91社区

Patrizia La Trecchia

Associate Professor of Italian

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I am a cultural studies and film scholar who works in critical food studies and environmental humanities. I am privileged to share my Italian roots serving the  at the 91社区 where I am currently Associate Professor. I launched and direct the  at the 91社区 under the auspices of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment. I teach the first and only course in the  at the 91社区. The course is usually offered in the fall semester and ideally followed by ITT 4531 Italian Food in Film, a course on the visual politics of food offered in the spring semester that is one of the very first courses selected to be Global Citizen certified.
 
I am the author of two textbooks and the monograph  (2013) that was the first study to analyze the city of Naples in a postcolonial and transnational perspective. My monograph on the politics of food justice is under contract with Routledge. A second monograph on the colonial divide between the Global North and the Global South is under contract with Palgrave. My publications have appeared among others in , , , , , , Cinemasessanta.

I have been teaching food studies courses and visual politics of food for the past fifteen years (In the Kitchen). I value kitchen work as political practice of food justice and essential element of a sustainable food system. Until before the Covid pandemic, I was purchasing groceries and cooking for and with my students in the demonstration kitchen of the Diabetes Center at the Morsani College of Medicine.

I serve on the jury of , the environmental film festival that founded the Green Film Network, the association of the world鈥檚 major environmental film festivals. I have been serving as jury and advisory board of the  since its inception.

In 2014 I was Visiting Scholar at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. I also served as member of the Habitat Partner University Initiative Hub on Food Security and as supporter of the . I was selected to deliver a TEDx talk on  in February 2013.