eco . Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1981.
  • La sintassi del desiderio: struttura e forms del romanzo sveviano . Ravenna: Longo, 1976.

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personal data
SURNAME Lauretis, Teresa de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Italy